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The rankings appear to mostly jive with acceptance rates with couple of outliers:

Elite Tier:
16. Vanderbilt- 5% acceptance rate

Highly Selective Tier:
34. Florida- 20%
34. Texas- 22%
52. Georgia- 34%
59. Texas A&M- 52%

No Longer Safety Schools:
95. Missouri- 76%
100. Auburn- 47%
109. Tennessee- 44%
110. Oklahoma- 78%
121. South Carolina- 57%

Safety Schools:
148. Kentucky- 94%
156. Alabama- 71%
179. Ole Miss- 97%
191. Arkansas- 74%
202. LSU- 69%
208. Miss State- 96%

Based upon selectivity, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kentucky appear to be a bit overvalued in these rankings while Auburn, Tennessee, and South Carolina appear to be a bit undervalued.

I'm assuming the acceptance rates at the Texas schools are a bit muted because a ton of kids who aren't close to the Top 5% or 10% of their class or whatever the threshold is don't bother applying.

SEC schools:

16. Vanderbilt (up 1 spot)
34. Texas (down 4)
34. Florida (down 4)
52. Georgia (down 6)
59. Texas A&M (down 8)
95. Missouri (up 7)
100. Auburn (up 2)
109. Tennessee (down 7)
116. Oklahoma (down 6)
121. S Carolina (up 6)
148. Kentucky (down 5)
156. Alabama (up 13)
179. Ole Miss (down 10)
202. LSU (down 33)
208. Miss State (even)

For the most part, most every school stayed very close to where they were rated last year. Alabama seems to make a larger than normal move up (good for them) while LSU absolutely tumbled.... plummeting 33 spots.

Ranking all 68 Power 4 schools...

Vanderbilt now ranks 4th behind only Stanford, Duke, and Northwestern. They jumped over Cal-Berkeley.

Texas and Florida are tied for 16th among the 68 Power 4 schools. They both lost ground to Georgia Tech, Boston College and Illinois.

Georgia ranks 23rd in the Power 4... they fell a spot at the expense of Wake Forest.

Texas A&M ranks 29th in the Power 4... losing ground to Wake Forest, Miami, and Penn State.

Missouri comes in at 40th in the Power 4... separating themselves away from Auburn (previously tied) and Colorado.

Auburn is 41st... moved up a spot over Colorado.

Tennessee is 43rd... moved back a spot as they were previously tied with Auburn and Missouri.

Oklahoma is 46th among the 68 Power 4... staying put from last year.

South Carolina is up a spot to 50th at the expense of UCF.

Kentucky is flat at 54th in the Power 4.

Alabama is 56th among the 68 Power 4... making major moves past Nebraska, Utah, Cincinnati, and Louisville.

Ole Miss is 60th of 68 power schools... moving past LSU for the second time this week.

Arkansas is 64th among 68 power schools... flat from last year.

LSU is 66th... falling behind Ole Miss, Texas Tech, Arkansas, and Oklahoma State.

Miss State is once again 67th of 68 power schools... thank God again for West Virginia.

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You forgot the tier for teams without a pulse and programs having a bad decade and a half

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Well I'm sorry about that. A loss Saturday for Auburn and we're not too far off from joining you.

I think it's way too early to put most teams in a tier yet. However I think in most seasons you've got 4 tiers that developed as the season goes on;

Tier 1: Championship Level
Teams that are vying for an SEC Championship and on pace to make the College Football Playoff

Tier 2: Nationally Competitive
These are the teams that are unlikely to win the SEC... a long shot for a national title... but in contention for a Playoff Spot. Generally speaking they are in the Top 25, probably in the 10-25 section of the rankings

Tier 3: Competitive Teams on Pace for a Winning Season
These are the teams that are capable of beating anyone... but also very unlikely to make the playoff. They are near certain to make a bowl game and have a winning season, but probably not in contention for the Playoff. Mostly just hoping to finish the year ranked in the Top 25

Tier 4: Teams Having a Bad Year
These teams range from horrific to maybe decently competitive but at the same time unlucky. Generally speaking they are in the bottom 4 of the league... hoping to make a bowl game and maybe eke out the season barely above .500 overall.

This weekend seems to have given us 3 games in which the winner will move into a higher tier and the loser will very likely fall a tier. All three games could be considered a coin flip:

LSU at Ole Miss
Winner moves into Tier 1 for now. Loser is almost certain to have a season in which they fail to ever get into Tier 1 and will hope to stay in Tier 2 at best.

Florida at Auburn
Winner will firmly sit in Tier 2 after an early season big win. Loser most definitely will in be relegated to Tier 3 this year at best.

Miss State South Carolina
Winner probably jumps up to Tier 2 for the time being. Loser is looking at Tier 3 at best and probably Tier 4.


Just three very hard to pick, coin flip type games. Yet all three will have MAJOR bearing on how this season turns out.

I feel like that Egg Bowl of 2014 was a big deal.

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Alas, LSU and Auburn fans have carried the classy torch for decades. Is what it is.

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We do what we can.

Yes. But it was in a time before the internet was so readily available. I remember showing up to the game in 1999 (in Auburn), and I was shocked when they brought 5x as many fans as normal. This was also back in the day when SEC schools put 80% of the visiting fans in the lower bowl.... they were the rowdiest bunch of visiting fans I'd ever seen.... they were chanting Potty Toddy in the pregame while the Auburn band played "God Bless America" and during the national anthem. Totally disrespectful.

They won the game. Next year Tubs returned to Oxford and Auburn fans returned the favor. Absolute takeover of their high school stadium and Auburn won the game.

It was pretty intense for a couple years, and for a 19 year old like myself at the time, it was shocking because I'd only ever known Ole Miss to be a bottom dweller right along side Vandy. They quickly returned to that level after they lost Tubs.

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I’m thinking LSU-Ole Miss game goes over 15M this weekend with all the Lane hate watching

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Nah. Unlikely. The state of Mississippi doesn't even have a metered market. It will also be competing with AU-UF as well as ND-Mich St airing at the same time.

My guess is it pulls between 10-11 million.

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We won by 3 tds and were a 13.5 favorite.

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The game was within 2 scores for all but like 6 minutes of game time.

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Everyone was watching Texas come back from down 20 to beat the number 1 team.

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The comeback didn't even start until your game was about over.

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Why would anyone want to watch Tennessee

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Well this is the point. But if Tennessee had the following your fans think it does, it should have easily averaged above 2 million for a primetime game being played in the #1 CFB market in America for nominal viewership.

I was watching the Auburn game on SECN despite the fact it was a 37-point blowout... I don't care what other game was going on at the time. Most diehard fanbases do that. Apparently not Tennessee fans though as you claim, "Everyone was watching" some other game instead.

That was a new money rivalry of the 1990s that went bankrupt in the mid 2000s.

No one cares about that game now.