{"id":379,"date":"2018-07-11T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:35:21","slug":"2018-sec-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2018-sec-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 SEC Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2017 SEC was the first conference to get two teams into the College Football Playoff.\u00a0 Courtesy of Alabama they are the first conference to win it twice as well (both Alabama).\u00a0 Alabama continues to be the albatross of the SEC.\u00a0 However some of the other schools have turned the corner and are trying to catch them.\u00a0 Rivals Auburn looks to have another very good team, fresh off of their win against Alabama last year.\u00a0 Also Georgia under Nick Saban disciple Kirby Smart has gathered a LOT of talent and was able to win the SEC last year. They lost a lot, but return a lot of talent. A few new coaches (or new schools) look to turn around big programs (that have talent) in Florida (Mullen), Tennessee (Pruitt), and Texas A&M (Fisher).\u00a0 SEC has the teams at the top to be able to get two into the playoffs again, but they will have to win some big games on the way.<\/p>\n

For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it.<\/p>\n

SEC\u00a0Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

West<\/em><\/p>\n

Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Alabama \u2013 11-1 (7-1) \u00a0\/ \u00a09.77 (5.97) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.13<\/li>\n
  2. Auburn \u2013 10-2 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a08.66 (5.11) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.84<\/li>\n
  3. LSU \u2013 8-4 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.65 (4.08) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.54<\/li>\n
  4. TAMU \u2013 7-5 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.97 (3.07) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.97<\/li>\n
  5. Miss State \u2013 7-5 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.18 (3.82) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.39<\/li>\n
  6. Ole Miss \u2013 7-5 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.85 (3.45) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.11<\/li>\n
  7. Arkansas \u2013 5-7 (2-6) \u00a0\/\u00a0 6.43 (3.08) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.10<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    East<\/em><\/p>\n

    Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Georgia \u2013 11-1 (7-1) \u00a0\/\u00a0 9.42 (5.57) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.96<\/li>\n
    2. Missouri \u2013 9-3 (5-3) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.41 (4.11) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.48<\/li>\n
    3. Florida \u2013 8-4 (5-3) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.80 (4.60) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.52<\/li>\n
    4. South Carolina \u2013 7-5 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.56 (3.66) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.12<\/li>\n
    5. Tennessee\u2013 6-6 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.48 (3.98) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.42<\/li>\n
    6. Kentucky \u2013 5-7 (2-6) \u00a0\/\u00a0 5.90 (2.95) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.98<\/li>\n
    7. Vanderbilt \u2013 4-8 (1-7) \u00a0\/\u00a0 5.20 (2.50) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.74<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Alabama v Georgia in the SEC championship game.\u00a0 With Alabama winning and going to it’s 4th straight Playoff. That is 11 Bowl Eligible teams. Georgia and Auburn as top 10 teams. With Missouri in the top 15.\u00a0 Florida and LSU contenders for top 25 honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In 2017 SEC was the first conference to get two teams into the College Football Playoff.\u00a0 Courtesy of Alabama they are the first conference to win it twice as well (both Alabama).\u00a0 Alabama continues to be the albatross of the SEC.\u00a0 However some of the other schools have turned the corner and are trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}