ATHENS, Ga. – They can’t complain now. Can’t get away with politicking and promoting and posturing in five weeks when the College Football Playoff poll begins.

This is the monster the SEC created. Suck it up, and deal with it.

If it looks like the NFL, and plays out week after week like the NFL, well, as they say in the south, if you burn your ass, you have to sit on the blisters.

While Alabama’s surprising 24-21 win over No. 3 Georgia on Saturday night was the epicenter of the SEC world, heavyweight, bare knuckle fistfights played out all over the conference footprint.

Wins and losses — and more important, losses — that will significantly impact the always quirky (and unnervingly fair to a fault) CFP selection committee.

No. 11 Ole Miss outmuscled No. 4 LSU . No.15 Tennessee s

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