SEC football power rankings: Week 1

Kevin BarnettFirst-Year students run across the field prior to the Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina football game on August 30, 2012.

It’s also time for our weekly power rankings. Every week, the Vanderbilt Hustler sports staff will break down how the SEC shakes out.

Here are our week one rankings:

1. Alabama

How can you not put the number one team in the country and defending national champions at the top? If they can figure out who their number one quarterback is (as we’ve seen at Vanderbilt, playing two quarterbacks hardly works), they’ll be the team to beat in the SEC, and the country, once more.

2. LSU

Two words: Leonard Fournette. He rushed for 100 yards five times as a freshman and in 15 of…