It is a measure of how busy I have been lately that I completely neglected to either vote or link to the SEC Power Poll, a poll I helped create and host on my own website. That is some weak stuff.
But I am back in the saddle at last, and today's Power Poll has some good news for the Wildcats -- namely that for the moment, they are past the Dancing With The Stars reference -- they are not in the bottom two.
In fact, the 'Cats are firmly mid-pack, and after playing Louisville and two Weak Sisters of the Poor, that is no small feat in this tough crowd. All it will take, though, is a shellacking at The Swamp for voters to turn and rend us as paper tigers.
My ballot follows the jump.
| Rank | Team | cWL | W-L | SoS | This week | PF-PA | MoV | Polls | ncoWL | Comment |
| 1 | Alabama | 3-0 | 58.15 | Won at Duke | 134-19 | 38.3 | 1 | 5-7 | Drilled Duke, to nobody's surprise | |
| 2 | Florida | 1-0 | 3-0 | 58.70 | Won at Tennessee | 103-43 | 20.0 | 9,8 | 8-3 | Beat the Vols at home yet again, but didn't look that strong to me. |
| 3 | Arkansas | 1-0 | 3-0 | 59.69 | Won at Georgia | 106-34 | 24.0 | 10,11 | 6-5 | Mallett looks good, and the Hawgs are a major threat. |
| 4 | South Carolina | 1-0 | 3-0 | 58.02 | Beat Furman | 96-38 | 19.3 | 12 | 6-5 | Unimpressive victory over a weak team. Is this the real Gamecocks or just a down week. |
| 5 | LSU | 2-0 | 3-0 | 53.42 | Beat Mississippi State | 86-34 | 17.3 | 15,12 | 4-5 | Winning the games they are supposed to win, but an offensive juggernaut they aren't. |
| 6 | Auburn | 1-0 | 3-0 | 57.46 | Beat Clemson | 96-64 | 10.7 | 17,14 | 4-7 | Beat a good team, gotta give 'em props. |
| 7 | Kentucky | 3-0 | 38.29 | Beat Akron | 133-54 | 26.3 | 3-9 | 3-0 at cupcake swallowing. If you are going to play cupcakes, look good doing it. UK has. | ||
| 8 | Georgia | 0-2 | 1-2 | 54.47 | Lost to Arkansas | 85-55 | 10.0 | 6-5 | How badly does Mark Richt want to strangle A.J. Green right now? | |
| 9 | Mississippi | 0-1 | 1-2 | 60.68 | Lost to Vanderbilt | 89-90 | -0.3 | 7-2 | When you lose this year at Vanderbilt, most of your lug nuts are on the highway. | |
| 10 | Mississippi State | 0-2 | 1-2 | 58.91 | Lost at LSU | 70-53 | 5.7 | 6-5 | MSU is offensively challenged again. | |
| 11 | Vanderbilt | 1-1 | 1-2 | 55.75 | Won at Mississippi | 52-64 | -4.0 | 6-6 | Great job, great win. Have fun with the next game. | |
| 12 | Tennessee | 0-1 | 1-2 | 54.95 | Lost to Florida | 80-79 | 0.3 | 6-6 | Well, at least it wasn't 48-13 or something. |
Other observations:
- If I could do it all again, I would swap Ole Miss and Tennessee.
- How much of this can Mark Rich take? He is looking like a swayback mule these days.
- Alabama looks like it could handle Green Bay right now.
- LSU is a bunch of great athletes running around and winning games. They just seem to have no cohesion.
- Auburn could be better than I thought.
- South Carolina still mystifies me. They should be crushing the Furmans of the world like a bug.
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