POWER RANKINGS

1. Alabama (7-0): Alabama at this point is the aggressive Black Friday mom knocking 5-year-olds out of the way because she has a coupon for 20% off on a PS4.

2. Texas A&M (5-1): A COVID-19 hiatus has taken the Aggies out of the national spotlight, so a win would help ease them back to the CFP conversation.

3. Florida (6-1): With a win over Kentucky this week, Florida can start breaking down Alabama film. (They already have.)

4. Georgia (5-2): “Hey, let’s try another quarterback, coach” seemed to work out well for the Bulldogs.

5. Auburn (5-2): Contemplate a universe where Bo Nix is 2-0 against Nick Saban and an SEC legend.

6. Ole Miss (3-4): Not even Faulkner’s fictional Mississippi world could have foreseen Lane Kiffin in an Egg Bowl.

7. Missouri (3-3): Imagine finding out on a Monday afternoon that you have new opponent for Saturday. That’s 2020, and Vanderbilt isn’t an easy preparation.

8. LSU (3-3): Alabama might have been a little dubious about the LSU cancellation, but it didn’t devolve into a Dabo-esque farce – which is better for football no matter how much fun Nick and Ed jawing at each other would have been.

9. Arkansas (3-5): Edged out by LSU last weekend and caught by coronavirus this week, but Arkansas still has respect for its turnaround.

10. Kentucky (3-5): Depleted by the virus and playing Alabama and Florida back to back is cruel and unusual punishment.

11. Tennessee (2-5): Jeremy Pruitt not playing Vanderbilt this week may have been a bad break, or it may have been a reprieve.

12. Mississippi State (2-5): In a rollercoaster of a season, starting high and then plummeting, the Bulldogs won a 49-cowbell salute by pushing Georgia to the final minute with less than 50 scholarship players.

13. South Carolina (2-6): The interim season marches to an inevitable end.

14. Vanderbilt (0-7): The mystery game against Missouri is yet another “probably not ... but maybe” for Vanderbilt.