Auburn Wire Staff picks week 12’s SEC games

We are one week away from “rivalry Saturday” in the SEC which means, traditionally, that week 12’s slate is full of nonconference snoozers.

Auburn will play its final non-conference game of the 2022 slate on Saturday, but the game will be anything other than a cakewalk. The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers come to town, bringing one of the most explosive offenses in the nation.

Western Kentucky quarterback Austin Reed has thrown 31 touchdown passes this season, and has passed for over 3,500 yards. His monster season to this point has landed him on the Davey O’Brien Award Semifinals list alongside many other great quarterbacks in the league.

Outside of Auburn’s game with Western Kentucky, five SEC teams will play nonconference games in week 12, three of whom are against FCS teams.

There will be four games that feature SEC teams battling one another, with Georgia and Kentucky being the headliner.

How does the staff at Auburn Wire see week 12 shaking out? Here’s how writers Taylor Jones, J.D. McCarthy, and River Wells see this weekend’s games playing out.

Austin Peay at Alabama

East Tennessee State at Mississippi State

UMass at Texas A&M

Florida at Vanderbilt

Georgia at Kentucky

Tennessee at South Carolina

Ole Miss at Arkansas

New Mexico State at Missouri

UAB at LSU

Western Kentucky at Auburn

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