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The 2021 SEC football season kicked off last Saturday with a loaded Week 1 slate. In Week 2, we get a small taste of conference play.
Eli Drinkwitz’s Mizzou squad travels to Kentucky to face the fellow 1-0 Wildcats on Saturday night in Lexington, the first game of SEC conference play. The other 12 teams are playing out-of-conference opponents, including No. 15 Texas at Arkansas.
Here’s how ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) projects the outcome of each of the 13 Week 2 games featuring SEC teams:
- Auburn (99.9 percent chance to win) vs. Alabama State
- South Carolina (70.7 percent) at ECU
- Tennessee (41.5 percent) vs. Pitt
- Florida (95.5 percent) at USF
- Georgia (94.3 percent) vs. UAB
- Texas A&M (88 percent) vs. Colorado (Denver)
- Alabama (99.9 percent) vs. Mercer
- Arkansas (33 percent) vs. Texas
- Mississippi State (36.7 percent) vs. NC State
- Ole Miss (98.5 percent) vs. Austin Peay
- Kentucky (69.1 percent) vs. Missouri
- LSU (99.4 percent) vs. McNeese
- Vanderbilt (24 percent) vs. Colorado State
Here’s how ESPN defines the FPI:
FPI is a predictive rating system designed to measure team strength and project performance going forward. The ultimate goal of FPI is not to rank teams 1 through 128; rather, it is to correctly predict games and season outcomes. If Vegas ever published the power rankings it uses to set its lines, they would likely look quite a lot like FPI.
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