It happens every year. Sometimes every week.

Somebody or some team gets talked up only to let us down. Sometimes in the same week (hello, Mississippi State). There certainly is no shortage of examples this season.

So who is the SEC’s biggest tease in 2017? That’s something we’ve been discussing all week:

Connor O’Gara, senior national columnist: I’ll go with the unconventional choice and say Vandy’s defense. Why did I believe that the Commodores were for real on that side of the ball? Well, after three weeks, they led the NATION in scoring defense. That was after they knocked off a ranked Kansas State squad that had plenty of offensive weapons.

In the four games since then (all in conference play), Vandy surrendered 50 points per contest. Fifty! All the banging the drum I did for the Commodores to crack the top 25 seems like a lifetime ago. Where was this unit that was supposed to keep a one-dimensional offense alive?

In SEC play, nobody — not even Missouri — has been worse defensively.

Credit: Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports

Yes, Vandy had a brutal start with the likes of Alabama, Georgia and high-powered Ole Miss, but allowing 38 points to Florida is never a forgivable offense.

Did I get suckered into thinking the Vanderbilt defense was for real? Absolutely. Did it exposed by SEC speed? Absolutely.

Michael Bratton, news editor: Has to be Florida’s offense. The line was projected to be one of the best in the league and they are as below average as ever. The deep receiving corps has been exposed as going two deep with one of those players being suspended.

The three-headed QB competition turned out to be a bust, with the team selecting the wrong player before the backup was injured and knocked out for the season.

I’d love to know what Jim McElwain has been doing to develop this unit the past three years, at this point, Will Muschamp looks like he knows how to build an offense better than Mac.

Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

Here’s a stat that should appall all Gator fans: six games into the season, Florida has four passing touchdowns. Of those four, one came on a broken “Hail Mary”-type play and two more came against a Kentucky defense that for some reason had 10 men out on the field on two separate occasions and left a receiver completely unmanned.

Didn’t Steve Spurrier just return to Gainesville in an advisory role? He’s clearly not advising the offense. If McElwain has any hope of saving the season, he needs to suck up his pride and ask Spurrier to lend a hand to his offense. That may be the only thing that could help at this point.

Adam Spencer, SEC writer: I’m going to go with Texas A&M because the Aggies should be 6-1 with the only loss being a close one to No. 1 Alabama.

Coming into the year, coach Kevin Sumlin was on the hot seat and an epic 34-point second-half collapse at UCLA in Week 1 certainly didn’t help him. A home game against Auburn on Nov. 4 will go a long way toward proving whether the Aggies are for real, but it’s tough not to wonder what could have been if starting QB Nick Starkel didn’t go down early in the loss to the Bruins.

Freshman QB Kellen Mond has looked great at times, but he wasn’t ready to play in Week 1 and that’s a big reason the Aggies suffered through one of the worst collapses in college football history.

Chris Wright, executive editor: Dishonorable mention to Matt Canada’s inconsistent offense at LSU, but Auburn is the very definition of tease. And it’s a long-standing personality trait, too.

We took a deeper dive into the Tigers’ propensity to raise hopes and disappoint earlier this week.

But they take it to a championship level because they usually bounce back and get us to fall for them again. And again. Some of us are still blinded by the belief that if the Tigers can run the table — which would mean beating Georgia, Alabama and Georgia again — they can make the Playoff.

While I think they absolutely should earn a spot if that were to happen, I have less faith than last week that it actually will happen.

Of course, two blowout victories over Arkansas and Texas A&M and I’ll be right back there, wondering how in the world anybody can stop that multi-faceted attack.

That’s what Auburn does.