The premier match-up in the Southeastern Conference in Week 3 is no secret.

It’s the same every year.

Florida and Tennessee, which meet at the same time each season, have developed one of the most heated rivalries in the conference and across college football. And as two perennial top-tier teams in the SEC, it’s deservedly so.

Florida has won the past two meetings, making third-year coach Urban Meyer 2-0 against the Eastern division rivals and 6-0 against the Gators’ three biggest rivals – Tennessee, Georgia and Florida State. But Tennessee has won two of the last four meetings in Gainesville.

“To have a rivalry, you’ve got to have two good teams play,” said Florida coach Urban Meyer. “If you’ve got two lousy teams or if it’s one-sided, then it’s not really a rivalry. These are two teams who were very active in the [1990s].”

Florida and Tennessee each won national championships in the 1990s – Florida in 1996 and Tennessee in 1998.

“I say it’s two sledgehammers going against each other because it’s two very important teams in the [Eastern division," Meyer said. "And it's early in the season. It usually sets a trend or gives one team a little bit of an advantage heading into conference play."

As far as national title hopes go, Meyer is dead on. In both of Florida's national championship seasons - 1996 and 2006 - the Gators have beaten the Vols in the regular season. In Tennessee's national championship season, the Volunteers beat the Gators.

But, unlike the last two meetings between the two teams, this year's meeting could be a high-scoring affair. The Gators and the Vols have both struggled in stopping the spread offense - Florida last week against Troy and Tennessee in Week 2 against California.

"I don't have a crystal ball to know [whether it'll be a high-scoring game],” said Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer. “We’ve scored some points and they have, too.”

Kickoff is slated for 2:30 p.m. on CBS.

“The two favorite words in Ann Arbor”

LSU coach Les Miles is a Michigan alum, and with the Wolverines’ shocking 0-2 start for the season has come pressure from the fan base to fire coach Lloyd Carr. And, as a reporter during the weekly SEC teleconference put it Wednesday, “The two favorite words these days in Ann Arbor are ‘Les’ and ‘Miles.’”

But Miles said he has not been affected or put much thought into the situation at his alma mater.

“I’ve given very little thought to that,” Miles said. “It would be a distraction to me and certainly my team. I understand that’s going on. I can tell you Michigan has a great coach. He’s won a national championship and he knows what’s going on there. They’ve been through this before.”

“I know they’ll take care of that and I know they know what they need to do. I give little or no thought to that. I know Coach Carr will make the right calls.”

ESPN Classic?

ESPN Classic will air Kentucky’s game against No. 8 Louisville. And if it’s anything like the last time the Wildcats appeared on that channel, it might be worth watching.

Kentucky’s last appearance on ESPN Classic was in a repeat showing of an “Instant Classic” – the Wildcats’ seven-overtime thriller against Arkansas.

“I know they showed it on ESPN Classic for about two or three weeks,” said Kentucky coach Rich Brooks. “I don’t know – it might be a classic. It certainly goes in with a lot of hype, great quarterbacks and a lot of good things happening for both programs. We’ll just have to see how it shakes out.”

Both teams have started the season 2-0. Louisville is ranked No. 9 in the country and the Wildcats have won seven of their last eight games dating back to last season.