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re: Is there a consensus #2 football program in the SEC, historically?
Posted on 7/11/23 at 10:26 am to MizzouTrue
Posted on 7/11/23 at 10:26 am to MizzouTrue
10 years ago, it was Tennessee without question. Right now, it's a discussion between Tennessee/Georgia/LSU
Next year, #2 is Oklahoma
Next year, #2 is Oklahoma
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Posted on 7/11/23 at 10:37 am to Bama Bird
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10 years ago, it was Tennessee without question. Right now, it's a discussion between Tennessee/Georgia/LSU
Next year, #2 is Oklahoma
Nationally, Oklahoma can make the claim with NCs. But it would seem that SEC success has a lot to do with SEC championships as well. The Sooners won't be bringing their conference championships with them.
Posted on 7/11/23 at 11:57 am to Bama Bird
Gtfo. 20+ years ago, maybe.
Posted on 7/11/23 at 12:45 pm to Bama Bird
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Next year, #2 is Oklahoma
Nope. You don’t earn it by playing patsies all season long. I would have Georgia, LSU and Tennessee in a dead heat. The case could be made for all three. It pains me to say it but Georgia has the upper hand right now.
This post was edited on 7/11/23 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 7/11/23 at 12:49 pm to Bama Bird
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Next year, #2 is Oklahoma
Posted on 7/11/23 at 12:55 pm to Bama Bird
Tennessee hasn’t won the sec in 25 years
Posted on 7/11/23 at 6:09 pm to Bama Bird
Oklahoma and Texas will be absent from rankings until they can win a national championship while members of the SEC. Sooners are an automatic #2 in the SEC when that happens. Nationally it’s obvious OU is top five. Conference-wise, OU is unranked.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:55 pm to Bama Bird
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it's a discussion between Tennessee/Georgia/LSU
Thats is fine if you look at raw data. But if you really want to do a deep dive and get real about the data, you have to include Auburn.
Here is why:
AL.com did a deep dive several years ago that included the winning percentage of the opponents of every SEC team.
AU has played the toughest schedule of any SEC team over the entire history of the SEC BY FAR. It is not even close. AU's historical strength of schedule vs any other SEC team is so far beyond any other SEC team to make it essentailly incomparable.
It is pretty impossible to quantify what an average SEC schedule would have meant in terms of wins , losses and championships for AU, but I suspect it would put AU right there with a legit arguement as the second best program in SEC history.
AU's traditional rivals were Bama, UGA, FL, and Tenn. And AU has played LSU a lot and AU played Vandy regularly when Vandy was one of the best teams in the SEC along with Geogia Tech.
The AL.com analysis which simply compiled the win loss schedule of SEC opponents for all SEC teams was pretty mind blowing. I do not remember the excact rankings, but AU was in a different universe, Bama was last or second to last (I know Bama can't play Bama) and LSU was in the middle. Don't remeber where UGA or UT shook out.
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