For the second time in three weeks, Georgia's Jasmine James has been named the SEC Freshman of the Week for women's basketball. The league office in Birmingham, Ala., announced the honor on Monday.
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UK men’s basketball player John Wall was named the SEC Freshman of the Week as announced by the league office on Monday. Wall, a 6-4 guard from Raleigh, N.C., averaged 19.0 points, 5.5 assists and 4.0 rebounds in leading the Wildcats to the Cancun Challenge championship. He was named the tournament MVP after he scored a career-high 23 points in leading Kentucky to a 73-65 overtime victory against Stanford in the finals of the Cancun Challenge. He hit a jumper with 30 seconds left in regulation to tie the score and then knocked down two free throws with 2.4 seconds left to send the game into overtime.
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The Southeastern Conference reminds fans to be cautious when purchasing SEC Football Championship tickets on the secondary market.
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The Southeastern Conference reminds fans to be precautious when purchasing SEC Football Championship tickets on the secondary market.
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Alabama junior linebacker Rolando McClain has been named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Week following his performance in the Crimson Tide’s 26-21 win over Auburn last Friday, the league office announced Monday morning.
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BATON ROUGE — LSU placekicker Josh Jasper has been named the Southeastern Conference Special Teams Player of the Week after kicking four field goals, including the game-winner in overtime, in the Tigers' 33-30 win over Arkansas on Saturday.
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Georgia freshman tailback Washaun Ealey has been named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week for the second time this season, according to a league announcement on Monday.
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The No. 2/3 University of Alabama football team makes its second straight trip to the Southeastern Conference Championship Game to face the top-ranked Florida Gators on Saturday, December 5, 2009.
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1.  According to FoxSports.com, questions still remain about the BCS.

2.  Numbers guru Jerry Palm breaks down the BCS standings and explains what might happen if Texas loses to Nebraska.

3.  Paul Gattis of The Huntsville Times looks back at the SEC and says balance is the key word… not mediocrity.

4.  Ray Melick of The Birmingham News writes that Alabama and Florida have overcome a lot of distractions to reach the SEC Championship Game.

5.  Gentry Estes of The Mobile Press-Register conveys the following comment from Urban Meyer: “All due respect to the national championship game, I think (the SEC title game) is very similar.”

6.  If it feels like Alabama and Florida are always meeting in the SEC title game… they are.  The SEC’s two most dominant programs of the past 20 years will meet in their 7th title bout since 1992 on Saturday.  (Florida holds a 4-2 advantage.)



7.  And CBSSports.com has posted their bowl projections:

BCS Title Game — Florida
Sugar Bowl — Alabama
Capital One Bowl — LSU
Outback Bowl — Tennessee
Cotton Bowl — Ole Miss
Chick-fil-A Bowl — South Carolina
Music City Bowl — Kentucky
Liberty Bowl — Arkansas
Independence — Auburn
Papajohns.com — Georgia

1.  Just in time for a date with Alabama’s defense, Florida’s offense is starting to get more comfortable.  (Could be FIU and FSU as opponents… rather than SEC teams.)

2.  Gators versus Tide is the dream matchup folks have been pining for all season.

3.  Urban Meyer says “This is a one-game season now.”

4.  Florida will be healthier for this year’s title game than they were for last year’s.

5.  Charlie Strong is focused on Alabama, not potential head coaching jobs.

6.  So much for Georgia falling behind Georgia Tech.  A dominant run attack destroyed Tech on Saturday.

7.  This writer shares the good, the bad and the ugly from the Dawgs’ big upset.

8.  Georgia’s tailbacks had written the message “I Run This State” on their various body parts before the win.

9.  UGA is now in the discussion for the Chick-fil-A Bowl, but the folks making that decision say they “don’t have any idea” what they’re going to do.

10.  In Lexington, thanks to a succession plan, head-coach-in-waiting Joker Phillips is already on the hot seat even before landing Rich Brooks’ job.

11.  Saturday’s loss to Tennessee has left folks in the Commonwealth grumbling about their football program again.

11.  Turning the page to basketball, Kentucky’s players put on a show for Big Blue fans in Louisville yesterday… including a stomp of the Louisville Cardinals’ logo at Freedom Hall.

12.  John Calipari said of the stomp, “We do dumb things.” 

13.  UK’s coach hopes to play three games a year in Louisville at some point.

14.  This writer believes Lane Kiffin and staff got more out of players than the previous staff did.

15.  For example, quarterback Jonathan Crompton has become a clutch performer.

16.  Tennessee has improved as the season has gone on, too.

17.  Kiffin was schedule to speak to UT boosters at the Knoxville Quarterback Club today, but he’s going recruiting instead.

18.  On Saturday, the ball finally started bouncing South Carolina’s way in their annual year-ender with Clemson.

19.  Here are 10 reasons why the Carolina-Clemson rivalry is about to get tighter.

20.  Funny how one win can change folks’ perspectives.  A week after Cock fans were downtrodden, there’s now talk of corners having been turned.

21.  Carolina officials will be probably be pushing for Atlanta or Nashville this bowl season.

22.  And since no one’s really written ANYTHING about Vandy football or basketball in a couple of days, we’ll throw this one out: Warren Norman can now gun for CJ Spiller’s career record for kickoff returns.  Spiller has seven.  Norman had three as a freshman.