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Around the SEC: Week 1

Welcome to our weekly trip around the SEC. SEC teams not named Vanderbilt went 10-3 on the season’s opening weekend. All three of the losses came against Top 25 teams, but at least two of them probably revealed some disturbing things about the losing team, so let’s take a look.

Utah 24, Florida 11: Ew. Utah is a good team with a strong defense, no doubt — but Florida netted 13 rushing yards on 21 attempts. Granted, eight of those were “Graham Mertz,” who definitely wasn’t running the ball eight times — those were sacks — but that’s part of the problem.