Eight SEC teams, including the 4-0 and 7th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners, remain undefeated entering Week 5 of the 2025 college football season. That's half of the conference with a number key conference matchups looming over the next few weeks.
As the season gets ready to move out of September and into the more telling month of October, when the schedule will be saturated with critical conference matchups, this is when things will really begin to get topsy turvy as far as the shake-up within the weekly power rankings.
For example, this weekend's schedule features the annual Magnolia Bowl with LSU at Ole Miss (named that because the state flower of both states is the magnolia).