Perhaps the biggest thing we learned in Week 5 of the 2025 SEC football season is that we didn’t really know that much through the first four weeks.
Alabama’s embarrassing Week 1 loss to Florida State seems like a distant memory after a workmanlike 24-21 victory at Georgia on Saturday. Same goes for Auburn’s encouraging 3-0 start, which has fizzled with back-to-back SEC road losses.
Ole Miss finally proved it with a big conference home win over LSU, which — along with Georgia — suddenly seems like a disappointment. And then there is Vanderbilt, which just keeps winning like it hasn’t since the World War I era.
So how do the teams in the SEC stack up heading into Week 6 of the 2025 season? Here’s the latest edition of AL.com ’s SEC football power rankings for 2025 (all times Central an