For several SEC teams, it’s a gap week.

The Week 1 headliners are over and SEC play (for most) is still a week or two away. Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina are all in search of key victories against quality Power 5 foes. Nobody will tab their matchups as “sleepers.”

As for the rest of the SEC, there’s reason to believe a bunch of teams are ripe for the sleeper scenario. That’s not to say any of them will lose. Sleeper matchups are about teams showing up, well, sleepy.

They’re the games when at end of the first half, somebody tweets a screen shot of the score on ESPN, and instantly, all of Twitter copies the tweet and throws up the looking eyes emoji. As in “keep your eye on that one.”

Let’s just keep our eyes on these four games and not be surprised if they stay close longer than the experts expect:

Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech

Louisiana Tech is certainly not a team that MSU wants to go through the motions against. For starters, it’s a road game. While the Bulldogs won’t be shaking in their boots at the sight of Joe Aillet Stadium (capacity 28,000), consider this: according to ESPN’s FPI, Louisiana Tech scores the most points above expectation (PAE) at home of any FBS team since 2005.

Besides that, Louisiana Tech is drastically different than the wishbone offense Mississippi State saw last week against Charleston Southern. Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said he expects Louisiana Tech to throw the ball all over the place. For an MSU defense that finished 120th in FBS against the pass last year, that’s a dangerous thought.

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Mississippi State is only an eight-point favorite. Those aforementioned factors, plus the fact that Louisiana Tech is coming off three straight nine-win seasons, is probably why Vegas is expecting this one to be decided by a touchdown.

Texas A&M vs. Nicholls State

Let’s pretend that the Aggies were just dealing with a normal win/loss at UCLA and they weren’t dealing with bouncing back from one of the most humiliating collapses we’ve ever seen in college football.

It was a Sunday night kickoff — the first of the Kevin Sumlin era — which means they didn’t even get back to College Station until the wee hours of Monday morning. They took Monday off and got back into the film room on Tuesday. It’s a short, atypical week for a team that’s been a national punchline the last few days.

Nicholls State might be an FCS squad, but let’s not forget that that’s the same group that went into Athens and nearly stunned Georgia in last year’s season opener. On top of that, Nicholls opened on Thursday, Aug. 31, which means they get nine days of rest before heading to College Station.

Physically, the Aggies might have the obvious advantage. But where will this team be mentally coming off short rest and a brutal opener on the West Coast? If this one starts out slow, the “fire Sumlin” crowd is sure to be out in full force.

Ole Miss vs. UT Martin

Hold on. I’m not saying UT Martin, a team Ole Miss beat 76-3 two years ago, is coming into Oxford and pulling off the stunner of the weekend. In all likelihood, Shea Patterson throws for a billion yards and Ole Miss puts up a ton of points.

But there were some obvious issues with the Rebels’ defense against South Alabama that need to be corrected. Let’s not forget that last week the Rebels needed a field goal in the final minute of the first half just to have the lead heading into halftime. Allowing just shy of 400 yards to South Alabama at home isn’t a good sign.

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There’s also the fact that this is a noon kickoff at home. This is Ole Miss’s last game before consecutive road games against Cal, Alabama and Auburn.

UT Martin won’t walk out of Oxford with a win, but it wouldn’t be crazy if it took a little extra push to get the Rebels ready to roll.

No. 12 LSU vs. Chattanooga

Ed Orgeron admitted that the season opener against BYU went better than he thought it would. Everything lined up well for LSU, including the fact that the game was played in New Orleans. Now, Orgeron gets to coach his first home game at LSU since he shed the interim tag. The Bayou figures to be rocking for the 7:30 p.m. kickoff.

Chattanooga won’t care about that. This is a team that visited the likes of Alabama, Florida State and Tennessee in the last three years. For what it’s worth, the Mocs held Alabama to 31 points in Tuscaloosa after — get ready for this — leading Alabama heading into the second quarter! They got pressure on Jalen Hurts, which is something they’ll try to do against Danny Etling.

The Tigers looked solid offensively against BYU, but the offensive line is not a finished product. Nobody would be surprised if it took a bit for the Tigers to distance themselves from Chattanooga.