Hayes: Your complete guide to Week 6 in and around the SEC

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Hayes: Your complete guide to Week 6 in and around the SEC

The SEC West Division might be all but wrapped up before midnight Saturday. Alabama has a good chance to clear the division record and advance to the SEC Championship Game.

The Tide are the favorite to win the West this week. If Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia win, Alabama will have a 2-game lead on Mississippi State and Auburn. The only team that can catch them is Ole Miss, which plays at Vanderbilt.

Hayes gives his complete guide to Week 6 in and around the SEC. Alabama coach Nick Saban is not happy with the hypothetical.

Quinn Ewers, an Ohio State transfer, is expected to return to the Texas lineup after missing all or part of the past 15 quarters with a shoulder injury. Dillon Gabriel, a UCF transfer and a head injury is doubtful for Oklahoma. Backup Davis Beville played against TCU and threw for 50 yards and rushed for minus-11. If Bevile doesn't work, the Sooners could move to junior college transfer General Booty or freshman Nick Evers.

Chip Kelly's UCLA team takes on the books and ball at the crossroads game against the SEC's Tennessee Volunteers.

The Bruins are trying to start a season 6-0 for the first time since 2005. They play Utah in the Rose Bowl this weekend.  “They want to be great in school, in life, on the football field, and in other areas. It's kids trying for their full potential.”

UCLA is playing Utah in a potential Pac-12 championship game. The Utes are defending champions and a legitimate contender this season. UCLA is a finesse team under coach Chip Kelly. If UCLA wins 2 of 3 games, it will be in the Pac 12 Championship Game. If it loses 2 or more games it might not be.

Florida State and N.C. State lost last week. The loser of the Atlantic Division is out of contention for the ACC Championship Game. Devin Leary's quarterback play has been hampered by poor protection and the inability of receivers to win on the outside. Jared Verse, one of ACC's top edge rushers, is back and should be a matchup for N Carolina State's offensive tackles Anthony Belton and Timothy McKay.

Last year's game against Ohio State was the worst game of the Mel Tucker's Michigan State era. This year, the rematch will be played in East Lansing. The Spartans' defense is in a bad shape. A loss to Ohio would drop Michigan to 0-3 in the Big Ten. Matt Hayes is a national college football writer for Saturday Down South. He can be heard from 12- 3 p.m. on 1010XL in Jacksonville.


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