Here’s some SEC trivia for you: Who is the SEC’s most experienced starting quarterback entering the 2015 season?

I’ll give you a moment to think about it.

Give up? The answer is Arkansas starter Brandon Allen.

That trivia question may have been cheapened by the foreshadowing in the headline, but there are few fans outside the state of Arkansas who already knew the answer.

Allen is perhaps the most overlooked, underrated signal caller in the conference. His anonymity is justified by about as average a career as one can have. Seriously, Allen epitomizes the word average.

In 24 total starts the last two seasons, Allen has completed 318 of his 597 pass attempts, a completion rate of just 53.3 percent. He’s thrown for just 3,837 yards in those two seasons combined, an average of fewer than 160 yards per start. And in that time his teams have won just 10 of his 24 starts under center.

Allen is not Dak Precott, who in his first full season as a starter led Mississippi State to only its second 10-win season in 70 years. And he’s not Joshua Dobbs, who resurrected Tennessee’s season with a 4-1 record to close 2014, including the team’s first bowl win in seven years.

Instead, Allen is merely a game-manager. His seven wins last season, including a bowl win, were a career high, but he was tasked with limiting mistakes more than carrying the team. The Hogs’ benefitted from two 1,000-yard rushers and a defense that shutout back to back ranked SEC opponents late last year to post a winning record. They did not rely nearly as heavily on Allen, who threw just five interceptions all year while excelling in his marginalized role.

However, now Allen is the elder statesman of the SEC. He has more career starts under his belt that any other signal caller in the conference, and there will be more expected of him this fall as the Razorbacks aim to improve from last year’s win total.

So just how far can Allen lead Arkansas? The answer is pretty far.

Let’s get this out of the way early: Arkansas is not going to win the SEC West. Well, I suppose anything is possible, but it’s highly unlikely with traditional powers like Alabama, Auburn and LSU looming, and emerging threats like Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Texas A&M growing bigger and better every year.

However, the Hogs could flirt with 10 wins this fall if Allen plays to his potential. He’ll have both his 1,000-yard rushers back in Jonathan Williams and Alex Collins, lightening the load of responsibility Allen will have to carry on offense.

He’ll have an experienced wideout in Keon Hatcher manning the outside, a young, dynamic threat still adjusting to the college game in Jared Cornelius and one of the few productive pass-catching tight ends in the SEC in Hunter Henry.

The tools are all there for Allen to lead a productive offense in the SEC. He has a consistent rushing game, a potent play-action attack with a veteran wideout and savvy tight end playing off the threat of the run. He has explosive playmakers still growing into their roles. And he has experience facing SEC defenses.

The tools are vital, but the experience is what will set Allen’s senior season above his other two years as the Hogs’ starter. Allen’s 4:1 touchdown-to-interception ratio last year indicated he is a bright decision-maker who never allows opposing defenses off the hook.

He’ll be even wiser under center this fall, and the offense around him, which includes the aforementioned skill players and four returning offensive linemen, should be able to capitalize on his leadership and stellar decision-making.

Arkansas won’t have the kind of offense that can score fast or that will find itself on SportsCenter’s Top Plays often, but it has an offense set up to score regularly, putting major pressure on opponents to do the same.

The Hogs may have lost a tremendous amount of talent on defense in the form of Darius Philon, Martrell Spaight, Trey Flowers and others, but it will still have a defense capable of holding off some of the SEC’s most explosive offenses.

Allen won’t have a thing to do with Arkansas’ defense, of course. But he will make the defense’s job easier in the way he’ll lead the offense on long, successful drives, giving Hogs’ defenders time to rest and a lead to protect on the scoreboard.

While the rest of the West may have a say in how many games Arkansas wins, the program absolutely has a quarterback in place capable of leading the team to 10 wins, maybe more.

Allen isn’t the kind of quarterback to lead a team single-handedly, but he’s poised to have a career year, and the Razorbacks are poised to benefit from it in 2015.