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re: Origination of "SEC" chant?
Posted on 2/12/13 at 4:42 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 2/12/13 at 4:42 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
The chant may be as old as the conference itself for all I know. However, the "S-E-C!" chant was popularized at the 2007 BCS National Championship Game when Florida waxed Ohio State. That was the first time it really got into the collective consciousness of the college football world.
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Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:03 pm to TxTiger82
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The original beatdown of a heisman trophy winner and a #1 team
Yep. Thanks for that. Got us into the natty the next year.
Well, except for the time we beat down Jason White in the 2003 national championship game
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:04 pm to Choctaw
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i chanted it against TCU during the 1936 Sugar Bowl
Well that explains why you're so senile when it comes to LSU football.......you're old
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:14 pm to TxTiger82
I remember chanting SEC as Texass fans were running out of the 2000 Cotton Bowl during the 3rd Qt.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:15 pm to packdaddy75
Its been commonplace for a long time.
Georgia fans chanted "SEC" at Arkansas fans in the 1991 Indy Bowl.
Georgia fans chanted "SEC" at Arkansas fans in the 1991 Indy Bowl.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:21 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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can assure you, it hadn't nothing to do with A&M
Ummm, so it did have something to do with A&M then?
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:22 pm to scrooster
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I was in Central America at the time. Had been dealing with some bad guys down in Honduras and Costa Rica, but this particular weekend I caught a hop over to Panama City, Panama for a little R & R with a couple of sweet Colombian babes named Claudia and Victoria. Light skinned green eyed beauties who loved them some American greenback along with my johnson.
Willie, is that you? If it is this is Joe. How the hell have you been.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:22 pm to Grateful Reb
My assumption for a long time is that it was a way to haze the 1991 members.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:54 pm to wmr
It is a secret held in the closet of the PAC for fear their pride and joy of a thing they called the Rose Bowl would be diminished by a game with a school they were supposed to dominate and show how bad football was in the south. An invitation was issued to former SEC school Tulane (9-0-1 that season) but was declined as the Green Wave had obligations to their studies first and did not want to interrupt their schooling. In their place another Tide was substituted from the great state of Alabama.
By halftime the mighty Huskies were up 12 - 0 on the visiting Tide from Alabama and it looked like they were primed to shutout the Wallace Wade led team from tiny Tuscaloosa. In the 3rd quarter the Tide rolled in and rattled off 20 straight points to take the lead and never let go. When the dust had settled at the end of the game the scoreboard showed 20 - 19 in favor of the scrappy team from the south. As the dejected Husky fans were departing the stadium a light chant could be heard from the faithful who remained to show the powerful Pacific Coast Conference who had beaten them and the "So Con, So Con" chant was born.
After a few more Rose Bowl wins by the So Con the Pacific Coast Conference vowed not to invite them anymore and shifted to the Big 9 so they could post better game results. In 1932 this team would split with 12 other teams to form a new conference called the SEC with the fellow from UK being installed as the first president. In the 1950's the Pacific Coast Conference would be caught cheating so badly that the entire conference was disbanded and reformed a few years later as the PAC as they are know today. Their decision to drop the SoCon teams in favor of the Big 9 (now B1G) would prove a wise decision as it avoided decades of future beat downs by SEC teams.
Next time you are beating an OCC team in any sport just remember while chanting S E C, S E C , S E C to throw in an occasional "So Con, So Con, So Con" just to let them know you know the history.
By halftime the mighty Huskies were up 12 - 0 on the visiting Tide from Alabama and it looked like they were primed to shutout the Wallace Wade led team from tiny Tuscaloosa. In the 3rd quarter the Tide rolled in and rattled off 20 straight points to take the lead and never let go. When the dust had settled at the end of the game the scoreboard showed 20 - 19 in favor of the scrappy team from the south. As the dejected Husky fans were departing the stadium a light chant could be heard from the faithful who remained to show the powerful Pacific Coast Conference who had beaten them and the "So Con, So Con" chant was born.
