Jerry Palm, the man who projects brackets for us at CBS Sports, predicted in the preseason that 11 SEC schools would make the 2025 NCAA Tournament. It's obviously too early to know whether he'll be right or wrong,

Three weeks in, the competition you’ve beaten has to start mattering, which is why Tennessee has jumped Iowa State and UConn.

Here's a look at where SEC teams appear in the Coaches Poll and AP Top 25 after Week 13 of the college football season:

There are a lot of different reasons why Tennessee secured a No. 2 seed in last season's NCAA Tournament, won 27 times and advanced all the way to the Elite Eight. (It's never one thing.) But, undeniably,