Week eight saw an unprecedented amount of losses, even in the SEC. Ole Miss went down to Georgia, LSU lost to Vanderbilt, and just outside the top ten, Tennessee went down against Alabama.
Some teams escaped by the skin of their teeth, exposing that they are not even as good as many originally thought— Missouri over Auburn, Texas over Kentucky, and more.
That has led to a bit of a shift in the pecking order in the SEC, as there has been a lot of movement in the bottom of the conference as well. Let's dive in and power rank the teams in the SEC.
Power ranking the SEC after week 8: 16 - Texas
One of the easiest tells for narcissism is someone seeing unrelated events as confirmation of their prior assumptions about how special they are. On an extremely relevant note, Texas's biggest win of the night was when the Aggie game was put on ESPN News after a weather delay so that the entire world could see that the Longhorns are a terrible team.
I think the abiding impression that the game up in Lexington left everyone with was confusion about how Texas beat Oklahoma at all. Sarkisian's squad may have departed Kentucky with a win, but they were outgained, outmuscled, and outplayed all night.
The numbers back this up: Kentucky's postgame win expectancy in that game was 83.9%, meaning the Longhorns escaped by the skin of their teeth. As someone put it on Twitter, the game was well summed-up by the fact that, in overtime, Kentucky gained 24.5 yards and got no points, while Texas lost two yards and won the game with a field goal kick.
A win is a win, and there are no truly easy wins on the road in the SEC, but Lexington, Kentucky, is no doubt the easiest right now. That the 'Horns were outplayed so massively here should be setting off alarm bells in Austin in a massive way, but they're probably still thinking about what channel A&M beat Arkansas on.