Seven teams are still contending for a trip to Atlanta.
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There are currently four Big Ten teams in the top five of the CFP rankings, and the only SEC team joining them is a team that wasn’t even in the league five months ago! Cannibalization has run rampant in the Southeastern Conference, with Georgia and LSU being the latest victims last Saturday to drag two more heavyweights down to two league losses in the log-jammed standings.
With just three weeks left, we’re down to seven teams that can realistically ride the tiebreakers to Atlanta. Of those seven, Tennessee and Texas A&M are perched at the top. All eyes will be on those Vols this weekend, as their game in Athens will determine quite a bit for them and everybody else.
Here are the rest of the SEC standings entering Week 12:
SEC Standings Week 12
Notes:
- Texas still has three league games left to play, while Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky all only have one apiece.
- On November 7th, 2020, Georgia lost to Florida in Jacksonville. Since then, the Bulldogs hadn’t lost a single game to anybody than Alabama until last Saturday in Oxford, Mississippi.
- Oklahoma, sitting at 5-5, hosts Alabama and plays at LSU to end the season. If they can squeeze out just one of them, they’re bowl-bound.
- Florida is 4-5 but hosts LSU and Ole Miss. A victory in either of those should be enough from league play to get a bowl, because their finale is against hapless Florida State.
- Arkansas is the only SEC team not bowl eligible yet that is favored be so at the season’s end. They’re 5-4 and in two weeks host LA Tech in a buy game.
- Kentucky hosts Murray State in an excellent chance to win a game again. They have not won any football games since the Ole Miss victory on September 28th.