re: Sec East needs Tennessee to beat Oklahoma

No, what the East needs is for Florida to recover from Muschamp, we're the only SEC East team that really counterbalances Alabama (UGA counterbalances LSU, and I guess UT counterbalances AU) with Florida down there's basically one East team that realistically can win the whole conference (UGA) vs. 2 West Teams (Bama and LSU) with an additional West team that is nationally elite once every 5 years or so (Auburn).

The other upside to the East being back is it keeps weak West teams that aren't truly elite from winning the conference and then getting boat raced in a bowl (see Bama getting 40+ dropped on them in back-to-back bowl losses).