A 1-1 Tulane team at home is hardly going to prepare them for #7 Tennessee, #2 Texas, @#5 Mississippi, @6 Missouri, #4 Alabama, and @#16 LSU. It might not even prepare them for @Auburn.
South Carolina at home, and Maine are looking pretty good, though.
If they'd stayed in the Big12, they'd have an inside track to the playoffs instead of an inside track to a 7-5 season, but I guess they wouldn't have all that filthy SEC lucre.