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Sunday football in Norman: 1 p.m. ET, 40 degrees and rain, and Oklahoma's AD calling the move "the wrong outcome." Who wins Ole Miss-Oklahoma now, and does the extra day help or hurt the Rebels? 👇 #SEC

Every SEC road team found a way to its game after the FAA ground stop except one, and Oklahoma is furious about it. >🚨The SEC moved Ole Miss at Oklahoma to Sunday at 1 p.m. ET, TV TBA. OU AD Roger Denny said Greg Sankey made the call "over our strong objection" and then told OU that "our failure to play on Sunday at the directed time would result in a forfeit" >🗣️Denny: "We were told that Ole Miss explored every avenue to travel to Norman and play on Saturday as planned. But, unlike every other team traveling for competition tomorrow, they were unable to find a solution" - "Put simply, this decision isn't fair to our athletes, our institution or to Sooner Nation. But we've been given no other choice" - OU remains "steadfast in our belief that the wrong outcome was reached this evening," he said >✈️The SEC's explanation: Ole Miss couldn't leave Oxford on Friday night, and a late-night departure "could not be accommodated by the charter company." The Rebels can't depart until after 4 p.m. Saturday because of charter and pilot issues and time expirations, per Ross Dellenger >🤔The Athletic's Chris Vannini: "It's quite remarkable after a nationwide grounding that every FBS college football team will get to its destination tonight or early tomorrow. Great work by all the logistics people. And then there's Ole Miss-Oklahoma" - OU beat writer George Stoia: "Everyone in the country can get to their game except Ole Miss" How the ground stop hit every SEC game (all times ET): >🏈Auburn at Mississippi State: moved from noon to 4:15 p.m., now on SEC Network instead of ESPN2. Auburn was grounded and drove instead >🏈Alabama at Vanderbilt: 12:45 p.m., SEC Network, no change. The Tide bused to Nashville >🏈Tennessee at Texas A&M: 3 p.m., ESPN, no change. The Vols' plane got in the air on Friday night after the stop lifted >🏈Missouri at Georgia: 3:30 p.m., ABC, no change. Mizzou had already landed in Athens >🏈Florida at Kentucky: 6:15 p.m., ESPN, no change. The Gators made it to Kentucky on Friday >🏈Texas at LSU: 7:30 p.m., ABC, no change. The Longhorns reached their team hotel in Baton Rouge at 1:15 a.m. Saturday >🏈South Carolina at Arkansas: 7:45 p.m., SEC Network, no change. The Gamecocks landed in Northwest Arkansas at 3:14 p.m., before the stop hit >🏈Ole Miss at Oklahoma: Sunday at 1 p.m., TV TBA. It was set for Saturday at 4:15 p.m. on SEC Network Seven of eight SEC games stay on Saturday. One got pushed back more than four hours, and one moved a full day. Your call: Should the SEC have made Ole Miss bus to Norman, or was Sunday the right move? 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for more. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >✈️The FAA lifted its nationwide ground stop at 8:15 p.m. ET, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, after the longest such halt since Sept. 11, 2001 - Texas planned to fly to Baton Rouge on Friday night and kickoff at LSU stays 7:30 p.m. ET, per Trey Wallace. The charter was expected to leave Austin around 10 p.m. CT, per Chip Brown - Tennessee's team plane got in the air Friday night, per ESPN's Chris Low. Kickoff stays 3 p.m. ET on ESPN, Texas A&M announced - Ole Miss will not travel tonight, per the school, and leaves Saturday. Multiple sources expect the Oklahoma game Sunday, though nothing is official, per Chase Parham. It's still set for 4:15 p.m. ET, "but that could change very soon," Trey Wallace said >🏟️The SEC moved Auburn at Mississippi State from noon to 4:15 p.m. ET, TV TBA. Auburn had gotten off its plane in Columbus, Georgia, and taken buses toward Tupelo >🗣️A Texas fan who drove from Austin to Baton Rouge, to Trey Wallace: "How the hell did we beat them (Longhorns) here? Well, I guess driving wasn't that bad of an idea." He hadn't heard about the ground stop. He missed 7 texts >🗣️Stewart Mandel on the chaos: "Yes imagine how much easier this would be to manage if conferences were still, you know, conferences" >🙏Georgia 2027 commit Marcellus Young Casario died Friday morning, per UGASports. The Halifax, Nova Scotia, native played at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee and committed in June >🏈Tennessee RB Daune Morris was in a one-vehicle accident off campus early Friday and has non-life-threatening injuries, including a broken leg, the school said. He will miss Texas A&M, per Adam Sparks, and was cited for reckless driving, per a Knoxville police report >🗣️Nick Saban on McAfee: "At this point the rankings are a little bit bullsh*t if you want to know the truth about it" - "Indiana didn't even play and they dropped back, what, five spots or something? I'm like how does that happen?" >🗣️Saban on Mississippi State keeping its QB: "Kamario Taylor