There’s room for all of us to improve.

Even Alabama can find an area or two to better itself (Nick Saban could probably find a few more). Nobody is perfect, including SEC teams.

It’s New Year’s Resolution SZN, which means I have one for every SEC team in 2019:

Alabama — Make more extra points

Duh. Of course it’s the kicking game that we have to critique here. Alabama missed 8 extra points in 2018. Five happened in blowout nonconference wins, which probably quieted the kicking game concerns, but it’s still a thing. And no, it’s not just a thing because Alabama scores so many points and has so many opportunities for kickers. What’s the good news? The No. 1 kicker in America, Hoover, Ala., native Will Reichard, signed with the Crimson Tide.

Arkansas — Establish offensive identity

The Hogs were an offensive mess in Year 1 of the Chad Morris era. It’s hard to establish an offensive identity with the wrong personnel for a specific system, but resolutions aren’t about making excuses. They’re about making corrections. Perhaps with Connor Noland or newly-signed KJ Jefferson, Morris has the quarterback he needs to make that switch in 2019.

Auburn — Reduce stress

Did you ever get stressed out just watching Gus Malzahn on the sidelines? I did. I thought 2018 would be the year when that feeling would go away after he inked that $49 million extension. Instead, ineffective offense and ultimately losing led to an even more anxious Malzahn.

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With him back in the saddle calling plays in a make-or-break year — and back to rocking the sweater vest — here’s hoping that the Auburn coach can reduce his stress levels … along with everyone who watches him.

Florida — Trust the process

Wait. Didn’t Florida just win 10 games and a New Year’s 6 Bowl for the first time since 2009? What process is there left to trust? There’s still the Dan Mullen quarterback process. That is, don’t be surprised if he takes another year to let Emory Jones develop and wait behind Feleipe Franks, regardless of if the latter struggles. Mullen didn’t give Dak Prescott or Nick Fitzgerald the starting job until Year 3. It wouldn’t be stunning if he had the same plan for the talented Jones.

Georgia — Don’t get out-coached by Nick Saban in the second half

OK, so technically that happened twice during 2018, but it happened each of the past 2 seasons. As great as Kirby Smart has been, those are clouds hanging over him as he tries to break into the Saban/Dabo Swinney club of elite coaches. It’d be one thing to simply have a couple blown leads against the greatest coach of all time. But the fake punt was the type of thing that people won’t soon forget. Smart might be recruiting at the same level as Saban, and in all likelihood, he’s going to start out as a preseason top-5 team in 2019. But in terms of making those in-game adjustments, they’re not in the same arena. Smart would probably appreciate a third chance to change that.

Kentucky — Squash the “1-year wonder” narrative

The most difficult thing for a team without a rich history is to use an impressive season as a launching point. Kentucky faces that challenge in 2019, and it’ll have to do so without the likes of invaluable Josh Allen and Benny Snell. The last time the Cats won 9 games (1984), they didn’t have a winning record for the following 13 seasons. The last time Kentucky had consecutive 9-win seasons was 1950. In other words, Mark Stoops is trying to accomplish one heck of a feat next season.

LSU — Trust in Ed

If 2018 didn’t give LSU fans reason to trust in their head coach, I’m not sure anything will. LSU is a blown call from having the opportunity to win 11 games and a New Year’s 6 Bowl. Considering how daunting that schedule was, that says a lot. Obviously the Tigers are still sitting at 9 wins as of this writing, but against non-Alabama ranked opponents, Orgeron is 6-2 since shedding the interim tag. It’s about time he started getting some credit, and some trust from the LSU faithful.

Mississippi State — Master the art of the forward pass

Joe Moorhead would certainly like to do that. Getting Nick Fitzgerald to move the ball with his arm consistently proved to be a difficult endeavor. As great as a runner as Fitzgerald was, Moorhead needs someone who can be a true dual-threat. Conventional wisdom suggests Keytaon Thompson will get a chance to become that guy. He’s not afraid to throw it deep, and if he can improve his accuracy, MSU will improve from the nation’s No. 111 passing offense.

Mizzou — Don’t start 0-4 in SEC play

A simple resolution, really. Doing that in consecutive seasons isn’t easy on a head coach. Barry Odom would prefer a steadier pace to 2019 instead of having to win out in November like he did each of the past 2 years. Here’s the good news for Odom. Instead of the gauntlet start his team faced in SEC play in 2018, it’ll open with games against South Carolina, Ole Miss, Vandy and Kentucky. There’s no way the Tigers shouldn’t find a win or 2 in that stretch, even if they take a step back without Drew Lock.

Ole Miss — Don’t let people/SEC teams walk/run all over you

The Rebels have been a bit of an SEC punching bag the past couple years with the postseason bowl ban. A 4-12 mark vs. the SEC and a 2-10 mark against the division was evidence of that. They weren’t going to be a winning team in the SEC with the nation’s No. 115 run defense. But perhaps now with new defensive coordinator Mike MacIntyre, Ole Miss is capable of at least becoming an average unit. At the very least, Ole Miss made an important first step to make its resolution a reality.

South Carolina — Be more reliable

What a weird season it was in Columbia. With all the preseason hype surrounding Bryan McClendon’s offense, South Carolina just never quite sustained week-to-week success. They won consecutive games once all year, and after finally stringing together 4 games of 28-plus points to close the regular season, the Gamecocks got shut out by Virginia in the Belk Bowl.

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In the same way that last year’s comeback win fueled a lot of South Carolina’s pre-2018 buzz as an SEC East sleeper, that dud of a bowl game was enough to make people question if this is going to be the group to be a consistent force in the division.

Tennessee — Avoid embarrassing coaching searches

As of this writing, Tennessee still doesn’t have an offensive coordinator. Given the resources available and the returning talent at quarterback with Jarrett Guarantano, that’s baffling. It’s not as baffling as the head coaching search of 2017, but it’s a mystery that Jeremy Pruitt cannot seem to lure someone to take over for Tyson Helton, who left Knoxville at season’s end to take the head gig at Western Kentucky. The fact that Tennessee had such odd coaching searches in each of the first 2 years of the Early Signing Period is strange, to say the least. Here’s hoping the Vols will make a better effort to end that trend in 2019.

Texas A&M — Don’t succumb to peer pressure

This works on a couple of levels. The micro resolution is to have a better pass defense, which isn’t necessarily the cool thing to do in that region of the country, but it’s needed if the Aggies want to become a Georgia-like juggernaut. The macro resolution is to not assume that just because Kirby Smart did what he did in Year 2 that anything less than an SEC Championship is a failure for Year 2 of the Jimbo Fisher era. Even if that’s what everyone around A&M is talking about, the odds are that A&M won’t be ready to make that jump just yet.

Vanderbilt — Finish what you start

So moral victories don’t count, but it’s amazing to think that the Commodores had chances late to beat the likes of Notre Dame, Florida, Kentucky, Mizzou and Baylor. All of those teams won at least 7 games. How many Power 5 bowl teams did Vandy beat? Zero. You can bet that Derek Mason’s offseason mantra is going to be something about finishing because for one reason or another, Vandy just didn’t execute down the stretch well enough to get that defining victory in 2018.