re: SEC football programs that have never been to an SEC championship game.

^^I explained why that errored occurred although you may have missed the edit. I didn't lionize them, particularly if you know how this team has been treated by fans, especially, but also non-fans. Ainge was frustrating as frick and Arian's fumbles were momentum swings (the one @UCLA was at the 1 freaking yard line and he also had bad fumbles at UF -- both loses). BUT my point was that they were a good team despite it all (10 wins and all road losses is nothing to sneeze at, especially, when those were ranked teams on the road). But a myth has been built up around them that they sucked.

The only SECE loss they had was to #3 UF at the Swamp. The unforgivable SEC loss was at Bama.

Kinda funny you said I lionized them when I actually said fans accused them of 'backing into the SECCG' as an example of the standards they and other Big 6 schools are held to - especially when they're not in a downcycle/slump. Fulmer got fired in part because merely appearing in the SECCG wasn't enough for fans. It would've been the same had we won.

ETA: One article addressing the 07 SECCG mentions 01 as the last appearance between LSU and UT:

Per 2007 SECCG wiki proper:

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The 2007 SEC Championship Game was played on December 1, 2007 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The game determined the 2007 football champion of the Southeastern Conference. The LSU Tigers, winners of the Western division of the SEC, defeated the Tennessee Volunteers, who won the Eastern division, by a score of 21-14. This was the second time the two teams have met in the conference championship game.

The first time was in 2001 when LSU defeated Tennessee, 31-20. The loss knocked the Volunteers, ranked #2 at the time, out of the BCS National Championship Game which was played at the 2002 Rose Bowl.

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