is someone who can reestablish the tradition of that program" >🏈Alabama is expected to start Austin Mack at Vanderbilt, per Thamel. Keelon Russell (ankle) should be available. Saban said earlier Friday that Russell was "a little questionable" >🗣️Kirby Smart on Gunner Stockton: "I don't think a player has ever taught me more than what Gunner has taught me in terms of toughness, team buy-in, sacrifice, leadership." Some seasons, he said, it was harder to win the SEC than the national title, per SEC Network >💰LSU's Princewill Umanmielen says he signed his 2026 rev-share deal with Ole Miss under "undue pressure" from coaches, per The Advocate's Jon Blau. "Ole Miss has unclean hands," the filing reads. An identical response was filed for LSU OL Devin Harper >💰Outgoing UA System president Jay Silveria updated trustees on his Razorback athletics review, and Jackson Fuller called it "a giant nothing-burger." Arkansas, Fuller said, wants to be in the top half of the SEC in spending >🗣️Josh Pate on the 24-team CFP: "I would think if the consumer base doesn't want it you'd be stupid to expand" >🗣️Chris Doering on SEC Network is picking Kentucky over Florida: "I think the Gators go up there and take the L" >🏀Kentucky escaped Northern Arizona 78-77 on Alex Wilkins' 24-foot 3 with 2 seconds left, after fans booed in Rupp Arena. Jeff Goodman, mid-game: "Kentucky's defense is, um, not very good" >🏀Georgia beat North Carolina 78-70 in Chapel Hill. Kanon Catchings had 22 points and 11 rebounds, and Blue Cain scored 20 >🏀No. 12 Arizona beat Auburn 80-69. Caleb Holt scored 24. Auburn had been trying to extend the nation's longest nonconference home winning streak to 70 >🏀Rest of tonight's SEC hoops: Alabama 82, Seton Hall 76 (Amari Allen 24). Arkansas 79, Central Arkansas 66 (Billy Richmond III 21). Florida 83, Merrimack 54. Vanderbilt 89, Prairie View A&M 62. Tennessee 83, Tennessee State 78. Oklahoma 74, Fairleigh Dickinson 58. Xavier 81, Mississippi State 63 >🏈Availability (Friday report): Georgia C Drew Bobo is doubtful, per Thamel. LSU LB Whit Weeks is questionable and will test it in warmups, per On3. South Carolina WR Nyck Harbor is out at Arkansas, and LaNorris Sellers is probable, per Wes Mitchell. Ole Miss' Makhi Frazier is questionable If Ole Miss-Oklahoma moves to Sunday, does that shake up your Saturday slate? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🏈Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacy will miss the rest of the season with a left shoulder injury, per On3's Pete Nakos and ESPN. He dislocated it at Texas on Oct. 24, the same shoulder he had surgery on before the season - He has one year of eligibility left. Per ESPN, he could stay at Ole Miss, transfer or enter the 2027 NFL draft, where Mel Kiper Jr. ranks him the No. 5 RB. Nakos: "NFL draft decision is on the horizon for Kewan Lacy" >🗣️USA Today's Blake Toppmeyer on the long "villain" motivational LSU posted in its facility after the Bama loss: "Lane Kiffin needs an editor" - His verdict: "Not since LSU incinerated Clemson in Week 1 has it looked like much of a villain. It's more of a sad clown" >🏀Alabama's Aden Holloway asked to address reporters, his first time speaking since his March arrest: "I wouldn't recommend my experience to anyone. It's been tough, but it definitely changed my life" - Nate Oats: "He's actually owned what he's done, and I think you've got to respect that" >🏈Tennessee's DeSean Bishop, a former walk-on, told On3's Chris Low "not a lot of people believed in me." "And I've got a lot more in me" - On sharing a backfield with 5-star RB commit David Gabriel Georges: "Yes, it would be disgusting, the two of us together" >🏈Florida is expected to go back to Aaron Philo at QB over Tramell Jones at Kentucky, per CBS' Matt Zenitz >🏈Vanderbilt is prepping for Alabama through a campus ransomware attack. Clark Lea: "There have been some hiccups." The staff went back to writing practice plans on a blank piece of paper >📝Florida flipped 2027 OT Moreno Fisher (6-7, 305) from Virginia, per Rivals' Hayes Fawcett: "Mama I'm home, Go Gators 🐊" >📝Rutgers WR commit Jamar Taylor takes an official visit to Georgia this weekend, per Chad Simmons >📊Sarkisian is 3-7 against the spread as an underdog at Texas. Kiffin is 6-3 straight up and 4-5 ATS as a favorite at LSU, per Julian Edlow >🏀Texas A&M beat Oklahoma State 88-69. PJ Haggerty scored 22, and Josh Irving had 10 boards. OSU shot 30% >⚽No. 9 seed Texas became the lowest seed ever to reach the SEC soccer final, beating No. 5 seed Arkansas 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw. Ava McDonald buried the clincher - Arkansas coach Colby Hale: "We will be in the NCAA Tournament" >⚽No. 2 seed South Carolina beat No. 3 seed Alabama 2-1 in the other semi and meets Texas for the title Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network >🏀No. 1 South Carolina women won 65-44 at Clemson, their 16th straight over the Tigers. Chloe Kitts had 12 and 