re: SEC athletes who are considered tGOAT in their sport

I'm not sure about any of these, including anyone mentioned in the replies except on a positional basis in football. There are a few reasonable suggestions for those in this thread.

Shaq was strong, but if we're talking contemporaneous domination by a center, Wilt was far more dominant in his era, and, sorry, Jordan is still the GOAT as a basketball player in general. Pistol Pete is criminally underrated by modern fans, granted, mainly because most of them have never bothered to actually watch a lot of old tape on him. But I still wouldn't call him GOAT.

And so on. Granted, I don't know much about the less-heralded college sports (T&F, swimming, baseball, tennis, etc) but since people who certainly know more than me haven't been able to come up with a consensus GOAT so far in this thread, I'm dubious. Some, like gymnastics, are absolutely not going to come from a college, and others, like golf and tennis, are less likely to be former college players. Sure you have the occasional Tiger Woods/Stanford, but sports where people go pro early without restrictions by the governing body aren't going to attract as many straight to college.