The real winner in showing SEC Power this week isn’t a particular team. It was an underappreciated group: interim coaches. The league now has two, with Randy Shannon taking over for Jim McElwain at Florida and joining Matt Luke as “that guy that they sent over from the temp agency to coach the team.” How many more will there be by the end of the season? Four? Five? Will Joe Girardi be named an interim somewhere? Or Danny Kanell? Anything seems possible at this point.

Rank	Team	Last Week
1.		1.	Nick Saban’s birthday was this week. He had a group of reporters baked in a cake for mentioning the line on the LSU game.
2.		2.	The Bulldogs continue to push people around every Saturday like they should have been doing for the last 39 years or so, with Kirby Smart coming out the clear winner in the Saban Disciple Elimination Match last week.
3.		5.	I flipped Auburn and LSU this week because if AU is going to have a miracle finish like it had in 2013, this is the week it will begin and I want to be on the right side of the football deities.
4.		6.	I’ve been wrong on the Bulldogs every week this season. They play poorly when I think they will play well, then play great when I think they’ll get pounded. I’m saying they beat UMass this week. If they don’t, I give up.
5.		3.	There was no real reason to drop LSU after a bye, either, except that somehow that win at Florida seems a bit hollow at this point. Plus, why not give Chef Ed a few more oysters for this week’s pot of Disrespect Gumbo.
6.		7.	When Saban retires, Will Muschamp is suddenly going to be the winningest coach in the SEC with no one able to name one of the wins.
7.		4.	Soft: the fur on a baby bunny, the feel of a goose-down pillow or Aggie football as November approaches.
8.		9.	The Wildcats finally had a last-second game where the opposing team’s wide receiver finished two yards short on a Hail Mary instead of scoring a soul-crushing touchdown. That’s progress.
9.		8.	One of the weirdest weeks in SEC history ended with Jim McElwain out of a job and no way of knowing where the Gators go for the rest of the year.
10.		12.	Down 31-7 by lunchtime in Oxford, there was doubt that Bret Bielema would be allowed back into the state of Arkansas. Eight hours later, McElwain is fired, Butch Jones and Kevin Sumlin have survived and Big Bret is suddenly a poster boy for job security.
11.		11.	In the unthinkable event of a nuclear holocaust, only two things are certain about the aftermath: a hardy population of cockroaches will survive and Butch Jones will still be the coach at Tennessee.
12.		10.	The Rebels came up with a good offensive plan despite the loss of quarterback Shea Patterson — then ran out of gas (as LandSharks often do) on defense. Against Arkansas. Doesn’t bode well.
13.		13.	The evening sun is setting on yet another Commodore football season — but there is some hope as long as Tennessee remains on the schedule.
14.		14.	“Maybe we can escape the Last Place Woods — if we can get past that alligator!” “There are some men in Nevada who say we can whip that alligator! That gator is old and sick!” “We’ll probably get eaten –but anything is better than this.” “I want to play Idaho again.”