• Powerful programs take dive
It's understandable that most of the attention this time of the season is placed on the first four or five teams in the top 25 polls.

• Methodical Alabama still rolling
STARKVILLE, Miss. ? There's one word that keeps coming to mind when looking for an adjective to describe Alabama's football team: methodical.

• Seven solid steps for South Alabama
That was a good start. A perfect start, actually.

• Meyer's message minimal
Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes made the decision his coach should have made. He took himself out of Saturday's game against Vanderbilt ? for both halves.

• Meyer's message minimal
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• Don't let slip in polls bother you
The Bama Nation discovered Sunday their team had suffered a loss. This was especially disturbing news for them because the Crimson Tide enjoyed an open date in its schedule.

• The season just starting to get good
Lately, it doesn't seem any college football team wants to be No. 1.

• The season just starting to get good
Lately, it doesn't seem any college football team wants to be No. 1.

• SEC title game a semifinal?
When then-commissioner Roy Kramer came up with the idea of splitting the SEC into divisions and creating the SEC championship football game, there were critics.

• A lot of problems mark AU's current nosedive
BATON ROUGE, La. ? Auburn's season, once flying high, is now in a nosedive.

• Schedule has traps for Tigers
For the first five games of the season, it really was, as the cheer suggests, great to be an Auburn Tiger.