I love the SEC Championship Game. It’s the original conference championship, akin to the original chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A. Well, admittedly the football game bears little similarity to that tastiest of sandwiches, other than being Southern, darn good, and...
How often have you been asked recently about your Thanksgiving plans? It’s unavoidable. At the water cooler, kids’ sporting events, casual encounters with neighbors or friends, the dogged question persists: “What are you doing for Thanksgiving?” Please do me...
I bought a puppy at a school fundraising auction Sunday. Upon sharing the news with my mother, she asked in an all-too-familiar tone, “What on earth were you thinking?!?” She then happily suggested I name the puppy after her...
No. 1 Alabama faces No. 4 LSU in Baton Rouge this Saturday in an SEC West slug fest, a contest carrying conference and national championship implications. To the winner goes a perch atop college football’s toughest division and the...
No shortage of news and storylines as the fourth and final Saturday of October nears. Let’s get TUIT, SEC Banter style: Just Call It “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party,” Already Georgia (No. 7, 6-1 overall, 4-1 SEC) and...
Does Your SEC Team Make the Grade? Just over halfway through the 2018 college football campaign, it’s time for SEC Banter’s midterm grades. I’m the perfect professor to dole out grades with somewhat reckless abandon. First of all, I’m...
I’m pleased to present this special, four-part edition of SEC Banter for the LSU-Georgia game, including two guest appearances, my nod to these traditional SEC powerhouses, and a NOLA travel guide for those heading to the game. Part 1: “Callin’...
The calendar’s finest month, October, has finally arrived in the South. It has arrived, too, I’m told, in places like Massachusetts and Oregon, but those thankfully distant bastions of liberalism are of no concern to us here. This is...
Football is a fall sport. So they say. September in the South, however, feels a heck of a lot more like August than it does October. Put simply: it’s just too f’ing hot for football right now. The on-field...
Classic rivalries steeped in tradition help define the SEC as the nation’s finest football conference. The Iron Bowl, The Cocktail Party, and The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry all come to mind. A less-renowned, oftentimes strange rivalry also merits mention...
