Florida is the Best SEC Sports College

Best SEC Sports College

The numbers on the table below haven't been updated since Summer 2007. Of course at that time Florida was the football and b-ball national champs. In the fall of 2007, LSU became the Champion of the college football world and made it to the college baseball World Series in 2008. Georgia has also did some great things in several sports (gymnastics, baseball, tennis, golf).

But, the 2008 college football season has seen the Gators rise again to the top of the College football world. LSU just won the College Baseball World Series. So, really, I'm not sure which SEC school is #1 at the moment. It's certainly either LSU or Florida. Given the significance of football, I think the nod has to go to Florida right now. But, we need to crunch the numbers in the minor sports to be sure. Look for an update soon. I bet it will be similar to the numbers in the table below. Feel free to post your thoughts below.

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PRIOR DISCUSSION:

Every SEC fan wants to know whether his or her favorite school is the best SEC sports college. One of the primary purposes of this website is to provide that information.

This website reviews and summarizes all 12 sports the SEC competes in at the NCAA level.

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Each of the 12 sports pages compares and ranks the program of each SEC school in that particular sport. The Florida Gators, for instance, are ranked #1 in four sports -- Football, Basketball, Soccer and Volleyball. This is the most of any SEC school and largely explains why Florida is ranked as the top sports school in the SEC.

In conducting the study, we simply prepared a spreadsheet giving a school 12 points for every first place ranking, 11 points for a second place ranking, etc, all the way to 1 point for a twelfth place ranking (there are 12 schools in the SEC).

Of course this site is dedicated to the SEC sports fan. Therefore, in order to make the analysis meaningful, we valued the sports differently based on fan interest. In other words, it would not be fair to award a school the same number of points for being #1 in football as for being #1 in golf (for instance). That's silly. Football is obviously much more important than golf in determining which school is the overall best SEC sports college.

So, we awarded a multiplier to each sport, depending on its relative significance in the sports world, particularly to SEC sports fans.

After much debate, we decided that football should receive a multiplier of 4, basketball -- 3, baseball -- 2, track and field -- 1.5, swimming and diving -- 1.5, and the rest of the sports (tennis, golf, gymnastics, softball, soccer, and volleyball) each received a multiplier of 1.

So, to find the score for a particular school in a particular sport, we simply multiplied the rank points by the multiplier. For instance, since the Florida Gators are ranked as the #1 football school, its score for football is 48 (12 x 4).

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Then we added up the total points earned in all sports for each school and obtained an overall score that represents a comprehensive and objective opinion of which school is the overall best SEC sports college.

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The schools and their point totals are ranked as follows:

1. Florida Gators (180)
2. LSU Tigers (170.5)
3. Tennessee Volunteers (146.5)
4. Georgia Bulldogs (143.5)
5. Arkansas Razorbacks (128)
6. Alabama Crimson Tide (120.5)
7. Auburn Tigers (117.5)
8. Kentucky Wildcats (109.5)
9. South Carolina Gamecocks (97)
10. Ole Miss Rebels (83.5)
11. Vanderbilt Commodores (53.5)
12. Mississippi State Bulldogs (30)

If you want to see the actual spreadsheet and lots more info, get your copy of the 2007 SEC Sports Fan Brag Book by signing up for the SEC Sports Fan Newsletter. [Note the numbers are slightly off as we only recently added women's basketball as a separate sport. The numbers will be updated for the 2008 SEC Sports Fan Brag Book.

Obviously the sports world is always changing and the above scores are subject to change. But, they are accurate as of January 2007 and because they represent a comprehensive view, they are unlikely to change very much or very suddenly.

APRIL 07 UPDATE -- The NCAA Basketball Championships by the Florida Gators and Tennessee Lady Vols do not affect the rankings on this page. Both programs were already ranked #1 in the SEC in their sport. However, it did have a dramatic effect on the SEC as a whole. Click here to find out why the SEC is now the Best College Basketball Conference.

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