Y’all done laughing?

Week 1 answered most of my pregame queries and provided some comedic relief for the rest of the country. Everybody had jokes. However, while the nation rejoiced in Tennessee’s horrific loss, Jake Bentley’s meltdown and Mizzou’s Misery in the Mountains, there also was the sobering realization that the team picked to finish 4th in the SEC West delivered the heaviest haymaker in Week 1. Auburn put away then-No. 11 Oregon. (The top 3 teams in the division won by a collective 125 points.)

Good luck, boys!

We’re on to Week 2, and I picked the 6 biggest SEC storylines I’ll be watching today.

1. Don’t lose the same game twice

This is most applicable to Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee, but Ole Miss would be wise to listen in as well.

There might be a silver lining, but there were no blue ribbons in Week 1. Those were deflating, outlook-altering, goal-changing, ego-bruising losses.

It’s easy to say let it go. I’m curious to see which teams and which players actually do.

All 4 teams have winnable games today.

All 4 may wake up Sunday with the same record as Texas A&M and Auburn.

To borrow (and alter) a line from The Big Lebowski, nothing is messed up here, man.

While it’s true, it certainly looked as though the plane crashed into the mountain in Week 1, it was only Week 1.

I’ve never seen a team quit after Week 1. And honestly, the only team in danger is Tennessee. There’s just no explaining that loss. But if the Vols don’t rebound against BYU, if Jarrett Guarantano doesn’t put this offense on his back, then somebody needs to start reallocating funds for Jeremy Pruitt’s buyout.

2. Dear Matt, stop trying to win the Heisman on every play

That was my takeaway after watching Matt Corral’s debut as a starter last week. He tried to make everything look spectacular. Sure, the line was shaky at times, but often he just fled to flee, the ball dangling dangerously by his hip all the while. I swear I thought I was watching “The Shea Show, Season 2,” except without the touchdown celebrations.

Slow down, young fella. The fire made him the player he is. But he needs to, well, corral the emotions and flair and just make the available plays.

Matt Luke sent Corral to Media Days. He has given him the keys to the offense and the program. But those rights don’t come with a lifetime guarantee. Corral is in no imminent danger of losing his job, but if he repeats the same reckless style of play he displayed in Week 1, that’s a troubling sign.

3. Bo Nix fans: Relax, please

I had to laugh at some of the over-the-top proclamations after Nix’s heroic debut last week.

He was the cleanup hitter who went 0-4 with 4 Ks, but hit a walkoff grand slam in the 10th.

Here’s the thing: As wild and exciting as that game-winning drive was, that’s not a repeatable, winning formula. And the only thing college football coaches love more than those paychecks is a repeatable, winning formula.

Nix was 4-for-6 for 53 yards and the poster-worthy TD toss on his final drive.

Before that, he was 9-for-25 with 2 interceptions and just 122 yards.

Let’s slow the hype a bit and give the kid time to find his way.

4. Nick Starkel is the answer, Chad

Ben Hicks has a history in Chad Morris’ system. Great. Hicks had his shot against Portland State and was wholly inconsistent.

Nick Starkel has the higher upside. He did as a recruit. He still does now.

At some point, you just have to decide. Morris never reached that point last season.

If I’m an Arkansas fan, I’m getting a little tired of hearing about “the system.” That’s what happens when you only score 20 points against an FCS team to open Year 2. I want the head ball coach to draw up a few new ball plays that the guys he has can execute.

Starkel has the arm to stretch the field and keep the heat off Rakeem Boyd. And, really, that’s the way the Hogs need to roll moving forward.

5. What’s the record for most Bama QBs to complete a pass in a game?

Is it 4? I can’t imagine it’s more than 3. Whatever it is, I want to see 4 Bama QBs complete passes today against New Mexico State.

I’m actually more interested in seeing Paul Tyson and Tualia Tagovailoa than I am Tua. (Although I still want to see an opening drive 70-yarder to Jerry Jeudy or Jaylen Waddle. Toss a few more, keep the average at 4 and call it a day.)

Tualia made his college debut last week but didn’t throw a pass.

6. SEC, the stage is yours

OK, Big Dogs. It’s time to eat.

This is, by far, the most important week of the year for the conference’s Playoff hopes. Texas A&M travels to No. 1 Clemson. LSU is at No. 9 Texas.

The individual matchups are fascinating and we’ve written plenty about what is at stake for Kellen Mond and Joe Burrow.

I’m more interested in the impact on the SEC.

The SEC doesn’t have to go 2-0. Heck, with both games on the road, it might not even need to go 1-1. But it can’t go 0-2 and suffer double-digit losses in the process.

On the heels of Alabama’s 28-point loss to Clemson, 2 more double-digit losses would all but destroy the SEC’s chance of putting 2 teams in the Playoff, no matter how the rest of the season played out.

The SEC champ is going to the Playoff. We all understand that. But everything a potential 2nd SEC Playoff team subsequently did would be viewed through this prism: Texas and Clemson did the same thing to the teams you beat.

Every game doesn’t matter. But these 2 do.