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Ultimate SEC road trip 2014: Week 14

We've finally come to the end of our journey.

If you're just now jumping on board our little road trip, we at the SEC Blog have been getting you ready for the coming season by plotting out our top destinations for each week of the season.

We've crisscrossed the Southeast and even ventured outside the conference footprint in places like Houston and Oklahoma. We went to Columbia, South Carolina, for the season opener between the Gamecocks and the Aggies, and we made sure to hit up Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Alabama-LSU.

Now that we've run the gamut, there are two more stops to make before the regular season comes to a close and our travels take us to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.

So without further pause, let's take a look at the best options for Week 14:

Nov. 29

Auburn at Alabama

Arkansas at Missouri

Florida at Florida State

Georgia Tech at Georgia

Kentucky at Louisville

LSU at Texas A&M (Nov. 27)

Mississippi State at Ole Miss

South Carolina at Clemson

Tennessee at Vanderbilt

Alex Scarborough's pick: Florida at Florida State

The Iron Bowl is awfully tempting, but I'm sure my colleague will pick Alabama-Auburn so I don't feel so bad going the other way. And frankly, I'm not so sure it will be the best game of the weekend anyways. Alabama is the favorite to win the SEC, but considering there's a new QB to break in and three new starters in the secondary, would anyone be surprised by the Tide had two losses by the end of November? Auburn, meanwhile, has a bear of a schedule that might make staying in the top 10 of the polls a difficult task.

With Florida State-Florida, I'm all but guaranteed a matchup with College Football Playoff implications. And, no, I'm not talking about the Gators. Given all the Seminoles return from a season ago and the fact that the schedule is, well, lenient (Clemson, Notre Dame and Florida are all at home), I'd be shocked if Florida State had more than one loss by Nov. 29.

That said, I see this being a much more competitive game than a year ago when Florida had all but given up by the time it hosted its rivals in Gainesville. This time the Gators won't be wishing for the season to end already. And if things do go miserably, there's always the intrigue of whether Will Muschamp will keep his job. So basically I'm covered no matter what.

And in the end, I'll get to see what this Jameis Winston character is all about. Harkening back to the soft schedule, I'll finally get to see what he and the Seminoles can do against a good defense, too, because let's face it, the ACC ain't bringing the wood. Florida, no matter its problems, can do just that. With Vernon Hargreaves III and Dante Fowler Jr., the Gators will be able to test FSU in the trenches and in the secondary.

Greg Ostendorf's pick: Auburn at Alabama

I appreciate my colleague letting me have the Iron Bowl on our road trip. I don't feel that bad because last year Alex had a front-row seat for what turned out to be maybe the greatest college football game in the last decade while I was forced to watch it on TV. No, I don't expect the same dramatic ending that we saw that night in Jordan-Hare Stadium, but it's the Iron Bowl and there's nothing quite like it in college football. Not Ohio State-Michigan, not Texas-Oklahoma and certainly not Florida-Florida State.

Will it be a matchup of two top-5 teams again? I doubt it. But that doesn't mean there won't be intrigue, and there will almost certainly be playoff implications. Keep in mind that the winner of the Iron Bowl has played in the last five national national championship games, winning four of them. At least one of these teams, maybe both, will be in the conversation again this year.

The matchup I'm most looking forward to is not amongst players but the rather the two coaches. Nick Saban is a renowned defensive coach while Gus Malzahn is considered an offensive genius. It's as much a mind game as anything when the two meet, and Malzahn got the better of Saban last year and in 2010 as offensive coordinator. Saban will be better prepared this year, but will Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall prove to be his kryptonite?

This will also be Jacob Coker's first Iron Bowl. Assuming he wins the quarterback job at Alabama, how will he handle the moment and the pressure that comes with this game?

There's a lot of intrigue already, and though the players won't admit it, this game is already in the back of their minds. There's nothing like the tradition, the pageantry, the tailgating and the overall atmosphere when Alabama and Auburn get together for the Iron Bowl.