We’re celebrating football being back by counting down to kickoff using content-specific pieces every weekend to deliver the good stuff — last-minute primers involving all 14 SEC teams. Here are the previous installations.

We’re three weeks away from the regular season.

So if you’re reading this right now, you probably should be out in the yard, running errands for your spouse, attending your child’s ball practice. Whatever you need to do so that, for the next three months, you can plop onto your couch every Saturday without guilt.

Here are the three best games in the SEC this season. (Get it? Three? Because we’re three w– … see what I did there? Yeah, I know. Kinda lame. But we really are almost there.)

3. NO. 9 GEORGIA AT NO. 7 AUBURN, NOV. 14

Last Meeting: This one was sweet revenge for the Prayer at Jordan-Hare. Nick Chubb and Todd Gurley combined for 282 yards and three touchdowns as Georgia’s running game led to 34 unanswered points in a blowout victory. Auburn fell to 7-3, while UGA lost Gurley for good due to an ACL tear.

At Stake: The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry is tied, 55-55-8. Any November loss tends to be devastating to a team looking to make the national championship game. Last year, Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State and Oregon each skated through the month unscathed.

Factoid: Because Missouri edged out Georgia for last year’s SEC East title, the winner of the Georgia-Auburn game did not participate in the SEC Championship Game for the first time since 2009.

2. NO. 3 ALABAMA AT NO. 9 GEORGIA, OCT. 3

Last Meeting: Aaron Murray marched Georgia 80 yards in eight plays. But Chris Conley caught tipped, wobbling pass at the 5-yard line with seconds remaining, and the Bulldogs couldn’t snap the ball again before time expired. Alabama won the 2012 SEC Championship Game, 32-28. Then the Tide smashed Notre Dame to win a national title.

At Stake: The Tide and Bulldogs each have designs on a College Football Playoff berth in 2015. One of these teams will absorb a loss just five weeks into the season. With a plethora of Top 25 teams still remaining on the schedule (four for each, based on the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll, not to mention the SEC title game), the loser’s odds shrink drastically.

Factoid: Alabama has played 68 consecutive games as a gambling favorite, a modern-era record. Several project the Tide will enter this game as an underdog, which would end the streak at 72 games.

1. NO. 3 ALABAMA AT NO. 7 AUBURN, NOV. 28

Last Meeting: The Iron Bowl turned into a Pac-12 facsimile with 762 combined passing yards and 99 total points. Or maybe more like the NBA playoffs: Auburn receiver Sammie Coates managed 206 yards and two scores, but Alabama receiver Amari Cooper was the best player on the field (224 yards, three touchdowns).

At Stake: Potentially, an SEC West title and the continued opportunity to earn a College Football Playoff spot with a win in Atlanta. Also, this marks an early tiebreaker between Nick Saban and Gus Malzahn, as the coahes have split their first two head-to-head meetings. A win for either coach could be more symbolic than usual within the state, if that’s possible.

Factoid: Alabama has gone unbeaten in November three times under Saban: in ’08, ’09 and ’14.