When the 2016 season was all said and done, each team in the SEC had a season-defining stat. Today, we look at the teams in the East.

Florida

During the last several seasons, fans in Gainesville have watched an offense that doesn’t resemble anything they had seen in a long time.

Florida ranked dead last in the SEC in total offense this season with 344 yards per game. It’s actually the second time in the last four years that the Gators have ranked last in the conference in offense, also doing so in 2013 under Will Muschamp.

Those are the only two times that’s happened since 1980.

Georgia

There were two areas that haunted the Bulldogs in 2016.

Too often, Georgia allowed teams to crack the goal line in the red zone. Opposing teams scored touchdowns at a rate of 74.4 percent, last in the SEC and 121st in the FBS.

Meanwhile, the Dawgs’ offense wasn’t explosive enough. The team only recorded 48 plays of 20-plus yards, also ranking last in the conference.

Kentucky

We have to point out two for Kentucky as well, and both deal with rushing.

On one side, the Wildcats enjoyed 1,000-yard rushing seasons by Stanley “Boom” Williams and Benny Snell. They became just the eighth RB duo in SEC history to go for 1,000 yards in a season.

On the other side, Kentucky has to improve when it comes to stopping the run. UK finished 12th in the SEC against the run for the fourth straight season, allowing 228.2 yards per game. Kentucky hasn’t ranked higher than ninth in the league at stopping the run since 1994, a span of 23 seasons.

Missouri

The Tigers suffered a surprising dropoff defensively. In terms of yards allowed per game, Mizzou went from second in the SEC in 2015 (302.0 YPG) to dead last in 2016 (479.7).

That difference of +177.7 yards allowed per game from 2015 to 2016 was the largest in the entire nation, and by a wide margin.

The two teams with the next-biggest increases were Akron (+134.8) and Florida Atlantic (+108.7).

South Carolina

The Gamecocks will need to find a way to correct their problems when it comes to negative plays next season.

South Carolina allowed 7.85 tackles for loss per game, last in the SEC and tied for 123rd in the country.

Over the last 12 seasons, only Ole Miss in 2011 (9.0) and 2005 (8.3) allowed more tackles for loss per game in the SEC than this year’s South Carolina squad.

Tennessee

There’s no doubt that fans in Knoxville feel a huge weight lifted off their backs after finally beating Florida and ending the 11-year losing streak to their rivals.

However, it was still a disappointing season for Tennessee, which still couldn’t manage to make it to the SEC Championship Game.

It’s not often that the loser of Florida-Tennessee goes on to win the East. It’s only happened four times since the East-West split in 1992. The other times were 2007, 1997 and 1992. And 1997 is the only year the loser (Tennessee) won the SEC title.

Vanderbilt

The Commodores didn’t cap their season the way they wanted in losing 41-17 to NC State in the Independence Bowl, but Vandy did manage to beat a couple rivals in the same season.

Vanderbilt notched victories over Tennessee and Georgia, only the second time it’s pulled that off since the ‘Dores began playing both teams each year back in 1954 (only exception was not playing Georgia in 1966 and 1967).

The only other time the Commodores beat the Vols and Bulldogs in the same season over that span was James Franklin’s last season in Nashville in 2013.