2024 season, 16 games in. Ratings and records refresh through the season; nothing here is a preseason guess. Preseason projections →
Best:
Mississippi State#44 nationally
Median and standing are by Elo rating, measured against every conference with at least four rated teams.
SEC in orange, the rest of the country in grey. Elo rating, all 134 teams.
Showing 16 of 134 teams in the SEC. Ranks stay national — #1 means first in the country, not first here.
Poll darlings the model is not sold on.
2024 coverage: Elo 134/134 · SP+ 134/134 · FPI 134/134 · SRS 134/134 · CORE off/def 134/134 · schedule 134/134 · AP poll 48. Metrics with no teams yet this season are left out of the table rather than shown as a column of dashes.
Every rating here is bought in except CORE, which we build. How we build it →
Every other column on this page is bought in — Elo, SP+, FPI, SRS and the AP poll all arrive from CollegeFootballData. CORE is the exception. We build it here, from play-by-play, and it is published nowhere else.
It answers a narrower question than a power rating: how good is this team per play, once you remove the situations it happened to face and the opponents it happened to draw? Two teams can post identical yards per play when one of them ran its snaps at a three-score lead against the worst defenses on the schedule. That gap is most of the difference between the two numbers, and every raw per-play stat carries it.
So we remove both, in two stages. First the situation: each play’s expected value is predicted from game state alone — period, clock, score margin, down, distance, field position, home or away, pass or rush — with no team identity in the model at all, and what is left over is the part the situation does not explain. Then the opponent: offenses and defenses form one connected network over a season, so both sides are fitted at once by ridge regression rather than credited separately. Ridge specifically, because in September the schedule graph is barely connected and an unregularised fit hands a huge rating to whoever beat an overmatched opener.
Reported in points per 100 qualifying plays, above average. Offense is better when high, defense when low. Overtime, garbage time, FBS-vs-FCS games, special teams and non-scrimmage plays are all excluded.
⚠ CORE is a measurement, not a forecast. It says what a team has already done per play, adjusted. It does not say who wins next week — that is a separate model, and the two are kept as separate objects on purpose. Full method →
| 7‑63‑5 conf |
| SEC#2 |
| 1496 |
| D101O56 |
| #2012 gm |
| 69 |  Kentucky | 4‑81‑7 conf | SEC#3 | 1498 | D51O77 | #511 gm |
| 888 up 8 places since last week |  Arkansas | 7‑63‑5 conf | SEC#4 | 1611 | D27O19 | #2712 gm |
| 89 |  Auburn | 5‑72‑6 conf | SEC#5 | 1611 | D16O48 | #3311 gm |
| 107 |  Missouri | 10‑35‑3 conf | SEC#6 | 1711 | D50O45 | #4112 gm |
| 109 |  Oklahoma | 6‑72‑6 conf | SEC#7 | 1725 | D7O95 | #812 gm |
| 1123 down 3 places since last week |  Texas A&M | 8‑55‑3 conf | SEC#8 | 1762 | D18O35 | #1512 gm |
| 11510 up 10 places since last week |  Florida | 8‑54‑4 conf | SEC#9 | 1767 | D32O40 | #312 gm |
| 1201 down 1 places since last week |  South Carolina | 9‑45‑3 conf | SEC#10 | 1810 | D15O27 | #1712 gm |
| 1224 up 4 places since last week |  LSU | 9‑45‑3 conf | SEC#11 | 1827 | D43O25 | #612 gm |
| 1252 down 2 places since last week |  Tennessee | 10‑36‑2 conf | SEC#12 | 1915 | D9O42 | #4412 gm |
| 1272 down 2 places since last week |  Alabama | 9‑45‑3 conf | SEC#13 | 1986 | D13O31 | #1312 gm |
| 1282 down 2 places since last week |  Georgia | 11‑37‑2 conf | SEC#14 | 1998 | D17O26 | #113 gm |
| 1293 up 3 places since last week |  Ole Miss | 10‑35‑3 conf | SEC#15 | 2007 | D4O7 | #4512 gm |
| 1311 up 1 places since last week |  Texas | 13‑37‑2 conf | SEC#16 | 2042 | D2O16 | #1416 gm |
