Barry Odom is supposed to know defense. Jim McElwain is supposed to know offense. Both might want to get to know a good search firm if this mess continues.

Here are 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to after Week 1 in and around the SEC.

10. Missouri: What was that?

At halftime, I asked our staff where this would rank on a top-10 list of most embarrassing openers. The glass-half full response from the room was: Only if the Tigers lost. They won, and absolutely looked lost.

The Tigers allowed 43 points to an FCS team — and all I could hear was Nick Saban talking about a certain team running through his defense in a certain, unstoppable, graphic fashion.

That’s the most points Missouri has allowed in any opener against any team.

Yes, Drew Lock and the offense set school records. Hooray. Nobody’s going to be talking about that in team meetings today.

9. I loved how Clemson’s band spelled O-H-I-O.

Ohio State’s band, of course, famously spells out its state name before each game. Clemson, of course, shut out the Buckeyes 31-0 in last’s year Playoff semifinal. Clemson’s band didn’t stop there. They continued marching up and down the field, embracing their inner Deshaun Watson, no doubt, and later spelled out D-A-B-O and C-H-A-M-P-S.

Brilliant.

The defending national champs get Auburn on Saturday. Get the Cam jokes ready.

8. Catch of the year … in Week 1: One-handed catches are becoming so routine they’re at risk of becoming boring. Not this one. This was spectacular. Until further notice, Deebo Samuel’s TD grab is the catch of the year in the SEC.

This was Samuel’s second play of the year nominee. He returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown.

7. Tom Herman: LSU fans, this is the guy some of you wanted?

Texas, ranked No. 23 and favored by three touchdowns at home, gave up 51 points to Maryland, which hadn’t topped 50 against a Power 5 opponent since 2010. (They only Power 5 programs the Terps had scored 51 or more against since 2000 were the 4 ACC schools from North Carolina.)

From 2000-2016, Texas gave up 51 or more four times — all to Oklahoma, and all before Charlie Strong arrived.

6. Malik Zaire: He’s a left-handed version of Treon Harris. He showed zero pocket awareness Saturday. He fled when he could have stayed and stayed when he should have fled.

Feleipe Franks wasn’t spectacular by any stretch, but he is the Gators’ quarterback. There should be no more controversy or competition.

It’s time for Jim McElwain to grow him and grow the offense with him … or find someone who will.

5. Alabama is just ridiculous: The Crimson Tide’s front seven didn’t even dominate — not like last year, anyway — and it still held Florida State to 40 yards rushing.

(So you mean this inability to run against Bama is not just a Florida thing, or an SEC East thing?)

The pass rush “only” registered 3 sacks (it had 4 or more in eight games last season), though it repeatedly hit Deondre Francois and eventually knocked him out of the game. Last year that pass rush forced interceptions and scored points. It leapt over tall blockers and stopped speedy running backs. That wasn’t exactly the case Saturday. Francois made a couple of bad throws, but he also had time to step up in the pocket on many throws.

In other words, a defense that just shut down the No. 3 team in the country will be a lot better a month from now than it was Saturday.

Good luck with that.

4. A-C-C! A-C-C! My scoreboard says Alabama 24, FSU 7 and South Carolina 35, N.C. State 28. Tennessee goes for the Week 1 SEC sweep on Monday night against Georgia Tech.

And if Auburn upsets Clemson next weekend in Death Valley?

Kinda makes you appreciate and marvel at the SEC’s seven-year stretch from 2006-12 all the more, no?

3. Playground Shea: Saturday morning, I wrote that Shea Patterson would be crazy fun to watch all year but probably wouldn’t challenge the 4,000-yard mark because Ole Miss is capped at a 12-game season.

Patterson went out and threw for 429 yards and 4 TDs, both career highs. Question the competition; that’s fine. I won’t argue that point. But it’s difficult to go 28-for-35 against air coverage in warmups.

In four career starts, Patterson has topped 300 yards three times.

Tim Couch’s seemingly untouchable 4,275-yard season might be within reach, after all.

2. USC snapper overcoming odds: There are a lot of knuckleheads roaming college sidelines, and if you’ve been doing this as long as I have, it’s easy to become jaded.

That’s what makes what happened Saturday night in Los Angeles so cheerable.

Jake Olson, who was born with eye cancer and lost both eyes by the time he was 12, earned his way onto the USC football team as a long-snapper.

Saturday night, he got the chance to put the years of practice to good work.

After the Trojans scored a late TD to go ahead 48-31, coach Clay Helton tapped Olson.

His snap was perfect. The extra point good. Goose bumps, man. Goose bumps.

1. Bring on Week 2: Regionally, we’re far more interested in the cat fight at Clemson, but nationally, the Big 12 and Big Ten are playing a huge game that should help shape their respective reputations.

(I say “should” simply because we all know Ohio State will have to lose three times to be eliminated from Playoff contention.)

Oklahoma, without question, is playing for its Playoff life Saturday night at the Horseshoe. Remember, the Playoff committee is looking for a reason to give you the boot. Nothing personal, they insist, it’s math: five conferences vying for four spots.

No. 23 (not for long) Texas losing as a three-touchdown favorite at home to a Big Ten team in Week 1 already is a terrible look for the Big 12. Baylor losing to Liberty, while sounding apropos and long overdue, is inexcusable.

If Oklahoma loses Saturday against the Buckeyes, not only would the Sooners be in trouble, but the conference as well. Everything Oklahoma State might do the rest of the season would be cast under the shadow of “your league stinks.”

If the Buckeyes win, the talk of two B1G Playoff teams will roar for the rest of the year.

For the love of grits, please don’t put that evil on me, Baker Mayfield.