re: The SEC’s Top 7 Programs Ranked

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1966, before integration, during the civil rights movement, did not like it that lily white Alabama was destroying everybody on the field. It was politics nothing more, Alabama should have won the 1966 title.

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It was also notre dame love. I think it was 1975 that ND jumped Bama in the final polls after the bowls. Same way miami jumped auburn in 1983

OP misspelled “Big 6.”

11 “tainted” Titles pending completion of NCAA football related open investigations

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HOW are you calculating results? LSU is 2nd/4th/4th...but end up 2nd?

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LSU has more top ten finishes, more weeks in the AP poll, more all Americans, and more NFL draft picks than either UGA or Tennessee

LSU also has better win % than UGA

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After Stallings, they were on a pretty terrible hiring streak.

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I'll grant you Mike DuBose. But his hiring had a lot to do with NCAA sanctions brought about by the Antonio Langham scandal as well as the leadership in both the athletic department (Bob Bockrath) and administration (Andrew Sorenson) at the time. Dennis Franchione was a solid hire and he would have worked out well for us, I think, if not for Albert Means. He got out of there as soon as he could when the extent of the sanctions became known to him. Mike Price was a winner at Washington State and could have worked out in Tuscaloosa but got in trouble with strippers before we could ever find out what he could do. Mike Shula was a desperation hire as it was May 2003 when we fired Price and thus no reputable coach would up and leave at such a late date. When Shula was hired most Alabama fans recognized it for what it was: a placeholder job to get us through probation. After the surprising 10-win season of 2005, there were some who thought Shula could work out, but 2006 sobered us up and he was fired in favor of Saban.

The main thing that has separated Alabama from the rest is going out to hire the best guy they can and not taking no for an answer. LSU has spent most of our history will goofball decision makers making goofball hires. Even when they work out it’s in spite of ourselves.

Yeah and I see that at LSU now as well. In the old days most were more or less satisfied with a “good” year like 96 or 97 (10-2 and 9-3, respectively), now the expectation is to be in the NC mix on at least a semi-regular basis, and finishing in the top 10 is the only way to be considered a good year. That does feed on itself and force the coaches/players to hold themselves to a higher standard.

Ill take it.
Miami
Fsu
Nebraska
Are irrelevant

Florida while good,
won't be pushing for a natty

So if that puts LSU at #2 behind bama I'm okay with that but just remember "WE COMIN'"

Does tennessee deserve #3?

This was a reply to another poster. But this is the reasoning.

Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida are almost interchangeable as programs.

Tennessee and Georgia have 5 more SEC titles than Florida and have been more historically dominant as programs whereas Florida has been pretty average outside of Spurrier and Meyer.

I gave Tennessee the nod over Georgia for having a more recent national title than Georgia and arguably a better history (Although Tennessee has been awful recently, historically they competed with Bama for the #1 program in the SEC)