SEC football power rankings: Who is the biggest threat to Alabama?
By John Buhler
These four SEC football teams are probably not achieving bowl eligibility.
Vanderbilt Commodores. player. Pick Analysis. SEC. Scouting Report. East. 14. 887
We have to wonder if 2020 will be Derek Mason’s last year coaching the Vanderbilt Commodores. While he has been in this post since 2014, Vanderbilt is 20 games below .500 under his watch, has achieved bowl eligibility only twice and hasn’t had a winning season since he took over. With newly promoted athletic director Candice Storey Lee in charge, Mason’s seat has to be getting very hot.
Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. West. Arkansas Razorbacks. 13. SEC. player. 844
Arkansas Razorbacks football hit rock bottom last year under former head coach Chad Morris. He ran that program into the ground shamelessly in two seasons. Former Georgia Bulldogs offensive line coach Sam Pittman returns to Fayetteville to rebuild this puppy. He has time on his side and plenty of support, but we don’t know how he’ll do as a first-year head coach with the Hogs.
Missouri Tigers. player. 822. Pick Analysis. SEC. East. 12. Scouting Report
Four years of Barry Odom was apparently enough for the Missouri Tigers. The university fired its former starting linebacker in favor of Eliah Drinkwitz who had a great single season leading the Appalachian State Mountaineers. Like Pittman, we think Drinkwitz can get his program turned around. However, anything more than three conferences wins this year would be shocking here.
11. 850. Scouting Report. SEC. East. Pick Analysis. South Carolina Gamecocks. player
If Mason’s seat is hot at Vanderbilt, how should we define the one Will Muschamp is sitting on entering year five with the South Carolina Gamecocks? His team needs to achieve bowl eligibility for him to get to year six after a disastrous 2019. Though he won’t coach the worst team in his own division, finishing in fifth place in the SEC East is never a good thing for long-term stability.