If you’re a fan of a Southeastern Conference football team, chances are you’ve already enjoyed or endured a blowout this season.
There were 13 head-to-head matchups of SEC programs in September, and seven were decided by at least four touchdowns. Mississippi State alone has experienced three such results, waxing LSU 37-7 before getting clobbered the past two weeks by Georgia, 31-3, and Auburn, 49-10.
Is there more league imbalance this season?
“I don’t know about that,” ninth-year Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said Wednesday. “Some years there are good teams, and every team is up and down at different times. In my understanding of the league, you’ve got seven teams in the West whose fan bases expect them to win a championship every single year.
“Those are the expectations, but it’s always an up-and-down cycle, and it’s always cycling through.”