RTT SEC Power Poll ballot

by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 22, 2008 10:11 PM EDT in College Football

RTT's SEC Power Poll ballot for this week. The numbers repeatedly referred to below are the same ones I use for the RTT BlogPoll ballot. Those figures are resume-based, though, and so I took some liberties with them for the Power Poll.

Florida. The Gators are like LSU but with experience at all of the right positions.
LSU. Best resume of any SEC team to date, and there's no reason to think they couldn't handle any of the other teams except perhaps for Florida.
Georgia. An excellent performance against Arizona State this week has chipped away even further at my earlier assessment that the Dawgs were overrated. For now, though, I still think LSU and Florida will get them. Shoot, Alabama could get them this week.
Alabama. I'm really surprised with the Crimson Tide so far. They are top 15 in all of the key defensive statistics with the exception of third down defense, and they're No. 16 in that.
Auburn. A loss to a really good LSU team is not shameful.
Vanderbilt. Yes, Vanderbilt. There's still plenty of time for them to fall apart, but they're building quite the impressive resume so far. They're this high primarily due to their victory over South Carolina, who I think would best most of the teams below them.
South Carolina. The Gamecocks are still sporting a spectacular passing defense despite their 2-2 record.
Kentucky. Pass efficiency defense ranked 11th and rush defense ranked 5th. Offense, though, is atrocious, statistically speaking.
Mississippi. Blah, blah, whatever.
Tennessee. The Vols' defensive stats are fine. Offensively, they're still struggling, but much of that is probably attributed to productivity-killing mistakes.
Arkansas. Why didn't the Vols have these guys on the schedule this year instead of the last two years?
Mississippi State. My momma always taught me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn't say something nice. The Bulldogs have the 7th best pass efficiency defense in the nation.

Full, re-ordered chart after the jump.

Rank	Team	WL	SOS	PED	RD	3DO	TD	PEO	EXP	OPPG	TO	3DD	AVG R	W AVG
7	Florida	1	52	10	15	9	5	34	116	2	86	25	32.27	153.64
10	LSU	1	38	16	9	64	18	61	77	14	32	14	31.27	174.09
9	Georgia	1	52	54	3	14	24	15	90	18	22	34	29.73	169.91
6	Alabama	1	38	13	8	15	14	69	95	8	57	16	30.36	150.82
45	Auburn	28	85	25	19	112	20	95	84	10	73	1	50.18	359.91
33	Vanderbilt	1	70	32	54	75	72	67	90	32	110	66	60.82	316.73
38	South Carolina	64	6	14	60	40	9	80	26	16	78	50	40.27	334.36
16	Kentucky	1	52	11	5	100	17	92	38	2	81	12	37.36	207.55
56	Mississippi	64	22	76	49	43	34	59	26	60	47	61	49.18	405.00
70	Tennessee	80	91	23	26	64	22	94	45	48	55	98	58.73	482.45
65	Arkansas	45	38	43	94	42	55	62	109	101	46	72	64.27	427.82
85	Mississippi St.	95	52	7	92	104	37	97	38	38	94	21	61.36	552.64