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SI Top 10: SEC Sends Pac-12 to the Woodshed

College football’s most dominant conference reinforced its place atop the hierarchy in a couple of heavyweight clashes.

We begin this year’s Top 10 with a message of advice for the Pac-12: stay west of the Mississippi, y’all.

On the first full Saturday of college football season, the league saw its two CFP hopefuls, Oregon and Utah, suffer beatdowns at the hands of the big, bad SEC. The Ducks never stood a chance against Georgia in Atlanta, and the Utes got swallowed up at the Swamp in coach Billy Napier’s first game as the Gators coach.