We’re not done with 2015 yet, not with 10 bowl games still on the schedule and a potential national championship game for Alabama if it can get past Michigan State in the playoff semifinals.

That said, we’ve still got 2016 on our minds already. It’s just common nature.

And in the pressure cauldron that is the SEC, there’s a lot at stake for several programs. Pressure is a constant at every school, really, but for these five, here’s where it’s going to be ratcheted up quite a bit when the fall rolls around.

Feel free to question the order and the omissions. Here we go:

1. Tennessee Volunteers

Let’s be honest here. Sure, the Florida Gators represented the SEC East in the championship game this year, but it’s probably the Tennessee Volunteers that have the best team. Giving up double-digit leads late to Florida and Arkansas cost them the title this year and with all that young talent still hanging around in Knoxville, anything less than a title next year will be considered a bust.

The Vols have won five in a row to end the season, but the level of competition hasn’t been much. Their bowl game with Northwestern in Tampa will be a much better barometer of whether they have learned how to close out games. And when September rolls around, it’s on. Big time.

2. Auburn Tigers

Maybe it’s the unprecedented success of 2013 that’s the problem, but there’s no question the heat is going to be on Gus Malzahn when September gets here. He was the boy genius of college football two years ago when he took over a 3-9 Auburn program and then proceeded to win the SEC and come within three points of winning a national title with most of the same players.

The inevitable fall has followed, which can be expected to a small degree. After all, it’s the SEC West and every game is a battle. But the fall has been too far for the Tigers faithful and going 2-6 in the SEC and finishing dead last in the West is completely unacceptable, especially with all that talent on campus.

Malzahn needs to fix the quarterback productivity issue immediately and get a level of consistency back with his defense. And he’ll have to do it fast with that impatient fan base.

3. Georgia Bulldogs

In Athens, the point has been made that 9-3 seasons – or even 10-3 seasons with a bowl win this year – are totally unacceptable. That’s pie in the sky thinking, of course, and even Nick Saban is critical of that concept. Sadly, that’s just the way it is.

That’s why Kirby Smart is probably not going to have much of a honeymoon period at Georgia. Mark Richt is leaving behind a bunch of talent and Smart and his new staff will surely bring in a haul of great talent on National Signing Day. And with that, losing three SEC games won’t be tolerated next year.

It’s unlikely that jobs will be on the line in Year 1, but the demanding Bulldog Nation isn’t going to want to see more of the same. They want titles, and they want them now. Kirby Smart, now the face of the program he once played for, will feel that pressure the day he walks on to campus.

4. LSU Tigers

Les Miles was an inch away from being fired this year after losing three games in a row and just because he got a last-minute reprieve doesn’t mean his job status is any more secure in Baton Rouge.

There are far too many powerful people who think Les just isn’t the answer. They’re tired of losing to Alabama, tired of slipping down the pecking order in the SEC, tired of not being nationally relevant.

Most of all, they are tired of looking at the same tired offense. They don’t see any creativity from their coaching staff and it drives them nuts. Anything short of winning the SEC may be a problem. And if LSU loses three conference games again – which is a very distinct possibly – it’s unlikely that Miles can survive a second round past the firing squad.

5. Kentucky Wildcats

It’s a football team at a basketball school, so defining levels of pressure in Lexington is a relative thing. The only good thing that came out of this season’s late collapse by Mark Stoops’ team was that it happens while basketball season has already started. The angst toward Stoops lessens as soon as Rupp Arena gets full.

That said, the mold has been set for 2016 already. Kentucky has to go to a bowl game next year, no if, and or buts. They should have gone this year after that 4-1 start but then they fell apart and finished 5-7. There were plenty of bad losses in there, none worst than the last one to Louisville, where they blew a three-score lead.

Losing is one thing, but how they lost is another. They just didn’t look good the last half of the season There were issues on both sides of the ball and the confidence level looks very low. Stoops probably has just one more chance to fix that. Just one.