Who will be better, who will be worse

Alabama-Slightly worse(but still class of the SEC)
Arkansas-Better
Auburn-Better
Florida-Worse
Georgia-Better
Kentucky-Better
LSU-Same
Mississippi State-Better
Missouri-Better
Ole Miss-Same
South Carolina-Better
Tennessee-Same
Texas A&M-Worse
Vanderbilt-Worse

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Tennessee-Same

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Disagree on Mizzou and State. Hard to imagine they sink lower than 4-8 and 5-7.

I think Tennessee will be slightly worse but I'm not seeing as much of a drop-off as everyone is expecting.

Tennessee cannot be worse defensively. They were the worst unit in the league by the middle of the season.

The two DEs are all Tennessee loses defensively. Essentially 9 of 11 starters back in the 2nd year of the system.

People are acting like Tennessee loses Barnett, JRM, Sutton but the reality is JRM and Sutton played zero significant snaps last year against the meat of the schedule.

Tennessee also gets Kirkland and Tuttle back who were very limited last year and out a number of games.

Going in to last year I would have told you the 5 most important players on Tennessee's defense were

1a Barnett
1b JRM
3 Sutton
4 Kirkland
5 Tuttle

Barnett was the only one out there for the Florida/UGA/A&M/Bama stretch.

Offensively it will come down to QB play. I don't see a huge drop off anywhere else unless Kelly gets hurt.

They are favored in 9 games in Vegas, so should be good for 7-8 wins with Butch.

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Should have said...

South Carolina- couldn't get worse

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Well then it should embarrass the holy frick outta you that SDS has us picked to upset y'all this year.

And thanks for having us on your mind....as always. National champions and all y'all can manage to do is flock to an SEC site and obsess over South Carolina.

West:
Alabama - Better 14-1 to 15-0
Auburn - Better 8-5 to 10-3
LSU - Better 8-4 to 11-2
Mississippi State - Same 6-7 & 6-7
Ole Miss - Worse 5-7 to 3-9
Aggies - Same 8-5 & 8-5
Arkansas - Same 7-6 & 7-6

East:
Florida - Better 9-4 to 12-2
Georgia- Better 8-5 to 10-3
Tennessee - Worse 9-4 to 7-6
Vandy - Same 6-7 & 6-7
South Carolina - Better 6-7 to 7-6
Kentucky - Better 7-6 to 9-4
Missouri - Better 4-8 to 5-7

Everyone can't improve their record.

West;
Alabama - Same
Auburn - better
LSU - better
Mississippi State - better
Ole Miss - worse
Aggies - worse
Arkansas - same

East:
Florida - worse
Georgia- Better
Tennessee - same
Vandy - better
South Carolina - better
Kentucky - better
Missouri - worse

West;
Alabama - Same
Auburn - better
LSU - slightly better
Mississippi State - better
Ole Miss - worse
Aggies - worse
Arkansas - worse

East:
Florida - Worse.
Georgia- Better
Tennessee - Same
Vandy - Better
South Carolina - same
Kentucky - worse
Missouri - better