All for Tennessee Men’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Feb. 7: Vols Slip a Bit

We are now into the top tier teams for our SEC Power Rankings, and it’s no secret that the Kentucky Wildcats finally deserved to drop from first to third on this list.

Although they lost two games the previous week, we kept John Calipari’s team at No. 1 because both losses were close and on the road.

However, after this past week, they are clearly not playing at the level they were playing at earlier in the year.

Kentucky needed overtime to beat the Georgia Bulldogs at home, and then they were blown out by the Florida Gators. So they’ve lose three of their past four, and they’ve looked worse than they should in all four games.

That’s why they’re No. 3 in our SEC Power Rankings.

And now, a No. 1 seed and even the SEC Regular Season championship is in serious jeopardy, as these guys have fallen to third place in the SEC standings as well.

Although the RPI projects them to win out, they still have a brutal schedule left, including the Florida Gators and Tennessee Vols again, the Georgia Bulldogs, Alabama Crimson Tide, and Texas A&M Aggies on the road, and a rising Vanderbilt Commodores team at home.

This week, though, with the LSU Tigers at home to start, they should get back on track.