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1: Georgia at Missouri is not just the Southeastern Conference game of the week, it's the first time those words have ever been typed. This is a dangerous early trip into the Midwest for Georgia, favored to win the SEC East. Show-me Missouri fans know they have only one chance to make their first SEC impression. 2: Careful what you wish for. Texas A&M left the Big 12 last year because it got tired of Texas always getting its way. The Aggies now face the cold, hard truth of the SEC. Texas A&M plays Florida in College Station without benefit of a warmup as last weekend's opener against Louisiana Tech was postponed because of Hurricane Isaac.

JEAN LAFITTE, La. - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney  toured a flood-ravaged area of the Louisiana bayou on Friday in the aftermath of the hurricane that disrupted his party's national convention in Florida.  Accompanied by his wife, Ann, the candidate rode in an SUV past submerged gas stations and flooded homes in this Mississippi River delta community near New Orleans. In some places, the water was several feet deep. Romney got out of the vehicle and had an informal roadside conversation with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Sen. David Vitter, both Republicans.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Mitt Romney will make a detour to Louisiana on Friday to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, intending to show compassion for victims of the storm. The last-minute addition to the schedule follows four days in which the  Republican National Convention was held captive by the storm.  Organizers canceled Monday's opening session as the storm brushed past Tampa, then held three days of convention activities during which repeated pleas were made to delegates to contribute to storm relief efforts.

EL PASO, Tex. -- President Obama will to fly Louisiana on Monday to survey the damage from Hurricane Isaac, the White House said Friday. A statement announcing the trip said Obama would meet with local officials, but offered no other immediate details. The trip is a late addition to the president's schedule, released just hours after GOP rival Mitt Romney announced he was scrambling his Friday campaign plans to visit victims of the storm. Obama was slated to host campaign rallies in Ohio on Monday.

JEAN LAFITTE, La. - The day after accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Mitt Romney abruptly canceled a campaign appearance in a crucial swing state Friday to tour a flood-ravaged area of the Louisiana bayou near New Orleans, acknowledging the damage caused by Hurricane Isaac. The hurricane disrupted the party's national convention in Tampa, Fla., forcing the cancellation of the first day and causing officials to worry about the message it would send to celebrate the GOP ticket while the storm slammed into New Orleans almost seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS - Isaac pushed north and out of Louisiana on Friday, leaving behind swaths of misery - flooded neighborhoods, power outages in humid heat, thousands seeking help in emergency shelters and thousands more lined up for necessities. Officials raised the hurricane-related death toll to seven - five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi - and residents in another outlying parish were advised to evacuate because of flooding from a nearby lake. Yet there were signs of a slow recovery as businesses began to open and cleanup continued.

NEW ORLEANS -- Isaac continued its slow march across Louisiana on Thursday as rising floodwaters forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate and officials launched a “controlled” release of water from a storm-stressed dam along the border with Mississippi. At least one death was reported . As evening approached on another soggy Gulf Coast day, hundreds of homes remained underwater and thousands of residents scrambled to emergency shelters. At least 500 people who had gambled on riding out the storm were rescued by helicopter or boat.

NEW ORLEANS - After three days of mayhem, a weakened Isaac edged northward out of Louisiana on Thursday, leaving a third of the state without power, more than 60,000 residents evacuated and worried officials preparing to release water from a storm-stressed dam near the Mississippi border. At least one death was reported. Hundreds of homes remained underwater, and nearly 5,900 weary residents in Louisiana and more than 1,800 in Mississippi scrambled to makeshift shelters. At least 500 people who had gambled on riding out the storm were rescued by helicopter or boat, as Isaac was downgraded late Thursday to a tropical depression - a far cry from its 80-mph winds at landfall.

Scrambling to prevent a storm-weakened dam from sending flood waters through communities along the Louisiana-Mississippi border, officials Thursday launched a "controlled" water release from the structure in an effort to prevent its collapse. The work came as Isaac was further downgraded to a tropical depression. “You dig out part of the dam and let the water go out at a controlled rate,” Jeff Rent of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said of the plan to protect the dam and nearby communities.

Thousands of residents north and south of the Mississippi-Louisiana border were ordered to evacuate Thursday because of the possible failure of an Isaac-battered dam. Officials are considering breaching the Lake Tangipahoa dam in order to direct water into a forested area and prevent massive flooding to low-lying residential communities downstream. "If you live in these areas, leave immediately for higher ground," the National Weather Service warned Thursday. PHOTOS: Isaac lashes Gulf Coast Gordon Burgess, president of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana, called for the mandatory evacuation -- believed to be about 40,000 to 60,000 residents -- along the Tangipahoa River.