SEC Logjam: Where the Southeastern Conference Lands in the AP Top 25
Seven teams from the Southeastern Conference are ranked inside the AP Top 25 poll for the second straight week. The SEC boasted six teams during Week 1, 2, and 4 while Week 3 only had five teams ranked in the poll. The conference achieved the seven-team mark during Week 5 and carried that into Week […]
SEC Week 4 AP Rankings: Tennessee Drops, Florida Rises
There’s been a lot of movement from Week 3 to Week 4 in the official AP Top 25 rankings after the Southeastern Conference’s top teams continue to struggle and/or stumble. That being said, though, there are once again six SEC teams ranked in the Top 25 as the Florida Gators rose up for the first […]
Where the SEC Stands in Week Two Top 25 Rankings
The same six teams from the SEC that began the year in the AP Top 25 are still on the board entering the second week of the 2023 college football season. The order remained the same through the first two weeks with the exception of LSU and Tennessee switching spots in the middle following the […]
Where the SEC Landed in the Preseason AP Top 25 Rankings
A handful of teams from the Southeastern Conference landed on the preseason AP Top 25 list on Monday morning. If for nothing else, these preseason rankings are noteworthy as the final preseason rankings before major, major shifts come to the college football landscape including Texas and Oklahoma into the SEC and the dissolving of major […]
Vanderbilt Boasts Stadium Picture With Massive Construction
Vanderbilt football boasted a new picture of FirstBank Stadium on Sunday afternoon despite massive ongoing construction outside the stadium. The FirstBank Stadium project began in February with the removal of the north endzone to eventually build a men’s and women’s basketball operations facility. Then, in April, Vanderbilt began the demolition of the south endzone to […]
Conference Carousel: College Sports Landscape Continues to Shift Through
The college sports landscape is continuing to rapidly shift as the conference carousel spins around faster and faster. About a week or so ago, we at Rocky Top Insider wrote about how the initial move from Texas and Oklahoma into the SEC has created a domino effect that slowly has been climbing to the boiling […]
Will Greg Sankey Bring Football Championship Games to the State of Tennessee?
We already know that the SEC has a strong hoops relationship with Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the SEC Basketball Tournament. In fact, the Southeastern Conference announced an extended partnership with Bridgestone Arena in 2018 that would keep the SEC men’s or women’s basketball tournament in Nashville through the year 2035. And it makes sense why. […]
SEC 2024 Opponents To Be Revealed on Wednesday Night, Texas or Oklahoma On Tennessee’s Schedule
We are nearly one step closer to the 2024 SEC football season. The Southeastern Conference will reveal the team opponents for the 2024 SEC football season in an hour-long SEC Now special on ESPN+ and SEC Network on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. ET. Here’s what to know about the event coming up on Wednesday […]
Is the Future of the Tennessee-Alabama Rivalry in Jeopardy?
Last Friday, the SEC decided on an eight-game conference schedule for 2024 with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. The SEC will also no longer have divisions. The SEC was deciding on whether to do an eight-game conference schedule with one permanent rival or a nine-game conference schedule with three permanent rivals. As for 2024, […]
SEC Football Dropping SEC East and West Format for Texas and Oklahoma Addition in 2024
After all the talk and debate around an eight or nine-game SEC football schedule moving forward, the Southeastern Conference has reportedly come to a short-term decision. On Thursday afternoon, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told reporters at the SEC summer meetings that the league will adopt an eight-game conference schedule for the 2024 season. That will […]
