The Week 4 SEC slate is loaded again with 13 teams in action spread out over X games.
Conference clashes are starting to pick up, though some teams are playing out-of-conference opponents. The Southwest Classic features the marquee matchup of No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 16 Arkansas at Jerry World in Dallas. Other conference clashes include Georgia-Vanderbilt, LSU-Mississippi State, Florida-Tennessee and Kentucky-South Carolina.
Here’s how ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) projects the outcome of each of the 8 Week 4 games featuring SEC teams:
- Georgia (98.9 percent chance to win) vs. Vanderbilt
- Mississippi State (55.9) percent vs. LSU
- Missouri (27.6 percent) at Boston College
- Texas A&M (57.4 percent) vs. Arkansas (Dallas)
- Auburn (97.2 percent) vs. Georgia State
- Florida (88.6 percent) vs. Tennessee
- South Carolina (56 percent) vs. Kentucky
- Alabama (99.3 percent) vs. Southern Miss
Here’s how ESPN defines the FPI:
FPI is a predictive rating system designed to measure team strength and project performance going forward. The ultimate goal of FPI is not to rank teams 1 through 128; rather, it is to correctly predict games and season outcomes. If Vegas ever published the power rankings it uses to set its lines, they would likely look quite a lot like FPI.
Saturday Down South reports and comments on the news around the Southeastern Conference as well as larger college football topics.
