With the advent of the Bowl Coalition in 1992. This isn't really even debatable.

From 1957 on, the SEC had some fantastic teams, and even a period of almost 20+ years where Paul Bryant's teams were perennial contenders, but there had been a long drought after the 1980 UGA championship. 1992 was where the game changed.

The Bowl Coalition was created to (in theory) guarantee the top two teams a chance to play at the end of the season, and eliminate some of the old bowl tie-ins that had always prevented this in the past.

Since that time, the SEC has won 9 of 19 national championships, and is almost guaranteed to make it 10 of 20. This will have been accomplished by FIVE different members of the conference.

January 1, 1993 was the day the SEC as a whole decided to make all of CFB its bitch.

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Posted by Luke4LSU

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Posted on 12/2/11 at 11:55 pm to Evolved Simian

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With the advent of the Bowl Coalition in 1992. This isn't really even debatable.

From 1957 on, the SEC had some fantastic teams, and even a period of almost 20+ years where Paul Bryant's teams were perennial contenders, but there had been a long drought after the 1980 UGA championship. 1992 was where the game changed.

The Bowl Coalition was created to (in theory) guarantee the top two teams a chance to play at the end of the season, and eliminate some of the old bowl tie-ins that had always prevented this in the past.

Since that time, the SEC has won 9 of 19 national championships, and is almost guaranteed to make it 10 of 20. This will have been accomplished by FIVE different members of the conference.

January 1, 1993 was the day the SEC as a whole decided to make all of CFB its bitch.

I will go ahead and validate none of that, accept it all as fact, and repeat it ad nauseum during discussions.