That's not as staggering as a little tidbit lurking hidden in those numbers, though. It also makes it even more shocking that it took until the 1980s for them to get their first (vacated) SEC title. Just five times in fifty years? That's amazing. How often did they finish outside of the Top Six in the conference standings, though? Alabama Their average finishes are never lower than Tennessee's 4.74 during the era of 1992 to the present. They're the only six teams (barring Kentucky that one time) to claim SEC titles in the last fifty years. Tennessee only winning the SEC six times during this fifty year stretch is quite amazing, though. So their official number is actually eight. So how do the number of times finishing #1 add up? Alabamaįlorida gets an asterisk because they vacated the 1984 title. It really does make you wonder how they've been that consistently good for fifty years and have only one national title to show for it. Georgia is consistently the 3rd best team in pretty much every era. Not just Florida, but Georgia also tops Alabama in this one. So how do the averages play out during that time frame? Alabama There's also something else that lends credit to Auburn's argument for 1982 as a "Modern Era," but that's for tomorrow's article. It begins with the first time Auburn defeated Alabama in the Iron Bowl since the 1972 Amazin's. Of course, their lone SEC title during that time frame (and only one at all until Spurrier) was vacated, but hey, great job, Gators! 1982 - PresentĪuburn fans judge 1982 to be the beginning of the "Modern Era" of Auburn football. Florida really came on strong during the 1980s and have been winning ever since. Since 1977, the most consistent team in the SEC has been the Florida Gators. If we took 1977 onward to be our base, what then? Alabamaįor the first time, someone has a better average than Alabama. 1977 - PresentĪs I mentioned earlier, Kentucky tied for the SEC title in 1976 with UGA. Alabama's average number in this category is actually the lowest out of all the eras we'll look at. Their average finish of 2.54 is staggering. The system is affected by that, so I decided to see what the numbers were just during the time frame where SEC winning percentage was the metric. The SEC changed the way it awarded championships in 1992 and pretty much changed college football with it. That just goes to prove how good these six teams have been for the last fifty years. What's even more impressive to me is that none of these six teams are higher than Auburn and Tennessee's 4.47. Their average finish of 3.24 is pretty impressive. The average finish for each school is as follows: AlabamaĪlabama is, as expected, the overall best. From the time the run began until right now. Overall 1964-Presentįirst, there's the period as a whole. However, if there's one thing I've come to learn about the SEC, it's that flawed is pretty much normal. From 1992 onward I took the SEC Champion regardless of record and then winning percentages from there regardless of who the opponent in the SEC title game was. From 1964-1992 I used the method the SEC did: winning percentage in conference. This required a bit of manipulation, though. How did the other schools perform? Moreover, how did all of the Big Six perform on average during the Big Six era? Well, we decided to look at that through the eyes of a few different time frames. That's just a measure of conference titles during that time frame, though. ![]() It has to do with scheduling, though, so you can probably figure it out. I plan on discussing that in an article tomorrow. ![]() I'm talking about perfectly legal things. ![]() There are underlying reasons for that beyond just "Alabama and Bear Bryant were really good at this whole football thing." No, I'm not talking about anything nefarious. Oh, and that one year Kentucky tied for it. LSU picked one up in 1970, but between 19 when Pat Dye's Auburn Tigers won the SEC it was all Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Alabama took the vast majority of SEC titles, with UGA and Tennessee snagging one here and there. For most of the 1960s and 70s it was pretty much the Big One. That's an amazing run for those six schools, really. Other than that, it has been since the 1963 Ole Miss Rebels won the title that any team not named Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, or Tennessee has emerged as the football champion of the Southeastern Conference. ![]() They should have tied for it in 1977 as well, but more on that, later. Kentucky tied for the Southeastern Conference crown with Georgia in 1976.
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