Computer guru Jerry Palm has posted his full college football rankings at CBSSports.com — from Team #1 (LSU, even without the Honey Badger) to poor, sad, Team #124 (Texas State and head coach Dennis Franchione).

For those of you just interested in seeing where your favorite SEC team ranks, here’s how his computer spit ‘em out:

1.  LSU

3.  Alabama

6.  Georgia

8.  South Carolina

11.  Arkansas

23.  Florida

26.  Auburn

47.  Mississippi State

63.  Missouri

64.  Texas A&M

68.  Tennessee

78.  Vanderbilt

92.  Kentucky

93.  Ole Miss

To put the rankings of UK and UM in perspective, Palm’s laptop says Eastern Michigan ranks #89.  Ouch.

The bracket brainiacs are out in full force trying to project this year’s NCAA Tournament field.  (You can read our take on who in the SEC fits the NCAA profile and what they need to do in the league tourney right here.)  From ESPN to CBSSports.com to Sports Illustrated to Yahoo! Sports, everyone’s got an opinion.

For the sake of argument, here are those latest opinions:


Joe Lunardi, ESPN

SEC: 5 bids (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt)

Tennessee is listed among “first four out” and Ole Miss is listed as “also considered.”


Jerry Palm, CBSSports.com

SEC: 5 bids (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt)

Ole Miss is listed among “first four out.”


Brad Evans, Roto Arcade and Yahoo! Sports

SEC:  5 bids (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt)

Tennessee is listed as being “on the bubble.”



Andy Glockner, SI.com

SEC:  5 bids (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt)

Neither Ole Miss nor Tennessee is listed among the last four out.

How bad is the SEC West in basketball?  Pretty darn bad.  Just ask NCAA basketball guru Jerry Palm… as Paul Finebaum did yesterday on his radio show:

“When you look at the West, that’s an unmitigated disaster.  There isn’t one good team in the West… Mississippi is remotely competent, but if that division was a league unto itself it would rank below the Ivy League in the college RPI rankings.”

Ouch.  But Palm also took aim on Auburn specifically.

“Auburn might be the worst team ever in a major conference.  Or at least in the last generation in a major conference, not just the SEC.”

Where have ya gone, Charles Barkley?  (We know, Vegas.)

“This is my 19th year that I’ve been tracking the RPI and when you look at the big six conferences, Auburn has a chance to be the worst team in the RPI probably by 40 or 50 spots over the last 20 years from a major conference.  That’s how bad they are.  They are dreadful.  The numbers don’t lie.”

Actually, they might.  Palm says Ole Miss is “remotely competent.”  But on the hardwood they’re a miserable 1-4 in league play.