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Here is the latest SEC sports news from The Associated Press

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — No. 9 Alabama hasn’t been making anything look easy this season. The Crimson Tide eked out a win over Arkansas, sputtered at South Florida, survived the Mississippi game and needed a huge second-half surge to defeat Tennessee. All that’s mostly OK with coach Nick Saban. Or at least it was in the afterglow of a 34-20 victory over the Volunteers on Saturday. The Tide’s sixth straight win vaulted Saban’s team back into the top 10. Alabama remains the only SEC West team without a league loss.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas coach Sam Pittman fired first-year offensive coordinator Dan Enos a day after the Razorbacks managed just one field goal in a 7-3 loss to Mississippi State. Wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton will be the play-caller the rest of the season. Pittman hired Enos away from Maryland in the offseason after Kendal Briles left the Razorbacks for the coordinator’s job at TCU. The offense ranks last in the Southeastern Conference and has been held under 300 yards in three straight games. Arkansas has lost six straight games and is 2-6.

UNDATED (AP) — Georgia extended its streak of No. 1 rankings in The Associated Press college football poll to 19 straight weeks, the third best in the history of the rankings. No. 9 Alabama moved back into the top 10 after being out for five weeks. The Bulldogs received 38 of 63 first-place votes, their second-lowest total of the season, after an off week but still bested No. 2 Michigan. Georgia’s No. 1 streak, which started last October, is behind only Miami’s streak of 21 weeks from 2001-02 and Southern California’s 33 in a row from 2003-05. North Carolina dropped seven spots to No. 17 after losing to unranked Virginia.

UNDATED (AP) — Penn State is still chasing elite under coach James Franklin. The seventh-ranked Nittany Lions lost a seventh straight game to Ohio State, needing more than 59 minutes to get into the end zone against the third-ranked Buckeyes. Ohio State has All-American Marvin Harrison Jr., the native Pennsylvanian who set a career high with 11 catches for 162 yards and a touchdown. Five years since Franklin said his program was great but not elite, the Nittany Lions still aren’t. Meanwhile, in the Big 12 don’t book that Oklahoma-Texas championship rematch just yet.

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