re: Can someone explain how exactly SEC football was so much cooler 30 years ago?

1994 was when Florida was dominating with Spurrier. He came into the SEC passing the ball with a spread offense, which no one else was doing at that time (people threw it some, but not in the style he did). No one could stop his offense and every coach had to revamp how they played defense.

1994 was when LSU had Curly Hallman and sucked.

Bama was still pretty good and was about the only team who could sometimes slow Spurrier down.

Auburn was still on their 20 game win streak and beat Spurrier in both 1993 and 94.

Georgia was very mediocre if I recall.

UT was decent, but never could beat Florida.