How down bad has Auburn football been? The Tigers have lost eight straight games to rival Georgia and five straight to rival Alabama. They have yet to make the College Football Playoff. And they have to face nemesis Diego Pavia one more time. But Year 3 under Hugh Freeze offers hope in an improved roster and a favorable schedule that brings Georgia and Alabama to the Plains. It's about time for Auburn's long irrational nightmare to end in Jordan-Hare After Dark. Kevin Scarbinsky welcomes Scott Griffin of CBS-42 in Birmingham to break it down.

The Florida baseball coach went on a profane tirade because his NCAA Regional game time got moved back one hour. The Wake Forest coach got caught on camera uttering an ugly slur at a demonstrative Tennessee hitter. Both coaches (and their athletics directors) had to issue formal apologies for their bad behavior. Those were just the latest examples of a college sports world gone mad. Is it crazy to wonder what happened to sportsmanship? Or does that just make you a snowflake?

It wasn't so easy to hurl slings and arrows at SEC football when the league was winning all those national championships. Go two years without one, though, and everyone's lining up to mock the Evil Empire. Commissioner Greg Sankey and company are an easy target right now as the sport tries to figure out a new playoff format. Wherever college football lands, you can be sure of one thing: The SEC will find its way back to the top.