ATLANTA — Three down, 1 to go.

That’s what someone would say if they were sick of SEC Media Days. As for me, this could go on for another week and I’d be good (don’t put it past the SEC to give each program its own day to bump this out to 2 weeks).

So let’s try that again.

“Aw, man. Thursday is really the last day of SEC Media Days?”

There. That’s a much more positive spin.

But before we wrap things up here on Thursday, let’s look back at what caught my eye on Wednesday in Atlanta:

Joe Moorhead’s swag is off the charts

I was looking forward to SEC Media Days for several reasons. One of them was Moorhead’s introduction to the SEC.

Moorhead might’ve arrived in Atlanta to a somewhat scattered media crowd — he had the first Wednesday slot at 9 a.m. — but by the time he was finished, he probably made a few believers in the room. Those of you who have seen anything I’ve written or said about Moorhead know that I’ve been a believer since 2016.

And yeah, this tweet was pretty accurate.

With his hands in his pockets, Moorhead referenced “being the best Power 5 team in the state” (a subtle little jab at Ole Miss), hopefully coming back to Atlanta next time to play in an SEC Championship and how he felt he was brought to MSU to take a program with 1 winning season in the SEC in the last 15 years and elevate it to a yearly contender (he also said on SEC Network that his walkup song would be “Victory” by Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G.)

So. Much. Swag.

There was no mistaking the guy who introduced himself to MSU players by asking them if they knew their ring size. He also texted Fitzgerald and told him to clear off a place on his mantle for the Heisman Trophy. Moorhead repeated that he’s not into tempering expectations, but rather raising them. That’s who he is. Quiet and confident.

Some of his references were gold, too. He said when he arrived at MSU he thought about the Norman Dale trick from “Hoosiers,” where he checked the hoop in the state championship gym to show that it was still 10 feet. I asked Moorhead if he had a “welcome to the SEC moment” yet. His response was wonderful.

“I guess stepping out of your front door every day and being smacked in the face with humidity, that’s a pretty good ‘welcome to the South’ moment,” Moorhead said. “And then everything being wrapped in bacon. That’s pretty good, too.”

Welcome to the SEC, Joe.

A new source of SEC entertainment

Let’s be honest. The morning TV options are extremely limited. If you’re sick of watching “Good Morning, America” or whatever sports debate show that comes on, I’ve got good news for you.

Peter Burns and Marcus Spears are beginning a new simulcast of “SEC This Morning” that will air both on SEC Network and on the new SiriusXM radio SEC channel 374. It’s all SEC, all the time. It’s hopefully going to become a morning staple of the networks throughout the 2018 season.

Burns told me that they’ll keep it light with some out-of-the-box questions about the SEC. So don’t worry, you aren’t going to get an hour of debate on who will start at quarterback at Alabama. Think more of debates on “which SEC coaches mow their own grass?” Or “which SEC coach would you most want to have a beer with?”

We had Burns on the SDS Podcast for Thursday’s episode, and he went a bit more in depth about it. So far, it’s been a success in Atlanta. Given how great Burns and Spears are together filling in for Paul Finebaum, that’s not much of a surprise.

So yeah, if you like a little something different from your SEC coverage (you do if you’re reading this) from 2 guys who obviously love what they do, check out Burns and Spears. I promise that they’re even cooler than they look.

Don’t even ask Playoff executive director Bill Hancock about expansion…or UCF

Hancock stepped to the podium to kick things off on Wednesday. Before he even opened it up for questioning, Hancock quieted any possible notion of Playoff expansion.

“And I will go ahead and answer the question that I know is on some of your minds: There is no talk about the expansion among the university presidents and the conference commissioners who sit on our boards,” Hancock said. “The CFP works. It works well. Four teams keep the focus on this wonderful regular season, the most meaningful and compelling in all of sports.

“Four lets us keep the bowl experience for thousands of student-athletes. Four keeps college football within the framework of higher education.”

The key phrase there is “among the university presidents and the conference commissioners who sit on our boards.” I can’t help but feel that university presidents and conference commissioners who don’t serve on their boards are talking about expansion. Everyone wants a piece of that Playoff pie. Why wouldn’t they?

You can bet that after the season that UCF had that there are plenty of talks in the American Athletic Conference about a push for expansion. Speaking of UCF, of course Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi asked Hancock about how he felt about the Knights’ 2017 situation and what would happen if they went undefeated again in 2018.

“First of all, what happened last year has no bearing on what happens this year. We start with a clean sheet of paper every year,” Hancock said. “Second of all, we have consistently congratulated UCF on a great season. I got to see them play on television several times last year. It was a wonderful football team and a great team to watch. I know they lost a great coach, and we look forward to seeing what UCF does this year.

