After a week where the SEC Power Rankings flipped upside down, only two teams moved spots.
Kentucky is a hard team to figure out. One week, the Wildcats embarrassingly lost to South Carolina. Former Georgia transfer Brock Vandagriff had a stat line from the 1920s against the Gamecocks, and South Carolina tore up the Kentucky defense.
However, the next week, Kentucky held Georgia (the No. 1 team at the time) to less than two touchdowns and lost by a point, 13-12. Then it follows up with a 41-6 bashing of Ohio and a 20-17 upset at No. 6 Ole Miss.
Well, maybe they were just a good team that struggled at the beginning of the season, right? Nope. The Cats lost the next three games to Vanderbilt — which is oddly the most understandable of the three — Florida, and last week's game against Auburn.
The Tigers were 0-4 in conference play before playing Kentucky. To be fair to Auburn, they did have a tough four-game stretch against Arkansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Missouri. Still, they're not a very good team. And if it weren't for Mississippi State's shotty defense, Auburn and Kentucky would be even lower than they already are.
Week ten SEC Power Rankings
Rank | School | Game Result | Previous rank |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Georgia | BYE | 1 |
2 | Texas A&M | W, LSU 38-23 | 2 |
3 | LSU | L, Texas A&M 38-23 | 3 |
4 | Ole Miss | W, Oklahoma 26-14 | 4 |
5 | Texas | W, Vanderbilt 27-24 | 5 |
6 | Vanderbilt | W, Ball State 24-14 | 6 |
7 | Alabama | W, Missouri 34-0 | 7 |
8 | Tennessee | BYE | 8 |
9 | Arkansas | W, Mississippi State 58-25 | 9 |
10 | South Carolina | BYE | 10 |
11 | Oklahoma | L, Ole Miss 26-14 | 11 |
12 | Missouri | L, Alabama 34-0 | 12 |
13 | Florida | BYE | 15 |
14 | Auburn | W, Kentucky 24-10 | 15 |
15 | Kentucky | L, Auburn 24-10 | 14 |
16 | Mississippi St | L, Texas A&M 34-24 | 16 |