re: Is there a consensus #2 football program in the SEC, historically?

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AP or UPI/Coaches only

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Pretty disingenuous to limit to just these polls while holding this sentiment

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(Bowls are a useless metric)

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Polls are historically incredibly biased toward northeastern media (understandably so up until the 70s/80s as majority of the subscribers lived in the northeast/Midwest). The AP and Coaches are quite different over the past 30+ years compared to the 1920s-1960s (just like the bowls).

Speaking of which, the teams you’re looking at have been in consistent competition for the same bowl games with approximately the same resources for their whole program histories so I don’t understand excluding bowls from the conversation.