Hold onto your keyboards, because this list gets pretty weird toward the bottom of the rankings. Bear with me here.

Here is this week’s SEC quarterbacking top 10.

10. GREYSON LAMBERT, GEORGIA

The skinny: Fine, sure. Whatever. Lambert made his triumphant return to the field Saturday vs. Kentucky. Though he did split snaps with Brice Ramsey, it was Lambert who was on the field for all of the Bulldogs’ touchdown drives. There’s absolutely no telling what will happen this Saturday at Auburn. None.
Last week: 6-13, 64 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Season: 106-169, 1,340 yards, 10 TD, 2 INT

9. WHOEVER IS PLAYING QB, AUBURN

The skinny: The bottom half of this list is something of a mess, with replacement QBs and all sorts of strange twists and turns throughout. The most pleasant surprise of this past weekend was Jeremy Johnson’s return to Auburn’s lineup. Coach Gus Malzahn benched him after the team’s loss at LSU, having spent most of the first month playing like a ninth-grader who suddenly had to start for the varsity. Johnson looked sharp and hungry, and for a few moments he looked like the QB some thought would lead a national title contender this season. Whether he or Sean White starts this Saturday vs. Georgia, Auburn suddenly looks frisky.
Last week: 13-17, 132 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Season: 131-221, 1,712 yards, 7 TD, 8 INT

8. PATRICK TOWLES, KENTUCKY

The skinny: There may not be a better option on UK’s bench. Though we’ll probably find out soon, because Towles is really struggling during this four-game losing streak for the Wildcats. He really had a hard time with Georgia’s defense.
Last week: 8-21, 96 yards, 0 TD, 2 INT
Season:  170-296, 2,010 yards, 12 TD, 17 INT

7. TREON HARRIS, FLORIDA

The skinny: I really hope he bought his placekicker a cocktail or something. Harris and the Gators offense did nothing Saturday against Vanderbilt, only to get bailed out with a late game-winning field goal.
Last week: 12-24, 158, 0 TD, 1 INT; 8 carries, 34 yards
Season: 56-102, 853 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT; 41 carries, 156 yards

6. BRANDON HARRIS, LSU

The skinny: One of my favorite football expressions is one I heard Mike Lombardi offer when he described an NFL defense as having the ability to “make you play left-handed,” a basketball term that explains how a defense can take away what an offense does best. What Alabama proved Saturday night is that LSU can’t play left-handed with any consistency. Harris wasn’t terrible, but his interception to start the third quarter was effectively the death knell for the Tigers.
Last week: 6-19, 128 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT; 5 carries, 20 yards
Season:  81-147, 1,226 yards, 10 TD, 3 INT; 46 carries, 156 yards, 3 TD

5. JOSH DOBBS, TENNESSEE

The skinny: The only real critique you can offer here is one that Dobbs offered himself after Saturday: Tennessee didn’t keep its proverbial foot on the proverbial gas pedal, and allowed South Carolina back into it. Some of this is on the UT offense, which needed one big drive to put the Gamecocks away and didn’t do it.
Last week: 20-34, 255 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT; 13 carries, 35 yards
Season: 147-251, 1,760 yards, 13 TD, 4 INT; 109 carries, 473 yards, 7 TD

4. JAKE COKER, ALABAMA

The skinny: I described Coker as a “game manager” prior to LSU (all the while expressing my discomfort with the term), and Saturday he was exactly that. Alabama needed him to make a few plays and not get them beat. That’s exactly what he did, and that’s why they won. (And while we’re here, kudos to Lane Kiffin. That was probably the best play-calling and execution we’ve seen from Kiffin since he’s been at Alabama.)
Last week: 18-24, 184 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT
Season:  161-248, 1,807 yards, 11 TD, 7 INT

3. CHAD KELLY, OLE MISS

The skinny: Kelly did virtually everything he could Saturday against Arkansas, playing arguably his best game of the season. But he can’t play defense, and he can’t control fate. Arkansas’ fantastic finish to steal a victory took the shine off Kelly’s huge six-touchdown day.
Last week: 24-34, 368 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT; 11 carries, 110 yards, 3 TD
Season:  237-361, 3,224 yards, 23 TD, 12 INT; 74 carries, 272 yards, 7 TD

2. BRANDON ALLEN, ARKANSAS

The skinny: Here’s why you should probably never listen to any alleged “expert” opinion when it comes to writing about college football … including this one. Literally no one in the country would have predicted “Brandon Allen throws for 400-plus, and 6 TD passes AND scores the game-winning 2-pointer at Ole Miss” in anything resembling their wildest dreams. But it happened, and he was sensational.
Last week: 33-45, 442 yards, 6 TD, 0 INT
Season:  174-268, 2,476 yards, 21 TD, 5 INT

1. DAK PRESCOTT, MISSISSIPPI STATE

The skinny: For all the hyperbole we have lavished on other QBs this week — both good and bad — let us praise Dak for doing exactly what everyone expected – go to Missouri and beat the Tigers. That was a potential trap game — only nine days before Alabama, on the road, in bad weather — and State handled it swimmingly. Ever since his squad fell at Texas A&M,  a game in which Prescott played good, but not great, Dak and the Bulldogs have mostly fallen out of the national conversation and spotlight. That will not be the case this week because Starkville will be the center of the SEC universe with red-hot Alabama coming to town. MSU is preparing for its biggest game since Auburn came to town last season. Should be fun.
Last week: 27-40, 303 yards, 4 TD, 0 INT; 14 carries, 47 yards
Season:  200-300, 2,351 yards, 18 TD, 1 INT; 86 carries, 418 yards, 7 TD