The last time Tennessee won the SEC East and advanced to the league’s title game, the Vols played LSU in Atlanta in 2007. If ESPN’s Football Power Index is to be believed, the two could meet there yet again – and this time with much more on the line.

If you are unfamiliar with the ESPN’s FPI rating system, they define it as a “measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season.” The projected results are based on 10,000 computer simulations and those results are updated daily.

According to the FPI as of May 16, both LSU and Tennessee are favored to win against each opponent this season, thus setting up the SEC Championship Game winner for a guaranteed trip to the College Football Playoff. If this occurs as predicted, judging by how the rest of the top four plays out, the SEC runner up may still have a shot at getting in as well.

Breaking down each team’s schedule more throughly, LSU’s most projected toss up game is of course its home game against Alabama Nov. 5. The Tigers currently have a 65.7 percent chance of winning the game, while they have a 71 percent chance of winning at home against Ole Miss Oct. 22 and on the road at Auburn Sept. 24. Meanwhile, Tennessee’s most projected toss up game isn’t at home against Alabama Oct. 15 (58.9 percent) but on the road at Georgia Oct. 1, as the Vols have a 55.8 percent chance of leaving Athens with a victory.

The LSU and Tennessee games are the only games in which Alabama is not currently favored by the FPI.

Ole Miss is currently projected to drop three games: vs. Florida State in the Sept. 3 opener (29.5 percent), against Alabama Sept. 17 (48.8 percent) and at LSU Oct. 22 (26.5 percent).

Georgia is currently only projected to drop two games in Kirby Smart’s first season. The game against Tennessee and the week prior, Sept. 24 at Ole Miss (37.7 percent).

The defending SEC Champion Florida Gators are only currently favored in seven games and are projected to drop five games: at Tennessee Sept. 24 (20.8 percent), vs. LSU Oct. 8 (28.9 percent), vs. Georgia Oct. 29 (40 percent), at Arkansas Nov. 5 (43.8 percent) and at Florida State Nov. 26 (15.1 percent).