Top 7 teams in SOS are all in the SEC. Apples and oranges comparing teams nationally

Georgia is currently the only SEC team with a SOS not in the top 25 and I'm confident that they will move up

Sagarin ratings


SEC (A) = 84.58
2026 College Football through games of October 24 Saturday - Week 8
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | PREDICTOR | GOLDEN_MEAN | RECENT | STRONG_RECENT
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.65] [ 3.65] [ 3.64] [ 3.65] [ 3.65]
4 Georgia A = 92.07 6 1 71.55( 42) 1 0 | 2 0 | 91.33 4 | 93.65 5 | 89.22 6 | 89.86 8 SEC (A)
5 LSU A = 92.02 6 2 76.32( 15) 0 1 | 1 2 | 91.23 6 | 91.87 8 | 93.34 1 | 95.32 1 SEC (A)
7 Alabama A = 91.37 6 2 80.83( 4) 0 1 | 3 2 | 90.87 7 | 92.36 6 | 89.58 5 | 89.38 9 SEC (A)
8 Texas A = 90.39 5 2 81.65( 1) 2 0 | 3 2 | 90.79 8 | 92.32 7 | 86.65 11 | 83.63 21 SEC (A)
9 Mississippi A = 88.48 5 2 81.20( 3) 1 1 | 3 2 | 87.96 10 | 89.01 9 | 87.80 7 | 87.66 11 SEC (A)
11 Tennessee A = 86.83 6 2 74.61( 24) 1 1 | 1 2 | 86.46 11 | 88.02 11 | 84.24 16 | 83.80 20 SEC (A)
14 Florida A = 85.01 5 2 78.85( 9) 2 0 | 2 2 | 84.96 12 | 85.43 15 | 83.06 21 | 82.68 24 SEC (A)
15 Kentucky A = 84.49 7 1 79.08( 7) 1 1 | 4 1 | 83.47 19 | 85.41 17 | 83.38 20 | 85.18 17 SEC (A)
17 Oklahoma A = 84.08 4 3 80.50( 5) 1 1 | 1 2 | 84.87 13 | 85.20 18 | 80.46 29 | 77.18 34 SEC (A)
21 Missouri A = 83.21 5 2 74.75( 21) 0 1 | 2 1 | 82.67 24 | 84.79 19 | 81.33 25 | 79.61 30 SEC (A)
22 South Carolina A = 82.93 4 3 76.87( 14) 0 1 | 2 2 | 82.95 21 | 83.14 23 | 82.10 24 | 80.59 27 SEC (A)
28 Texas A&M A = 82.43 4 4 75.62( 17) 0 2 | 0 4 | 84.06 15 | 82.75 27 | 78.58 33 | 74.69 45 SEC (A)
32 Auburn A = 81.02 4 3 80.22( 6) 1 1 | 1 3 | 81.72 31 | 81.26 32 | 79.22 32 | 75.95 41 SEC (A)
35 Mississippi State A = 79.35 4 3 81.56( 2) 0 2 | 2 3 | 79.43 36 | 80.48 33 | 76.49 41 | 74.37 47 SEC (A)
56 Arkansas A = 72.85 3 4 76.90( 13) 0 1 | 0 4 | 73.31 57 | 72.97 54 | 70.62 68 | 68.87 72 SEC (A)
62 Vanderbilt A = 70.96 3 5 75.12( 19) 0 2 | 0 3 | 72.39 62 | 71.32 59 | 67.20 80 | 62.28 101 SEC (A)
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