I hate to have to say such things as "Arkansas will be telling" because this Arkansas team probably shouldn't tell us anything. But the reality is Arkansas, much like Florida, almost always finds a way to take years off of our life, even if LSU is markedly better. If LSU covers the spread, that would probably make me think they really are cleaning up the problems that cost them the FSU opener. @MSU was great, but as mentioned, the cowbells were either unable or unwilling to expose LSU's weaknesses, and I'm not sold that LSU's defense is as good as they looked. Another great day from the front 7 and a serviceable day from the secondary would be a good sign. And if LSU's offense is legit they need to prove they can handle adversity and clean up mistakes, which they failed to do in week 1. Exploding on MSU could've been an outlier. Do it twice, I might start to believe.
I honestly have no idea what to expect from Alabama/Ole Miss. I've never, not in the worst Shula years, seen an Alabama offense look like it did against USF. There's still a big part of my brain that thinks any minute they could flip the switch on their gobs of superior talent and go back to being "Bama." If they don't, Ole Miss is certainly capable of tagging them. We will not have previously heard the likes of the outcries emanating from Tuscaloosa if the Tide start the season 2-2.
UGA, looked to me, just needed to wake up. They needed to eat their halftime Wheaties and drink some coffee, and once they did, they proved they were far superior to the Gamecocks, which is how it should have looked. They're still my pick for the East and the conference unless they give me new reasons to think otherwise.