Let's just skip to the title game

Can we just hit the fast forward — please.

Enough of these silly nail-biters like Arkansas-Florida when you know what's going to happen. Enough of these mind-numbing cat and mouse games like South Carolina-Alabama when you know how it's going to end. Enough of Georgia-Vanderbilt and Kentucky-Auburn because they are simply irrelevant and a pain to watch.

Can we just skip ahead to Dec. 5 and get this over with.

Florida will be heavily favored to win the remaining six games on its schedule. Can hardly wait for Georgia-Florida in Jacksonville? The only thing in doubt will be whether Mark Richt can keep his fourth loss of the season under 39 points (the difference in last year's contest). Some of the experts say Alabama's schedule is more formidable. But is it really?

If teams can't score a touchdown on Alabama (see Ole Miss and South Carolina), is there any point in CBS hyping Tennessee or LSU as anything more than sacrificial lambs?

Is Jonathan Crompton, the Tennessee quarterback, going to be the Tide-slayer? Or Jordan Jefferson of LSU? Or Auburn's Chris Todd?

The smartest man in the college football universe is undoubtedly Mike Slive. He cut the 15-year, multi-billion dollar packages last year with CBS and ESPN. Not only did the SEC commissioner make the mega-deal six weeks before the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, it was done before the 12-school SEC officially became a two-team league.

I bet ESPN is proud to lay claim to Auburn-LSU this weekend in primetime. What's the theme going to be on Game Day: "Tune in later for the Beatdown in the Bayou." Lots of luck trying to promote ESPN's other primetime clunker — Florida-Mississippi State. The Bulldogs are only a 22-point home underdog.

CBS hit the jackpot last Saturday in the Swamp, but they got lucky because Florida was looking ahead — to Alabama....