If you are going to be the best team in the SEC West, you need to be the best team in your state first. You obviously can’t be the best team in your division if there is a team in the same state as you that is also better than you.
The Ole Miss Rebels can claim that right in 2015. The Rebels had two more wins in Conference play, one more win overall, and a win in the Egg Bowl. Ole Miss was the better team in 2015. But are Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss light years ahead of Dan Mullen and the Bulldogs?