It's the middle of July, a couple of weeks before fall camp starts around the nation and SEC football gets ready to kick off.

In other words, this is the point of the offseason where optimism springs eternal.

Everybody is 0-0, and if you listen to the majority of fanbases, their teams have what it takes to make it to Atlanta to play for the conference title.

After all, the SEC East is wide open (how many times have you heard that this offseason?) and the SEC West is so strong that it would be the nation's toughest conference. Right? Yeah, you've heard that, too.

Right now, every team is trying to get to where Alabama and Missouri were a season ago. There are upstarts many around the nation are talking about su...

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