SEC had a week from hell. Then it went 16-0, while Big Ten was left scrambling | Opinion

So after a week of absolute hell, the first weekend of college football couldn’t have gone better for the SEC.

The 16 schools played 16 games, and didn’t lose. Didn’t even need a second clock to save a body bag game.

A second clock. Imagine the Big Ten selling that concept after Michigan’s win over Western Michigan.

Meanwhile, back in reality where the SEC is on the verge of running a founding member of the conference because it can’t play nice, Mississippi escaped Nashville with a wild win over Louisville late Sunday night to complete an unbeaten Week 1 for the conference that was beat to hell after a week of legal infighting with rogue member LSU.

LSU said we’re bigger than you, then went out and proved it by beating washed up Clemson by 41.

And that’s the key to everything, everyone.

Once ball begins, all off-field nonsense fades away. Months of judge shopping and NIL spending and legal wrangling can’t stand up to the beautiful gift in the perfectly imperfect box. It’s eight months in the desert for the parched, only to frolic in the rejuvenating rain when it falls every Labor Day weekend.

All is forgiven, all…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/