It's time to admit one of every college football fan's guilty pleasure during the dog days of the offseason — glancing at their favorite team's schedule and tallying the possible wins and losses. We all do it, almost as a ritualistic exercise to ensure we're disappointed when our team fails to live up to our own expectations.

You know how your team will perform better than most — including analysts — and sans the homers wearing team-colored goggles, know exactly where the pivotal matchups will. It's always important to consider home vs. road settings, whether teams could possibly be coming in fatigued from the previous week and other common outliers when assessing possible treacherous matchups.

College football coaches love using the "control what you can control" adage, but in all honestly, sometimes the schedule simply doesn't set up for success week-to-week based on toughness.

We're going to take the guessing game one step further here and break down each SEC team's schedule into pods, picking out the toughest three-game stretch for each. These don't have to be played in consecutive weeks in case there's a bye, but they must come in succession. There's a handful of season-defining moments every season and we believe the rubber meets the road here on every team's schedule.