The new schedules are here! The new schedules are here!

• “This is a year about adjusting,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Monday afternoon. “The teams that adjust will have an advantage. Usually going into preseason camp, you have the first three opponents broken down, so we’ll be playing catch-up, as will everyone else in our league.“This isn’t a time for tradition.”
• Bill Connelly sees an ulterior motive in play:  “I’m just saying that if that [i.e., making sure the conference champ has a very good record] was the goal, giving Alabama the conference’s eighth-best (Kentucky) and 12th-best (Missouri) teams per SP+ for its two bonus games, giving LSU its 12th- and 14th-best (Vanderbilt), giving Georgia its 11th- (Mississippi State) and 13th-best (Arkansas) and giving Florida its 13th-best team would be a pretty perfect way to go about it.”
• Each SEC team has a built-in bye week between Week 5 and Week 7, plus a conference-wide open week on Dec. 12 to accommodate any disruptions that might occur.
• Week 4, with Georgia at Alabama and LSU at Florida is gonna be lit.
• Tony Barnhart’s takes here.
• Georgia and LSU have been dealt very similar hands this season.  Both teams were given very favorable add-ons and both get three games to work out their offensive kinks with new players and changes on the staff before playing Alabama and Florida, respectively.
• Georgia and Florida have their traditional bye weeks before the Cocktail Party, but Alabama and Auburn don’t before the Iron Bowl.  (Alabama’s is before the LSU game and Auburn’s is before Mississippi State.)
• With TAMU, Auburn and Florida, it’s the most challenging November for Tennessee I can remember.

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