Georgia thumped Austin Peay, 45-0, on Saturday, but somehow, the Bulldogs’ chances of winning the SEC fell off of a cliff on ESPN’s Football Power Index.

The ranking torpedoed Georgia’s chances of repeating as SEC champs as the Bulldogs fell from having a 42 percent chance, to 27 percent chance. Georgia is still second in the league in likelihood to win, behind Alabama, and ahead of Auburn, Florida and Mississippi State.

Georgis ranked seventh overall in the FPI ranking, and gets an early test to establish a contender in the SEC East this week when it travels to South Carolina on Saturday. Georgia has a 73.3 percent chance of winning that game.

Georgia’s projected record is 10.3-2.3, and it has a 4.3 percent chance of winning out.

The FPI is 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. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule. Ratings and projections update daily.