Bye Week TV Schedule and Open Thread

The rationale is simple: Ole Miss has two SEC losses, and can therefore only win the SEC West if everyone else has at least two SEC losses. A two-loss Auburn (which already exists!) would have the head-to-head tiebreaker against Ole Miss. Mississippi State has to lose twice, and with Alabama, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss left on the schedule, we can only reasonably conclude that those two losses, if they are to happen, will come today and the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Alabama has to lose just once more, but since we need them to beat State, we therefore would need them to lose to a three-loss Auburn team in the Iron Bowl.

That would mean that there's a three-way tie atop the SEC West with Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Alabama each finishing 6-2. Ole Miss would have victories over both the Dawgzzz and the Crimson Tide, meaning they'd get the nod to represent the division in the SEC Championship Game. Win that, and it's conceivable that the SEC Champ, even with two losses, breaks into the playoff.

Make sense? Great. Roll Tide, Go Dawgs (arp arp arp), and Hotty Toddy.