Not every team is good in SEC football this season:

Auburn and Florida have gone from winners to hard luck losers:

Flash Thoughts:
  By the time the SEC football regular season is done during Thanksgiving weekend, two teams that are normally very good will be seeing their time on the gridiron this year close out.
Auburn and Florida for quite some time have mixed it in with the upper elite of the conference.
That is now a memory.
On Saturday, Auburn gave a good effort but was not enough to keep Vanderbilt from a comeback 45 to 38 victory in OT. Vanderbilt is now the new talk of SEC football for having 8 wins in 10 tries and very much in contention of a possible berth to the college football playoff format.
Florida was a disaster in getting throttled at Kentucky 38 to 7. This comes a few weeks following a big victory by the Gators in the Swamp against Texas.
For the record, Auburn is 4 & 6, Florida 3 & 6.
Only a miracle for both teams with three weekends left in the schedule will allow them to be among those playing in a bowl game in December.

 Ten of the 16 SEC programs currently are bowl eligible. Auburn and Florida are on the outside looking in.

 There is so many reasons for it to be this way with both teams.
The SEC is very much good from the playoff contenders to those that are around the basement of the conference.
Personnel are not up to par for either program.
Of course, the coaching situation has resulted in Auburn firing Hugh Freeze after the Tigers were embarrassed by Kentucky on Halloween weekend and Billy Napier got tossed from Florida after the Gators were lucky to beat Mississippi State.

 The attitude of any players can be looked at on how they handle the stretch run of the season.
Are they winners by effort, or quitters when it comes to what is seen by many on the scoreboard?
Auburn is idle this week with interim coach CJ Durkin to try and mend the Tigers in their final two games to be on the plains with Mercer the 22nd and Alabama November 29.
Florida sees Ole Miss in front them this coming weekend on the road. Tennessee and Florida State will visit the Swamp on the 22nd and 29th.
Both are having to understand, they will have to begin from scratch.
That will be first up with whom is hired to be their head coach for next year.
Analyzing the personnel will need to go very deep in one on one discussions for how they want to redeem themselves from the current issue of being championship consideration.
Patience through their fan base, plus those who provide financial support to the programs is now difficult to embrace.
College football through the analysis of yours truly is now very much a business parallel.
Playing the game is different as how are Auburn and Florida players handling this from one letting victory elude them in Nashville to the other showing little life and giving Kentucky a chance to beat them for the 5th time in the last 7 seasons.
Football is huge in the culture for Auburn and Florida. But it doesn't carry the clout it did from so long ago.
Florida is the defending NCAA basketball champion and Auburn became very serious in the sport with Bruce Pearl. Pearl gave it up to allow his son Steven a chance to test his skills as a head coach.
Auburn and Florida very much have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
But the price of this is very painful when losing is not a common item for both of these well known football programs in the Southeastern Conference.
Does time heal all wounds?
Not easy to get it answered that way.

Photo of Auburn WR Cam Coleman making a catch against Vanderbilt in a SEC game in Nashville November 08.
Photo courtesy of Auburn University.