BEST and WORST Ten Year Periods for each SEC Team

In terms of winning percentage (Post WW2):

BEST TEN YEAR PERIODS:

89.2%- Alabama (1971-1980)
86.0%- Ole Miss (1954-1963)
82.9%- Tennessee (1989-1998)
82.0%- Florida (1990-1999)
81.1%- LSU (2003-2012)
79.3%- Texas A&M (1985-1994)
78.0%- Arkansas (1961-1970)
77.2%- Auburn (1954-1963)
76.4%- Georgia (1978-1987)
76.2%- Missouri (1960-1969)
70.4%- Kentucky (1946-1955)
65.4%- S. Carolina (2004-2013)
57.8%- Miss. St. (1991-2000)
53.4%- Vanderbilt (1946-1955)


WORST TEN YEAR PERIODS:

51.2%- Tennessee (2005-2014)
50.0%- Alabama (1949-1958)
47.6%- LSU (1948-1957)
45.7%- Georgia (1949-1958)
45.1%- Arkansas (1945-1954)
45.0%- Florida (1946-1955)
42.9%- Ole Miss (1979-1988)
38.5%- Auburn (1945-1954)
38.5%- S. Carolina (1959-1968)
32.7%- Texas A&M (1963-1972)
30.8%- Miss. St. (1964-1973)
30.2%- Kentucky (1966-1975)
28.8%- Missouri (1985-1994)
22.3%- Vanderbilt (1995-2004)


Interesting Points:

*As bad as Tennessee's recent period has been (2005-2014), its actually the "best" worst ten year period of any of the current 14 SEC programs.

*A total of SIX current SEC programs experienced their worst 10-year periods during a time that straddled the 1940s and 1950s (Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, Georgia, and Arkansas)

*A total of FIVE SEC programs emerged from their program low water mark by winning an SEC Championship within 3 seasons after hitting that low:
Auburn's worst years were from 1945-1954... Won Title in 1957
LSU's worst years were from 1948-1957... Won Title in 1958
Georgia's worst years were from 1949-1958... Won Title in 1959
Alabama's worst years were from 1949-1958... Won Title in 1961
Kentucky's worst years were from 1966-1975... Won Title in 1977

*TWELVE of the 14 SEC programs are currently experiencing a decade of football in which they've been over the .500 mark. Kentucky (.440) and Vanderbilt (.401) fall short.

*The last time each program looked back at a 10-year period in which they had a losing record (Post WW2):

Never- Tennessee
Never- Alabama
1955- Florida
1956- Auburn
1964- Georgia
1975- Texas A&M
1999- Arkansas
1999- LSU
2005- Missouri
2007- S. Carolina
2013- Mississippi St.
2014- Ole Miss
Current- Kentucky
Current- Vanderbilt

*The Quickest Turn-Around from a post WW2 low to a high:
Example: Auburn's worst 10-year period was from 1945-1954. Their best ten-year period was from 1954-1963. From 1954-1963 was ten seasons.

10 seasons: Auburn (from 1954 to 1963)
16 seasons: Arkansas (from 1954-1970)
22 seasons: Alabama (from 1958 to 1980)
22 seasons: Texas A&M (from 1972 to 1994)
27 seasons: Miss. St. (from 1973 to 2000)
29 seasons: Georgia (from 1958 to 1987)
44 seasons: Florida (from 1955 to 1999)
45 seasons: S. Carolina (from 1968 to 2013)
55 seasons: LSU (from 1957 to 2012)

*Number of seasons in which a program could enjoy the fact that its previous 10-year winning percentage was better than 70.0% (all post-WW2):

38 seasons- Alabama
27 seasons- Tennessee
25 seasons- Florida
23 seasons- Arkansas
22 seasons- Georgia
20 seasons- Auburn
19 seasons- LSU
18 seasons- Ole Miss
10 seasons- Texas A&M
5 seasons- Missouri

South Carolina, Mississippi State, Kentucky, nor Vanderbilt have ever enjoyed a 10-year period of greater than 70% win %.

*Last year in which a team could look back and say they had won 70% or more of its games over the previous decade:

current- Florida (25 straight seasons of being able to claim that)
current- Georgia (12)
current- LSU (9)
current- Alabama (6)
2013- Auburn
2007- Tennessee
2001- Texas A&M
1989- Arkansas
1971- Ole Miss
1970- Missouri