The SEC has won the last SIX NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

Jan 3, 2013, 4:45 PM

Have you wondered why? Let's take a look at the last six as well as all the national champions from the last few decades. This might be long.

2011 Alabama (12-1). It's not hard to remember this one. Alabama was given a re-match against LSU, and Oklahoma State was left out despite only one loss.

2010 Auburn (14-0) Some might dispute this but nothing was proven so I'll give them credit.

2009 Alabama (14-0) Nothing to dispute

2008 Florida (13-1) Even though Texas had only one loss and Utah was undefeated- Florida gets a matchup in the title game.

2007 LSU (12-2) LSU lost to #18 Kentucky and unranked Arkansas, and got to play #1 Ohio State. USC, who lost to #5 Oregon and an unranked Stanford team, did not get a chance.

2006 Florida (13-1) Using last year's logic- Michigan would have had a rematch with Ohio State. Boise State was also undefeated but Florida made it to the final game.

2005 Texas (13-0)

2004 USC (11-0)

2003 LSU (13-1) At the end of the season three teams had one loss. Oklahoma, USC, and LSU. USC's only loss was a 3OT loss to Cal but was left out.

2002 Ohio State (12-0)
2001 Miami (14-0)
2000 Oklahoma (13-0)

In the span from 2000-2011 five teams won the NC with one or more losses. All of them from the SEC. Five out of the SEC's total of seven. Does this mean the SEC isn't the best conference- not necessarily. They've still faired much better in BCS games, but here is another point someone else made about the SEC:

The SEC is gifted 3 of the top 5 preseason ranks year after year. When you have those early rankings, the conference will automatically have a team in the National Championship. If an SEC team loses to another SEC team, it doesn't hurt their ranking because they lost to a good ranking SEC team. That team that lost the other game goes on to beat another SEC team, well that other SEC team lost to a high ranking team, most likely the highest ranked 1 loss team, so this other SEC team that just lost barely drops in the rankings. It's an endless cycle each year and ESPN and their multi billion dollar contract with the SEC is partially to blame for it.

I'm not saying the SEC sucks or even that any other conference is better, but the other conferences are more equal than people give them credit for. The SEC is barely over .500 in regular season non-conference games over the past 10 years.

With that being said, none of this is relevant to our program as long as we lose to SCAR and other teams. I would just hate to be one win away and get shafted like some of these other teams have in the past.

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The SEC has won the last SIX NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

Excellent - well said.

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

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