The SEC had a reckoning within the conference in Week 10, with showdown games separating College Football Playoff and conference title contenders from the pretenders who are starting to fall by the wayside.
After the carnage and after the victories on Saturday came the new Super 16 poll that was revealed on Sunday, and out of those elite 16 teams there were 5 SEC powerhouses who landed in the new poll that was released by the National Football Foundation.
And just like in Sunday’s new AP Poll, where Georgia took over the No. 1 spot, the Bulldogs were also atop the new Super 16 poll following their blowout victory at Ole Miss on Saturday night. The Dawgs are the lone SEC team with just 1 loss as Week 11 beckons, and they were rewarded again by being placed atop another poll to go with their No. 1 rankings in the new AP and Coaches’ polls.
For the next SEC team after Georgia, you have to go down 6 spots to get to No. 7, where Alabama ranked on Sunday in the new Super 16 poll. The Crimson Tide are coming off their own huge road victory, like Georgia, with the Tide storming into Baton Rouge and taking down LSU to put the Tigers on the brink of being irrelevant in the Playoff discussion.
Bama started a parade of 3 straight SEC teams in the Super 16 poll, with Texas and Tennessee following at No. 8 and 9, respectively.
Who was the fifth SEC team in the new poll? That would be Kentucky, which took it on the chin on Saturday night at Tennessee and fell 5 spots to No. 13.
With the SEC being the dominant force in the poll with nearly a third of the teams, here is how the entire new Super 16 poll looked on Sunday:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
