At mighty Alabama, they don’t even bother retiring jersey numbers. And at Florida, they retire them, technically speaking, but then they eventually allow players to wear those numbers again.

That’s why Eddy Pineiro is able to wear Tim Tebow’s No. 15 this season.

So a countdown of five SEC players who should have their jersey numbers retired won’t include any legends from Tuscaloosa or Gainesville. But there are plenty of other icon-rich locales to search from, and here is our list:

Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M

Johnny Football might not even be playing football in the NFL this fall. He’s fallen hard and fast, and it’s been one misstep after another since the Cleveland Browns drafted him in 2014. But in Aggie Land, Manziel was and is a legend — of course, that might very well have contributed to his demise afterward.

But this is about the SEC and college ball, and Manziel is more than worthy of never seeing his No. 2 worn again. In two rock star seasons in College Station, Manziel threw for a combined 7,820 yards, with a dizzying 63 touchdown passes and just 22 interceptions while completing just under 69 percent of his passes. He added a ridiculous 2,169 yards rushing and 30 TD runs.

Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy and the Davey O’Brien Award in 2012, and he hauled away enough hardware during his two seasons at Texas A&M to last a couple of four-year careers, never mind a measly two years.

And while what’s written about Manziel today takes on a whole different, morbid tone, when you have a book written about your legendary college career, as Manziel did in 2014, your number should be forever frozen, framed and displayed — even if it might also forever remind those of a pro career gone to pieces.

Peerless Price, WR, Tennessee

In some special cases, a player’s legend at a program isn’t captured by stats but by moments, or one singular moment. That’s Peerless Price in a wonderful, memorable nutshell.

Are Price’s stats worthy of having his No. 37 jersey retired? You bet they are. His 2,298 yards receiving rank third at a program as rich in wide receiver history as any in the country. His 147 receptions put him fourth all-time at Tennessee. And his 2,900 career yards put him 10th on the Volunteers’ all-purpose chart, nothing to sneeze at considering the loads of skill-position talent that’s come through Knoxville.

But the stellar numbers are secondary with Price. Because what Tennessee fans will always remember is The Catch. They will close their eyes and get glorious chills when recalling Price racing down the right sideline and hauling in Tee Martin’s pass, then taking it the distance for a 79-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter to help seal the Vols’ national championship victory over Florida State in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl.

Some 15 years later, Price was still being asked to speak about The Catch. And you can trust that 50 years later he still will be. But while that play will never be put to bed, Price’s jersey number absolutely should be.

Eric Zeier, QB, Georgia

Right now, there is a freshman-to-be phenom Between the Hedges, and his name is Jacob Eason. But long before there was Eason, who will wear No. 10, there was Eric Zeier, a Georgia kid from Marietta who came to Athens with every kind of award and expectation from high school attached to him. And he wore No. 10, too.

So what did Zeier do? He took the hype and molded it into a spectacular four-year run. Zeier split time with incumbent Greg Talley before starting the final six games of the 1991 season. And he started every single game after that, regular season and bowl games, until his eligibility was done after the 1994 season.

Zeier’s personal bio at georgiadogs.com reads as long as a book report. When the dust settled after he was done at Georgia, Zeier had compiled an astounding 11,153 yards passing and 67 touchdown passes, and he did that in 11 regular-season games per year, not 12. Zeier started 39 of a possible 44 regular-season games.

Zeier didn’t win any national titles at Georgia like the great and revered Herschel Walker did. But he entertained for four years in Athens like few others have. Take a look at the Bulldogs’ passing records at sicemdawgs.com and you’ll see Zeier’s name under virtually every category, and sometimes multiple times within that record listing.

Sure, he keeps great company in those stat categories with recent greats like David Greene, Aaron Murray and Matthew Stafford. But Bulldogs fans knew they had a keeper when Zeier broke the Georgia freshman passing record in a home victory over Auburn. And today, nobody should argue if that No. 10 jersey of his is finally retired and Eason had to find another number to wear.

Eli Manning, QB, Ole Miss

Do a google search for “Ole Miss legend” and, naturally, it’s Eli’s dad, Archie, who comes up most of the time. And rightfully so. Archie Manning was a legend in Oxford in every sense of the word.

But then do another search and look up Eli’s statistics during his four-year run there from 2000-03. The numbers are downright gaudy. And if proud father Archie is right now the only player who has his number (18) retired at Ole Miss, then his two-time Super Bowl-winning son should follow him and have his No. 10 forever enshrined.

A quick comparison of father and son’s numbers in Oxford is an argument enough for Eli. Yes, Archie played fewer games each season and, yes, it was a different time with far less passing. But Archie never threw more touchdowns than interceptions in any of his three years at Ole Miss, finishing with 31 TDs and 40 picks. Eli tossed 84 TD passes and had 36 interceptions, and he threw for over 10,000 yards.

Eli, who capped his career by winning the Maxwell Award and SEC Offensive Player of the Year, wasn’t a running threat like his daddy, who was SEC Player of the Year in 1969. Archie ran for 823 yards and 25 touchdowns and was fourth and third, respectively, in the Heisman voting in 1969 and ’70. Kind of like Eli, who was third in the Heisman voting as a senior.

Like father, like son, in so many ways. So how about putting the son’s number alongside his dad’s? (Just wait until after Chad Kelly is finished borrowing the No. 10.)

Glenn Dorsey, DT, LSU

In a word, Dorsey was dominant during his days in Baton Rouge. Dorsey, who wore No. 72, was the anchor of LSU’s defense during its national title run in 2007. He was the monster on the defensive line who racked up just about every individual award possible that year, including SEC Defensive Player of the Year. And he was a two-time, first-team All-American.

Dorsey was literally born to be a Bayou Bengal legend, being born in Baton Rouge. Like Price, he left championship memories behind for LSU fans to treasure, and he should be properly rewarded like Tigers great Billy Cannon, who won a national title in 1958 and whose No. 20 was retired.

For just $59.99 you can order a Glenn Dorsey LSU Tigers Framed 15-by-17 Campus Legend Collage. Or for no cost, Tigers diehards can close their eyes and remember SEC quarterbacks and running backs running for their lives as Dorsey wreaked havoc.

It takes a special situation for a defensive tackle to have his number retired. And a special player. Dorsey was that and then some.