Where every SEC team stands in Bill Connelly’s preseason SP+ rankings
By Adam Spencer
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With only a couple more weeks to go before there’s actual college football on television, it is officially rankings season!
On Thursday, ESPN’s Bill Connelly released his first SP+ rankings of the 2021 campaign. The SP+ rankings are an “opponent- and tempo-adjusted look at the most sustainable and predictive aspects of college football,” according to Connelly, who makes it clear they are not power rankings, but rather a predictive look at what might happen.
Below, you can see that Alabama took the No. 1 spot in the rankings. See where all 14 SEC squads checked in:
- No. 1 — Alabama
- No. 5 — Georgia
- No. 9 — Texas A&M
- No. 12 — Florida
- No. 23 — Auburn
- No. 25 — Ole Miss
- No. 26 — LSU
- No. 41 — Tennessee
- No. 44 — Mississippi State
- No. 48 — Arkansas
- No. 58 — Kentucky
- No. 59 — Mizzou
- No. 89 — South Carolina
- No. 106 — Vanderbilt
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
