SEC offenses were wide-ranging this season. Missouri was seventh in the nation and Alabama 17th in total offense, but five SEC teams — Vanderbilt, Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee — ranked outside the top 100 out of 129 Football Bowl Subdivision teams. Three of those five teams fired either their head coach or offensive coordinator, or both.

The pressure is on offensive coordinators more than ever with scoring soaring all over the country. There is even more pressure in the SEC because, well, those coaches have to scheme against SEC defenses, which have proven to be beastly against most teams from other conferences over the years.

So, which offensive coordinators aced 2017 and which ones flunked?

Alabama: Brian Daboll

Some Crimson Tide fans want a bit more risk-taking for the offense, but Daboll also has gotten credit for the way Jalen Hurts has played this season — and backup Tua Tagovailoa played quite a bit, especially in games that Alabama led big, so neither individual had a chance to build up huge stats.

Alabama was No. 2 in the SEC in scoring and total offense, trailing only Missouri in both, and topped the league in rushing yards (265.3), yards per attempt (6.0) and rushing touchdowns per game (3.0) this season. The big knock here is that the Tide never found a No. 2 receiver behind Calvin Ridley.

Grade: B

Arkansas: Dan Enos

With Bret Bielema gone from Fayetteville, Enos’s job is up in the air. Reports indicate that new Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt has interest in bringing Enos to Knoxville.

Arkansas lost running back Rawleigh Williams III in the preseason when he retired because of injuries, and starting quarterback Austin Allen missed four games with injuries. Combine that with a struggling offensive line, and the fact that Arkansas is in the tougher West Division, and it’s frankly a bit surprising that the Razorbacks finished as high as eighth in the league in scoring.

Grade: C+

Auburn: Chip Lindsey

Reports had pegged Lindsey as a candidate for the head coaching job at South Alabama, but the coach said he was committed to staying with the Tigers, AL.com reported after Auburn’s loss to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game.

Auburn was fourth in the SEC in scoring, rushing offense and total offense, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Quarterback Jarrett Stidham’s steady increase in his comfort level was reflected in his increased production as the season wore on. And, this has been mentioned before, but in two of Auburn’s losses star running back Kerryon Johnson was injured and either missed the game completely (against Clemson) or wasn’t himself (against Georgia in the SEC title game).

Grade: A-

Florida: Doug Nussmeier

Nussmeier finished out the season after head coach Jim McElwain was fired, but it came as no surprise that he was swept out along with most of the staff at the end of a 4-7 season. There certainly was some sentiment for the Gators to oust Nussmeier even before then.

The quarterback position was a hot potato among Feleipe Franks, Luke Del Rio and Malik Zaire, and that instability handcuffed the Gators all season. Florida’s offense has been down for several years, but this season’s utter failure to get even decent quarterback play has to fall at least partly at Nussmeier’s feet.

Grade: D

Georgia: Jim Chaney

Georgia is 11th in the nation in rushing at 263.5 yards a game.

Conventional wisdom says any Bulldogs fan could have figured out how to run Georgia’s offense this season: Don’t put too much on true freshman quarterback Jake Fromm’s shoulders, just have him mostly hand the ball to Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, then have those two run, again and again.

But Chaney deserves major credit for helping to keep the Bulldogs’ offense rolling after it lost starting quarterback Jacob Eason to an injury in the opener. Fromm perhaps peaked in the SEC title game win over Auburn and has shown he can make plays, making Georgia’s offense even more dangerous.

Grade: A-

Kentucky: Eddie Gran, Darin Hinshaw

The fact that the Wildcats finished in the bottom half of the SEC in scoring and total offense might come as a surprise to anybody who saw Benny Snell run. The sophomore led the league in rushing yards in the regular season with 1,318 and in rushing touchdowns with 18, setting a school record in the latter category. (Auburn’s Kerryon Johnson passed Snell in yards with his performance in the SEC title game and is 2 yards ahead of Snell with bowl games remaining for both).

Yet Snell was a bit of a one-man show for the Kentucky offense, which was only seventh in rushing and 11th in passing in the SEC.

Grade: C

LSU: Matt Canada

There was a lot of criticism early, and LSU only averaged 25.6 points in its first seven games. But the Tigers picked it up after that, averaging 31.6 points over the last five games, even though one of those was the 24-10 loss to Alabama on Nov. 4.

LSU was fifth in the SEC in rushing offense and 30th in the nation thanks in large part to star running back Derrius Guice. Danny Etling won’t go down as a quarterbacking legend in Baton Rouge but finished sixth in the SEC in passing yards (2,234). He had four games with at least 200 passing yards in the second half of the season after having just one in the first six games.

