For the final time after the regular season, we're going through the SEC football power rankings before the championship games this upcoming weekend and the 12-team College Football Playoff.
How do the final SEC football power rankings before the postseason shake out?
We'll still have one more set of SEC power rankings for the 2024-25 season, which will come out after the postseason in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in Atlanta on Jan. 20. But this is the final set of SEC power rankings before the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is decided by the selection committee next weekend and conference championships are in the books.
Over the weekend, there was more action and chaos during the Thanksgiving week games. In the SEC, the South Carolina Gamecocks pulled off a thrilling three-point victory over the in-state rival Clemson Tigers on the road.
The marquee action in the SEC saw Texas football top the Texas A&M in the renewal of the Lone Star Showdown in College Station for the first time in over a dozen years.
Here are the post-Week 14 updated SEC power rankings for the final time before the final edition.
Last week: 16 (--)
First-year head coach Jeff Lebby and the Mississippi State Bulldogs are the only winless team in SEC play to finish the regular season after a double-digit Egg Bowl loss in Oxford to the Ole Miss Rebels last weekend. I think there's potential in what Lebby is building in Oxford, but this will be an important offseason for Mississippi State to retool and build for the 2025 season.