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All for Tennessee Women’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Feb. 8: Huge Drop for Lady Vols

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 22, 2017; Knoxville, TN; Vanderbilt head coach Stephanie White talks with Commodores guard Rebekah Dahlman (1) during the game against against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers. Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt, 91-63. Mandatory Credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK
Jan 22, 2017; Knoxville, TN; Vanderbilt head coach Stephanie White talks with Commodores guard Rebekah Dahlman (1) during the game against against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers. Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt, 91-63. Mandatory Credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK /

Talk about the biggest jump in the SEC! We give you all this talk all year about the Tennessee Lady Vols being inconsistent, but it’s the Georgia Bulldogs who go on a five-game losing streak, highlighted by a loss to one of the worst teams in the SEC, and then hit a two-game winning streak.

In that winning streak, they shocked the red-hot Tennessee Lady Vols in double-overtime. That win was enough to jump them seven spots in our SEC Power Rankings this week to No. 7.

Georgia is back to having a winning record, and despite that one bad loss to Florida in the losing streak, three games in that streak include two losses to the South Carolina Gamecocks and one to the Kentucky Wildcats.

So maybe they just needed a dose of confidence after a brutal run like that.

Well, they’ve got it now.

Georgia has jumped into the Top 100 of the RPI with a No. 97 ranking, and Joni Taylor’s team could potentially be making a push to move up into the NCAA Tournament bubble.

However, while we have them at No. 7 since our SEC Power Rankings are based on how teams are playing at that moment, they still have a lot to prove before we have confidence in them.

This week, they host the Kentucky Wildcats again and then face the Auburn Tigers on the road. If they win both games, we’ll start talking about that bubble. But for now, we have to be skeptical.