Grade: B-

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Ole Miss: Phil Longo

In his first year with the Rebels, Longo helped keep the offense steady even after starting quarterback Shea Patterson went down injured. Longo, a disciple of Mike Leach’s “Air Raid” offense, built a relationship with lightly recruited backup Jordan Ta’amu,  so when Patterson went down, the Rebels offense kept producing.

A.J. Brown led the SEC with 1,252 receiving yards and tied Mizzou’s Albert Okwuegbunam for the league lead in touchdown catches with 11. Drew Lock collected all of the individual statistical plaudits, but Ole Miss led the league in passing yards at 328.4 per game, averaging 16.5 yards a game more than Mizzou.

Grade: A-

Mississippi State: Billy Gonzales, John Hevesy

Both worked under Dan Mullen during his tenure at MSU, and both Gonzales and Hevesy are going with Mullen to join the staff at Florida. Hevesy was on the Bulldogs’ staff during Mullen’s entire nine-year tenure and coached the offensive line before becoming co-coordinator. Gonzales was mostly a wide receivers coach before becoming the other half of the OC tandem.

Any way you slice it, the Bulldogs’ offense was effective and the staff helped develop 2-star recruit Nick Fitzgerald into a dual threat at quarterback, albeit one who was better running than passing. The SEC’s division winners, Georgia and Auburn, shut down MSU, but otherwise the Bulldogs scored at least 24 points in every game.

Grade: A

Missouri: Josh Heupel

Mizzou (39.3 points a game) was the only SEC team in the nation's top 10 in scoring.

UCF just named Heupel as its head coach, entrusting the former Oklahoma quarterback to keep up its electrifying offense. After seeing what he did with Mizzou, it’s no wonder.

The offense completely carried the Tigers during their season-ending six-game winning streak, averaging 51.3 points a game during that span even after Mizzou lost top tailback Damarea Crockett to an injury. Put it this way: The 308 points that Mizzou put up in the past six games is higher than the season totals for the SEC’s bottom four scoring offenses. Heupel’s pupil, Drew Lock, leads the nation in passing touchdowns with 43.

Grade: A

South Carolina: Kurt Roper, Bryan McClendon

Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp relieved Roper of his duties on Wednesday, leaving McClendon to call plays for the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl against Michigan.

Roper took the fall for a lack of progress on offense and, specifically, the backward trajectory of quarterback Jake Bentley. The sophomore led the league in completions with 226, two more than Drew Lock, but it’s telling that Bentley was only eighth in the SEC in yards per pass attempt at 7.1 and had 11 interceptions to go with 16 touchdown passes. To make matters worse, the Gamecocks were 12th in the SEC in rushing at 128.2 yards a game.

Grade: C-

Tennessee: Larry Scott

Scott’s future is up in the air after Tennessee hired Jeremy Pruitt as its head coach on Thursday.

Scott, the former interim head coach at Miami in his first season as Vols offensive coordinator, saw a revolving door at quarterback this season, but most would blame fired head coach Butch Jones for that.

Still, there’s no way to get around it: The Vols were last in the league in scoring and yards, and only five teams in the FBS averaged fewer yards per game than the Vols (291.1) this season. Twenty teams averaged more than that in passing yards alone.

Grade: D

Texas A&M: Noel Mazzone

Yet another coach waiting to see what the future holds. A&M named Jimbo Fisher as its new head coach this week after firing Kevin Sumlin.

The Aggies were an odd case on offense. They averaged 230.6 passing yards a game, fourth in the SEC, but were 13th in completion percentage at 54.7. Overall, the offense was eighth in yards per game (389.6) but 12th in yards per play (5.4). That total yardage left them 79th in the country, but they were 44th in scoring at 31.1 points a game. Those up-and-down numbers seem to typify A&M’s up-and-down 7-5 season.

Grade: C

Vanderbilt: Andy Ludwig

The Commodores were third in the SEC in passing and last in rushing, a classic sign of a team that trailed a lot throughout the season.

Ralph Webb joined the SEC’s all-time top 10 in career rushing yards and set a school record in that category but had his worst season, rushing for 831 yards after averaging 1,116 yards over his previous three seasons.

Kyle Shurmur was second in the SEC with 26 TD passes but also hit double digits in interceptions (10) for the second year running. Yes, it’s tough to win at Vandy and that’s accounted for in this grade, but a bit more improvement might have been expected.

Grade: C+