SEC Football Power Rankings (Week 7)

By John Richardson | Oct 17, 2015

Let’s not mince words here. Let’s not pretend this is anything of outside what it is. This is the SEC Football Power Rankings. This is a list of the best, and worst, teams in the SEC. Current accomplishments and future prospects with both be used. What could happen today that shifts these rankings? Quite a bit actually.

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Alabama-Texas A&M and Florida-LSU have the potential to shift the top of these rankings dramatically. Kentucky would have been higher than Auburn, but they fell by a field goal to the Tigers Thursday night. Now on to what matters:

14 Vanderbilt: There is not much that needs to be said here. The Commodores have not won an SEC game since 2013. Win against South Carolina and we’ll talk.

13 South Carolina: Steve Spurrier abandoned ship in the midst of a 2-4 (0-4 SEC) 2015 season. Things could potentially get much worse with Spurrier gone. Here’s hoping the players come out with pride and try to win a few for the Head Ball Coach.

12. Missouri: 4-2 you say? 1-2 with their only conference win coming against South Carolina is my only response. The Tigers have 0 quality wins and have looked incompetent on offense with Drew Lock under center.

11. Kentucky: Do I think the 4-2 Wildcats are the 11th best team in the SEC? Not really. But losing to Auburn, even if only by a field goal, will drop you down anyone’s power rankings in 2015.

10. Auburn: It is insane to think this team was once favored to win the SEC and Jeremy Johnson was supposed to be a Heisman contender. That will be forgotten soon, but no one is forgetting Leonard Fournette’s performance against this team in week 3.

9. Arkansas: Putting up a fight against Alabama for 3 quarters is the only thing keeping the Razorbacks from having double digits posted next to their name.

8. Georgia: After looking like a playoff contender to start the season, Georgia isn’t even a contender to be mentioned in the top 4 teams of the SEC. Two straight SEC losses, including one by 28, will do that to a team.

7. Tennessee: Joshua Dobbs started looking like the quarterback many thought he would be this past Saturday against Georgia. If he keeps it up, the Volunteers could make a slow climb to the top third of these rankings.

6. Mississippi State: Mississippi State has not done anything to impress anyone. But they have won the games they were supposed to and have been competitive in their losses.

5. Mississippi: CBS has the Rebels as their second ranked team in the SEC. I’m holding out until they beat a quality opponent before I can put that type of faith in the Rebels for the second time this season.

4. Florida: Will Grier made Jim McElwain’s life a lot more difficult with his suspension. He made mine a lot easier. The Gators have earned a top 2 spot in these rankings but until they prove they can win without Grier (they can prove it against LSU today), they can’t rank any higher than this.

3. LSU: The Tigers only being third is not the way to look at this. Leonard Fournette and a defense carrying this team to this high a ranking despite inept quarterback play is.

2. Texas A&M: It could be argued that TAMU deserves the #1 spot. But based on the body of work, TAMU’s quality wins do not stack up well against the other teams in this portion of the rankings.

1. Alabama: It pains me to put a team with a loss ahead of several that do not. But Alabama has quality wins, a quality loss and the deepest team in the conference. They may finish with more than one loss, but this spot is theirs until that second loss comes.

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