After a few more Rose Bowl wins by the So Con the Pacific Coast Conference vowed not to invite them anymore and shifted to the Big 9 so they could post better game results. In 1932 this team would split with 12 other teams to form a new conference called the SEC with the fellow from UK being installed as the first president. In the 1950's the Pacific Coast Conference would be caught cheating so badly that the entire conference was disbanded and reformed a few years later as the PAC as they are know today. Their decision to drop the SoCon teams in favor of the Big 9 (now B1G) would prove a wise decision as it avoided decades of future beat downs by SEC teams.
Next time you are beating an OCC team in any sport just remember while chanting S E C, S E C , S E C to throw in an occasional "So Con, So Con, So Con" just to let them know you know the history.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 5:59 pm to WG_Dawg
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WG_Dawg
You seem awfully butthurt about the whole thing
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How do you know when the "national conscious" started to recognize things?
When you hear it talked about on TV, talked about on radio and written about in print/internet
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I'm pretty sure LSU fans started it
Started no, popularized yes
Posted on 2/12/13 at 6:46 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
That is exactly where it started.
At least that was the first time I had heard SEC chanted at a ball game.
At least that was the first time I had heard SEC chanted at a ball game.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:15 pm to DaleDenton
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Arkansas chanted it against Texas after the win in LR in 1991, but it wouldn't be the first time Bama copied us, look at their uniforms they still use today...
We did it then and when we won the SWC basketball tournament title that year.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:22 pm to RollTide1987
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The chant may be as old as the conference itself for all I know. However, the "S-E-C!" chant was popularized at the 2007 BCS National Championship Game when Florida waxed Ohio State. That was the first time it really got into the collective consciousness of the college football world.
This! After an undefeated Auburn had been ignored and left out of the NC game, we had the Ohio St/Michigan game of the century. The winner would be the NC. Then Florida came in and WHIPPED THAT arse!!! The SEC! SEC! chant was announcing to the rest of the NCAA that we were the best conference in college football and any NC game excluding the SEC champs would be illegitimate.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 8:07 pm to Choctaw
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LSU v Ohio State NC
First time I heard the chant was at the 1991 Independence Bowl when we lost to Georgia.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 8:29 pm to wmr
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My assumption for a long time is that it was a way to haze the 1991 members.
See, when Georgia did it to us in '92, I wanna say that was the first SEC game of the season that year in Columbia, we all looked at it as if they were welcoming us into the SEC.
But then again we Gamecocks are a glass half full bunch for the most part. We rarely see anything in the negative ... except that one time when Spurrier was running up the score on us in '95 like 63-7 and still throwing the ball late in the 4th qtr ... we did the tomahawk chop. I think he regrets doing that these days.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 8:31 pm to scrooster
When SC whipped that big orange arse in 92.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 8:32 pm to Jake88
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"By the 1980s, the SEC boasted national champs, NCAA sanctions, and bumper stickers that read "Herschel Walker Is My Cousin." But there was still no SEC chant, no conference-wide brotherhood. "I don't have a recollection of anybody caring about anybody this way," says Paul Finebaum, a Birmingham sports radio host."
Worthless source.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 9:52 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Rammer Jammer was becoming so cliche. And the rest is hysteria.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 9:56 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
I read that it was in fact Tulane that started the "SEC SEC" chanting.......during what would be a 52-0 route of Virginia Military Institute in 1939. Sometime in the early stages of the 4th quarter, Tulane fans started the chant, and the Keydet cadets in the stands for VMI lifted their long rifles towards the sky and fired them all at once. At that point the chants stopped......
Posted on 2/12/13 at 10:40 pm to TxTiger82
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Pretty sure Florida originated after they waxed tOSU in 2006.
Yeah I remember one of the Florida players in the locker room after the game saying that there were about 5 other SEC teams that would have beat Ohio State that year.
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