Race to the Bowl: the SEC bowl race
Every SEC team plays 12 regular season games, and six wins is the number that makes a team bowl eligible. This page tracks all 16 of them against that line: how many wins each has, how many are still needed, and who can no longer get there. Records are entered by hand each week from published standings.
Through week 2
No SEC team has reached 6 wins yet.
Kentucky1-1, 5 wins to go
Alabama2-0, 4 wins to go
Arkansas1-1, 5 wins to go
Auburn2-0, 4 wins to go
Florida2-0, 4 wins to go
Georgia2-0, 4 wins to go
LSU2-0, 4 wins to go
Mississippi State2-0, 4 wins to go
Missouri2-0, 4 wins to go
Oklahoma1-1, 5 wins to go
Ole Miss2-0, 4 wins to go
South Carolina2-0, 4 wins to go
Tennessee2-0, 4 wins to go
Texas2-0, 4 wins to go
Texas A&M2-0, 4 wins to go
Vanderbilt2-0, 4 wins to go
Each step is one win. The dashed line is 6 wins, where a team becomes bowl eligible, and the track runs the full 12 game regular season. Tap a lane for its record.
Race to the Bowl board. The same records are in the standings table below.
| Team | Record | Wins to a bowl |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Auburn | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Florida | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Georgia | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| LSU | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Mississippi State | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Missouri | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Ole Miss | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| South Carolina | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Tennessee | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Texas | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Texas A&M | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Vanderbilt | 2-0 | 4 wins to go |
| Arkansas | 1-1 | 5 wins to go |
| Kentucky | 1-1 | 5 wins to go |
| Oklahoma | 1-1 | 5 wins to go |
How bowl eligibility works
A team becomes bowl eligible by winning 6 of its 12 regular season games. Eligibility is not the same as an invitation: it makes a team available to be selected, and the bowls do the selecting once the regular season ends. Because six wins out of twelve games leaves no room to spare, a 7th loss ends the chase arithmetically, which is why teams at that mark are listed here as eliminated rather than still climbing.