SEC Coverage

ESPN's Ivan Maisel one upped Rivals' Tom Dienhart by getting four coaches to go on record in breaking down the SEC title game participants: Lane Kiffin, Dan Mullen, Rich Brooks, and South Carolina's Ellis Johnson. All of them, in one way or another, think Tim Tebow's the key to the game. To me, the best insight unsurprisingly came from the guy who used to coach the Florida quarterback: "We really encouraged them to run Tim Tebow. One thing with Tim is he will wear you down but he will not beat you with the big play. They moved the ball on us, but we stopped them in the red zone." Mullen's exactly right: you're better off having Tebow rush for two to six yards than having Jeff Demps go for 50 or letting Riley Cooper get open behind the defense.

It takes a little something from these things since they're anonymous, but Tom Dienhart wrangled a couple of SEC assistant coaches together to break down the title game participants. Based on how this reads though, I'm about 75% sure that one of the participants was a Tennessee assistant. At the end as a bonus is a Big 12 assistant breaking down Texas, the likely national title game opponent for Saturday's big winner.