Successful Year For SEC? 3 Teams Finish in Top 10

The regular season is complete and the SEC has represented itself well on the national scale.

The AP Poll is out: 6 SEC teams finish in the Top 25. Two finish in the Top 5, a third in the Top 10, and Tennessee, Auburn, and Arkansas came in with Top 25 honors.

1. Ohio State (50) 11-1 1,578

2. LSU (11) 11-2 1,519

3. Oklahoma (1) 11-2 1,423

4. Georgia (1) 10-2 1,421

5. Virginia Tech (1) 11-2 1,380

6. USC 10-2 1,346

7. Missouri 11-2 1,195

8. Kansas 11-1 1,164

9. Florida 9-3 1,071

10. Hawaii (1) 12-0 1,050

11. West Virginia 10-2 1,040

12. Arizona State 10-2 939

13. Illinois 9-3 797

14. Boston College 10-3 668

15. Clemson 9-3 614

16. Tennessee 9-4 554

17. Texas 9-3 517

18. Wisconsin 9-3 447

19. Brigham Young 10-2 439

20. Cincinnati 9-3 394

21. Virginia 9-3 344

22. Auburn 8-4 264

23. South Florida 9-3 246

24. Boise State 10-2 221

25. Arkansas 8-4 173

A successful year? It's looking that way; LSU has leapfrogged Georgia, as many expected, back into their familiar stomping grounds in the Top 2. Georgia, meanwhile, will likely be Sugar Bowl-bound should the BCS Rankings shake out the way that the AP Poll did. Most of these Southeastern Conference teams will play in January.

I'd say that's a darn good year for our lil' old southern-fried football conference.