Yahoo Top 10: How much did Saturday’s results shake up rankings?

The SEC’s oft-used slogan — “It Just Means More” — holds a particular meaning this weekend.

It does just mean more — more teams with losses, all bunched up toward the top of the conference, beating one another to pieces in the first year of the expanded playoff. Can six SEC teams make the playoff field? Logic says absolutely not, but no logic applies to college sports these days.

With two weeks left in the regular season, there still exists the possibility that the conference will end in a six-way tie at the top. There very much exists the probability that a tiebreaker will decide at least one participant in the SEC championship game. The final tiebreaker option is a random draw out of, perhaps, Greg Sankey’s favorite hat — a made-for-TV spectacle that we’re all rooting for but that is highly unlikely (there are five tiebreakers before getting to a draw).

Either way, the SEC standings are quite a jumble, led by Texas (5-1 in the SEC) and Texas A&M (5-1), two teams that meet in College Station to end the regular season. Following them is the only team that has completed its SEC schedule, Georgia (6-2), and then Tennessee (5-2), followed by Ole Miss and Alabama, each 4-2.

The real issue for Top 10 purposes (and for the CFP selection committee come Tuesday’s rankings) is how to position Georgia, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Alabama as they’ve beaten one another. Georgia beat Tennessee, but lost to Alabama and Ole Miss. Tennessee beat Alabama but lost to Georgia. Ole Miss beat Georgia and doesn’t play Tennessee or Alabama. Alabama beat Georgia but lost to Tennessee. To make matters more complicated, Texas lost to Georgia at home.

The Georgia Bulldogs are right back in the thick of things after a win over Tennessee. (Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The worst loss of the group belongs to Ole Miss…

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Publish date : 2024-11-17 06:33:52

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