12 - Next: Southern Cal and JuJu Watkins on Sunday in Greenville >🏀Alabama women led by 20 and lost 75-70 at Memphis, the first loss under Pauline Love. The Tide committed 26 turnovers. Memphis is 4-0 for the first time since 2004-05 >🏀Florida women lost 72-70 to South Florida, coached by former Alabama coach Kristy Curry. Tammi Reiss: "I think we've gotten really complacent" >🏀Rest of the SEC women's scores: Tennessee 110, Middle Tennessee 64. Missouri 103, UT Martin 59. Arkansas 95, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 90 >🏈Snapback Sports is attempting the "Oklahoma Double": Ole Miss at Oklahoma at 4:15 ET, then the 83-minute drive to Stillwater for Texas Tech-Oklahoma State >🏈Availability (Thursday report): LaNorris Sellers was upgraded to probable at Arkansas, per Pete Thamel. LSU's Whit Weeks is still questionable vs Texas. Texas DL Hero Kanu moved up to probable, and OL Cole Hutson was added as questionable Does Kewan Lacy go pro, or run it back at Ole Miss next fall? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >💰Mississippi State QB Kamario Taylor is finalizing a $7.5 million deal to return in 2027, per On3's Chris Low and Pete Nakos. With incentives it could top $9 million and make him college football's highest-paid QB - He's out for the year after turf toe surgery. MSU was 4-0 with him and has lost five straight - Taylor: "I can't wait to play for Coach Lebby in 2027. He believed in me from day one" >💰The SEC's proposed cap policy leaked, per Yahoo's Ross Dellenger: tiered fines for spending over the $21.6M revenue-share cap, topping out at 10% for schools over $70.5M on rosters - The top rate climbs to 15% next year and 20% the year after, roughly $14-16M - One AD: "The new cap would basically be $70 million." It's a proposal, not an approved rule >🏀LSU said goodbye to Dale Brown with a funeral Mass and a Celebration of Life at the PMAC. He died Oct. 23 at 90 - His grandson in the eulogy: "Coaching was his profession. It was never his life's purpose. Helping people, the less fortunate was" - LSU Basketball tonight: "Tell someone you love them today in honor of Coach Dale Brown" >🗣️Joel Klatt says the CFP committee is stuck in an "SEC feedback loop": "It doesn't matter that Alabama lost two games. UCLA is still behind them, and UCLA is undefeated" - He expects "five SEC teams in the playoff, maybe even six" >🗣️Brett McMurphy: "Wonder how many coaches will seek jobs in conferences w/the perceived easiest path to make a 24-team playoff" >🗣️Kalen DeBoer on Hey Coach, before Saturday at Vanderbilt: "Everyone outside of the building hasn't watched Vanderbilt. They haven't watched them" >🏀Tyran Stokes said beating Kentucky was personal because he grew up a Louisville fan: "I kinda still got that same emotion, as if I was playing for Louisville," per Kyle Tucker - Tucker after the 89-69 loss: "Wildcats have an identity crisis." Kentucky fell out of Jeff Goodman's updated Top 25 >🏈Florida is dead last in the SEC with 640 penalty yards, per Gator Country - Jon Sumrall back in October: "We still suck. We just suck less, all right" >📊LSU is a 4-point favorite over Texas at DraftKings, total 46.5. The line opened Texas -3. Lane Kiffin is still chasing his first top-10 win as a Tiger >📝LSU is hosting three flip targets on official visits for Texas weekend, per Rivals' Sam Spiegelman - Spiegelman says Texas A&M, holding the No. 2 class, will host a flip target for Saturday's game vs Tennessee >📝2028 4-star WR Tyree Mannings Jr. is down to Auburn, Florida and Kentucky, per Rivals >📝Hoops signings on day one: Mizzou signed Devin Cleveland and 4-star Cameron Barnes for what the school calls the nation's No. 7 class. Georgia signed Justin Wise ("Keeping it in the Classic City"). LSU signed Reese Alston, King Gibson and Xavier Young >🏀Kentucky women's freshman Emily McDonald hit 9 threes, breaking Rhyne Howard's program record, in a 98-30 win over Evansville - She went 9-of-12 from deep for 27 points. UK's 18 threes tied the team record >🏀Texas women's star Madison Booker called Vic Schaefer "our uncle grandpa" on SEC Network. She later left the game vs South Dakota State holding her back after an awkward fall, per Tyler Horka >🏈Availability (Wednesday SEC report): Alabama QB Keelon Russell probable at Vandy. South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers questionable vs Arkansas. Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacy out again vs Oklahoma, no timetable - Texas' Cam Coleman and Colin Simmons aren't listed for LSU. LSU's Whit Weeks is questionable, and Gabriel Reliford is probable after a spring ACL tear - Florida WR Vernell Brown III is out vs Kentucky. UK will be without WR Nic Anderson Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🏈Georgia is No. 1 in the second CFP rankings. Alabama is No. 3, Texas 6, Tennessee 8, Kentucky 11, South Carolina 17, Ole Miss 19, LSU 21, Missouri 22 - Per ESPN's bracket: Georgia is the No. 1 seed and Alabama gets a bye. Tennessee would host Indiana and Texas would host Kentucky in the first round - Utah is No. 2 and unbeaten UCLA No. 4. Notre Dame jumped from 11 to 5 after beating Miami, which fell from No. 1 to 7 - Kentucky slid from No. 6 to 11 after the loss at Tennessee. Sporting News: the Wildcats would be the last team in and Texas Tech the first out - Nine SEC teams are ranked. Florida and Oklahoma are not >🏟️Florida canceled its 2031-32 home-and-home with Notre Dame, one day after the 24-team CFP became official, per Brett McMurphy - Per AP via On3, a contract clause tied to the SEC's move to nine league games let UF walk away with no financial penalty - UF has already dropped series with Arizona State, Cal and NC State. Nine SEC games plus FSU covers the new 10 Power 4 opponent rule - McMurphy: Florida "prefers not to play 11 Power 4 opponents - like majority of P4 teams." On3's post on it passed 966K views >🗣️Eli Drinkwitz, borrowing a Kirby Smart line for Georgia week: "Coach Smart always says humility is a week away. There's an ass whoopin' waiting on the other end if you don't get your mind right" - On the Texas loss: "Don't give in to victimhood... I screwed that up Saturday. Bottom line, I did" >🗣️Shane Beamer after South Carolina had 10 men on the field for three straight plays on A&M's last drive: "There's no excuse for it. It's embarrassing. It's a complete failure by a lot of people, starting with me" - He said the defensive staff "needs to make sure they're actually coaching and not just watching the game" >🗣️Steve Sarkisian on Arch Manning carrying the family legacy into Death Valley: "I don't think he gives a crap" - Lane Kiffin on Arch: "He's an awesome kid, and I hope he does really well. Obviously, outside of Saturday" >💰Tennessee's men's basketball players and Athletes.Org released a mock collective bargaining term sheet negotiated with the athletic department: salary cap, spending floor, freshman pay scale, later portal window - It isn't a signed deal and changes nothing about pay right now - Danny White: "We're paying them to play sports... We need to accept our legal reality" >🏀No. 1 Florida won 81-72 at Florida State. Thomas Haugh had 21 and 10 - The Gators made 30 of 41 free throws and won the boards 41-29. FSU went 4-of-21 from 3 - Sixth straight win in the series >🏀No. 22 Vanderbilt beat Memphis 105-81. Ace Glass scored all 23 of his points in the second half, hitting 5 of his first 7 threes after the break - Vandy led 47-42 at halftime, then opened the second half on a 23-7 run. The Commodores shot 15-of-32 from 3 and won the boards 44-29 - Tyler Tanner had 17 and Berke Buyuktuncel 16 and 8 rebounds. Vandy is 3-0 >🏀Still going: Kentucky-Kansas in the Champions Classic tipped at 9:30 on ESPN. Michigan State beat Duke 79-73 in the opener. >📝4-star IOL Jatori Williams flipped from Miami to Auburn: "Why not do it in my backyard? War Eagle" - Rivals' Industry Ranking has him No. 9 at interior OL. Auburn is up to 23 commits >📝Ole Miss landed 2029 WR Matthew Fletcher, the No. 1 WR in Mississippi in the 2029 Rivals300: "This is where I see my future" >🗣️Kirby Smart wants Sanford louder for Mizzou: "It needs to be hard to play here." Georgia's last home game was the 27-24 loss to Auburn while No. 1 - He's also asking fans to pack Stegeman with 10,000 for Friday's volleyball match vs Tennessee >🗣️Alex Golesh on Auburn's 11 a.m. CT kick and a morning bus ride to Starkville: "The morning game piece is real" >🗣️Josh Heupel on 4-5 Texas A&M: "Don't let the record deceive you" - Asked why DaSaahn Brame's grab wasn't a TD, he laughed: "I'm going to get you with our head of officials" >🗣️Brent Venables on Jason Witten's first game calling plays: "get the guys to be able to play with confidence." OU is 0-2 vs Ole Miss since joining the SEC >📊Tennessee LB Arion Carter added Walter Camp, Bednarik and Nagurski Defensive Player of the Week honors >🏈Availability: Smart said Chauncey Bowens is "not 100 percent" and, asked about Ellis Robinson: "No clue." Heupel expects Brame ready after he hit his head vs Kentucky >⚽Alabama advanced to the SEC soccer tournament semifinals on a late PK Is Alabama at No. 3 ahead of Texas and Tennessee fair? