It’s been a rough week for quarterbacks in the SEC. In fairness, it’s been a rough season for them overall.

To be even more fair, we knew coming into this season — at least we should’ve known — that this season would probably belong to the running backs. Given all the talent coming back in many locations around the league, the SEC’s passers were mostly under a mandate to stay out of the way.

The performances in Week 7 mandate that we shake up the format of this list, at least for the week.

Here is this week’s SEC quarterbacking top 10.

10. BRANDON ALLEN, ARKANSAS
9. JOSHUA DOBBS, TENNESSEE

Right away, you see part of our problem. In Allen and Dobbs, you have two of the league’s 10 best QBs by every statistical measure — yards, yards per attempt and efficiency rating — and yet fan bases for both would probably replace them given the opportunity. And both have the chance to completely change the narrative for their respective seasons after bye weeks (Allen and the Hogs host Auburn; Dobbs and the Vols travel to Bama).

Allen has been the quarterback since (I think) 1997, and at this point has reached Popeye status (“I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam”). There are many reasons for Arkansas’ flop in 2015; let’s say Allen hasn’t helped that much.

For Dobbs, a second-half surge vs. Georgia plus a bye week may mean he’s ready to break out. It may also mean another berth in the Music City Bowl. We shall see.

8. PATRICK TOWLES, KENTUCKY

Man, it was all set up for Towles last week, wasn’t it? The long-suffering UK quarterback was leading his squad back from the brink against a fading Auburn defense, had the Tigers on their heels in front of a riled up Commonwealth Stadium crowd. It was happening. And then Dorian Baker dropped that stop fade in the end zone, the Cats had to settle for a field goal … and Towles couldn’t muster one more play at the end. Also, my autocorrect won’t stop changing his name (to “Towels”), which is irritating.

7. TREON HARRIS, FLORIDA
6. GREYSON LAMBERT, GEORGIA

Harris earns extra points for taking over in an impossible situation — in case you hadn’t heard, Florida starter Will Grier is suspended for a calendar year due to performance enhancing drugs, only a few days before his team played in Baton Rouge — and doing a good enough job that the Tigers needed a fourth-quarter drive and fake field goal to hang on for the win. He needed one more play in Death Valley and couldn’t do it.

The good news for Harris: the Gators need only beat rapidly fading Georgia in Jacksonville and they will virtually clinch the SEC East (yes, they’d still have to beat Vandy and South Carolina … spare me). After two frustrating weeks vs. Alabama and Tennessee, Lambert was … OK, he wasn’t much of anything against Missouri. But the Dawgs did win, right? And can still win the division.

5. JAKE COKER, ALABAMA
4. BRANDON HARRIS, LSU

The two shining examples of the philosophy we mentioned earlier — Coker and Harris essentially have standing instructions to be “efficient” in support of their respective team’s running game. In this case, “efficient” essentially means, “don’t get us beat.” Thus far, they have performed admirably in those jobs, with the exception of Coker’s nightmarish game vs. Ole Miss. On Saturday at Texas A&M, Coker completed 100 percent of his handoffs to Derrick Henry, avoided trouble and earned a couple of helmet slaps from his teammates with some tough-as-nails QB scrambles for first downs.

Harris was better — facing a rugged Florida defense stacking the line to stop Leonard Fournette, Harris made them pay with 202 yards passing and two TDs, one of them a 50-yarder right before halftime. He isn’t flashy, but he currently quarterbacks the only undefeated team in the league. Would they be as good without Fournette eating planets from his tailback spot? No, but so what?

3. KYLE ALLEN, TEXAS A&M
2. CHAD KELLY, OLE MISS

The two statistically best quarterbacks in the league, and yet neither woke up Sunday morning in a particularly good mood. For Allen, his attempt to put the Aggies squarely in the national championship discussion fell flat when Alabama intercepted him four times, returning three of them for touchdowns. Three interceptions for touchdowns! It’s impossible to type that enough.

Kelly, meanwhile, has lost every bit of the shine that came from beating Alabama on the road in September. He remains the league’s best passer in yards, yards per attempt and QB rating (Prescott is passing for a slightly higher percentage), but on Saturday he was badly outplayed by Memphis’ Paxton Lynch. No, really — the SEC’s best quarterback was outplayed by the quarterback of Memphis.

See what I mean? Nothing about this season makes sense right now.

1. DAK PRESCOTT, MISSISSIPPI STATE

The one guy in the league who’s been doing his thing long enough, it’s easy to kind of forget about him. He more or less dragged his team across the finish line Saturday vs. La. Tech, finishing with nearly 350 yards passing and a rating of 161. He still has a finishing trio of Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss — two of those in Starkville — to finish on a high note.