re: Who was the worst SEC division winner?

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We struggled against a shitty Vandy team, lost to Louisiana Tech on a Hail Mary, had to bat down a Hail Mary against Arkansas the very next week, somehow managed to beat Florida in the Swamp, looked like arse against Ole Miss and Tennessee, played VERY well against a solid Southern Miss team before nearly losing to 3-8 LSU at home. We struggled against a good (but overrated) Mississippi State team at home before playing poorly against an outmanned Auburn team until depth took control of the game in the fourth quarter.

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I think we have gotten accustomed to never losing to bad teams and never having close games against mediocre teams. Most borderline Top 10 teams that lose 2-3 games have close games with so-so teams (we played Vanderbilt to a 20-10/24-13/19-6 type score basically every year for 3 decades). The biggest outlier with that team was the Louisiana Tech game, as most teams don't turn around from that and then do what we did the next few weeks with Arkansas, Florida, and Ole Miss. But that can be clearly attributed to the coaching situation, as the talent was very good all around.

I wouldn't say we looked like arse against Tennessee. We basically lost the main piece of our offense to an ankle injury and lost a game in which Tennessee scored late in the 4th to put the game away - against a Tennessee team that was absolutely loaded (probably more so than the 1998 team).

Same with Ole Miss - that was a solid Ole Miss team, and it was a CLASSIC let down game opportunity on the road the week after winning at Florida and before a huge showdown with Tennessee, and we controlled the game for 3 quarters before they made a little run and we held on.


I think 10-3 pretty correctly defines that team. We were 1 play away from losing to Florida and LSU, but we were 1 play away from beating La Tech and Michigan too. So it kind of evens out. Certainly was the strangest 10 win, SEC Title season ever, though.

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Perhaps I am too hard on the '99 team. However, I just remember putting together the highlights for that season and not coming away very impressed with how the team played. They were just as undisciplined as the other DuBose teams yet somehow managed to rise to the occasion and go the extra mile, unlike the '97, '98 or '00 squads. When you actually sit down and re-watch them they appear quite unremarkable and are simply ahead when the game ends.

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Oh yea, 100%, they were far from a well oiled machine. As you said before, the only thing that held that bunch together was other worldly leadership from Samuels and Alexander.

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1995 Arkansas 8-5 (6-2): lost to SMU and their four other losses were by double digits.

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2002 Arkansas 9-5 (5-3): They made it to Atlanta to lose 30-3 to Georgia bc Bama, who had drubbed them in Fayetteville, was on probation

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These seem like the worst to me

1st time I ever saw Brady, man he was lights out. Led Michigan back from 14 point deficits twice. Salute. Yet we lost it on Pflugner's missed PAT

Clint Stoerner hurt his throwing arm against Louisiana Monroe the game before. Not that made any difference but the SEC underachieved that year.

For those of you saying 2010 South Caroline. That team had 20+ future NFL players on it and no it wasn't a bad team. They just had no idea how to win week to week and had no real leadership, just a play caller for a coach. You give that team to any other solid SEC Coach and its a BCS Birth.


Connor Shaw FR QB
Marcus Lattimore* FR RB
Patrick Dimarco* SR RB
Tori Gurley* SO WR
Alshon Jeffery* SO WR
Ace Sanders FR WR
Justice Cunningham SO TE
T.J. Johnson* OL
Jarriel King* OL
Rokevious Watkins* OL
Kyle Nunn OL
Spencer Lanning SR K
Cliff Matthews* SR DL
Travian Robertson* JR DL
Devin Taylor* SO DL
Melvin Ingram JR DL
Byron Jerideau SO DL
Chaz Sutton FR DL
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Shaq Wilson JR LB
Stephon Gilmore* SO DB
Antonio Allen* JR DB
Chris Culliver* SR DB
Devonte Holloman* SO DB
D.J. Swearinger* SO DB
Jimmy Legree FR DB