Upset alert: Tracking the most dangerous trap game for every SEC team in 2024

Which games should SEC fans have their eyes on as having big upset potential in 2024? We give one for each squad here.

Oct 9, 2021; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies punter Nik Constantinou (95) celebrates Texas A&M Aggies place kicker Seth Small (47) 28 yard game game winning field goal against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the fourth quarter at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 9, 2021; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies punter Nik Constantinou (95) celebrates Texas A&M Aggies place kicker Seth Small (47) 28 yard game game winning field goal against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the fourth quarter at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports | Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports
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Trap games for every SEC team - Auburn Tigers

The Tigers have a slow ramp-up to a very tough schedule that includes the rare three straight road games in the SEC. Their first three games—against Alabama A&M, Cal, and New Mexico—should be pretty easy wins, despite last year’s contest against the Golden Bears being a late-night escape out in Berkeley.

Right after these first three, though, the Tigers host Arkansas. The Hogs may already be a desperate team by this point if they lose to Oklahoma State in Stillwater, and the Tigers have the definite potential to be looking ahead to the next week’s matchup against OU.

This isn’t one that I would favor the Hogs in if I was setting odds, but Auburn is certainly vulnerable. The Tigers stomped a mudhole in the Hogs last time the two met, so that makes the Hogs even easier to overlook. This could be a tricky one for the Plainsmen, though.

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