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🏟️The SEC Championship Game is done after this year. The Dec. 5 game in Atlanta will be the 35th and final edition as the CFP goes to 24 teams - The first one was Dec. 5, 1992 at Legion Field: Alabama 28, Florida 21 - Alabama has the most title game wins (11), then Florida (7) and Georgia (6) - Pete Golding, who's coached in it three times: "You're taking away that one piece of Atlanta that's been a big piece of our conference" - Kalen DeBoer: "As competitive people ... we want to win that game" >📊It's official: the CFP Management Committee unanimously approved a 24-team playoff starting in 2027-28. ESPN gets exclusive rights to all 23 games - 16 of the 23 games will be on campus (up from four), and the committee will give no weight to a win over more than one FCS opponent - This year's playoff stays at 12 teams >🗣️Greg Sankey on the Finebaum show, defending SEC refs: "Some of the worst officials in America are those in the announce booth" - "I am highly disappointed in announcers and their criticism, and they're wrong" - On Big Ten coaches calling the SEC overrated: "One of those head coaches canceled a non-conference game with one of our teams... Let's not run to the microphone in a press conference and complain" >💰Missouri asked the SEC for a formal review of the officiating in its 34-20 loss to Texas. AD Laird Veatch wrote that the lack of replay-booth transparency "allows for an environment of speculation and mistrust" and said Mizzou will push for change this offseason >💰The SEC fined Ole Miss $250,000 after fans threw debris onto the field and interrupted Saturday's Georgia game >🗣️Golding after the 42-7 loss: "That's a collective effort to get your ass whooped like that. So we've all got to own that" - On the CFP: "If you go get your ass beat again, there damn sure ain't no shot" >🗣️Lane Kiffin on facing Arch Manning after coaching at Ole Miss and Tennessee: "It's probably unique because I left them twice" - He said Archie "called me a few names. That's OK. I've been called worse" - On the 24-team playoff, he said the SEC's nine-game schedule "went a lot into" the decision to "give into the 24" - Saturday is Texas' first trip to Baton Rouge since 1953 >🗣️LSU greeted players Monday with a letter on every screen in the football building: "When you lose, everybody has an opinion... WELCOME TO LSU and THE DARK SIDE OF BEING THE VILLAIN!" - "You cannot control what they say... But you damn sure can control how you respond" >🏀No. 18 Alabama 109, Oakland 68. Bama hit 24 3s on 46 tries and tied the program record with 30 assists - Aden Holloway started in his season debut after a five-game suspension: 12 points, all on 3s, one from near half court - London Jemison went 7-of-7, 6-of-6 from 3, for 20 points. Mr. Automatic - Oakland's Greg Kampe, whose Jack Gohlke hit 10 3s to beat Kentucky: "What you saw from Alabama tonight, I loved that... that was unbelievable" >🏀Mizzou freshman Jason Crowe Jr. scored 34 on 11-of-16 shooting in a 96-58 win over SIUE, a Missouri freshman single-game record. Three days earlier he shot 3-of-18 in the loss to Saint Louis >🏀Rest of SEC hoops Monday: - No. 7 Texas 93, Grambling 62 (Matas Vokietaitis 26 and 9 boards) - No. 11 Tennessee 70, Radford 47 (Terrence Hill Jr. 18) - Texas A&M 108, ULM 67 (PJ Haggerty 22; A&M forced 21 turnovers) - Mississippi State 98, Jackson State 57 - LSU 90, Louisiana Tech 50 (LSU forced 23 turnovers) - Oklahoma 81, North Alabama 72 (UNA's Mike Evbagharu went 10-of-11 for 27) - Georgia 80, FGCU 72 - LIVE: Auburn 50, App State 41, 11:52 left in the 2nd half (as of 10:32 PM ET) >📝5-star OT Mark Matthews flipped to Georgia a day after leaving Texas A&M. Rivals has him No. 2 overall and the No. 1 tackle, and he's now Georgia's highest-ranked commit >📝4-star OT Li'Marcus Jones flipped from Colorado to Mississippi State: "I have decided to go back home" >🏈SEC Players of the Week: Arch Manning (28-of-38, 297 yards, 3 TDs at Mizzou, all three from 20+ yards) and Tennessee LB Arion Carter (13 tackles, 4 TFL, 2 sacks vs Kentucky) - Carter is the fifth FBS player in 11-plus seasons with 13 tackles, 4 TFL and 2 sacks against an AP top-10 team, per Tennessee - Also honored: Vandy K Brock Taylor, OU OT Michael Fasusi, UGA OT Earnest Greene III, Bama DE Devan Thompkins, South Carolina EDGE Anthony Addison and Auburn LB Shadarius Toodle >📊CBS Sports now projects five SEC teams in the 12-team bracket, including a Tennessee-Texas first-round game. Its "magic number" for an SEC at-large bid is 10 wins >🏟️Nov. 21 kickoffs are set (ET): Georgia at South Carolina, 7:30 on ABC, and Kentucky at Missouri, 7:30 on SEC Network - LSU at Tennessee and Arkansas at Texas are 3:30 on ABC or ESPN. Vandy at Florida and A&M at OU are noon, network TBD after Saturday >🏈Availability: Heupel said Tennessee DE Tyree Weathersby's injury is season-ending. Alabama TE Josh Ford is out for the season with a knee injury, and DeBoer called QB Keelon Russell (ankle) day-to-day. Golding said Kewan Lacy and OL Patrick Kutas won't play at Oklahoma. In hoops, Mizzou's Mark Mitchell left in the first minute tonight after taking a blow to the face >🗣️Fans took the title game news hard. SEC Country's "END OF AN ERA 💔" post passed 30K views, and one fan recalled his dad and granddad sitting in the end zone at Legion Field in 1992 where Langham ran back the interception >🏐Florida's Logan King was named SEC Volleyball Player and Defensive Player of the Week. The No. 4 Gators can clinch the outright SEC title Friday at Mississippi State Who do you want in the last SEC title game ever? