A pair of SEC athletic directors are getting some new national recognition.

On Sunday, Athletic Director U shared its athletic director performance rankings, which the site says are “largely based on Directors’ Cup results from 2005 to 2019.” The article’s authors shared more details:

The ratings system, which I will be using to assess institutions and athletic directors for the remainder of this study, combines national ranking, conference ranking and total Directors’ Cup appearances into one metric which scales from 0 to 100. To combat the issue of inflated power conference institution ratings typically due to FBS football membership — which would significantly hinder successful institutions such as Princeton, Denver and Villanova — this ratings methodology assigns separate weights to conference ranking and national ranking.

Under the weighted system, the SEC does not get to claim conference supremacy over all of its Power 5 peers. The SEC came in No. 4 at an average of 75.1, behind the Big Ten (76.6), ACC (75.7) and Big 12 (75.3). Individually, however, two SEC ADs made the top 10. Florida’s Scott Stricklin came in second overall with a 99.8 rating, behind only Stanford’s Bernard Muir (100.0), and Georgia’s Greg McGarity came in at No. 7 with a 90.9 rating.

ADU shared a chart with the top 22 institution’s ADs:

Additionally, Mississippi State’s John Cohen, Stricklin’s successor in Starkville, showed up on ADU’s Net Improvement chart for leading Bulldogs sports to perform higher than their 15-year institutional average.