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re: SEC Standings Since 1933

Posted on 12/22/17 at 8:39 pm to
Posted by Doc Fenton
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Posted on 12/22/17 at 8:39 pm to
I've found that the media guide usually has quite a few errors and inconsistencies in the way they report this stuff.
Posted by Korin
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Posted on 12/22/17 at 8:42 pm to
Such as?
Posted by Doc Fenton
New York, NY
Member since Feb 2007
52698 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 8:47 pm to
I've posted my own accounting of all-time records elsewhere, but there are several screwy things that affects this stuff, which is why it's so hard to see consistent reporting of it online.

You can have stuff like Sewanee's 1940 game against Vanderbilt, which the SEC office apparently counts as a conference game, even though Sewanee has clearly already moved to being an independent that season. But then, as another poster was saying, there may have been some grandfather clauses to allow remaining teams to count their contractually agreed to games as conference games, even though the other team had already left the conference.

Then there are the rare SEC-vs-SEC bowl matchups, which I count as having occurred 10 times in history between the 1952 and 2011 seasons. Then there are the 26 SECCG.

EDIT: There's also weird stuff like Kentucky claiming a co-share of the 1976 SEC title (with UGA) retroactively in 1978, after the SEC office made MSU forfeit a 1976 conference win over UK in Jackson.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 8:51 pm
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