This is an opinion column.

It’s June. It’s hot. Hotter than an Ivy League school beating Auburn in front of the new Frank Thomas statue, then trolling the Tigers with a clever, cutting Kick Six blast.

“PENN’S GONNA WIN THE BASEBALL GAME! PENN’S GONNA WIN THE BASEBALL GAME!”

Leave it to the smart guys to leave a mark.

With the shocking exception of Auburn’s early exit on the Plains, the SEC baseball takeover of the NCAA Tournament is in full swing. So what’s everyone in the college sports blogosphere talking about from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes?

SEC football. More precisely, the SEC football schedule. The 2024 SEC football schedule. Which officially has no names attached to it yet – tune in June 14 to the SEC Network for the full reveal – but finally, mercifully, has a number almost everyone inside and outside the league footprint can hate.