Well, we tried. A tough week of matchups led to our third loss of the year, thanks to LSU winning but not covering the spread.

We now sit at 2-3 on the season and we’re going to try to double up this week with two picks. A non-panic panic if you will.

We’re fine. This is fine.

Everything is fine.

Week six…

SEC Pick of the Week: No. 8 Tennessee (-2.5) at No. 25 LSU, 12:00pm ET on ESPN. 

For the first time in over four years (maybe more, I’d have to go back and look) I’m rolling with the Volunteers in a Pick of the Week. I don’t trust them one bit, but two things working in their favor for this game.

They’re coming off a bye week and the game is at noon. Both the SEC office and the television selectors did them a HUGE favor by placing this game at noon instead of at night. The Vols will argue that this game should be the CBS game, but come on now, for a program that hasn’t won anything of note in 15+ years it just is what it is.

Strange things happen in Death Valley at night and the Volunteers avoided it. Good for them.

As for the game, they should be fine. They are coming off the aforementioned bye and two weeks ago they looked beatable against a struggling (at the time) Florida team who surprisingly made the game closer than it needed to be. Hopefully the week off provided them with the time needed to work out a few kinks and get healthy.

Wide receiver Cedric Tillman should also be back for the Vols who desperately need him. Mostly because this thing is just getting started.

The Tigers on the other hand have looked wildly pedestrian of late, scoring 21-straight points in their comeback win against Auburn last week in a game in which both coaches looked overwhelmed.

Take the Vols here, but shake your head while doing it.

SEC Pick of the Week II: Missouri at Florida (-10), 12:00pm ET on ESPNU.

It’s Homecoming week in Gainesville and while a bigger fish (LSU) comes to town next weekend, the focus this week should be on a Missouri team that the Gators have struggled against ever since the former joined the SEC.

Technically, the series is 6-5 overall in Missouri’s favor but things are tied up at 5-5 since the Tigers’ journey in the SEC began in 2012. Included in that is a 2-1 in Gainesville at Homecoming. Why the Gators keep selecting the Tigers for their Homecoming game in non-Vanderbilt years is beyond me.

But this year I’ve got a different feeling. Despite splitting the last two games the Gators have looked fairly decent overall, minus a few issues on defense (Dean III, Trey) and an inability to consistently hit the deep ball.

But I’m all in on the Billy Napier process.

Gators win and cover.

Upset alert: Arkansas at No. 23 Mississippi State (-9.5), 12:00pm ET on SECN. 

The Razorbacks have quietly become one the leagues most disappointing teams. But then again, me personally, I’d have never have had them that high to begin with.

I mean sure, they’ve got a loss that they shouldn’t but they are probably better off somewhere between 18-25 ceiling/floor if they were to be ranked, never near the top 10.

Mississippi State is tricky and could present problems for the Hogs but if you look at the rest of the SEC slate what other game do you feel more confident of an upset in?

Keep an eye on: Texas A&M at No. 1 Alabama (-24), 8:00pm ET on CBS.

Jimbo Fisher has a record worse than Kevin Sumlin at A&M and things aren’t going to get much better very soon. He’d have been fired a while ago but his buyout of nearly $90 million has kept him employed.

Plus, he pissed off Nick Saban in the off-season, which is never a good idea. Although the excitement for this game because of that has fallen a lot the last couple of weeks.

He can talk all he wants about whatever, but just remember, unless that coach is Steve Spurrier or Nick Saban, usually that kind of talk means that the seat is getting pretty hot.

Trending up: Ole Miss.

Is the running game the main fuel for the Lane Train? It is? OK.

Trending down: Stetson Bennett and Georgia.

Maybe it’s just a blip, but the in two out of the last three games something has seemed off.

I get the feeling that there might be some quarterback rumblings brewing in Athens in the near future.

Call it a hunch if you want.

Trending down II: Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M. 

The clock is ticking. I wonder what his career would look like if he never had Jameis Winston?