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re: Were the 90's the most balanced the SEC has ever been?
Posted on 8/21/18 at 7:48 am to MosesRAB93
Posted on 8/21/18 at 7:48 am to MosesRAB93
Ahh, the glory days!
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Posted on 8/21/18 at 7:49 am to jvilletiger25
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Were the 90's the most balanced the SEC has ever been?
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No. 2000-2010 was
Auburn, Bama, UF, and LSU all won NCs. Then you had a really good thUGA with Mark Richt, Arkansas with Bobby Petrino, and tGOAT Ole Ball Coach at South Carolina.
Yeah, I agree. The 90's were really just Florida and Tennessee (who could never seem to beat Florida). You had a couple of good Alabama teams in the early 90s, but they were inconsistent after that.
Was the SEC even the premier conference then? It seems like the Big 10 (Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State) along with the Big 12 (Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas State) were viewed as the best conferences.
This post was edited on 8/21/18 at 7:51 am
Posted on 8/21/18 at 7:58 am to Drebin
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No offense to you personally, but I hate this argument. Anytime someone other than Alabama wins a division, we have to hear that the SEC is down, or it's weak, or whatever.
Alabama won the SEC West in five out of the eight years divisions existed in the 90s. They would have won the SEC West a sixth time had divisions existed in 1991. And that's the point I'm trying to make. The SEC in the 1990s generally consisted of Alabama and the winner of the Florida-Tennessee game. And Alabama was a distant third in terms of overall strength when you put those teams side-by-side.
Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee were the only three teams to win SEC titles in the 90s. Compare that to six different programs in the 80s and five different programs in the 00s. It becomes quite obvious that the SEC was in a down period in the 90s as far as overall competition is concerned. LSU was going through its worst decade ever, Georgia was mediocre, and Auburn was about as bi-polar as they have ever been.
Literally the only schools making waves on a national level at that particular time were Florida and Tennessee. Alabama won a lot in the early and mid-90s but they rarely had the talent to defeat Florida in Atlanta.
Posted on 8/21/18 at 8:29 am to LSUbase13
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I can't quite remember if it was the 90's or early 2000's, but I remember losing $1,000 (two $500 bets) on Alabama beating UCLA.
That was 2000 & 2001.
Deshaun Foster was a MAN.
Posted on 8/21/18 at 8:30 am to TIGERSPIKE
quote:Pretty much this.
We followed up a 5 win season with an undefeated season and a few nice years and then follow up a SECCG appearance and 10 win season with a 3 win season.
AU football is always the same: horribly inconsistent
Posted on 8/21/18 at 10:15 am to NATidefan
LSU took the 90's off.
Posted on 8/21/18 at 10:18 am to NATidefan
2008-2012 IMO. SEC was stacked those years with Bama, LSU, Auburn, Arkansas under Petrino, MSU rising to the middle under Mullen, Nutts first 2 years at OM, Spurrier at USC, Florida and Meyer in 08, Georgia was good, Kentucky had a couple decent years.
Posted on 8/21/18 at 11:01 am to NATidefan
Florida absolutely crushed their annual opponents in the SEC during the 90's. Meaning the East and LSU. The rest of the West would win some games vs UF but we spanked the shite out of the SEC teams we played every year. We were 9-1 vs LSU, 9-1 vs Georgia, 7-3 vs Tennessee, 8-0 vs South Carolina, 8-0 vs Vanderbilt, and of course 10-0 vs Kentucky.
So that would be 51-5.
And many of these were beatdowns, so for all the youngsters, this is why Spurrier is still reviled by many.
So that would be 51-5.
And many of these were beatdowns, so for all the youngsters, this is why Spurrier is still reviled by many.
This post was edited on 8/21/18 at 11:04 am
Posted on 8/21/18 at 11:04 am to stat19
LSU sucked in the 90s but they managed to derail a couple of our seasons, especially 1995. It was the ultimate voodoo type game that we lost like 12-9 or something like that. We lost to UF in a good game and somehow found a way to lose to Arky by 1. After that LSU game though it seemed like the season was cursed.
Posted on 8/21/18 at 11:07 am to NATidefan
It would've been interesting if FSU had joined.
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