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🗣️Paul Finebaum on LSU's 31-13 home loss to Bama: "The simple headline is Lane Kiffin got punked. And it wasn't even close" - He added: "You have to wonder if Lane Kiffin isn't just all sizzle and no substance" - CBS Sports noted Kiffin is now 0-6 against Alabama as a head coach, four of those by double digits >🏈Georgia is No. 1 in the AP poll for the second time this season with 53 first-place votes, ahead of Utah and Notre Dame - SEC teams ranked: Georgia 1, Alabama 7, Texas 8, Tennessee 9, Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 19, South Carolina 20, LSU 24. Missouri was first among others receiving votes >🗣️Georgia DB KJ Bolden on the 42-7 win in Oxford: "I feel like we could have put up 60... We could have pitched a shutout. I don't have regular standards like everybody else" >📊The SEC completed a "circle of chaos": all 16 teams now have a transitive win over every other SEC team. Per Gator Analytics, it's only the third time since 1933 and the first since 2006 - Every SEC team except Georgia now has at least two league losses, per CBS Sports - Will Stein: "It's the closest thing to the NFL" >📊The SEC is 10-2 against other Power 4 teams in non-conference play this season. The Big Ten is 4-10, per Brett McMurphy >🏀No. 9 Virginia ran No. 12 Arkansas out of Capital One Arena, 91-72. UVA led by as many as 27 - Calipari: "We weren't ready for that kind of team. I thought we would be" - He said Arkansas had one assist at halftime: "I've never coached a game where that's the case... If you don't want to pass, guess what? I'll make you pass" - "This was a punch in the mouth" >🏀South Carolina held off Southeast Missouri State 78-68 after a 33-32 halftime. Kory Mincy had 19 >🏀Women's hoops: No. 1 South Carolina beat No. 12 North Carolina 84-39 in Charlotte - Chloe Kitts, who missed all of last season with a knee injury, had 17 points and 10 rebounds. The Gamecocks outscored UNC 51-16 in the 2nd and 3rd quarters >🏀No. 14 Kentucky women beat No. 25 NC State 93-78. Ajsa Sivka hit 8 threes and scored 32 in her third college game, and Clara Strack added 24 - Also: Alabama women 68, Tulane 63 behind 24 from Ace Austin >⚽SEC soccer tournament: No. 11 seed LSU beat No. 6 Auburn 1-0 on an Ava Amsden penalty, and No. 10 Georgia beat No. 7 Oklahoma 1-0. Texas and Mississippi State went to OT >📅Up next: second CFP rankings Tuesday at 9 PM ET on ESPN Is Georgia the clear No. 1, or does unbeaten Utah have a gripe? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🏈Keelon Russell went into the medical tent with an ankle injury and Bama's backup started warming up. He came back, went 7-of-10 with 3 TDs, and Bama pulled away for a 31-13 win at LSU - LSU outgained Bama 457-285 and went 0-for-4 on fourth down. Kiffin: "There was a time where field goals weren't going to win the game" - DeBoer: "The guy's tough" >🏟️Melania Trump was at Death Valley. She and LSU announced $7.2 million for foster-care scholarships, her commemorative coin was used for the toss, and she got a No. 14 LSU jersey with her name on it >🏈Georgia led No. 10 Ole Miss 35-0 after three quarters in Oxford and won 42-7. Gunner Stockton went 9-of-15 for 186 yards and 4 TDs, 3 of them to Talyn Taylor (140 yds) - It was Ole Miss' worst home loss since 2018 and ended a 16-game home win streak. With No. 1 Miami losing 31-24 at Notre Dame, Georgia could be No. 1 on Tuesday >🗣️Eli Drinkwitz after a fumble ruling helped Texas tie it in a 34-20 loss: "If I say what I want to say, I'm going to get fined until I don't have any retirement" - The SEC said replay didn't show "clear and obvious" evidence to overturn it - Sark: "I could hear the talk getting on the plane yesterday... Nobody believed we'd win the game." Arch threw for 297 and 3 TDs >🏈Tennessee LB coach William Inge spent most of October in the hospital. He was back on the sideline, and Tennessee beat No. 6 Kentucky 34-6. Heupel: "We have truly witnessed a miracle" - Kentucky was held without a touchdown for the first time this season. DeSean Bishop (109 yds, 2 TDs) is the second Vol with back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons - Will Stein: "There's no loser's limp. There's no poor me's" >🏈Auburn freshman LB Shadarius Toodle was on the scout team three weeks ago. In his first college game he had 3 sacks and 11 tackles, the first SEC freshman since at least 1996 with 3 sacks in his debut - Alex McPherson hit a 43-yard FG with 33 seconds left to beat Arkansas 26-23. Golesh: "There were 89,000 people who thought he was going to make it" >🏈Vanderbilt won in Starkville for the first time since 1971, 25-23 over Mississippi State. Brock Taylor set a school record with 6 field goals, including kicks from 54 and 55 >🏈Jason Witten called plays for the first time and Oklahoma won 23-7 at No. 24 Florida, the Sooners' first win in Gainesville - The clincher was a 20-play, 89-yard drive that took 12:45 off the clock >🏈LaNorris Sellers broke a 41-yard TD run with 1:19 left as South Carolina beat Texas A&M 17-9. David Olano kicked all 9 of A&M's points - Elko: "Another disappointing finish." A&M is 1-5 in the SEC >📅Next Saturday: Texas at LSU, Mizzou at Georgia, Bama at Vandy, Tennessee at A&M, Florida at Kentucky, Auburn at Mississippi State Who's your SEC title favorite after tonight? Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

