Alabama is the only team the SEC can hang its hat on at this point, which kind of blows up the idea that the conference is so strong from top to bottom. Florida is the other Top 15 team, except they did not look like a Top 15 team this last weekend, to say the least. The only other ranked SEC teams are highly undeserving 3-loss Mississippi and even more undeserving 3-loss Mississippi State.
College football goes in cycles. The SEC is down, the PAC12 is REALLY down and right now the Big Ten has 3 Top 10 teams, with Michigan hovering just outside the Top 10.