SEC Power Poll Draft: Buck Up, We Still Have The Toughest Schedule

by David Hooper on Oct 24, 2010 4:00 PM EDT in College Football

And we're still not Vandy.

SEC	Team	WL	SOS	PED	RD	3DO	TD	PEO	OPPG	TO	3DD	SCORE
1	Alabama	1.296	0.373	1.907	0.956	0.689	1.279	1.669	1.704	0.842	1.062	118.674
2	Auburn	1.848	0.806	-0.316	1.211	0.896	0.224	1.877	0.242	1.509	0.451	112.993
3	LSU	1.296	0.768	1.193	0.579	0.021	1.518	-1.239	1.288	-0.942	0.147	82.865
4	South Carolina	0.587	0.815	-0.763	1.264	1.869	0.198	1.545	0.858	0.308	-0.045	66.873
5	Mississippi St.	0.745	0.120	0.563	0.825	0.991	0.514	0.003	1.106	0.112	0.080	60.339
6	Arkansas	0.587	0.658	0.189	-0.483	-0.609	0.154	1.533	0.251	1.378	1.250	38.431
7	Florida	-0.043	0.770	1.227	0.498	0.229	1.167	-0.669	0.878	-0.780	0.391	34.779
8	Georgia	-0.358	0.619	-0.778	1.316	0.109	1.013	1.232	0.823	-0.009	-0.533	17.155
9	Kentucky	-0.358	0.447	-0.037	-0.647	0.781	0.213	1.138	-0.838	0.664	-0.243	-0.943
10	Mississippi	-0.673	0.388	-0.926	0.659	-0.506	-0.094	0.324	-0.887	0.400	0.975	-28.074
11	Tennessee	-1.303	1.289	0.136	-0.275	-1.634	-0.659	-0.734	-0.546	-0.898	-0.172	-61.535
12	Vanderbilt	-1.303	0.555	-0.537	-0.819	-2.338	-0.498	-0.992	0.061	-1.116	0.530	-87.348

The Top

Obviously we're going to flip Alabama and Auburn. No real need to fly off the handle about that. The reason the computer got this goofy was because of that defensive favoritism thing, which happened to be enough to overcome the difference in win/loss. Alabama gained so much with stats like PED and TD that it made up the difference with value to spare.

Other than that...

Have at it. I don't mind the order, but I can see a few places of disagreement, and I don't mind a few variations either.

Cheer up, Vols fans

Yes, the metrics are horrid for Tennessee. However, while UT is in the midst of doing everything badly, they aren't worst in the league in much, and much of that last-place TD metric can be seen as the result of playing teams like Oregon and Jekyll Georgia, where Vanderbilt is only recently getting into their toughies. If our rock-bottom is still better than Vanderbilt, then at least there's that.

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