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Besides mom's roasted turkey and her decadent sides, we've all got plenty to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. For family and friends, for life and love – and if you're an SEC coach, who knows what else? So relax, take the day with your people, overeat, and enjoy a fun look at what each SEC coach has to be thankful for:
Hugh Freeze, Auburn
Golden buyout parachutes worth $20 million.
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Sam Pittman, Arkansas
The NCAA rule that permits one win over an FCS team to count toward bowl eligibility. With six wins and one of them over FCS Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Pittman needed all the help he could get.
Josh Heupel, Tennessee
Vanderbilt. Yes, the Commodores . Normally, a win over Vandy would be a drag on UT's strength of schedule. But in a year where the Vols are jockeying for playoff seeding, beating the 'Dores is a far more respectable win this season.
Mike Elko, Texas A&M
The Texas rivalry renewal. Nothing would take the sting out of playoff exclusion like a win over the Longhorns .
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Kalen DeBoer, Alabama
Resources. The demands are high in Tuscaloosa, but so are the means to meet them.
Steve Sarkisian, Texas
Brand strength. Based on the Longhorns' most impressive wins, that's what's been carrying the day.
Kirby Smart, Georgia
Tennessee. Any time he's needed a win, the Vols have come through. Eight times in a row now.
Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss
Squirrel delays.
Shane Beamer, South Carolina
Maturity. After all, it was barely more than a year ago that Beamer broke his foot on a Gatorade cooler.
Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri
The SEC schedule-maker. If it weren't for that guy, the Tigers would be a .500 team this year.
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Brian Kelly, LSU
Whit Weeks . With star LB Harold Perkins out for the season with an injury, the son of former Georgia OL David Weeks has provided much-needed glue.
Clark Lea, Vanderbilt
New Mexico State. That's the school he co-opted for his starting quarterback, Diego Pavia , his best pass catcher in TE Eli Stowers and half his coaching staff.
Brent Venables, Oklahoma
SEC expansion. It's provided some cover for a miserable first season in the league, but OU fans won't care to hear about how tough the league is next year.
Mark Stoops, Kentucky
Lower fan expectations than any SEC fan base other than Vanderbilt.
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Billy Napier, Florida
NIL and revenue sharing. Were it not for the pile of money needed to keep good players around, the size of his buyout wouldn't loom nearly so large.
Jeff Lebby, Mississippi State
That only one game remains in this disaster of a season.
Tuscaloosa News sport columnist Chase Goodbread.
Tuscaloosa News columnist Chase Goodbread is also the weekly co-host of Crimson Cover TV on WVUA-23. Reach him at cgoodbread@gannett.com. Follow on X.com @chasegoodbread.
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