If the performance of SEC teams in the bowl season is any indication, the conference long considered to be the flag bearer at the Power Four level of college football may be losing its grip on the top spot.
The SEC sent 11 teams to postseason play this season, including a record five to the College Football Playoff. Yet, the conference has just one playoff team still in the championship hunt in Ole Miss and four total postseason wins, along with nine losses, to show for it.
Of the 11 SEC teams that made it into the postseason, only Alabama, Ole Miss and Texas managed to come out a winner in postseason bowl action, and Ole Miss, after losing head coach Lane Kiffin to LSU, has recorded two of the conference's four wins, moving on to play No.