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SEC Football: Previewing the New Year’s Day SEC bowl games

The SEC has a total of nine teams playing in bowl games this season. Four teams from the conference will play in December, but for the first time in over six decades, five SEC teams will play in a New Year’s Day bowl.

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Every team wants to be bowl eligible, but with so many bowl games played each postseason, simply playing in any bowl game is not as significant as it used to be. However, it is still a pretty big deal to get to play on Jan. 1.

Out of all the Power Five conferences, the SEC is not sending the most teams to a bowl game. However, the ACC, the Big 12 and the Big Ten each have no more than one team playing on New Year’s Day. The Pac-12 has …show more content…

South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley has 16 touchdowns and over 2,500 yards, but he also has 11 interceptions this season. Michigan’s defense is good enough at stopping their opponents from scoring. The Gamecocks cannot get away with too many turnovers if they want to win this game.

Peach Bowl

The No. 7 Auburn Tigers (10-3, 7-2 SEC) will face the No. 12 UCF Knights (12-0, 9-0 AAC) in the Peach Bowl in front of a sold out crowd in Atlanta, Ga.

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UCF running back Adrian Killens has already provided the Tigers with enough bulletin board material.

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Killens will likely end up regretting this comment. The SEC has more than enough speed, and Auburn’s Kerryon Johnson is one of the best in the conference.

Johnson has 17 touchdowns and over 1,000 yards this season. He suffered a shoulder injury in the final game of the regular season against Alabama and was limited in the SEC Championship game. But he is expected to be available for the Peach Bowl.

Auburn’ defense will also give them an advantage. The Tigers allow an average of 17.3 points per game. They are No. 10 in the FBS for opponent points per game.

However, the undefeated Knights will have something to prove in this game. Many analysts and reporters argued that UCF deserved a better ranking in the final College Football Playoff

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