Can Week 8 up the ante again with more upsets and drama? - ESPN

The SEC's tagline that «It Just Means More» has always been something of a punchline to fans outside the league, but after three straight seasons without a team in the national championship game, the jeers have grown louder. The SEC used to enjoy the ultimate bragging rights, but 2022 feels like ancient history, given the pace of change in the sport of late. And after one of the most chaotic weeks in SEC history, it's the lone power conference without an undefeated team.

Still, for all the punchlines «It Just Means More» has provided recently, the premise remains unquestionably true. The league itself might not be the supreme power in college football at the moment, but for SEC fans, Saturdays still hit different.

Think about it: Indiana's 22-game winning streak ended, but its fans still have all the earnest enthusiasm of a golden retriever. Florida State was arguably robbed of two last-second Hail Mary scores, but its fans have already cycled through the stages of grief enough times to fast-forward right past anger, bargaining and depression, and settle in to a nice cold dose of acceptance in less time that it took the replay booth to rule that last Ashton Daniels heave an interception. And Notre Dame might be upset about a disputed ending of its own after officials robbed the Irish of one final play, but hey, it's not as if they're going to lash out at another conference and opt out of a bowl. That would be petty and beneath such a storied program.

But in the SEC, last week's losses hit hard.

Auburn's stunner against Georgia sent shockwaves through Dawg Nation, with fans all over the state spending Saturday night sitting on the tailgate of their F-150s, staring out across a moonlit lake, awash in regret with Bob