It’s impossible to escape bad football.

I’ve tried. I fled Indiana after seven years, returning home to the Carolinas, where I grew up. Didn’t help. ACC football was only marginally better than the Big Ten slop I saw from the Hoosiers and Boilers, so I moved back to Florida.

Ahh, the SEC.

Better, but then I flipped on the TV to watch Mississippi State on Saturday.

Heaven help us. And Dan Mullen, too. Jacob Eason wasn’t any better Sunday, either.

Here are 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to after Week 6 in and around the SEC.

1. Vols’ Voodoo is gone: The Vols lost, in double overtime, on the road, to a Top 10 team, with four starters out. Somehow, they committed six turnovers and but weren’t done until they committed their seventh.

They outplayed Texas A&M. They out-hustled Texas A&M. They out-schemed Texas A&M. They should have won. Instead, we, the viewing public, lost.

The magic ride is over. There will be more games — including a huge one next week against Alabama — and maybe more comebacks, but reinventing the magic of 1998 is gone.

I had Tennessee third in last week’s SEC power rankings. They’ll be no worse than that in the Week 7 version.

2. LSU’s overreaction to Hurricane Matthew game: Did I miss something? LSU was mighty upset that Florida refused to play this game in Baton Rouge (or somewhere else). LSU said it offered the Gators planes, trains, automobiles and hotels.

One thing I didn’t see LSU offer was this: Agreeing to move next year’s game from Baton Rouge to Gainesville.

They’re permanent partners. They play every year. Maybe LSU made that offer and it just hasn’t been reported.

Seems like that would have been easy enough to do. If LSU didn’t, it should have. If LSU did and Florida rejected, shame on the Gators.

At any rate, just cut the necessary checks and play the game in Gainesville on Nov. 19, the most logical date for both teams.

Moving forward: This shouldn’t be an in-the-moment decision. Contingency plans for weather are something the SEC ADs should discuss and vote on during one of their annual retreats.

3. Oh, and LSU … you’re playing that game: Does this even need an explanation? The most comical take coming out of Baton Rouge was that the Tigers would lose revenue from a home game if they are forced to buy out South Alabama on Nov. 19. Guess what: The Gators also lose a home game check — unless they’re planning on playing a double-header that day.

Enough complaining. People died during this hurricane. Others lost everything. I’m tired of hearing it, and I’m one of the extremely fortunate coastal residents who didn’t wake up Saturday morning under water.

4. Meanwhile in Raleigh …: N.C. State and Notre Dame tried to play through what was left of Hurricane Matthew. I’m overreacting to the ACC’s underreaction.

About 25 miles west of Raleigh, North Carolina hosted Virginia Tech, and Duke hosted Army. An hour further west, Wake Forest was at home too. The ACC can’t get anything right lately. Meanwhile, half of the state was flooded, interstates were closed, homes and businesses destroyed.

5. Alabama’s defense stinks! We’re grading on the Nick Saban curve, obviously, but the Tide’s defense gave up more points than it scored Saturday. And of course it scored. It actually scored twice. That makes eight consecutive games with a defensive or special teams touchdown, including all six this season.

Still, not good enough. Saban got into on the sideline with defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.

What was Saban’s post-game assessment? In essence, the defense stunk.

6. How was this not targeting? I don’t root for teams; I root for the best story, so it’s pretty easy to call it like I see it without looking through the colored glasses of a particular school.

So when Tennessee’s Evan Berry got drilled Saturday, it was fair to question how it wasn’t ruled targeting. If you’re a Texas A&M fan, you didn’t think it was targeting. I get it.

But if you’re wearing stripes, don’t you at least have to review this?

7. Jacob Eason, what was that? Can you imagine how Twitter might have reacted Sunday afternoon if Greyson Lambert were air-mailing open receiver after open receiver?

Eason was 3-for-13 for 14 yards in the first half against South Carolina. His first pass in the second half was intercepted in the red zone.

Eason finished just 5-for-17 for 29 yards. He was intercepted for the fifth consecutive game.

https://twitter.com/PeterBurnsESPN/status/785236404989267972

As unbelievable as it sounds, it qualifies as the SEC’s worst QB performance of the year.

Want to see some serious overreacting? Some All-SEC caliber overreacting?

https://twitter.com/Jason_Boozer/status/785210770615328768

8. Alabama is averaging 44.8 points — and it’s not even really trying: Jalen Hurts has played start to finish exactly once.

Steve Spurrier’s 1996 national champion Florida Gators set the SEC record for scoring average (46.6 points per game). Urban Meyer’s 2008 national champion Florida Gators set the SEC record for most points (611).

Both numbers are in danger this season if Saban gives Lane Kiffin permission to chase them.

9. Kentucky isn’t done yet: The Wildcats have quickly and dramatically flipped the script. Instead of coaching for his job, Mark Stoops is coaching for bowl eligibility. The math is simple: The Wildcats have three wins — and three winnable games remaining: against visiting Mississippi State, at Missouri and against Austin Peay. There’s a good chance they’ll have Drew Barker back for all three.

10. I thought Mississippi State’s bye week was last week. I was wrong. I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t believe how bad that first half was.

Chris Wright is Executive Editor at SaturdayDownSouth.com. Email him at cwright@saturdaydownsouth.com.