The SEC spent the first couple weeks of the men's college basketball season beating up on the rest of the nation, and the result was No. 1 Tennessee and second-ranked Auburn leading nine teams from the league into this week's AP Top 25.
Now, after opening up conference play last weekend, they begin to beat each other up in earnest.
The Vols hit the road to face eighth-ranked Florida on Tuesday, the same night sixth-ranked Kentucky heads to Georgia, which is among three more SEC teams receiving votes in the poll. On Wednesday, it is No. 23 Ole Miss visiting Arkansas — which just fell out this week following a lopsided loss to Tennessee — and No.