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Florida (10-0, 8-0)Next: vs. Florida International 12:30 p.m. SaturdayQuarterback Tim Tebow will be in New York the second weekend of December and may indeed win the Heisman Trophy again. But his numbers this year are lagging behind the last two.

A fourth Tennessee football player has been charged with breaking the law in the last two weeks. Nyshier Oliver is facing a charge of shoplifting. The 18-year-old freshman defensive back was cited at 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 7, a few hours before the Volunteers hosted Memphis.

Three University of Tennessee freshmen players charged with attempted armed robbery will not play with the Volunteers at Mississippi.Tennessee spokeswoman Tiffany Carpenter says the team will travel to Oxford without wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson, safety Janzen Jackson and defensive back Mike Edwards.

East DivisionFlorida (9-0, 7-0)Next: 3:30 p.m. Saturday at South CarolinaIn seven SEC games, the Gators have had only two plays of 50 yards or more -- a 77-yard touchdown pass from Tim Tebow to Deonte Thompson against Arkansas, and a 64-yard pass from Tebow to Aaron Hernandez late in the game against Vanderbilt.

Three University of Tennessee football players were arrested early Thursday for allegedly trying to rob three men outside a Knoxville convenience store.The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. at a convenience store on Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.

Darvin Adams had a request for his new position coach.The Auburn wide receiver from Harrison High wanted Trooper Taylor to call him "Smooth.""I said it was going to take me awhile for that to happen," Taylor said. "He was going to have to make some plays.

Though Tennessee Tech was shut out Saturday between the hedges, one of its players is alleged to have scored a pricey laptop computer during his stay in Athens.A UGA student told detectives that an unidentified player stole the $1,600 computer while visiting her Mitchell Bridge Road apartment, said Athens-Clarke County Police spokeswoman Hilda Sorrow.

The University of Mississippi's first-year chancellor followed through on a promise Tuesday and asked the band to stop playing a pep song because some fans are chanting "the South will rise again" at the end of the medley."Here at the University of Mississippi, there must be no doubt that this is a warm and welcoming place for all," Dan Jones wrote Tuesday in a letter to the university community.

Steve Spurrier says he'll be back in the middle of South Carolina's playcalling and back on the Gamecocks' sidelines next season.Spurrier said Tuesday that he'll increase his playing calling role down the stretch and won't let the potential of another frustrating finish — the Gamecocks (6-4, 3-4 Southeastern Conference) have lost two straight with No.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Urban Meyer of Florida became the first coach to be disciplined under the Southeastern Conference's new policy regarding criticizing officials.The league fined Meyer $30,000 on Friday, two days after he said referees missed a late hit against quarterback Tim Tebow in No.

East DivisionFlorida (8-0, 6-0)Next: 7:15 p.m. Saturday vs. VanderbiltThe "War of Videotapes" rages on between Florida and Georgia. Coach Urban Meyer sent the SEC a copy of a tape he said shows the Bulldogs' Nick Williams hitting quarterback Tim Tebow late, but Tebow didn't seem bothered.

Georgia linebacker Nick Williams was surprised to learn Wednesday that Florida coach Urban Meyer asked the SEC to review video of what he called a late hit by Williams on Gators quarterback Tim Tebow in Saturday's game. "Emotions were flying, and I was just trying to make a play," Williams said.

The University of Florida football staff is asking SEC officials to review what they claim was  a missed late hit in the Saturday game against the Georgia Bulldogs.Florida head coach Urban Meyer says officials missed a late hit on quarterback Tim Tebow by Georgia linebacker Nick Williams.

Saturday's Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville might be played in record heat.The Weather Channel's gametime index (available at weather.com) says the afternoon high could be 88, beating the Halloween record of 86 set in 2004.Four of the past 10 Georgia-Florida games have been played in 80-degree heat, but "Saturday's tilt may feel more like mid-September," according to The Weather Channel.

East DivisionFlorida (7-0, 5-0)Next:vs. Georgia 3:35 p.m. Saturday in JacksonvilleWith one rushing touchdown, quarterback Tim Tebow will break the SEC career record of 49 held by Georgia's Herschel Walker. Walker actually scored 54 rushing touchdowns but five came in three bowl games and SEC records did not factor in bowl games at the time.

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Former Georgia coach Vince Dooley isn't quite ready to say that Tim Tebow is the best player in SEC history:"He compares right along with Herschel because both of them won Heisman Trophies and both won national championships. Both are strong and competitive and all those things.

Saturday commemorates 50 years since a college football legend was cemented. Oct. 31, 1959, LSU running back Billy Cannon made his famed "Halloween run," an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown that helped the top-ranked Tigers beat No. 3 Ole Miss in Baton Rouge and vaulted Cannon to the Heisman Trophy.

Football fans are being warned to make sure their tickets to the Tennessee-Alabama contest on Saturday are the real thing. The University of Alabama athletics department's media relations office sent out a notice cautioning fans to be on the lookout for counterfeit tickets to Saturday's game against Tennessee at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

BIRMINGHAM -- The media assembled Thursday to talk to John Calipari about his new job as Kentucky's coach.Calipari used the platform at the SEC's basketball media day to blow his horn for the league, predicting that it will send seven or eight teams to the NCAA tournament one year after qualifying a meager three.

Team-by-team capsules from the SEC East and West heading into this weekend's games:East DivisionFlorida (6-0, 4-0)Next: at Mississippi State 7:30 p.m. SaturdayWith four fumbles in Saturday's 23-20 victory over Arkansas, the Gators have nine for the season and have turned the ball over 11 times in six games for a turnover margin near minus-2.

COLUMBIA, S.C.  -- South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says Alabama used some tape trickery on field goals and extra points last weekend and is asking the Southeastern Conference if what he saw on video is legal.Spurrier said Tuesday it looked like the Crimson Tide holder put a small piece of white tape on the ground to spot PATs and field goals, then quickly put the tape in his pocket after the kick.

A capsule look at each team in the SEC East and SEC West heading into this weekend's games: East DivisionFlorida (5-0, 3-0)Next: vs. Arkansas, 3:30 p.m. Saturday Left tackle Matt Patchan is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee during practice on Tuesday.

Ask Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin who his Volunteers' biggest rival is, and he won't tell you Florida or Alabama."Georgia, because of what we need to do recruiting, will be the biggest matchup for this staff and for our team," he said.

The Georgia-Tennessee Tech football game Nov. 7 will be televised on pay-per-view, according to a release by UGA and ISP Sports.Kickoff for the homecoming contest at Sanford Stadium in Athens will be 1 p.m. Cable and satellite systems in Georgia and Tennessee will offer the telecast.