Clemson-Georgia was a fun way to open the season — until they actually started tackling.

Let’s hope Florida-Alabama provides 60 more points and a tad more drama.

That showdown is the obvious highlight, but there are other notable storylines in and around the SEC in Week 3. Here are the 6 biggest I’ll be following today.

1. Give Anthony Richardson the damn ball …

This isn’t about Saturday’s game against Alabama. It’s about the possibility of seeing Alabama again in December. The only way Florida gets another title chance is if the Gators take down Georgia.

Richardson offers the best chance to do that. I was all in after Week 1. Nothing that could possibly happen Saturday will alter my belief that Richardson gives the Gators the best chance — maybe even makes them the favorite — to repeat as East champs.

He’s not ready for Alabama? Name an inexperienced QB who was.

As long as his right hamstring is healthy, I’m giving Richardson the ball, living with the mistakes and thinking maybe, just maybe, he might make a couple of plays that we’ll remember for a long time.

We’ve heard a lot for 2 weeks about how Dan Mullen owes it to Emory Jones to stick with him. No. He owes it to the Gators to go with the guy who can add to the trophy case.

The last thing Florida needs is for the home fans to start chanting for a QB change after a pair of 3-and-outs. That’s demoralizing. And wholly avoidable.

It’s Richardson’s team. It’s Richardson’s time.

2. Is Bryce Young more like Mac Jones or Bo Nix?

Just about any quality QB would put up numbers in Alabama’s offense. How could he not?

That’s why I haven’t been too caught up in Bryce Young’s early numbers.

The one stat that has stuck out is his relative lack of success attacking downfield. Mac Jones thrived on those throws last season, just like Tua Tagovailoa before him. Young has 1 signature splash play, the modified scramble and long catch-and-run toss to Jameson Williams for a 94-yard TD.

He’s only completed 1 other pass with a target depth of at least 20 yards. He’s 2-for-12 on such throws this season. That’s a lot of misses.

That’s an issue. And while people love his ability to get outside and make plays, there’s a fine line between buying time and playing reckless football. Nobody throws better on the run than they do with their feet set.

Can he attack Florida vertically? I can’t wait to find out.

3. Which Bo Nix shows up at Penn State?

After Nix completed 20-of-22 passes in the cakewalk opener, I joked that he had never completed 70% of his passes in warm-ups.

Accuracy is just not his thing. He’s a sub-60% thrower for his career.

In Week 2, we saw the old Nix: 9-of-17 for 108 yards against Alabama … State.

Nix can’t complete 53% percent of his passes and expect to beat Penn State in Happy Valley. Heck, his history suggests it’s unwise to expect him to do much of anything on the road Saturday.

I’m willing to give him a fresh start. New coach, new scheme, etc. But he can’t be who he usually has been. If Bad Bo shows up, it won’t be much longer until Bryan Harsin turns this over to TJ Finley.

4. Can Kentucky and Arkansas handle prosperity?

Both are 2-0.

Both are big favorites Saturday.

Who is going to rest of last week’s laurels? Who is going to demonstrate a more mature approach, jump on top early and win convincingly against overmatched Group of 5 teams?

Neither is in danger of losing, but how they approach Saturday’s game is far more important than anything that actually happens during it.

5. OK, Mike Leach … show us something

All we heard last year was that Year 2 is always better.

The offense, the quarterback, the record, the bowl destination.

So far, so good. The Bulldogs are 2-0 with a nice win over an NC State team that some thought might be a sleeper in the ACC Atlantic.

But the Bulldogs’ point differential is only +15 in those 2 wins.

Mississippi State could wake up on Oct. 3 5-0. Or the Bulldogs would be 2-3, staring at a date with Alabama.

This Memphis game — a virtual pick-em — will give us a good indication of where Will Rogers and these Bulldogs are headed. Win, and that Year 2 bump looks real. Lose, and suddenly getting to 6 wins becomes a real concern.

6. Why Scott Frost’s situation reminds of Mark Richt and Jim McElwain

First things first: This NCAA investigation is a convenient excuse to get rid of a coach who isn’t winning nearly enough — without having to pay a massive buyout.

We’re not having this conversation if Scott Frost had done what Northwestern — Northwestern! — did in 2018 and 2020 and won the B1G West.

But Frost enters Saturday’s showdown against old nemesis Oklahoma with a 14-21 record at Nebraska.

One more blowout and he’s gone. They’ll let the lawyers and the NCAA figure out the final cost.

Sound crazy?

Georgia might not have been thrilled with Mark Richt’s oh-so-close finishes, but it was the 38-10 beatdown Alabama delivered in 2015 that sealed his fate. Richt ran a clean program, but school officials realized at that moment the Dawgs were nowhere near Nick Saban’s juggernaut.

Jim McElwain twice won the SEC East at Florida. He said some stupid things that would have been ignored — but then Georgia curb-stomped the Gators 42-7. And that was that. Those stupid comments gave the Gators a convenient excuse to cut bait, when the real reason was the fear Georgia was taking over.

Nebraska has had enough, already. The last thing Frost needs is a 28-point loss Saturday to Oklahoma.

Because that might actually be the last thing he sees as Nebraska’s head coach.