Kentucky, Auburn duked it out in the basement of the Week 10 SEC Power Rankings

Auburn v Kentucky
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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

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