re: Schools that have never won an SEC Football Championship

Now you are in a very different conference. No more easy as hell Big 12 titles and 2-3 tough conference games. Bump this when you win the SEC in Football.

LSU hasn't lost the SEC Championship game 8 times

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the middle of basketball, baseball is just starting conference play. Fish are biting, turkey season is around the corner and peak mountain bike season and this dork is talking football

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www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football

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Well Oklahoma has 50 conference championships and that was playing Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, and A&M back when the SEC was irrelevant.

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Thank you for bringing that up. You are right...some of these programs have no historical relevance. Let's look at football national championships claimed from back when these other schools were irrelevant:

Here are current FBS programs and their first recognized football national championship (not consensus...but recognized by a national selection organization, per Wikipedia):

Rutgers - 1869
Michigan - 1901
Vanderbilt - 1906
LSU - 1908
Auburn - 1910
Pitt -1910
Minnesota - 1911
Penn State - 1911
Wisconsin - 1912
Army - 1916
Georgia Tech - 1916
Illinois - 1919
Texas A&M - 1919
Cal - 1920
Georgia - 1920
Notre Dame - 1920
Iowa - 1921
Alabama - 1925
Navy - 1926
Stanford - 1926
USC - 1928
Purdue - 1931
Ohio State - 1933
SMU - 1935
TCU - 1935
Duke - 1936
Tennessee - 1938
Texas - 1941
Oklahoma A&M (now OSU) - 1945
Oklahoma - 1949
Kentucky - 1950
Michigan State - 1951
Maryland - 1951
UCLA - 1954
Ole Miss - 1959
Syracuse - 1959
Missouri - 1960
Washington - 1960
Arizona State - 1970
Nebraska - 1970
Arkansas - 1970
Florida State - 1980
Clemson - 1981
Miami - 1983
Florida - 1984
Colorado - 1990
Utah - 2008
UCF - 2017
Oregon - 2024
Indiana - 2025

So...pre-1933 the SEC could be considered "irrelevant" because members were in the Southern Conference. However 6 of the original members won football national championships before the SEC was founded.

For the teams mentioned in your post:

Texas A&M - won their first championship after 4 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

Both Texas and Oklahoma - won their first championship after 7 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

Nebraska - won their first championship after 9 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

Colorado - won their first championship after 10 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

When exactly was this timeline of "back when the SEC was irrelevant"?

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ole miss

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SEC Champions: 1947, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962, 1963

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LSU hasn't lost the SEC Championship game 8 times

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They got LSU all messed up. I also don't see 6 wins in the SECCG. 5 is close, but the 8 losses is way off.
(Did I miss a win fr LSU, or is it "only" 5?

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Wait! I thought Texas ruled, and owned the SEC?

I thought there was Texas and then the rest of us?

Are you saying they talk shite?

This can't be so.....

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In fairness i have only seen 2 maybe three Texas fans acting that way. Y'all are acting like they are like Tennessee fans.

Oregon - 2024


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Both Texas and Oklahoma - won their first championship after 7 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

Nebraska - won their first championship after 9 founding SEC member schools had already won at least one.

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Not going to say that the SEC was ever irrelevant... but those early SEC team championships are a bit suspect.

Vandy in 1906 lost a game. Auburn in 1910 lost a game. Ga Tech in 1916 tied a game. LSU in 1908, A&M in 1919 and Bama in 1925 were all undefeated.

HOWEVER


During that era...

TEXAS Went undefeated in 1914, 1918, and had just a tie in 1920 and 1923.

They had one loss teams in 1912, and 1913.

OKLAHOMA was undefeated in 1911, 1915, 1918 and in 1920 had one tie.

Nebraska was also undefeated in 1915 and a lot of Husker fans claim a title for that year.

So it is evident that this teams peformed just as well as your SEC teams did during that period... they just weren't awarded championships despite having these great teams.

If you look at period from 1950 to 2005... you can take the Big 8/12 and add Texas (as a 9th team)

The Big 8 and Texas had fifteen National Championships compared to the SEC's twelve.

That immediately changed in 2006 to the present... but for that 45 years... there were other conferences that were equal to the SEC.,..

The Big 8 might have been the best conference in the country (at the top) in the early 1970s. In 1971 the Big 8 finished 1,2,3 in the country and obliterated the top two SEC team in bowl games during the process.