“For the College Football Playoff, things are simple: Play a good schedule, win your games and you’re going to be in the hunt. That holds true for UCF and Houston and Northern Illinois, as well as Alabama and Ohio State and Texas and Washington.”

In other words, “they were a fun team that wasn’t on our radar for most of last year and they didn’t beat a quality Power 5 team in the regular season. If they do that and run the table in 2018, they’ll have a chance to make the field.”

But no, Hancock wasn’t about to declare a new national champ (or a new way to crown one).

Tennessee players talk Jeremy Pruitt on “Two-A-Days”…but not really

Long before Pruitt became the Vols’ new coach, he was a reality TV star. Sort of. Pruitt’s appearances on MTV’s “Two-A-Days” at Hoover High School (Ala.) were gold.

If you’re a Tennessee fan and you’ve never seen this clip, you’re welcome (via awmillertime):

So with that in mind, I had to ask Tennessee players about Pruitt’s previous life as a reality TV star.

Their answers broke my heart.

“I think I’ve heard of the movie,” Tennessee tight end Eli Wolf said. “I’ll get on the movie and watch it.”

Well, it was actually a reality TV show, but that’s OK. It came out in 2006, which I forget was when these players were about 8 years old.

Marquez Callaway looked at me like I was crazy when I asked him if anybody in the Tennessee locker room knew about Pruitt in Two-A-Days.

“Not that I know of,” Callaway said.

Yeah, that was pretty much a universal opinion. Cool idea, Connor. Way to relate to the kids.

“No, I haven’t seen it,” Tennessee defensive lineman Kyle Phillips said. “I just remembered everyone talking about how he was a high school coach at Hoover. It just shows how hard he’s been working coming from a high school coach to a Power 5 conference in the SEC at Tennessee.”

Lack of Two-A-Days viewing aside, it’s funny, because that comment came on the heels on Pruitt’s response to Aaron Murray questioning if he had the right personality to be a head coach.

OK, so you want something that’s actually funny about Tennessee’s new coach? How about the time he rushed Kirby Smart’s pregnant wife, Mary Beth, to the hospital?

“One night, about midnight, my phone rings and I look and it’s Mary Beth. And she said, ‘Pruitt, let’s go to the hospital,’” Pruitt said. “And I said, ‘Well, I’m fixing to get in the shower.’ She said, ‘Don’t get in the shower, come right now.’ So here we go, I’m not driving fast enough, I get her up there to the hospital. Heck, I’m thinking, ‘I’m here,’ so we start rolling into the hospital and they’re giving me all the stuff to put on and stuff, and I’m just going right along there with her. And right before they took her in, she said, ‘He’s not my husband.’”

I’ll be honest. That’d probably would’ve been way more entertaining to watch than any episode of Two-A-Days.

Barry Odom, Drew Lock each clap back

I love a good response to a jab. Mizzou provided 2 of those on Wednesday.

Let’s start with Odom. On Tuesday, Florida defensive end Cece Jefferson raised some eyebrows when he was asked about what made Mizzou so tough to defend in the Gators’ 45-16 loss in Columbia last year.

Yowza.

So naturally, Odom was asked about Mizzou’s “underwhelming home environment.” I think Odom won the battle with his response.

Nobody would put Florida-Mizzou as one of the elite rivalries in the conference by any stretch. But clearly, the 2 SEC East programs have no shortage of preseason bad blood.

Speaking of bad blood, remember when Texas coach Tom Herman mocked Drew Lock’s touchdown celebration at the end of the Texas Bowl? Of course you do.

On Wednesday, Lock got another chance to chirp back:

What’s the best new rivalry? Jefferson vs. Mizzou or Herman vs. Lock? I couldn’t tell you. Here’s hoping there’s a little more clapping back to come.

Nick Saban weighs in on “what’s hurting college football” in mini rant

A question about UCF sparked a mini Saban rant…but it really didn’t have anything to do with UCF.

Saban did not declare the Knights the 2017 national champs — he did add that he had a “tremendous amount of compassion for UCF going undefeated” — but he did use the question to broaden the subject of the Playoff.

“I stood up here 10 years ago and said that as soon as we do (the Playoff), it’s going to diminish the importance of bowl games. Everybody will just be interested in the Playoff,” Saban said. “Well that’s where we are right now. I mean, we have players choosing not to play in bowl games because it’s not important because they’re going to save themselves for the draft. All of these things are not good for college football.

“There’s a lot of philosophical questions that everybody needs to sort of take into consideration with what’s the best way to do this and what this whole thing is. I don’t think I have the answer to that. That’s not what I get paid to do. But I can’t tell you how or why or if they should’ve gotten into the Playoff relative to UCF.”

Sadly, that was Saban’s final question of the day. Had it been a full-on Saban rant, he would’ve gone on for another minute or 2 and claimed that he hated the attention the NFL draft gets.

Clearly, he’s not in midseason form just yet.