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Reggie Ragland (19) and Alabama can clinch the SEC West with a win over Auburn on Saturday or a Mississippi State loss to Ole Miss. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)
Alabama, which stayed on top of the College Football Playoff rankings this week, also remained the unanimous No. 1 in the AL.com SEC Power Poll.
The only real movement in the poll came from Ole Miss, which slid from third to sixth after a 30-0 loss to Arkansas, and the Razorbacks, who moved up from ninth to seventh.
Alabama can clinch the SEC West with a win Saturday over Auburn or a Mississippi State loss to Ole Miss. Missouri can clinch the East with a win over Arkansas. If the Hogs win, Georgia wins the East.
The full power poll is below, with point totals and first-place votes in parentheses. Fourteen points were awarded for first-place votes, 13 for second, 12 for third, and so on. With Andrew Gribble leaving us to head home to Cleveland, there are now nine voters in the poll: Michael Casagrande, Drew Champlin, Joel A. Erickson, Mike Herndon, Roy S. Johnson, Brandon Marcello, Kevin Scarbinsky, Wesley Sinor and Creg Stephenson.
This week's AL.com SEC Power Poll:
1. Alabama -- 126 (9)
2. Mississippi State -- 117
3. Georgia -- 108
4. Auburn -- 93
5. Missouri -- 91
6. Ole Miss -- 76
7. Arkansas -- 73
8. LSU -- 64
9. Texas A&M -- 60
10. Tennessee -- 38
11. Florida -- 36
12. South Carolina -- 35
13. Kentucky -- 19
14. Vanderbilt -- 9