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SEC Power Rankings: Does Alabama overtake Texas for No. 1? Georgia, Ole Miss tumble
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Alabama snapped Georgia's 42-game regular-season win streak on Saturday, and snapped in place at No. 1 in the power rankings as a result. There isn't a more impressive win in the league right now than Alabama's newest conquest, and the top billing goes along with that. The Bulldogs slip to No. 4, while Kentucky 's upset of Ole Miss tumbled the Rebels from the ranks of the unbeaten. Onto the rankings!
1. Alabama (4-0)
Last week: 4
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This week: at Vanderbilt
What to know:Ryan Williams might not have " killed everybody ," but he certainly signed the death certificate on Georgia's comeback.
GOODBREAD: Jalen Milroe became a different QB vs. Georgia
GOODBREAD: What DeBoer's signature win means for Alabama
2. Texas (5-0)
Last week: 1
This week: Idle
What to know:Texas slept through the first half of a win over Mississippi State , but QB Arch Manning (26 of 31, 324 yards) was up early with coffee .
3. Tennessee (4-0)
Last week: 3
This week: at Arkansas
What to know:The Vols tangled with idle and got more resistance than Kent State offered.
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4. Georgia (3-1)
Last week: 2
This week: vs. Auburn
What to know:What does rent-free headspace look like in Athens? The Bulldogs are now 1-3 against the Crimson Tide , and 44-0 against the rest of the world, since 2021.
5. Missouri (4-0)
Last week: 6
This week: at Texas A&M
What to know:It's the fifth, tiebreaking installment of the 2012 SEC Expansion Bowl in College Station. Mizzou and TAMU are 2-2 head-to-head since joining the varsity.
6. Ole Miss (4-1)
Last week: 5
This week: at South Carolina
What to know: Lane Kiffin misery is a special kind of misery.
EASY DOES IT: Why Lane Kiffin isn't panicking after loss
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CHALLENGING: Rebels challenge goes wrong
7. LSU (4-1)
Last week: 7
This week: Idle
What to know:If Brian Kelly doesn't find a way to troll Lane Kiffin over Ole Miss' loss to Kentucky over the next two weeks — they play each other after the idle date — we can all be disappointed.
8. Oklahoma (4-1)
Last week: 8
This week: Idle
What to know:QB Michael Hawkins Jr. led OU's first SEC win . Meanwhile QB Jackson Arnold might camp out at the front of the transfer portal line longer than a Taylor Swift fan wanting front-row tickets.
9. South Carolina (3-1)
Last week: 10
This week: vs. Ole Miss
What to know:Former Gamecocks star WR Juice Wells , now at Ole Miss, got shut out against Kentucky. You think South Carolina wouldn't love to do the same?
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10. Kentucky (3-2)
Last week: 11
This week: Idle
What to know:UK probably deserves to move up more than one spot after toppling Ole Miss , but they're not leapfrogging a one-loss South Carolina team that trounced the Wildcats in Lexington.
11. Texas A&M (4-1)
Last week: 9
This week: vs. Missouri
What to know:The Aggies found a way against Arkansas, but so does everyone not named Auburn.
12. Florida (2-2)
Last week: Idle
This week: vs. UCF
What to know:Nothing says Billy Napier is in trouble quite like UCF being favored to win in the Swamp.
13. Arkansas (3-2)
Last week: 13
This week: vs. Tennessee
What to know:Let's not criticize the 'Hogs loss to Texas A&M until Hugh Freeze informs us how many times they would've lost out of 10.
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14. Vanderbilt (2-2)
Last week: 14
This week: vs. Alabama
What to know:The last time a first-year Alabama coach visited Dudley Field (2007), Crimson Tide fans outnumbered the Commodore faithful .
15. Auburn (2-3)
Last week: 15
This week: at Georgia
What to know:Biggest hit all day from Auburn in a loss to Oklahoma? The Auburn cheerleader who wiped out an OU player before the game.
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16. Mississippi State (1-4)
Last week: 16
This week: Idle
What to know:Safe to say "It Just Means Less" to a couple players who reportedly bailed on the season, and teammates, by pulling the redshirt parachute on first-year coach Jeff Lebby. He sounded none too pleased about it.
Tuscaloosa News sport columnist Chase Goodbread.
Tuscaloosa News columnist Chase Goodbread is also the weekly co-host of Crimson Cover TV on WVUA-23. Reach him at cgoodbread@gannett.com.
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