re: Has the SEC been down for the last 2 years? (with stats)

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have always been of the opinion that having 5-6 elite programs

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We've never had 5 or 6 elite teams in a given year. We only had one team in the first half of the decade that even got to play for a national championship. Plus you're acting like these teams were elite every year. Auburn lost 23 to 0 to USC in 2003.

Look at the number of 10 win seasons that teams had over the first 8 years of decade. LSU was one of the best teams and they had 5. Georgia had 5. Tennessee had 4. Florida only had 3. People forget that they weren't good during the Zook years. Auburn is elite yet they've only had 2 10 win seasons. Look at the number of 7, 8, or even losing record seasons some of these teams had in the decade. They're not elite every year like people are making it out.

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better than having 2 and a bunch of average and suck teams.

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Last year we had 2 teams in the top 6 and 4 teams in the top 15. That is as good as any year in the SEC.

This year we'll have 2 in the top 5 and probably 4 in the top 25. We also had 10 bowl eligible teams.

We're about where we always are.