Alabama’s national championship salvaged an otherwise very mediocre 2015 season for the SEC. At least that’s how CBS Sports sees it. They ranked all 128 teams from top to bottom and the SEC overall was not favorably viewed.

Here’s a look at each SEC team and where they were ranked at the end of the 2015 season:

  1. Alabama (14-1): The Crimson Tide won the national championship, taking down No. 1 Clemson 45-40 in the College Football Playoff national championship game. It was head coach Nick Saban’s fifth national title and fourth with the Crimson Tide in seven seasons.
  1. Ole Miss (10-3): The Rebels were the only other team from the SEC to crack the Top 10. Ole Miss was the only team to defeat Alabama this season, and they’ve accomplished that two years in a row now. A wild fourth-and-long conversion by Arkansas prevented Ole Miss from winning the SEC West and possibly thwarting Alabama from advancing to the College Football Playoff.
  1. LSU (9-3): The Tigers won their first seven games, looked like a lock for the playoffs and had the Heisman Trophy winner in their backfield. But three games and three losses later and LSU was headed to the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl. Still, it was a good season from one of only three SEC teams to make the CBS Sports Top 20.
  1. Florida (10-4): The Gators emerged as the SEC East champions. However, after a 10-1 start, three consecutive losses ended a promising season and kept the Gators out of the Top 20 and out of the playoffs.
  1. Tennessee (9-4): A team on the rise, the Vols did their losing early. Six consecutive victories to end the season allowed Tennessee to climb the poles and become one of the favorites in the SEC East heading into the 2016 season.
  1. Mississippi State (9-4): The Bulldogs rode an up-and-down season to remain relevant all the way to mid-November. Bouncing back from a loss in the Egg Bowl, the Bulldogs defeated North Carolina State in the Belk Bowl and finish the season on a positive note.
  1. Georgia (10-3): This is a puzzler. The Bulldogs won their last five games after a 5-3 start, including a victory over Penn State in the TaxSlayer Bowl, yet climbed no higher than 30 in the poll.
  1. Arkansas (8-5): Over the past two seasons, the Razorbacks have rallied late in the season to salvage what would otherwise have been mediocre seasons. Impressive victories over Ole Miss and LSU on consecutive weeks propelled the Hogs to a 6-1 finish, including a victory over Kansas State in the Autozone Liberty Bowl.
  1. Texas A&M (8-5): A 5-0 start preceded a 3-5 finish and the Aggies slowly sunk into obscurity. Still, an 8-5 finish in the SEC deserves better than this ranking.
  1. Auburn (7-6): Auburn slumped to the bottom of the SEC West standings but rallied to make it a winning season by thrashing Memphis 31-10 in the Birmingham Bowl proving the Tigers had some bite left in them at the end of the year. Still, this is a generous spot to put the Tigers for a subpar season.
  1. Missouri (5-7): The Tigers went from back-to-back SEC East division champions to sharing the basement with South Carolina. Losses in six of their last seven games sunk the Tigers in the final rankings.
  1. Vanderbilt (4-8): The Commodores dropped four of their last five games and were probably lucky to finish above 100 in the final rankings.
  1. Kentucky (5-7): The Wildcats started the season 4-1 and were seemingly on the verge of breaking into the higher echelon of teams. But six losses in their final seven games doomed the Wildcats to the lower portion of the rankings.
  1. South Carolina (3-9): The lowest ranking among all SEC teams, South Carolina suffered through a season to forget. Five straight losses and seven defeats over the final eight games, destined the Gamecocks to the bottom of the rung.