Another regular season is in the books*, and after 13 weeks, we’ve pretty much ended where we started. Alabama is on top, Georgia is hot on their heels, and Ed Orgeron is covered in Gatorade.

Let’s check in on each SEC school and see how the fan bases are feeling after a long, hard fought season:

Alabama

No fan base has higher expectations than Alabama, and yet the Tide were somehow still able to exceed them through the end of the regular season. With an undefeated record, wire-to-wire No. 1 ranking, and a soon-to-be Heisman trophy winner, it’s hard to imagine what Alabama will have to do to exceed expectations next year. At this point, there’s only one real thing left for them to accomplish: keeping an offensive coordinator for more than two consecutive seasons.

Arkansas

Chad Morris certainly brought change to the Arkansas program, unfortunately it was the Derek Dooley kind of change, not the good kind. But you can forgive a few bumps in a coach’s first year, and Razorbacks fans have to be encouraged by … well not much, but the season is over and that’s the first good piece of news they’ve had in a while.

Auburn

It was a pretty disappointing year for the Tigers, who followed up an SEC West championship last season with 5 losses in 2018, including one to (gulp) Tennessee. Despite some rumblings, it seems like Gus Malzahn will return next year, and as the rest of the SEC knows, Gus is never better than when he is inches from being fired. He’s the Michael Myers of the SEC: You can kill him, but he never dies.

Florida

Any doubts Gators fans might have had about Dan Mullen were thrown out the window with their drubbing of Florida State last week. Is Florida back? Who knows. But FSU and Miami are most certainly not back, and that’s a win in the eyes of Gators fans.

Georgia

Georgia’s entire 2018 season was basically just a long prelude to what will happen Saturday against Alabama. The Bulldogs are playing their best ball of the season, but Georgia teams and championship games are typically a bad mix. The good news is Kirby Smart has recruited so well even the water boys are 5-star high school All-Americans who turned down a starting job at every other school to stand on the sidelines in Athens.

Kentucky

For a few short weeks there, the Kentucky Wildcats were the talk of the college football world, and it culminated in what might be the biggest game ever played in a college football stadium named after a grocery store. While it might have been a bit downhill since then, the Cats had a 2018 season filled with moments they’ll never forget like: snapping a 31-year losing streak vs the Gators, winning a heart-stopping game vs. Mizzou to keep their SEC hopes alive, and watching their in-state rival turn into the football version of a live tire fire.

LSU

Coach O might be the best coach in the country at one key element of the game – setting low expectations. And because of that, LSU’s season looks like an overall success, despite some excruciatingly tough losses. But expectations will be higher in 2019, when they return a lot of key players and should be really good. Which means Orgeron will have a lot of work between now and next September to convince people otherwise.

Mississippi State

Some people might have you believe that the Bulldogs fell a bit short this season, but those people didn’t have to play Kentucky, Florida, Auburn and LSU back-to-back. Joe Moorhead proved he can more than hold his own in this conference and that should keep State fans happy, at least until Dan Mullen starts competing for Playoff spots.

Missouri

Missouri finished the year on an absolute tear, and it’s a shame that the Tigers didn’t hit their groove just a bit sooner. But that’s the way it goes, and Drew Lock will go off to try to duplicate Chase Daniel’s success in the NFL, who paved the way for Mizzou QBs in the league and showed that with hard work and a bit of luck, it’s possible to start 3 games in 9 years.

Ole Miss

Everyone knew that the Rebels’ self-imposed a bowl ban last year, but we didn’t know they also self-imposed a good defense in 2018. Because of that, Ole Miss struggled mightily in the wild world of the SEC West and suffered quite a few blowouts along the way. But at least Ole Miss fans can be comforted by the fact they gave up a fight, literally, thanks to Mississippi State thinking they were better than them just because they beat them by 32 points.

South Carolina*

Assuming the Gamecocks take care of Akron in an added game Saturday, Will Muschamp will have turned in a perfectly Will Muschamp-esque season in which the Gamecocks were good enough for fans not to be angry, but still bad enough for them to be very disappointed. It’s called the Muschamp Paradox, and if you ignore it for too long, things might get scary. Or worse, you’ll wind up with Jim McElwain.

Tennessee

The Vols turned in the kind of season most expected them to, but Jeremy Pruitt did bring a few bright spots to the program, and provided a bit of a light at the end of the dark, depressing, decades-long tunnel. Also, we can all admit it’s pretty funny that in the same season they won at Auburn by 6 and lost to Vanderbilt by 25.

Texas A&M

The season-ending victory over LSU vaulted A&M to a second place finish in the SEC West and validated all the wackiness surrounding Jimbo’s hire. If he could only coach his nephew to fight as well as he coaches quarterbacks, the program would be in amazing shape.

Vanderbilt

Derek Mason seemed to make it his goal to personally antagonize every opposing head coach he faced this year and it basically worked. Vandy is going bowling and the Commodores firmly established themselves as the smartest team you never want to fight.