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Florida 45, Florida State 15 • Alabama 36, Auburn 0. Even Gary Danielson had to admit the SEC has struggled relative to its reputation, with LSU dropping four straight in-conference and Georgia and South Carolina biting the dust today in fairly decisive fashion to ACC underdogs. At least the bellwethers held up their end of the deal. If you wanted to write a script to set up a game of the magnitude of next Saturday's SEC Championship, you couldn't be much more convincing than the Gators and Tide in beatdown mode against their overmatched rivals.

Make no mistake: Bama-Florida will be the biggest championship game in any conference in the 16-year history of the format, the closest any of them have come to a winner-take-all semi-final. The only two games I can recall with such obvious national consequences for both teams at the end of a season are Florida-Florida State in 1996 and Michigan-Ohio State in 2006. That's a tall precedent -- both those games ended with three-point margins in favor of the home team -- but unless I'm missing something over the last month and a half, that fates or stars or whatever are pointing to a bona fide classic.