Across the college football landscape, for years now, we’ve heard the cries about supposed “SEC bias.”
“It’s in the AP poll! It’s in their scheduling! No matter what we do, the SEC is always going to get preferential treatment!”
For better or worse, it feels like there’s bias coming from every which direction on every single topic these days. You know where there is no bias, though? Las Vegas, where the almighty dollar reigns supreme.
Sin City has no incentive for bias. If they put out a bad line, it costs them dearly. So, when Phil Steele — who has been curating Vegas Power Rankings for years — has 12 SEC teams inside his top 22, you know the SEC’s status and depth are still unparalleled, no matter who argues otherwise.
Vegas Power Rankings portray who Vegas would have favored on a neutral field in a given matchup. Here are the updates Vegas Power Rankings for the SEC ahead of Week 10:
- No. 3 Alabama (131.84 Vegas Rating)
- No. 6 Georgia (129.99)
- No. 7 Texas A&M (129.22)
- No. 10 Ole Miss (127.69)
- No. 11 Tennessee (126.44)
- No. 12 Texas (126.02)
- No. 13 Vanderbilt (125.81)
- No. 15 Oklahoma (124.86)
- No. 16 Missouri (123.80)
- No. 19 Auburn (121.90)
- No. 21 Florida (121.58)
- No. 22 LSU (121.11)
- No. 36 Arkansas (117.20)
- No. 37 South Carolina (116.92)
- No. 40 Mississippi State (116.19)
- No. 50 Kentucky (112.77)
