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There’s a clear Big Two right now in the SEC’s Western Division, and everybody knows who those two are.

LSU is ranked No. 2 this week in the Associated Press poll, and Alabama is ranked No. 3.

If the SEC is indeed going to make it six national championships in a row, it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t think it will be either Alabama or LSU hoisting that crystal trophy in New Orleans come January.

But the SEC also has another streak going. Four different teams from the league have won the last four national titles.

Arkansas would love to be the fifth, and the Hogs get their chance on Saturday in Tuscaloosa to prove that the Big Two in the West is really the Big Three.

This is what Bobby Petrino and the Hogs have been building toward ever since he arrived four years ago. They got a taste of it last season with their Allstate Sugar Bowl appearance and won 10 games.

There is no way they even make it to Atlanta.  They might knock off either Bama or LSU if everything aligns itself just right, but not both.  Of course I said the same thing about Auburn every week last year.