re: The "Big 6" in Numbers

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The other members of the "Big 6" (excluding Bama) trying to act like they are in the same league as Bama is worse than the non "Big 6" members acting like they should be grouped with the "Big 6".

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While Bama is certainly way out front... the difference is this:

The other members of the "Big 6" have all won Championsihps, just like Bama. Maybe not as many as Bama, but they've still won them.

Auburn, Florida (3x), Georgia, LSU (2x), and Tennessee have all won National Championships since 1980.

And since 1980, the number of SEC Titles for each program breaks down like this:

8- Alabama
8- Florida
7- Auburn
6- LSU
5- Georgia
5- Tennessee

The other teams in the conference combine for ZERO. While Bama has certainly been the best program of all-time in the SEC, the age of scholarship allotments helped to even things out. The SEC has been remarkably competitive between all 6 of the big programs since 1980

Don't get me wrong, Bama has still been the best program since 1980, but the gap isn't really all that big. Up until about 2011, you could easily make the case that Bama wasn't even the top program in the conference during the era of scholarship allotments.

So in all honesty, the gap nowadays between Bama and the other 5 really isn't as big as the gap between the "Big 6" and the other programs.

And the longer it takes for another program to finally win the SEC, the bigger that gap grows.