Kentucky and Florida represent the SEC in the week 9 AP and Coaches Polls

With conference play starting over the past week, it was understandable and predictable that we’d witness many upsets that inevitably lead to shakeups in the AP and Coaches Polls.

Predictably, the SEC didn’t have many members make it into the polls this week, with the Kentucky Wildcats and Florida Gators as the two exceptions to that fact. In the AP Poll, Kentucky managed to rise from the #8 to the #6 spot after a 23-point win over Ole Miss to kick off SEC play. In the same poll, the Gators moved up a spot from #25 to #24 after starting conference play with a tough road win over Arkansas. No other SEC teams received votes this week.

It was roughly the same story in the Coaches Poll, as Kentucky also moved up two spots from—you guessed it—#8 to #6, while Florida managed to enter the poll at #24 after being unranked last week. The SEC did see another one of its members—South Carolina—fall out of the Coaches Poll after a 16-point drubbing at the hands of Memphis while being ranked 25th last week. The Gamecocks are now on the outside looking in, but they’re still receiving a healthy amount of votes (enough to put them at #27, if that were a thing).

It’s no surprise that the ACC leads all power-5 conferences with 7 teams in the AP Poll, while the SEC has only 2 entries in it. It’s much of the same in the Coaches Poll, where last place is the SEC’s and the SEC’s alone.