Two weeks of SEC football are behind us, so give us a fresh shot at predicting what’s in front of everybody. Here’s our best prediction as to the final records of every SEC squad after Week 2.

West

Alabama: 12-0

Roy D. Mercer would have had a better chance of changing our mind on Alabama than Mercer University. Nobody in the regular season looks likely to challenge the Tide. Not even Florida next week in The Swamp.

Arkansas: 6-6

Even getting to 6 wins won’t be easy, but that said, for the moment, it’s funny how different the Arkansas/A&M game on Sept. 25 looks now compared with how it looked before this week. If the Razorbacks can steal one from the A&M, Georgia, Ole Miss and Auburn run, they can hit .500 for the year.

Auburn: 7-5

There’s absolutely nothing about the first 2 weeks that we didn’t like. That said, until Auburn shows this bombastic offense against a decent team, it’s hard to know how exactly this plays out. Next week’s trip to Penn State will be incredibly interesting and presents a chance for Auburn to rise in our estimation.

LSU: 8-4

So LSU definitely looked better, but how much of that is not playing the week of a hurricane, how much is playing McNeese State instead of UCLA, and how much is that LSU actually is better? Getting Kentucky and Florida from the East is likely to bring a couple of tough games.

Mississippi State: 6-6

Like Arkansas, State surprised us a little this week. Not stumbling this coming week at Memphis will be important, but State doesn’t exactly look like a division bottom-feeder … although neither does anybody else in the West.

Ole Miss: 9-3

Getting cross-division games against Vandy and Tennessee definitely won’t hurt the Rebels’ chances. It remains to be seen how Ole Miss fares against a good opponent, but there is substantial reason for optimism.

Texas A&M: 9-3

If Haynes King is back, the Aggies will be fine. If not, well, there’s very little to separate A&M from the teams at the bottom of the division.

East

Florida: 9-3

Another week, another easy win that didn’t prove much. Florida’s game at Kentucky might well decide 2nd place in the East, and between that and their road game at LSU 2 weeks later, we’ll see whether Florida ends up 10-2 or maybe 8-4. So for now, we’ll split the difference.

Georgia: 12-0

We’ll see how JT Daniels is, but Georgia might be fine without him for a while, if they need to be. With that defense, the rest may be details against anybody but the top half dozen teams in the country.

Had UGA lost the Week 1 showdown, we’d probably say 10-2, but not only did they beat Clemson, that defense looked so dominant that we can’t pick anybody in the regular season to beat it. Imagine 12-0 Georgia vs. 12-0 Alabama in Atlanta. Winner and loser in such a situation should make the CFP. We could see that very outcome.

Kentucky: 8-4

The Wildcats handled Mizzou, giving them dibs on 3rd in the East and a legitimate shot at upsetting Florida at home on Oct. 2 for 2nd place in the division. Yes, 9-3 was in consideration, and had UK opened up on Missouri, we might have gone that direction.

Missouri: 8-4

Similarly, while Missouri lost in Lexington, they showed enough punch and fight that it’s hard to drop them for the effort. Their next road game, in 2 weeks at Boston College, is pivotal to putting together a successful season for the Tigers.

South Carolina: 4-8

On the one hand, they’re 2-0. On the other hand, they feel really like to be 2-2 in 2 weeks. This schedule is brutal, and while Carolina did well to pick up the win Saturday at ECU, there aren’t a ton of winnable games for this team, particularly after an Oct. 16 game against Vanderbilt.

Tennessee: 5-7

If you can’t win at home against Pittsburgh, it’s hard to imagine your team winning on the road in the SEC or even doing a brilliant job in home games. After next week’s game with Tennessee Tech, it might be a while until UT wins again.

Vanderbilt: 2-10

The SEC just doesn’t have many teams that Vanderbilt could conceivably beat.