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SEC Power Rankings following Week 4 of 2018: Vols still near bottom

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 22: David Reese II #33 of the Florida Gators recovers a fumble during the first quarter of the game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on September 22, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 22: David Reese II #33 of the Florida Gators recovers a fumble during the first quarter of the game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on September 22, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) /
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Joe Moorhead’s team just got hit with a dose of reality. After blowing out three somewhat cupcake squads to open the season, they got torched by the Kentucky Wildcats. You have to ask if it’s Kentucky that good or Mississippi State that bad.

The truth is it’s a little bit of both. We’ll get into why Kentucky may be dangerous in a minute. As for Mississippi State, they are still a good team. But their best win through three games was over the Kansas State Wildcats.

As we have mentioned on this blog, Kansas State is undergoing coordinator changes on both sides of the ball. Bill Snyder has a massive rebuilding project under way there. So blowing them out should not have changed the notion that the Bulldogs would struggle with schematic changes under a new coach, and that’s what they’ve done.

The brutal part about this team losing an SEC East game like that is they already have a loss and have to navigate a full SEC West schedule. The only real winnable games on that stretch are at the end of the year, with the Arkansas Razorbacks on the road and the Ole Miss Rebels at home.

That combined with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs gets them six possible wins. But to know where they really stand, we have to see how they play this coming week against the next team in our SEC Power Rankings.

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