The longest roundtrip for Mizzou in the SEC will be 1,694 miles to Gainesville, FL and five other cities will require a trip longer than 1,000 miles. That includes Texas A&M. The extra travel will take on at least an estimated $750,000 in costs.
Wheaties has been known as the Breakfast of Champions, but the breakfast choice among SEC schools may be Pop Tarts. Florida, Georgia and Arkansas. The Gators’ flavor is Florida Gators Strawberry according to various Twitter pictures and Internet reports. The other flavors of the limited edition Pop Tarts labeled as “Printed Fun” are Go Blue Strawberry (Michigan), Bulldog Berry (Georgia), Razorback Red (Arkansas) and Tar Heel Blue (North Carolina).
SEC has five of the top 20 party schools according to the Princeton Review, 2012.
1. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
3. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
4. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
5. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
7. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
8. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
9. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
10. University of Texas, Austin, Texas
11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
13. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.
14. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis.
15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
16. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
18. University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
19. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.
20. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Joker Phillips finally named a starting quarterback for Kentucky. It’s sophomore Maxwell Smith over senior Morgan Newton. Two freshmen, Patrick Towles and Jalen Whitlow, remain the third and fourth options, but Phillips said he still hasn’t decided who’s third.
Tennessee coaches pull a fake injury on their own team to see how they would react to sudden adversity.