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Forde-Yard Dash: The SEC is Unrecognizable as Defenses Underwhelm

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (autographed pictures of bird-flipping Texas fans sold separately):

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FIRST QUARTER: THE SEC IS UNRECOGNIZABLE

Last week, The Dash touched upon the early-season transformation of the Southeastern Conference into a free-wheeling passing league. But things escalated significantly Saturday, to the point that a historically dominant defensive conference now looks like what it once disdained—2010s Era Big 12, but with bigger bodies.