Fun with numbers, SEC edition

This should be taken as little more than a harmless exercise, but just for giggles, I thought I’d take the conference statistical rankings for the fourteen categories the SEC tracks at page 10 of its stats site and rank the teams by their composite average.

The results by team, with average:

1. Georgia, 4.79
2. Auburn, 5.00
3. LSU, 5.21
4. Alabama, 5.29
5. Florida, 5.43
6. Arkansas, 5.50
7. Mississippi State, 5.86
8. Mississippi, 6.00
9. South Carolina, 6.71
10. Kentucky, 7.57
11. Tennessee, 9.29
12. Vanderbilt, 9.93

That order needs to be taken with a grain of salt, to some extent, if for no other reason than rankings like that don’t take into account how much a team dominates a particular group, such as Auburn, which is a very strong first in three of the four offensive categories the SEC tracks.

Still, it’s interesting, no?  One reason Georgia makes a good showing is because the Dawgs aren’t bad in any category.  Georgia is the only team in the conference that doesn’t have a ranking of tenth or worse in any of the fourteen stats tracked.