re: The SEC East was not Down Last Year.......

Let's use some logic here: Who did Missouri beat last year?

Regular season:

Murray State 6-6
Toledo 7-5
Indiana 5-7
Arkansas State 7-5
Vanderbilt 8-4 - UGA was the best team they beat
Georgia 8-4
Florida 4-8
Tennessee 5-7
Kentucky 2-10
Ole Miss 7-5
Texas AM 8-4

68-65, not the most impressive record of an SEC division champ ever, and consider that the division had 3 teams below .500 and Vanderbilt, one of the "better" teams in the division, their best win was against UGA, who was just not the same team later in the season after injuries.

Missouri only played one team that won more than 9 games in the regular season last year, and they lost.

The perennial powers in the division were a combined 17-19 in the regular season, and South Carolina, probably the best team in the division based on who they played, where they played them, and who they beat, lost to a 5-7 team to basically hand the division to a team that really didn't play more than one top 10 team all year.

SO YES! The division was down.

Still a great season from Missouri. Now just let it go, and enjoy your division trophy, if they make those...