Alabama and LSU have played every year since 1964, but not in 2027. Alabama's three protected rivals are Auburn, Mississippi State and Tennessee. Which one should have given way for LSU? #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🗣️Nick Saban told the Kelce brothers on New Heights that a 24-team playoff is "too many." Jason Kelce guessed the reason: "Money." Saban: "You got it" - His bigger gripe: losing the SEC title game. "There's not 24 teams in the country that can win the national championship" >🗣️Stephen A. Smith on First Take: "When they have lofty expectations in the Kalen DeBoer era, they disappoint us." He says a third loss should keep Bama out of the playoff - Saturday in Baton Rouge just got a little louder >🏈Lane Kiffin is still selling his kickoff conspiracy: the SEC put Bama-LSU in the afternoon to take away LSU's night edge. (ESPN, not the SEC, sets the times) - DeBoer's reply: "I'd rather play at home if we want to have all these advantages" - Kiffin also had the 2011 9-6 "Game of the Century" playing on every TV in LSU's building all week. His takeaway: "There still is not a touchdown" >🏈Layla Kiffin told The Advocate that Ole Miss fans cursed at her and daughter Landry as police walked them up the stands to a suite in September: "I just either want to cry … or I want to hurt you" >💰The SEC is discussing a luxury tax on schools that spend over the revenue-sharing cap, per ESPN's Pete Thamel and Mark Schlabach. It's a proposal, not a rule yet >📝Mizzou QB Austin Simmons signed a deal to return in 2027, per On3. He can still enter the NFL draft - The ex-Ole Miss backup is 4th in the SEC in passing yards and TDs and has Mizzou 6-2 before Texas comes to town >🗣️Desmond Howard on McAfee: "I do not see these two together in the 2027 season," about Arch Manning and Steve Sarkisian - Sark, on the run game: "I can't dust off Coach Royal's playbook and put the wishbone this week" >🗣️USA Today's Matt Hayes: "Oklahoma's dumbest decision wasn't hiring Brent Venables. It was doubling down." The buyout is nearly $52 million >🏈Josh Heupel gave Kentucky its flowers: "Two two-point plays have allowed them to get into the win column." On Dark Mode: "Nothing better … under the lights, November football" >🏀Amari Allen had the fifth triple-double in Alabama history (16 pts, 13 reb, 11 ast) as the Tide beat Arkansas State 101-86 >🏀Donovan Dent: 10 points, 10 assists and 20 assists to 0 turnovers in two games. LSU won 92-51, and Will Wade still sounded annoyed: "Sometimes veteran teams think they can just flip it on and off" >🏀Saint Louis beat Mizzou 90-84 in the first meeting in 25 years. Bryson Tiller had 26 and 9 for the Tigers >🏀JMU took 45 threes at Rupp and still lost 89-80 to No. 23 Kentucky >🏀Rest of SEC hoops: - Texas A&M 104, Northern Kentucky 67 (35-6 on points off turnovers) - Ole Miss 92, Central Arkansas 60 - Georgia 91, Presbyterian 77 (Blue Cain 20 on 9-of-12) - Oklahoma 84, Mississippi Valley State 57 >🏈Availability: Bama upgraded Ryan Coleman-Williams, Racin Delgatty and Terrance Green to probable. LSU's Whit Weeks is still doubtful, and TE Trey'Dez Green was added as questionable Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

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In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🗣️Indiana's Curt Cignetti on the CFP rankings: "SEC gets a lot of love from ESPN, you know, and all their writers that they don't technically pay, but march to their drum" - Our take: 10 SEC teams are in the committee's Top 25. Saturday is the chance to prove it >🏈Florida will start Tramell Jones Jr. over Aaron Philo vs. Oklahoma (per ESPN). Jones won his only other start, at Texas - Jon Sumrall on his O-line: "I don't know if Tom Brady was our quarterback on Saturday if it would have helped us" >🏈Texas RB Hollywood Smothers is out for the year with a torn MCL (283 yards, 2 TD). LT Trevor Goosby is also done for the season >🏈Availability: LSU is expected to be without LB Whit Weeks vs. Alabama (per Matt Zenitz), Florida suspended DT Jeramiah McCloud and doesn't expect WR Vernell Brown III to play, and Georgia WR Isiah Canion came off the report >🏈Arkansas System president Jay Silveria is leaving to become Purdue's president on Feb. 1, 2027. HawgBeat called him a key figure in Arkansas football's review >🏈Mike Elko on 4-4 Texas A&M: "there's still a massive difference between 4-8 and 8-4" - All four losses came to CFP-ranked teams, and three of the last four opponents are ranked >🏈Jason Witten makes his debut as Oklahoma's OC at Florida. Rocky Beers and Isaiah Sategna III have