Georgia Bulldogs: Pre-Season SEC East Power Rankings

Sep 21, 2013; Athens, GA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt runs out with the team prior to the game against the North Texas Mean Green at Sanford Stadium. Georgia defeated North Texas 45-21. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports

The media voted back at SEC Media Days last week in Hoover, Alabama and decided that the Georgia Bulldogs were the favorite to come out of the Eastern Division in the SEC in the 2015 Season.  Unfortunately for the Dawgs, rival Auburn was the favorite to win the SEC by knocking off Georgia at the Georgia Dome in Early December.

Though the SEC West will likely be the talk of college football once again as it is the deepest division in college football (Mississippi State picked to finish last? Come on!), the East looks to have a few ranked teams of its own that could contend for an SEC Championship this fall.

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This year in the East, the Georgia Bulldogs get the South Carolina Gamecocks, the Missouri Tigers, and the Kentucky Wildcats at home.  Georgia will have to go to the Tennessee twice, once to Nashville to play the Vanderbilt Commodores and once to Knoxville to take on the up and coming Tennessee Volunteers.  The Dawgs will of course meet their arch rival Florida Gators down in Jacksonville on Halloween.

It would surprise me to see fewer than five of the seven SEC East teams make it to a bowl this season as six programs could definitely win six or more games this year.  And though I only see three teams having a realistic chance of playing for a Conference Title in Atlanta, I could end up as wrong as I was in 2013.  Who would have picked Auburn over Missouri in August 2013?

Football season can’t get here soon enough.  I need to experience Saturday in Athens here shortly before I go insane.  Before the Georgia Bulldogs tee it up Between the Hedges at Sanford Stadium on September 5th against the ULM Warhawks, I thought I would try much luck to power rank the SEC East.  So here I go…

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