That Georgia was ranked No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff poll released Tuesday was about as surprising as kids showing up to your front door in costumes wanting candy.
The Bulldogs, 8-0, have a road win over No. 3 Notre Dame.
Alabama doesn't have a win over a ranked team, although it tried when it opened the season against Florida State in what was hyped as the warm-up to the national championship game.
Since then, the Crimson Tide have gone about business as usual, beating the heck out of opponents, outscoring all opponents 344-78, which is roughly an average of 43-10.
They do have games left with No. 14 Auburn, No. 16 Mississippi State and No. 19 LSU. And, of course, the SEC Championship Game is expected to come down to the Tide and the Bulldogs.
One thing is certain: It is looking good for the SEC to have two of the final four teams.
Wisconsin, No. 9, is undefeated but has no signature victories and no significant opponents until the Big Ten Championship Game.
No. 10 Miami is also undefeated but it has been the luckiest team in America so far and could get exposed in the next two weeks when it hosts No. 13 Virginia Tech and No. 3 Notre Dame.
Here's a bold prediction about the SEC Championship Game: The week leading up to it Nick Saban will mention the home-field advantage Georgia has as it is only 73 miles from Atlanta and Tuscaloosa is 202.
Saban won't remember ticket allotments are equal and that the Crimson Tide Nation travels as well as any in the country.
Speaking of the national championship being represented with two SEC schools, the conference is affiliated with nine other bowls and currently -- counting the Bulldogs and Tide -- has seven teams eligible.
Florida, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt all need three victories to reach the magic number of six.
From the West, Texas A&M needs one victory and the Razorbacks need three.
In other words, the Birmingham and Independence bowls may not have SEC teams this year, although teams with five victories can qualify if their Academic Progress Rate is high enough and the number of six-win teams is lacking.
Tennessee's Butch Jones remained a solid No. 1 on coacheshotseat.com and is likely to stay there until he is actually fired, which is coming despite a hefty buyout of $8.4 million.
If his staff is fired, it would cost Tennessee another $5 million.
Jones likely won't settle like Florida's Jim McElwain apparently did when he stepped down, with help, as the Gators head coach Sunday.
Around the nation, McElwain's exit was considered the first of what could be many dominoes that are going to fall in December.
There could be as many as 15 head coaches from Power 5 schools fired at the end of this season.
Here's a bold prediction: McElwain will be coaching somewhere next season, maybe not at a Power 5 school but somewhere. He's from the Saban coaching tree.
McElwain's departure has led to some sports websites making odds on who will be the third head coach at Florida since Urban Meyer left after the 2010 season.
The favorite is Dan Mullen at Mississippi State, as Gators Athletic Director Scott Stricklin is familiar with Mullen from his time as AD at MSU from 2010-2016. Stricklin was responsible for $140 million in updates for the Bulldogs.
Mullen was an assistant coach under Meyer at Florida.
Last bold prediction: Despite being deserving, Mullen won't be SEC Coach of the Year this season; Georgia's Kirby Smart will win that honor.
Sports on 11/02/2017