One fanbase rolls its collective eyes after a decommitment while several others imagine the possibilities.

That’s how the recruiting cycle works in the feast or famine SEC. On Monday, Georgia and Mississippi State took another step in securing Top 10 classes for 2016 while South Carolina, still stinging from last year’s class collapse, saw its first highly-touted prospect get away.

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Halfway through the spring evaluation period, there’s six programs fighting for the top spot in the SEC for next season. Historically slow starters, the Crimson Tide rank sixth in the league and 14th overall in the nation at this point with four four-star and four three-star commits. At Alabama, Nick Saban has brought in the SEC’s (and the nation’s) top class five consecutive years, but Georgia, Ole Miss and LSU will try and change that in 2016.

247Sports’ current team composite rankings (SEC)

  • Georgia (4th nationally): 12 commits
  • Ole Miss (5th): 13 commits
  • LSU (6th): 9 commits
  • Kentucky (7th): 16 commits
  • Tennessee (12th): 10 commits
  • Alabama (14th): 8 commits

It appears Georgia has the best shot at unseating the Crimson Tide at the top of the SEC’s recruiting pecking order thanks to some tremendous recent momentum.

Many recruiting analysts project four-star wideout Kyle Davis, who decommitted from South Carolina on Monday, will end up signing with Georgia. He would become the leading target alongside four-star commit Darion Anderson for Jacob Eason, the SEC’s highest-ranked current commit and top quarterback nationally for the Bulldogs.

Eason is one of five five-star commits who has verbally committed to an SEC program. He is joined by LSU’s Saivion Smith (CB, Bradenton, Fla.) and Edwin Alexander (DT, Hammond, La.), Texas A&M’s Gregory Little (OT, Allen, Texas) and Mississippi’s Shea Patterson (Shreveport, La.).

Mark Richt has also received verbals from monstrous four-star tackles E.J. Price and Ben Cleveland, four-star pass rushers Chauncey Manac and Tyler Clark, and expects incoming secondary help from a host of others.

At Ole Miss, it doesn’t look like Hugh Freeze will be able to match his incredible 2013 class which could have as many as four first-round picks — all former five stars — in the 2016 NFL draft, but the early 2016 group is well-rounded with standouts at several crucial positions. Not only does the pro-style Patterson fill an immediate need under center for the Rebels, but four-star pass rushers Benito Jones and Charles Wiley will have a chance to play early following expected personnel departures up front.

In addition, Ole Miss has garnered verbals from a pair of four-star running backs, two noteworthy tight ends and big-play four-star wideout DeKaylin Metcalf. There’s several more big fish in play for the Rebels nine months out from signing day for what’s shaping up to be a Top 10 class.

Les Miles and the Tigers are one of the SEC’s hottest teams during the early portion of the recruiting season and have already secured three commitments from five players in the Top 100 nationally. Matching four-star wide receivers Dee Anderson and Stephen Sullivan, each hovering about opposing defensive backs at 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-4 respectively, will be ideal targets for four-star incoming quarterback Feleipe Franks.

Athletic tight end Jamal Pettigrew has the strength and size to play on the outside at defensive end when he arrives on campus. Kevin Steele may have to barter with Cam Cameron once the 6-foot-6, 235-pounder from New Orleans puts on his LSU pads for the first time.

It’s important to note that Alabama’s still in play for several of the nation’s top players including can’t-miss defensive linemen Rashan Gary Shavar Manuel and there’s always some flip action in late January or during the final hours leading up to the first Wednesday in February.

As it stands though, the Crimson Tide have some work to do if they want to claim the SEC’s top class in 2016 considering the recent momentum at Georgia, LSU and Ole Miss.