🏈 As a conference, the SEC sets a new record/mark over other conferences...yet, it hasn't been mention

[TerryP]

I'll preface this with a note: With the conclusions of OU's season, they now have the most 10 win seasons in NCAA history with 32. We are at 31 and will be at 32 coming early Tuesday morning.

That said...here's one you haven't heard about the SEC as a whole.

There are a few conferences in football that have had three 11 win teams in a season. There's never been four.

There are a handful of conferences that can boast having four 10 win teams in a given season—more than once in most occasions.

The SEC in 2006, 2003, 1997, 1996, and 1971. As another example, the Big 12 in 2008, 2007, 2003, 2001.

However, up until last night there has NEVER been a conference with four 11 win teams in a given season—Bama, LSU, UArk and USCe—or five teams with 10 wins in a season (add UGA at 10-4.)

**For you Excel users...the guy that put this together took it back to 1894...over 12,000 rows. Yah, that's a little work.**

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Nice!

 

[LBS]

I hear regularly that we are a conference with a couple of really good teams at the top, while the rest are good at best.

10 wins has been the standard for quality for as long as I can remember. Having nearly half your conference at/above that level is one of those factoids that no one can argue. Let me underscore that by speaking to the strength of the wins that did occur for these 5 schools.

These 5 teams had 12 games each which equals 60 games. LSU and UGA each play an additional game in Atlanta to bring the total to 62 games played before the bowls. Each will play a bowl game to bring the total to 67 games.

Of these 67 games, there were only 2 losses to teams NOT among these five. In other words it takes one of these five to beat one of these five.

• South Carolina lost a game to Auburn, the defending national champion and an eventual bowl winner themselves.
• UGA lost to Boise State, who finished 12-1 themselves and won their bowl game too.

To counter the potential for someone now saying that the SEC is a conference with 5 really good teams and 7 cupcakes, I'll ask how did the SEC's non-10-win school do. Only three did not do well enough to get invited to a bowl game (Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Tennessee), so 4 of the 7 were bowl teams. These 4 went 3-1 in bowl games, quality indeed. That one loss was perrinial cellar-dweller Vandy losing by 7 to co-Big East Champ Cincinnati who almost went to the BCS Orange Bowl.

 

[TerryP]

Good stuff!!!

 

[Swamptick]

The anti-Southern media bigotry continues.

 

[TerryP]

The anti-Southern media bigotry continues.

I still don't see that.

They acknowledge that an SEC team is going to lose in this years BCSNC game. In fact, they've gone as far as to publicly say it...every last one of them.

With six in a row there's not a lot more to be said. It's just a point of looking even deeper at what's going on right now.

 

[bamafan4ever]

The anti-Southern media bigotry continues.

Not only anti-Southern bigotry by the media but if you read any of the national blogs (which I can barely stomach) vitriol toward the south with a focus on Alabama is at an all-time high. Must be doing something right!

Edit: Terry...when I refer to media with the bigotry, I am referring a lot to columnists which are almost hailed as factual journalists.

 

[Bo]

Last night in the Cotton Bowl you could tell the announcers wanted UArk tp lose so bad they were almost in pain.

A down year in the SEC, and we are still what, 5-2 in the bowls? And really should be 7-0.

 

[TerryP]

Not only anti-Southern bigotry by the media but if you read any of the national blogs (which I can barely stomach) vitriol toward the south with a focus on Alabama is at an all-time high. Must be doing something right!

Edit: Terry...when I refer to media with the bigotry, I am referring a lot to columnists which are almost hailed as factual journalists.

Greg, there are a couple of thoughts I have on what you've said here. But, I'll go with this one to start.

Bigotry or bias? Or, perhaps just smart journalism?

You see so many people saying "don't click on that site and support _____" when there's something "critical" of the program, this team, or our recently renewed success. If I'm a writer with no real allegiance to a team, on this stage to boot, and can throw something out there I KNOW will incite? I'm doing it, quickly.

Traffic.

You should have seen how I was blasted for a piece on AL.com back in '09 when I said I didn't think LSU could win. A lot of traffic from LSU fans.

As an aside, look at the topics available for discussion right now.

• Does Bama belong.
• The game Nov. 5th.
• Sandusky
• Paterno
• Recruiting
• The draft.

What's your choice? There are two other options there that are legit—for you and me—but the majority of those that watch Sportscenter, etc., don't follow high school kids.

The draft? Already being covered: extensively.

 

[bamagirl917]

Is well written

Daily tell you a proverb

A good medicine tastes bitter.
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[planomateo]

spam....

 

[bamatommy]

The anti-Southern media bigotry continues.

True.

 

[gregkelley]

I agree.