Week 6 SEC conference power rankings

It was a wild week around the college football landscape in Week 5 of the 2024 regular season, including multiple upsets and near upsets around the SEC football conference this weekend.

SEC football sees some contenders falter in Week 5

The biggest upset of the weekend around the SEC in Week 5 was the unranked Kentucky Wildcats and longtime head coach Mark Stoops going into Oxford and beating the No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels by three points. Ole Miss was a sizable double-digit favorite at home last weekend at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium against Kentucky.

But Stoops and the Wildcats finally got that elusive marquee road upset the program has been looking for the past few years for this staff.

We also saw the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs fall just short of the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa in the highlighting game in Week 5 of the college football season. Georgia was down by as many as 23 points in the second half, but stormed back to take the lead late in the fourth quarter.

Alabama scored the game-winning touchdown on a crazy deep-ball catch-and-run by true freshman superstar wide receiver Ryan Williams near the end of the fourth quarter.

Here are the updated post-Week 5 SEC power rankings, coming out of a crazy weekend of action for the top dogs in the conference.

Last week: 16 (--)

The Mississippi State Bulldogs and first-year head coach Jeff Lebby gave the No. 1 ranked Texas football a tough test in the first half in Austin last weekend. Mississippi State was down by just one possession coming out of the locker room from halftime for the second half.

But Texas's offensive explosiveness and depth along the defensive front eventually wore down the Bulldogs in a 35-13 defeat in the Longhorns' SEC opener.

Mississippi State can rest hope and will be looking to get multiple starters back from injury entering a much-needed bye week for the Bulldogs.