In the SEC, they call Week 12 Cupcake Week.

It’s the non-bye bye week before the season-ending rivalry games.

Analysts love to blast Cupcake Week, as if they’d rather watch a typical Big Ten game between Indiana and Rutgers. Please, almost every week in the Big Ten is Cupcake Week. Certainly the past two Playoff semifinal games against Big Ten teams have been. (Charleston Southern actually scored against Alabama in 2015, which is more than Michigan State managed.)

So pass the dessert as you enjoy that Purdue-Iowa thriller while trying to remember where you put the snow blower. There are things worth watching today. Here are five in and around the SEC.

5. Today, I am the biggest Jim Harbaugh fan in the world

Do I think Michigan will beat Wisconsin today? Not really.

Do I think Wisconsin is one of the four best teams in the country? Next question, please.

Do I think, overall, the Big West is a colder, grayer, more barren version of the SEC East? Yes.

Am I impressed with the Badgers’ schedule? You mean the one that avoided the three best teams in the East (Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan State) and hasn’t included a game against a team ranked inside the Top 20? I don’t want to say that house is built out of balsa wood, but I wouldn’t recommend standing under the porch is somebody coughs. I am impressed, however, at their ability to make you believe it’s Playoff-worthy.

Do I think Ohio State is going to blast the Badgers in the Big Ten Championship Game? Yes.

Do I want this charade to end as quickly as possible? Yes. And it ends today if Harbaugh’s team can finally win a big game.

Here’s something for Vols fans thinking Jon Gruden is your flip-the-switch savior: Michigan thought the same thing. For all of the hype surrounding Harbaugh’s arrival, he’s three years in and is 1-5 against teams ranked in the top 11. (The one win? Last year against … you guessed it … Wisconsin.)

Tell you what, you beat Wisky again today, we’ll allow you to hold another satellite camp in Florida. Deal?

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4. Jalen and Jarrett: Do not leave the pocket today

Nobody wants to see you taking off today. In 20 years, we’re not going to remember whether you scrambled 12 yards for a first down, ran 80 untouched for a TD or dropped like Peyton Manning to avoid being hit.

What we will remember, and forever lament, is if either of you takes a shot today that knocks you out of next week’s Iron Bowl.

Do not, do not, do not do anything to jeopardize what promises to be the most anticipated Iron Bowl in at least 364 days.

You know what I want to see today? Both of you wearing headsets, smiling, watching the backups do their thing.

3. Dear Miami, today is not a vacation day

Few programs take things for granted quite like The U. The Canes have no problem getting jacked for name-brand opponents, but days like this have bitten them in the butt.

Last year, the Canes didn’t recover mentally from the FSU loss and fell flat the following week in a home loss to an average North Carolina team. Their 13 points that afternoon were a season-low.

In 2015, in what should have been a tune-up for FSU, the Canes were caught napping at Cincinnati and paid the price, losing 34-23. That Bearcats team finished 7-6.

Mark Richt has quite the challenge: Convincing his crew, with its perfect record, No. 3 ranking, turnover chain and swag, that Virginia can actually beat them.

It shouldn’t be that difficult to grasp: Miami has won the past two, but Virginia has won 4 of the past 7 matchups.

This game screams trap.

2. Don’t do it, Florida …

Ultimately, unless Chip Kelly is introduced at halftime, nothing that happens on the field today matters. Florida is on to 2018.

But for the love of Mr. Two Bits, do not do this to the home crowd.

Florida has three wins. It’s very much in danger of finishing with the fewest since since Charlie Pell’s first team went 0-10-1 in 1979.

The Gators have had one losing season since then — Will Muschamp went 4-8 in his final season in 2013. These Gators already are of assured of a losing season. But they have the opportunity to climb above Muschamp’s team. That’s, um, something.

To do that, they have to take care of UAB today and rival FSU next week.

1. Let’s do this, Kentucky

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Come on, Cats. Forty years? Seven close calls? We’ve gone over the heartbreak.

I always root for the best story.

If I thought Georgia had any chance of beating Alabama or Auburn in Atlanta — and I did until last week’s painful reminder that the East-West gap is alive and well — I’d be rooting for the Dawgs to take care of business, upset No. 1 Alabama and give the SEC two Playoff teams. That, clearly, would be the best story.

But the manner in which Auburn dominated Georgia in the trenches isn’t something you can fix in a month. It is, however, something you can repeat. So while it was fun to think about, it’s difficult to envision the East ending its SEC title game drought in two weeks.

Which leads us back to today. The best story today is Kentucky upsetting Georgia and posting its first winning season in the SEC since 1977. That’s the longest drought among Power 5 conference schools.

If Kentucky manages to pull this off, it gets another reason to celebrate. It gets to hand off this Albatross to its hated next-door neighbor, Indiana, the Big Ten cupcake that hasn’t had a winning record in that conference since 1993.