Giant pileup of two-loss teams on the freeway bound for Atlanta.
Greetings, BBN!
Look at all the 8-2 teams in the SEC! It’s a logjam of SEC championship game hopefuls and College Football Playoff hopefuls, and with so many teams so similar to one another, it’s going to be a hair-splitting decision when it all goes down with the selection committee in just a few weeks.
The biggest result of last week was Georgia wrapping up conference play with a 14-point bounce-back win over Tennessee, getting the Bulldogs to 6-2 in the conference and 8-2 overall. Also, South Carolina handed Missouri a third loss to get them firmly out of the picture, and Texas took care of business on the road vs Arkansas.
Next week’s biggest game is, well, there’s not really the biggest game next week—it’ll be seeing if any of the top six blow it against a lesser foe. The last big showdown will be on Rivalry Week when Texas takes on Texas A&M in College Station in a highly, highly anticipated rivalry renewal that’ll, no matter what, impact the title game race.
Here are the rest of the SEC standings entering Week 13:
SEC Standings Week 13
Notes:
- Some teams are starting to realize they might not want to play in the SEC championship if they want to make the College Football Playoff. One of those two-loss teams might get thrown into a Texas buzzsaw while the others get in and leave them behind with their big, fat third loss.
- It’d be funny if Ole Miss loses to Florida this weekend.
- Kentucky has one last card to play and one last wrench to throw. If the Wildcats somehow upset Texas in Austin this Saturday, they’ll once again throw everything into chaos and finish conference play 2-6, with the two wins being on the road against top-6 teams. It’s also their last hope for a bowl: one more loss, and their bowl bid is done.
- Missouri’s 7-3 and ranked 23rd, playing at 2-8 last place Mississippi State this weekend, but is only a 7.5-point favorite. They’re shaky right now.
- Florida scored a big one against LSU to get to five wins. The season’s still not over for several of those teams down at the bottom. Keep an eye on Oklahoma: they’re hosting the Crimson Tide this weekend, and if they win it’ll be big number 6.