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This Year, SEC Football Is Overrated

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It's certainly not SEC football 2008, when it had the best team in the country. That team was Florida, which laid a 24-14 whooping on Oklahoma in the BCS title game.

SEC football 2009 has been living off its past all season, and the backlash is coming. Maybe it's here already. Maybe, as I channel my inner Barack Obama, I am the change we've been waiting for.

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