Final SEC Football Standings

Greetings, BBN!

Texas upset Texas A&M, Georgia edged Georgia Tech, Ole Miss retained the Egg Bowl (but not its coach) against Hail State, Oklahoma held off LSU, Alabama triumphed in the Iron Bowl, Vanderbilt throttled Tennessee, Kentucky got blanked at Louisville, South Carolina fell short against Clemson, Missouri rolled Arkansas, and Florida chomped up Florida State.

It was a very full Rivalry Week down South, and some teams clinched CFP bids, some teams lost their coaches, some teams fired their coaches, and some teams did a bit of everything. The 2025 regular season is in the books, and after leading the standings the whole way through, both Ole Miss and Texas A&M have been surpassed and surmounted by the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs.

Just like they do almost every single year, the Tide and the Bulldogs will face each other for the SEC championship in Atlanta. Never count them out, no matter what you see in Week 1 from Florida State.

Let’s run down the final SEC standings of the 2025 season:

Notes: 

• Georgia and Alabama were the 1st and 2nd-place teams in the four-way tie for first place. Why the tiebreakers went their way and didn’t go to Texas A&M and/or Ole Miss is an extremely difficult and confusing question to answer. The short answer is this: because the SEC said so.

• Ten teams made a bowl, and six teams missed out on bowl eligibility this season. While a lot of schools finished extremely high in the rankings with 10 or more wins, they did so at the expense of a traffic jam of schools at the bottom (and are almost all looking for new coaches).

• Eight schools finished the season in the AP Top 25. Of those eight, only Tennessee finished with fewer than nine wins.

• Last year’s last-place team was Mississippi State as the only 0-8 team. This year, it’s the same situation but a different team: Arkansas, which is the only team Mississippi State beat.

• Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M are likely CFP-bound, but even though Vanderbilt is 10-2, since all five of those schools are ahead of them, there simply isn’t room in the field for them to get in, too. That frankly is pretty tragic.