As the number of expert (and not-so-expert) opinions available on the internet has exploded over the past 20 years, what has been lacking in many of those prognostications is objective data of any sort. While ranking the strength of all position units at this point in the preseason demands some degree of subjective judgment, TideFans.com continues to do its best to add some hard numbers to the mix.
In most years, our Rating the Units feature backs up our subjective analysis of SEC teams, serving as a means of demonstrating how and why certain teams will either succeed or struggle.
Not this year.
For two SEC teams in particular, the unit ratings method yields results wildly different from where we project them to finish. This happens occasionally, but not to the extent we're seeing it happen in 2022. It will make the season even that much more interesting: Are our eyes to be trusted, or will the numbers reign supreme?
In this article, you will be introduced to a scoring system that allows each of the 14 SEC teams to be judged against the other teams in its division – and then against all 13 other teams together, regardless of division – so as to remove some of the subjectivity out of the rankings.
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