re: Will this be the year a 52 year SEC streak gets broken?

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Mizzou is really the only answer.

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I know you're facetiously posting this for the delicious downvotes, but I don't think most people realize how close Mizzou was to winning the SEC in 2013 (here's where most people will stop reading without hearing me out). Mizzou was a defensive gameplan away from winning the SEC that year.

Most people look at the box score and see 59-42 which registers as a blowout in their heads, but those who actually watched the SECCG in 2013 will recall that the game was 45-42 in the early in the 4th quarter.

Mizzou lost because despite scoring 42 points they allowed a whopping 59...but it's not like Mizzou had a bad defense that year. Over 12 games, with 5 of them versus ranked opponents, the defense was averaging 19.4 points allowed coming into the SEC Championship game, and 7 guys from that defense have gone on to the NFL. So the defense was no slouch, but a God awful defensive gameplan doomed us despite us scoring 42 points.

If I recall correctly, I remember seeing that Tre Mason told Michael Sam (they were teammates briefly on the Rams) that Mizzou could have, and should have won that game, but Mizzou's DC refused to adjust his defense and kept throwing the same looks at Auburn's offense, which allowed him and the Auburn offense to continue piling on the yards.

I embrace the impending downvotes to this post, but my point is to convey that under the right circumstances, it's not that farfetched to think a "little 8" program will win the SEC in the near future. They just can't afford to shoot themselves in the foot.