re: Which of the past ten SEC Championship teams was the best?

Do not let the BCS Title game cloud the OP's original question. Two weeks ago, you'd have almost certainly had to say LSU, 2011. No other team out there had beaten that type opposition.

Regardless of what happened in the BCS game, name another team this year that won 13 games and can say they beat the SEC East Champion, the eventual Nat'l Champion, the Rose Bowl Champion, the Orange Bowl Champion, and the Cotton Bowl Champion, to name a few.

You can't.

We will hang the SEC West and SEC Championship banners, and wait patiently on this coming Fall...