Bill Connelly drops his SEC preview every year and every year I have to sit here and watch him pencil. The disrespect is honestly impressive at this point. We have been stacking talent in the trenches for two years now and the national guys still treat us like we are rebuilding from scratch. But you know what really gets under my skin? It is the way the officiating narrative always convenienty lines up to protect the status quo in this conference. I have watched this team lose games we had no business losing because of calls that would make a high school crew blush. You can pull up the tape from any of our close losses the last two seasons and find at least. And the national media acts like it is just bad luck. It is not bad luck when it happens every single time we play a team with a blue blood pedigree. The SEC office has a pecking order and we are not at the top of it. That is just the reality of the sport no matter how many analysts want to pretend the games are called evenly. This fall camp year feels different though. We have the depth now to absorb a bad call or two and still walk out with a win. The roster is built differently than it was two years ago. We have real competition at almost every position group and the coaching staff has had enough time to install everything they want to run. If we catch a few questionable flags against Baylor or any of our SEC opponents this year. The bias is real. The SEC has its favorites and we are not one of them. But this is the year we take the narrative and shove it down their throats anyway.