nearly 50% of OU's catches >🏈Steve Spurrier on South Carolina: "They are good enough to beat everybody." LaNorris Sellers is coming off 397 total yards and 5 TDs vs. OU >🏀No. 1 Florida beat Jacksonville 88-57. Rueben Chinyelu had a career-high 21 and Alex Condon nearly had a triple-double (12 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists) - UF won the boards by 27 and closed the half on a 19-2 run >🏀No. 7 Texas beat Gardner-Webb 98-50. Matas Vokietaitis had 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Texas scored 31 off 23 turnovers >🏀No. 24 Vanderbilt beat Wake Forest 74-51. Tyler Tanner had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Vandy won the boards 48-33 >🏀Mississippi State beat Northwestern State 82-44. Josh Hubbard scored 15, and MSU had only six turnovers >🏀SEC women went 8-0 in tonight's finals, led by No. 9 LSU's 131-22 win over Texas Southern. LSU scored 55 points off 38 turnovers. Texas A&M is still playing vs. Louisiana >🏀Saint Louis' Robbie Avila won an injunction for a 5th year and is expected to play vs. Mizzou tomorrow (7:00, ESPNU) >📝The SEC has 11 of the top 25 classes in the Rivals Industry rankings. Texas A&M is No. 1 nationally with four five-stars, and Florida is No. 5 (per On3) >📝Florida hosts a big group of commits Saturday, led by QB Davin Davidson (per GatorCountry) >🗣️Rock M Nation on Mizzou: "A 10-2 finish gets Mizzou in. A 9-3 finish requires a win over Texas and a lot of help" >🗣️Ed Orgeron said he was "about to die" and Our Lady of the Lake's staff saved his life (per Ross Dellenger) Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

In case you didn't follow the SEC today: >🏈The first SEC availability reports of Week 10 dropped tonight. Here's who's in and who's out >🏈Texas is banged up going into Missouri. Hollywood Smothers, Nick Townsend and Richard Wesley join OT Trevor Goosby as OUT - Colin Simmons, Ryan Wingo, Cam Coleman, Kade Phillips and Graceson Littleton are all questionable - Missouri's report is clean >🏈Alabama listed seven players as questionable at LSU, five of them starters: Ryan Coleman-Williams, Zabien Brown, Racin Delgatty, William Sanders and Terrance Green >🏈LSU LB Whit Weeks is doubtful. He hasn't played since getting hurt in the Sept. 26 A&M game. Zach Weeks is questionable >🏈Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacy is OUT vs. Georgia, and Kam Franklin is questionable (per Pete Thamel) - Georgia CB Ellis Robinson isn't on the report, so he looks good to go >🏈Tennessee is healthy coming off the bye. The only Vols listed are the seven players already out for the season >🏈Florida WR Vernell Brown III is doubtful for Oklahoma (per Pete Thamel) >🏈South Carolina expects Quay'sheed Scott and Jawarn Howell to be available vs. A&M. Donovan Murph, Jordan Thomas and J'Zavien Currence are questionable >🏈Mississippi State's AJ Swann and Fluff Bothwell aren't on the initial report for Vanderbilt >🏈Kiffin says he doesn't want his comments about LSU's future roster building taken negatively: "Now we know our roster" (per Glen West) >🏈Florida DC Brad White on the defense's turnaround: "guys are playing for each other." The Gators allowed 295 yards per game against Texas and Georgia >🏈Arkansas DC Ron Roberts wanted about 22 defenders he could rotate. He admitted they haven't gotten there >🏈Mizzou RB Jamal Roberts became the first SEC back to reach 1,000 yards this season, and WR Cayden Lee leads the SEC with 756 receiving yards >🏈Seven of the 12 Lombardi Award semifinalists are from the SEC: Georgia's Drew Bobo and Chris Cole, Ole Miss' Will Echoles, Tennessee's Xavier Gilliam, Kentucky's Lance Heard, Texas' Colin Simmons and LSU's Princewill Umanmielen >📊ESPN's FPI gives Georgia an 83.3% chance to make the CFP, Alabama 69.1% and Texas 64.5%. Kentucky, at No. 6 in the committee's rankings, is only 45.8% >🏀Auburn's Owen Freeman (foot) was cleared to play in tonight's opener vs. SE Louisiana, per a school spokesman >💰Alabama's contract for the Alabama-Auburn exhibition paid the Tide a $20,000 flat fee plus 35% of revenue over $325,000 (per AL.com) - 13,184 fans showed up. Auburn's contract listed its fixed fee as "$0,000" >📝Oklahoma QB commit Jamison Roberts says he's "still 100 percent locked in" after OC Ben Arbuckle was fired (per SoonerScoop) >📝South Carolina LB target Skylar Alston will make his decision this weekend (per GamecockCentral) >🗣️Billy Liucci on the CFP rankings: Texas is "overrated at 7. But not by a lot," and the "ND and Bama rankings are jokes" >🗣️Todd McShay riled up Gamecock fans by floating the idea that LaNorris Sellers could return to school next year >🤼Mizzou wrestling coach Brian Smith will retire after this season, his 29th with the Tigers Let me know what I missed 👇 Follow @wakeupSEC for this every night. #SEC

Every SEC team plays Saturday. Texas-Mizzou. Bama-LSU. Kentucky-Tennessee. Georgia-Ole Miss. Oklahoma-Florida. Which game moves the CFP rankings the most? #SEC