SEC Power Poll Draft: Auburn Finally Gets Their Due

by David Hooper on Nov 7, 2010 4:00 PM EST in College Football

After the Alabama loss, our computer grudgingly placed Auburn at the top of the pile, saving us from one override. However, the computer still keeps LSU below Alabama because the Tide has offensive metrics that are, you know, positive. That'll be fixed, of course, but here's the draft:

First, the raw numbers. Then my brief observations.

SEC	Team	WL	SOS	PED	RD	3DO	TD	PEO	OPPG	TO	3DD	SCORE
1	Auburn	1.960	0.489	-0.002	1.020	1.460	0.235	2.579	0.213	1.862	0.303	124.717
2	Alabama	0.946	1.008	1.673	0.721	0.777	1.105	1.519	1.662	0.653	1.215	106.738
3	LSU	1.453	1.104	1.072	0.736	-0.099	1.537	-0.982	1.326	-0.790	0.011	94.072
4	Arkansas	0.946	0.643	0.774	-0.105	0.149	0.752	1.522	0.530	1.462	1.672	74.435
5	Mississippi St.	0.946	0.128	0.705	1.003	0.813	0.576	-0.138	1.219	-0.010	0.303	69.666
6	Florida	0.439	0.739	1.384	0.843	-0.122	1.364	-0.483	0.866	-0.367	0.726	58.372
7	South Carolina	0.439	0.698	-1.156	1.288	1.715	-0.003	1.144	0.545	0.169	-0.590	48.341
8	Georgia	-0.321	0.281	0.057	1.239	0.309	1.134	1.104	0.888	0.159	0.218	26.273
9	Kentucky	-0.321	0.176	-0.041	-0.630	0.534	0.488	0.915	-0.545	0.650	0.132	-2.774
10	Mississippi	-0.575	0.090	-0.936	0.240	-0.252	-0.118	0.140	-0.971	0.497	0.259	-32.424
11	Tennessee	-1.082	1.171	0.039	-0.096	-0.866	-0.483	0.093	-0.390	-0.489	-0.247	-39.542
12	Vanderbilt	-1.588	0.963	-0.739	-0.732	-2.851	-0.932	-1.616	-0.696	-1.735	0.263	-110.440

The Top

Again, I'll flop Alabama and LSU. Other than that, I think the top 5 are ok.

Florida / South Carolina

Meh.

Bottom Three

Hopefully the numbers convince you that Tennessee and Vanderbilt should not be switched. Mississippi and Tennessee are close enough that you could argue for that switch, but why? It'll be settled this weekend, and Ole Miss does have the better overall record at the moment (partly due to the weakest schedule in the conference). I'm fine with this order.

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