Representing the SEC

[JessJess6713]

I was thinking about my post "making the SEC look bad" and decided to get into our OOC stats. I kind of got obsessed with it today (offseason syndrome), and put together some charts with stats that I pulled of ESPN. ESPN only holds records back to 2002, but I was fine with that because I'm not really interested in how Georgia ranked in 1972. The last six years is nice, recent, and relevant.

I started by compiling OOC records:
http://a699.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/114/l_0a34c54ceba11c13ff50cca5b85e5452.jpg

and bowl results:
http://a625.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/l_c30ef7887e39385830c6ec6f043927e0.jpg

From those two charts I got these rankings:

OOC WIN PERCENTAGE
1 GEORGIA 95.83%
2 LSU 88.00%
3 TENNESSEE 74.07%
4 ARKANSAS 73.91%
5 AUBURN 73.91%
6 KENTUCKY 70.00%
7 ALABAMA 69.23%
8 S CAROLINA 68.18%
9 FLORIDA 68.00%
10 OLE MISS 57.14%
11 MISS ST 47.37%
12 VANDERBILT 37.50%

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BOWL PERFORMANCE (W/YR)
1 GEORGIA 83.33%
1 AUBURN 83.33%
3 LSU 66.67%
4 ALABAMA 50.00%
5 TENNESSEE 33.33%
5 KENTUCKY 33.33%
5 FLORIDA 33.33%
5 OLE MISS 33.33%
9 ARKANSAS 16.67%
9 S CAROLINA 16.67%
9 MISS ST 16.67%
12 VANDERBILT 0.00%

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BOWL PERFORMANCE (W/AT)
1 KENTUCKY 100.00%
1 OLE MISS 100.00%
1 MISS ST 100.00%
4 GEORGIA 83.33%
4 AUBURN 83.33%
6 LSU 66.67%
7 ALABAMA 50.00%
7 S CAROLINA 50.00%
9 TENNESSEE 40.00%
10 FLORIDA 33.33%
11 ARKANSAS 25.00%
12 VANDERBILT 0.00%

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I was happy to see that we represent the conference so well in OOC games and bowls. Then I started wondering what the in conference looks like, so here it is:
http://a567.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/83/l_be6a78d6ccdf263c93746ea5328c8146.jpg

That yeilds these rankings:

IN CONFERENCE WIN %
1 AUBURN 77.08%
2 LSU 76.47%
3 GEORGIA 72.55%
4 FLORIDA 69.39%
5 TENNESSEE 64.00%
6 ARKANSAS 50.00%
7 ALABAMA 46.81%
8 S CAROLINA 41.67%
9 OLE MISS 33.33%
10 KENTUCKY 29.17%
11 MISS ST 18.75%
12 VANDERBILT 16.67%

Auburn's undefeated year really helped them in this area to make them the team that has won the best % of SEC matchups in the last six years.

LSU came in a close second, and I have to say that when I was pulling these stats down I saw a lot of high numbers (ranks) next to teams that LSU put up W's against (in and out of conference). They really have been a dominant force.

We represent the conference really well during the season and in bowls. Florida had our number for a few years and we lost to both Kentucky and Vandy (their only SEC win that year) a couple of years ago, but we still finished high. I hope we keep moving up that list.

Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, and LSU have all kept a bowl game for the past six years.

I always quickly get bored with stats that go back to the crusifixion. Who really cares how your team was doing when Newt Rockne was tearing up the feild? I wish that more stat collections would keep it recent.

Well, that's all I have. Guess I'll have to go back to watching that clock tick now:brick:

[Apes]

Good post.
It's nice to see that 10 of the 12 teams have won over 50% of their OOC games.

[geechee]

Damn good post Jess.

[That Guy]

Good Post! You should start on the rest of the conference to see were everyone else compare to the SEC.

[JessJess6713]

Good Post! You should start on the rest of the conference to see were everyone else compare to the SEC.

That's a good idea, but it sounds like too much work

[AUviaDC101]

very good post...

[bamagt]

Awesome post man!
Makes me sick seeing Bama doing so badly!

[JessJess6713]

Did everyone agree with my decision to leave 1AA wins out? My thought is that no one cares if you can pull out a W against a team that's not even in your division. I guess Michigan found out that people care if you can't, but the reverse is kind of meaningless (at least in my opinion).