5 SEC football storylines Paul Finebaum Show callers will be talking about after Week 13

If you want to hear Alabama fans brag about the Iron Bowl, tune into The Paul Finebaum Show.

The SEC football season is winding down, but The Paul Finebaum Show is an unrelenting force.

As the calendar flips from November to December, only a handful of SEC teams have a shot at making the College Football Playoff. Another team looks to be in the mix to get a New Year’s Six bowl bid, as the SEC could have as many as four of the 12-team field there. With huge rivalry games in the rearview mirror and another coach getting fired, the Finebaum callers will be rabid.

Here is what The Paul Finebaum Show callers will be talking about Monday

5. So the Egg Bowl happened

Despite there being no dog peeing celebrations in the end zone or a litany of head coaches getting fired, the 2020 Egg Bowl happened and it lived up to lofty expectations. In the first battle between Lane Kiffin and Mike Leach, the Ole Miss Rebels proved victorious over the Mississippi State Bulldogs in what hopes to be another great part of the Magnolia State’s most important rivalry.

With Ole Miss getting a seven-point victory over Mississippi State 31-24, the Rebels are slightly ahead of the Bulldogs in their respective rebuilding processes. We knew it was going to be a trying year for both programs, but it was nice to see these bitter rivals give us the competitive game we craved. The only issue was that it was not on Thanksgiving night and deserved that for sure.

4. Will Mac Jones end up stealing the Heisman Trophy from Kyle Trask?

This has been in the back of our minds for a few weeks. Ever since Florida Gators quarterback Kyle Trask emerged as the presumptive front-runner to win the 2020 Heisman Trophy, we had a feeling Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Mac Jones would not go away quietly. After a great performance by Jones in the Iron Bowl, the trophy comes down to the SEC Championship game.

Trask should still be the leader, but if Jones outduels him in Atlanta, he will be the first Crimson Tide quarterback to win the Heisman. With Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Justin Fields likely out of it at this point, Jones has the games ahead of him to potentially usurp Trask and steal the Heisman Trophy back in favor of the Crimson Tide.

3. Where does Vanderbilt go after firing head coach Derek Mason?

In a day where more people paid attention to Vanderbilt football than normal due to women’s soccer goalkeeper Sarah Fuller becoming the first female to play in a Power 5 game on Saturday, Vanderbilt University fired longtime head coach Derek Mason after an 0-8 start to 2020. His Commodores were shut out on the road vs. Eliah Drinkwitz’s Missouri Tigers, 41-0.

Vanderbilt is now the second SEC school to fire its head coach after the South Carolina Gamecocks got rid of Will Muschamp two weeks ago. While the Vanderbilt job may not be as alluring as the South Carolina one, it is still an SEC gig. There will be many coaches interested in the job, such as Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea and former Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher.

2. Does Texas A&M end up getting the last spot in the College Football Playoff?

No team in the Power 5 benefits more from the chaos happening in the Big Ten than the Texas A&M Aggies. With their only loss being to Alabama, the Aggies could get to 9-1 this regular season, ensuring themselves of no worse than a top-five finish. Assuming Alabama beats Florida in Atlanta, there is a strong possibility the Aggies get in as the No. 4 seed in the four-team field.

We know the ACC and SEC Champions will get in. With the Northwestern Wildcats losing to the Michigan State Spartans and the Ohio State Buckeyes only one cancelation away from missing out on the Big Ten title bout, we may have to seriously re-consider Texas A&M’s chances of getting in as the fourth team behind Alabama, Clemson and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in some order.

1. No Nick Saban, no problem for Alabama in the Iron Bowl

Even without Nick Saban being able to coach in the 2020 Iron Bowl due to testing positive for COVID-19, the Crimson Tide had no issues rolling past the Auburn Tigers on Saturday afternoon. This was about as good of a game you could have ever hoped for out of offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian serving as the interim head coach. He is 100 percent ready for a big job again.

As for the fallout of this game, it is apparent that Alabama is the best team in the country. The Crimson Tide are probably not going to lose a game this year. For Auburn, they are indisputably the third-best team in the SEC West this year behind Alabama and Texas A&M. The Tigers may finish ranked inside of the top 25, but they are not in the class of the four top-10 teams out of the SEC.

So what will the theme before Monday afternoon’s rendition of The Paul Finebaum Show? Speculation. The only three SEC teams that matter the rest of the way this year are Alabama, Florida and Texas A&M. Other programs like South Carolina and Vanderbilt will look for a new head coach, while teams like Auburn and the Georgia Bulldogs will prepare themselves for next season.

It is a good thing to have three SEC teams very much in the mix to make the playoff at this time.

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