Come September 3, your television-watching schedule is going to be packed for four months. South Carolina kicks off the season that Thursday night, and every Saturday from there through the end of November will be jam-packed with football, football and more football.

Which teams are going to be worthy of your valuable TV time?

To help you decide that — of course, there are still three months until kickoff — we present our Preseason Watchability Rankings.

There’s nothing scientific here, and these aren’t necessarily an indication of how the SEC is going to shake out, although bad teams tend to be unwatchable and good teams fun to take in. There are a variety of factors at play, including how good a team will be, how exciting and close their games will be and what individual talent the team has to make them worth watching.

If they’re playing your team

14. Vanderbilt
13. Florida
12. Missouri

It’s hard to imagine Vanderbilt being all that much better than last year. The defense should be solid under Derek Mason’s direction, but the offense doesn’t have enough talent to make this team fun to watch. … Jim McElwain was hired to bring high-scoring offensive assaults back to Florida, but it might take him another year or two to get there. The Gators too should be strong on defense, but with no offensive line to speak of, some of their games could be ugly. … It would be foolish for anyone to write off Missouri in the SEC East, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be at all pretty to watch. Expect a lot of Russell Hansbrough behind a stout offensive and a lot of low-scoring games thanks to another strong Tigers defense, but Maty Mauk’s propensity to muck up passing plays knocks them down to the bottom tier.

Could be fun

11. Arkansas
10. Kentucky
9. South Carolina
8. LSU

Arkansas is an SEC sleeper with potential to pull some upsets, but this team isn’t going to be any more explosive than last year. The defense is going to induce a lot of three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust runs, and while the Hogs are going to run over fools and likely rack up some big point totals early in the season, their conference games are going to be grind-it-out affairs. … The Wildcats are going to air it out in the Air Raid offense, which is always fun, but it’s pretty obvious that Kentucky is not going to be very good this year. There could be some big point totals, the defense is going to give them right back, and the offensive line might be too shaky to let the offense get off the ground. Boom Williams is certainly someone to keep an eye on, though. … Fun-N-Gun Steve Spurrier would roll in his grave to see his team ranked this low, but South Carolina is decidedly down from it’s peak from 2011-13. Pharoh Cooper has his share of exciting moments, but we don’t know if Connor Mitch is ready to deliver the ball to him. If all the talent South Carolina brought in on the defensive line translates to results, the Gamecocks could have a sneaky play-making defense. … Leonard Fournette. Do we have to say much more for LSU? The Tigers are going to be plenty of fun on defense, with tons of playmakers in the secondary that could lead to some defensive scoring. Here’s a hunch that LSU’s quarterback situation will be at least somewhat improved, allowing the explosive receivers to shine a bit brighter.

Worth your while

7. Mississippi State
6. Ole Miss
5. Tennessee
4. Alabama

Mississippi State has the best quarterback in the SEC in Dak Prescott, and with the things he can do with both his arm and his legs, he’ll be good for highlight-reel plays every week. Prescott alone should be enough to keep the Bulldogs in a lot of games, but defensive depth could be their undoing. … Defense isn’t exciting to everyone, but when you play it as aggressively and hit as hard as the Ole Miss Landsharks, it becomes a lot more entertaining. The Rebels have some firepower on offense, too — if they get their quarterback situation settled. … Tennessee might be the biggest boom-or-bust team in the conference, but there’s certainly enough talent on both sides to make them an intriguing watch. The trio of Joshua Dobbs, Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara make up a very talented backfield, while the defense has plenty of playmakers. Will the offensive line issues be solved to a great enough degree for the offense to live up to its potential? … It’s hard to know what to expect from Alabama without a quarterback or proven wide receivers, and we could get a lot of running between the tackles from Derrick Henry. Alabama’s front seven is going to be nasty on defense, but the secondary could still be leaky, which could lead to shootouts. Plus, the Tide have a player in Kenyan Drake who is drawing Reggie Bush comparisons.

Must-watch TV

3. Georgia
2. Texas A&M
1. Auburn

Georgia is the most exciting ground-and-pound team in the country. Nick Chubb and Sony Michel are capable of taking it to the house every time they take a handoff, and they could both easily eclipse 1,000 yards while averaging something nutty like 7.5 yards per carry. The Dawgs also have an explosive playmaker in Isaiah McKenzie, and you better not blink when he touches the ball. The linebacking group is just as explosive, led by freakish athletes like Leonard Floyd and Lorenzo Carter, and that group is going to terrorize quarterbacks. … Am I higher on Texas A&M than most? Maybe so, but the best passing offense in the conference the last two years should be even better in 2015, with former No. 1 QB recruit Kyle Allen now a sophomore and an unfair arsenal at his disposal. Speaking of physical freaks, there is none greater than Myles Garrett in the SEC, and he’ll be fully unleashed under John Chavis. … Gus Malzahn’s Auburn offensive machine should be operating at full capacity this year, even as it replaces several key contributors from last year; Jeremy Johnson is getting early Heisman for good reason. Plus, the Tigers now have Will Muschamp to run the defense, giving them perhaps the best 1-2 coaching punch in the country. There’s plenty of talent to mold into the scariest two-way operation in the SEC, one that will be a blast to watch every Saturday.