Some Georgia fans are so nervous today you’d think their offense was ranked 96th nationally in scoring.

Such is life in rivalry games.

You never know … but I can’t wait to find out. The Cocktail Party is just one of the five things I can’t wait to watch today in and around the SEC.

5. Georgia, Georgia, Georgia …

Everything to lose. Not much more to gain. That’s the Dawgs’ today.

History lessons are fine when they involve the same characters. But Nick Chubb had about as much to do with the 2002 and 2005 season-wrecking upsets as I did.

So we can talk about the potential for upsets and Georgia’s history of falling flat at inopportune times, but the simple fact is this group of Gators has never encountered a hotter, better pack of Dawgs.

Can Georgia handle prosperity? We’re about to find out. Everything is at stake today. Not just for the Dawgs, either. A Florida upset, while popular throughout the state, would end the conference’s bid for two Playoff teams.

A Georgia win won’t impact its Playoff positioning. It will be No. 2 or No. 3 in Tuesday night’s first poll. Only a loss will.

Georgia wants to be Alabama. Well, that reality is what Alabama wakes up to every Saturday.

4. The Hype Bowl

After Ohio State lost at home to Oklahoma, I told you how this would play out.

The Buckeyes would get healthy against the weak Big Ten, then the national media would work itself into a frenzy setting up today’s showdown against Penn State.

The reality is this:

Ohio State has been outscored 62-16 the last two times it played somebody of note outside the Big Ten.

Penn State hasn’t even played anybody of note. Its best win was against Pitt, a team Oklahoma State blew out by 38 … at Pitt.

So you have an overrated Ohio State team, at home, against an unproven Penn State team.

You won’t hear that from anybody else today because that goes 100 percent against the narrative. Especially not today, when Buckeyes Kirk Herbstreit and Joey Galloway will have the hype machine working overtime.

Look, if the Big Ten had gone 3-0 in its three biggest bowl games last year and pitched a shutout in the Playoff in the process, then I’d be banging the drum, too.

It did exactly the opposite. It went 0-3 — and all three losing teams gave up a season-high in points to other Power 5 teams in the process.

That was on top of its two best teams getting blasted in its bowl games in 2015.

This season, Ohio State has allowed more than 21 points exactly once. Yep, you guessed it: To Oklahoma in a 31-16 loss at the Shoe. The Buckeyes have scored at least 38 points in every game except one. Yep, you guessed it: Oklahoma held them to 16.

There’s no secret here. The best Power 5 offenses are carving up the best Big Ten defenses.

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That’s two shutout losses, four season-high point totals allowed, very nearly a fifth.

It’s mind-boggling why this league continues to get the benefit of the doubt.

3. Will Grier … and the Heisman

We read plenty this week about how Penn State’s Saquon Barkley can wrap up the Heisman with a signature performance today at Ohio State.

Fair enough. Barkley is outstanding, though it’s worth noting he’s only cracked 110 yards once this season against a Power 5 defense. Can’t deny the splash plays, however. He has some Reggie Bush-like highlights.

But why aren’t more people talking about Will Grier?

Grier received all of one fifth-place vote in ESPN’s latest Heisman tracker. He’s fifth among quarterbacks.

J.T. Barrett (hype alert) received more love. That’s ridiculous on every level. (Care to guess who forced Barrett into his worst performance? Those terrible Big 12 defenses, in this case Oklahoma’s, held him to a season-low 183 yards passing and completion percentage and picked him off once.)

Grier leads the nation with 26 touchdown passes. He’s thrown just five picks.

Against two ranked teams, he’s thrown for 737 yards and 6 TDs with just 2 INTs. He’s thrown 3 TD passes in six of West Virginia’s seven games.

Grier faces another ranked team today, welcoming Mason Rudolph and No. 11 Oklahoma State to Morgantown.

The game is at noon and the ball will be soaring. So, too, should Grier’s Heisman chances.

As if Florida fans needed another reason to be angry.

2. It’s go time, Irish

I made the case earlier in the week that Notre Dame belongs in the initial Playoff poll. The Irish have a huge test today against surging, veteran N.C. State. The Wolfpack already have beaten two ranked teams — FSU (though without Deondre Francois) and Louisville, which most certainly had Lamar Jackson.

An Irish win today would be back-to-back victories over Top 15 teams, in addition to the earlier 20-point blasting of Michigan State in East Lansing. That was the Spartans’ lone loss, and they’ve since rebounded against the Big Ten and moved to No. 16.

A Pack upset today in South Bend ends the Irish’s Playoff hopes and makes Cole Cubelic feel a lot better about his preseason prediction.

People had fun with that after the Pack lost their opener in Charlotte to South Carolina. That was fluky; they outgained the Gamecocks 504-246. But if they pull off a stunner today in South Bend, there’s only Clemson standing in their path to the Playoff. Having grown up in Raleigh, that’s a sentence I never imagined writing.

1. Rocky Top, you’ll never be … drama free to me

So now, a Tennessee offense that hasn’t scored since Sept. 23 against UMass will face Kentucky without its top offensive threat.

The good news is, the Vols have prepared all season to not rely on John Kelly in the red zone. So assuming they get there a few times tonight against the Wildcats, the game plan shouldn’t change too much.

Butch Jones’ tenure appears beyond saving, anyway, but he’s always been able to beat Kentucky. He’s won all four, and the Vols are on a five-game winning streak. If he loses this one? There might not be TV in Tennessee that doesn’t have a hole in it.

Flip side, if the Vols make it six straight, Mark Stoops’ seat could grow instantly hotter after last week’s no-show at Mississippi State.

Buckle up, today’s going to be a fun one.