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re: Is there a consensus #2 football program in the SEC, historically?
Posted on 7/11/23 at 7:24 pm to DawgsLife
Posted on 7/11/23 at 7:24 pm to DawgsLife
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Gee. I wonder why you chose 1979 as the cutoff point. I'm sure there must be a reason. If only I could think.
Gee, probably because I was responding to a post insinuating that Auburn not Florida were not Big 6 until the 1980s. The exact comment:
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To be fair, Big 6 membership has changed greatly over the years. From the SEC's start in 1933 until the 1980s Auburn and Florida had won only 1 SEC title combined
Obviously showing we were easily Top 5 in the SEC at the conclusion of the 1970s is the way to refute that.
This post was edited on 7/11/23 at 7:34 pm
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Posted on 7/11/23 at 7:36 pm to AUTiger789
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Obviously showing we were easily Top 5 in the SEC at the conclusion of the 1970s is the way to do that.
A team that had been the best team in the conference exactly 1 time, in 46 years was top 5?
Bama obviously had more
UT had 8
UGA had 7
Ole Miss had 6
LSU had 5
AU had one, like MSU and KY. Less than GT (5)who left the conference 15 years earlier. Less than Tulane (3).
I respect AU history, but it’s hard to say a team that had won the conference so rarely was “easily top 5”
Posted on 7/12/23 at 5:20 am to AUTiger789
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Gee, probably because I was responding to a post insinuating that Auburn not Florida were not Big 6 until the 1980s.
There was no Big Six until the 1980s/90s. Entering the 80s, Auburn had one conference championship while Florida had none. Pat Dye made Auburn into a nationally respected program in the 1980s while Steve Spurrier turned Florida into a powerhouse during the 1990s.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 8:06 am to AUTiger789
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I was responding to a post insinuating that Auburn not Florida were not Big 6 until the 1980s.
this isn't rocket science.
The term and concept of "big 6" didn't exist until 1992 when the league split into divisions. You had 3 big boys on one side and 3 on the other. It was the 6 (of 12 at that point) teams that had historically accomplished the most.
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