It was a year or two ago that he pointed out they'd be facing several of the toughest teams coming off of their bye week, and that it was the second or third year in a row that it was like that.
The SEC schedule used to be pretty much set from year to year. Six games were fairly predictable, including the weekend they'd be on. Even the other two crossover games were still predictable. But ever since they went to 14 teams they keep jostling the schedules around and keep winding up with unfair crap like described in this thread.
The really crazy thing is that with only one flexible crossover game, it's a minimum of six years or longer between playing the non permanent cross divisional teams. The SEC didn't need to and shouldn't have expanded.