Ole Miss QB Shea Patterson.Wesley Hitt/Getty Images
During mid-January, the echo of "S-E-C" chants from the past season normally rings throughout the South.
This season it has been replaced with a whimper.
The once-proud SEC embarrassed itself in 2016 by taking a major step back as a football conference to a point where it sent an Auburn team with four losses to the Sugar Bowl—a game reserved for the best non-playoff team in the league.
How can the SEC become great again?
Develop Quarterbacks
Part of it was due to injuries around the SEC, but the quarterback play in the SEC was abysmal to the point where Tennessee's Joshua Dobbs—who's not exactly known as a prolific passer—led the league with 27 touchdown passes.