Toughest/deepest years in SEC since expansion?

2010, at least in the West

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What merger?

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Travis is talking about the NBA/ABA merger imo

lol damn it

Looked up 2006 and not so strong after all


UF champ

Auburn and LSU finished very high in polls

Yet somehow Arkansas finished unranked and won the west? Is that right did they get raped in a bow or something

UGA was top 15 or so and tenn just made it at 24 or so

Didn't make any sense that's why I asked

Here's the shite poll I went to and of course I'm a dumbass and didn't see it was preseason and thought ok maybe this is regular season only? But still dumb as hell I know

Fricking preseason rankings poppin up first on google wtf

LINK

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Toughest/deepest years in SEC since expansion?

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Judging by Final AP Points, here were the SEC's strongest years since 1992:

#1 2012- 116 pts (#1 AL, #5 UGA, #5 A&M, #8 SCAR, #9 UF, #14 LSU #23 VAN)
#2 2013- 108 pts (#2 AU, #4 SCAR, #5 MIZ, #7 AL, #14 LSU, #18 A&M, #24 VAN)
#3 2011- 94 pts (#1 AL, #2 LSU, #5 ARK, #9 SCAR, #19 UGA)
#4 1997- 89 pts (#4 UF, #7 UT, #10 UGA, #11 AU, #13 LSU, #22 OM)
#5 2010- 88 pts (#1 AU, #8 LSU, #10 AL, #12 ARK, #15 MSU, #22 SCAR)

Here are the 5 weakest years by the same measure:

#19TIE 2009- 63 pts (#1 AL, #3 UF, #17 LSU, #20 OM)
#19TIE 1994- 63 pts (#5 AL, #7 UF, 9 AU, #22 LSU, #24 MSU)
#21TIE 2015- 56 pts (#1 AL, #10 OM, #16 LSU, #22 UT, #25 UF)
#21TIE 1995- 56 pts (#2 UF, #3 UT, 21 AL, #22 AU)
#23 2002- 50 pts (#3 UGA, #11 AL, #14 AU)
#24 2000- 43 pts (#10 UF, #18 AU, #19 SCAR, #20 UGA, #22 LSU, #242 MSU)

The weakest year turns out to be 2000. No teams in the Final Top 9.... and 5 teams ranked between #18 and #24). That year there was just a ton of parity with no great teams.

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Here are the 5 weakest years by the same measure:

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Intersting. I know one talking point our rivals try to point out is that UGA only wins the east when it's weak.

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#19TIE 2009- 63 pts
#19TIE 1994- 63 pts
#21TIE 2015- 56 pts
#21TIE 1995- 56 pts
#23 2002- 50 pts
#24 2000- 43 pts

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Who won the east in these years when the league was very down?

UF- 5 times
UGA- 1 time

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#24 2000

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#242 MSU

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I didn't think we were talking all-time rankings..??

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2010

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2010 for the SEC West will in all likelihood never be topped by a conference division ever again... 5 teams in the Final Top 15

#1 AU
#8 LSU
#10 AL
#12 ARK
#15 MSU

However, the SEC East could only muster one ranked team that year in #22 South Carolina... a team that finished the year with 5 losses.