SEC Network analyst Andre Ware has a pet peeve: He wants spot fouls called on pass interference penalties.

Fine. I have one too, and it’s the first of 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to after Week 5 in the SEC.

1. Throw the damn ball downfield: At halftime in Columbia, Texas A&M game-breaker Christian Kirk had 9 catches — for 38 yards. That’s barely an adequate rushing average.

In Nashville, Florida had a 2nd-and-5 and ran a 3-yard curl route. That was a few plays after Austin Appleby completed a pass … for a 4-yard loss. I can’t take it any more.

These teams don’t have route trees. They don’t even have route twigs. They have route seeds and it results in ugly play and ugly stat lines like this from the first half of Vanderbilt-Florida.

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Seriously, 2.9 yards per attempt? Are the chalk boards they draw these plays on not long enough to show the end of the route?

Make it stop.

Why, oh, why didn’t Deshaun  Watson and Lamar Jackson choose the SEC!

2. Quit hating on Blake Barnett: Enough, already. Barnett didn’t quit on anything. He transferred. He left to pursue another opportunity, which, unless you married the first girl you kissed, are still driving the first car you bought to the first job you had, is something we’ve all done. Does it hurt Alabama’s title chances? Only if Jalen Hurts gets injured, but no five-star quarterback views himself as an insurance policy.

Nick Saban coached Toledo for one season. One season. They took a chance on him, and he left after one season. He left to join Bill Belichick. Did he quit on Toledo or make the best possible decision for Nick Saban?

Barnett has an NFL arm. Jacoby Brissett had a similar choice: Sit at Florida, or transfer and chase his dream. Brissett transferred … and is now in the NFL. Barnett is absolutely making the correct decision for his future.

3. Oh, Jalen …: I admit it: I’m a huge Jalen Hurd fan. He won me over at the Outback Bowl. Not for anything he did on the field. I already knew what he could do. He won me over in the post-game presser, when he accepted his MVP trophy. He talked about hard work, grueling summer workouts, how he thought about that July sweat during the fourth quarter. I like guys who work, and he won me over with his intensity.

Saturday, his goal-line fumble might have been the most un-Jalen Hurd thing he’s ever done. A guy who prides himself on finishing … didn’t finish.

Butch Jones was beyond furious, but what can you say to a guy who never takes a play off? This wasn’t Ray-Ray McCloud dropping the ball before the end zone because he couldn’t wait to celebrate.

Hurd redeemed himself by later scoring on a touchdown catch that helped the Vols rally to their most improbable win since … when?

4. Another rookie mistake: Coaches learn too, and Kirby Smart is learning the hard way after making two curious decisions that directly led to Tennessee’s wild comeback victory.

First, ahead by 3 with 3 minutes left, Georgia had a 2nd-and-11 from its own 5. Football 101 says you run the ball twice, use the clock, punt and play defense.

Instead, Smart had Jacob Eason drop into his end zone. Derek Barnett came off the edge and hit Eason, forcing a fumble that Corey Vereen recovered for a go-ahead touchdown.

Eason somehow bounced back, even after throwing an interception on his next drive. He miraculously drove the Dawgs down the field and threw a 47-yard TD to Riley Ridley to put the Dawgs ahead with 10 second left.

On Tennessee’s final play with 4 seconds left, Smart decided to rush three and drop eight. His best rusher, Lorenzo Carter, was playing centerfield in the end zone instead of pressuring Dobbs.

With all kinds of time to scan the field and allow his receivers to run 45 yards, Dobbs launched the game-winner.

Why coaches don’t blitz in this situation is beyond me. Basketball coaches are finally coming around to the fact that, up three in the final seconds, you foul before the team can attempt a tying 3-pointer. Eventually football coaches will figure out that blitzing off both edges will prevent the QB from even being able to get the ball to the end zone.

I’ll take my chances on you scoring on a 43-yard screen pass when I have five back and all you have are wide receivers blocking.

5. The fifth-best offense in the SEC … is Alabama’s defense: They’re unbelievable. They’ve scored a non-offensive touchdown in every game this season. It’s getting to the point where opposing coaches might want to spend a portion of practice running their offensive players through tackling drills — in an effort to keep the Tide defenders out of the end zone once they inevitably force a turnover.

6. Hello, LSU: Welcome to the 2016 season. The party has started. The beer is gone and the pizza is cold, but there are probably still a few bags of pretzels out back for you.

The new coach certainly put the O in the Tigers’ offense. LSU ran for 418 yards — they topped 400 just once under Les Miles. Their 634 total yards were the fourth-most since 2000, and their most ever in an SEC game.

7. Enough celebrating! You’re on scholarship. You’re expected to score. You’re expected to catch passes and pick up first downs, make tackles and return interceptions for touchdowns. Georgia’s unsportsmanlike penalty after its go-ahead TD with 10 seconds gave the Vols a chance to win. Twitter went nuts on the impact. Rightfully so.

Football is difficult enough without giving other teams help, and that was a huge, costly, unnecessary assist.

8. SEC (l)East: We wrote a story last week about the West widening the gap. We noted how every West team except Auburn had an active winning streak against the East, and every East team had an active losing streak against the West.

Saturday brought more of the same. The East went 0-3, losing each by double digits, the final tally reaching triple digits: 100-26.

Will the slide end next week? Tennessee travels to Texas A&M and Florida hosts LSU. Based on Saturday’s results, the Vols have the best shot, but it’s not necessary a great shot.

9. Tim Williams was the player of the game in a game he never should have played: Nick’s going to do what Nick’s going to do, but this is the second time an Alabama player has been arrested after police officers found marijuana and a gun in their car. Cam Robinson and Hootie Jones were arrested in May, though charges were dropped. Williams was arrested days before Saturday’s game. Officers found marijuana a gun that Williams said he bought but did not have a permit to carry.

Williams’ friend, a passenger in the car, said the marijuana was his and he got it from a friend, some fella named Brandon Chicken.

Williams sat out the first half of Saturday’s day before dominating the second.

10. Brandon Chicken? That has to be the greatest imaginary friend, ever. Seriously, I thought that’s what Clemson fans called South Carolina QB Brandon McIlwain.

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