With just two weeks of regular season football remaining for the SEC, all but a handful of the league’s fan bases have turned their attention from their team’s chances of winning the conference championship to instead focusing on their team’s chances of drawing a good bowl game.

SDS’s Brad Crawford does a great job with our bowl projections each week (the latest update can be found here), but we’re going to focus here on what individual teams will be playing for during the final weeks of the season and how it will impact which teams go to which bowls.

At this point, it is probably safe to break the league’s 14 schools down into six bowl categories:

Wooing the College Football Playoff committee

Alabama (9-1): The Crimson Tide has played like the best team in college football during the past month or so, and the College Football Playoff committee has rewarded them with a projected spot in the four-team playoff at the end of the season. It is becoming increasingly clear that the path to that spot involves wins against Charleston Southern this week, Auburn in the Iron Bowl and Florida in the SEC Championship. A loss to any one of those opponents likely ends the chances at the playoff, but a New Year’s Six spot is almost a lock at this point barring a collapse.

Florida (9-1): All of the talk about the College Football Playoff and the SEC has centered around Alabama in recent weeks, but the Gators control their own destiny for an invite to the big event as well. With a game against Florida State and a likely meeting with Alabama to follow this week’s game against Florida Atlantic, the Gators would be a lock for the College Football Playoff if they finish with three consecutive wins. A loss in one of those games likely drops them into New Year’s Six consideration, and two losses could drop them all the way back down to the next tier before it is all said and done, so the range of outcomes here is wide.

Hoping for New Year’s Six

LSU (7-2): That record may only show seven wins thanks to a Week 1 cancellation against McNeese State, but for the purposes of this discussion we’ll treat LSU like a 8-2 team. The Tigers likely lost any lingering hope they had for a College Football Playoff appearance when they were 31-14 victims to Arkansas at home in Week 11. But finishing the season with wins against Ole Miss and Texas A&M would put them at 9-2 (effective 10-2), and in fine position to be considered as the SEC’s second-best team if Florida loses to Florida State and/or Alabama. A loss in either of those remaining regular season games probably drops them down a tier in these rankings.

In and jockeying for position

Georgia (7-3): Mark Richt may be under scrutiny from Georgia fans, but the Bulldogs are lining up nicely for another quality bowl appearance this season in spite of the loss of star RB Nick Chubb and below-average quarterback play. Assuming no slip-ups against the option during in-state games with Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech to finish out the regular season, a 9-3 Georgia team should be quite attractive to many bowls.

Ole Miss (7-3): Remaining games against LSU and Mississippi State will tell the story for this Ole Miss season. A couple of wins are likely to catapult the Rebels to consideration for the Citrus or Outback bowls, with a pair of losses potentially dropping them to near the bottom rung on the SEC bowl ladder.

Texas A&M (7-3): This Texas A&M team has been hard to figure out this season, which makes figuring out which bowl game the Aggies will wind up in equally as difficult. Remaining games against Vanderbilt and LSU offer an opportunity to prove their worth, but with both games on the road and A&M’s inconsistent play as of late, they could also prove to be difficult to win.

Mississippi State (7-3): Though they didn’t fare so well, the Bulldogs enjoyed a trip to the Orange Bowl last season behind the direction of Dak Prescott. Saturday’s loss to Alabama closed the door on a return appearance to the New Year’s Six, but the Bulldogs could still find themselves with another nice bowl appearance with wins against Arkansas and Ole Miss.

Arkansas (6-4): When the Razorbacks were 2-4 a month ago, it would’ve been pretty hard to imagine that we’d be talking about the possibilities of an eight-win season. Arkansas clinched a postseason appearance with last week’s win against LSU, now home games against Mississippi State and Missouri will determine just how nice that bowl game will be.

Tennessee (6-4): Thanks to a three-game winning streak, the Vols are bowl eligible for the second consecutive season. Last year, a six-win effort netted an invite to the TaxSlayer Bowl. With the potential for as many as eight wins with Missouri and Vanderbilt left on the schedule, it will be interesting to see how high the Vols can climb.

One more win, please

Auburn (5-5): Thanks to a remaining nonconference gimme against Idaho in Week 12, the Tigers are likely to find their sixth win on Saturday in advance of the regular season finale against Alabama. A bump up to the next tier should follow.

Missouri (5-5): Saturday’s win against BYU snapped a four-game losing streak and put the Tigers back in position to qualify for a bowl game during Gary Pinkel’s final season. Conference games against Tennessee and Arkansas remain on the schedule, so there is work still left to do.

Hanging on for dear life

Kentucky (4-6): In the midst of a five-game losing streak, it’s hard to imagine the Wildcats qualifying for the postseason right now. But the possibility is there, and it’s not as daunting as it may seem. Charlotte is next on the Kentucky schedule, and the 49ers are, well, not very good. A win puts Kentucky in the familiar position of needing a win against rival Louisville to get to six wins. Both games are at Commonwealth Stadium.

Vanderbilt (4-6): Saturday’s win against Kentucky kept the Commodores’ bowl hopes alive, but with two wins needed against Texas A&M and Tennessee, the odds are stacked against Vanderbilt getting to six wins for the first time in the Derek Mason era.

Game over

South Carolina (3-7): The Gamecocks are the only SEC program that is assured of staying at home this postseason. However, South Carolina has the script for a perfect end-of-season game developing, as the Gamecocks are likely to play Clemson in Week 13 with a chance to knock their bitter rival from the No. 1 spot in the standings and rob the Tigers of a potential College Football Playoff appearance.