Top All-Time SEC Football Team Survey

How bout a fan's top all-time SEC football team survey?

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), SEC Sports Fan has joined with 1st-N-Goal to highlight the SEC schools that have won a National Championship. In all, nine schools have won 28 titles.

We’d like to see which of those 28 teams -- the FANS think was the greatest all-time SEC football team. UPDATE: Actually we have added a 29th team due to this reader's comment about the 1952 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Also, we will be adding some of the recent national championship teams from the SEC. For now, just write them in if you think they are the best.

You can help by giving your opinion in two different ways. You can:

• Publish your opinion by using the form at the bottom of this page. If you do that, please back up your choice with some facts – at least a few sentences to support your opinion. And/or


• Take the quick poll at the very bottom of this page.

We say the 1961 Alabama team was the best SEC team ever. In fact, we say they were the best team ever in all of college football. You can read that opinion at Best All-Time NCAA College Football Team.

But, of course, that's just our opinion; you could think another team was better – and you might be right.

So, take the poll and give us your opinion!

Now, to give everyone lots of ammunition to use as the basis for the argument, below are 4 tables with lots of statistics.

Here's what the numbers in the tables below tell you for each of the 28 SEC football teams that won national championships:

1. Team Win-Loss-Tie Record


2. Team Win Percentage


3. Opponents Win Percentage


4. Team Offensive Scoring Average


5. Team Defensive Scoring Average (average of points given up)


6. Net Scoring Average (points scored minus opponents points; divided by games played)


7. Average Margin of Victory (points scored in games won minus opponents points scored in those games; divided by number of wins)

NCAA Official Record National Champs

(SEC National Champs since official NCAA records recorded)

	W-L-T	Win %	Opps Win %	OSA	DSA	NSA	AMV
1961 Alabama	11-0	1.000	.530	27.0	2.3	24.7	24.7
1964 Alabama	10-1	.909	.637	22.7	8.0	14.7	21.6
1965 Alabama	9-1-1	.864	.596	23.3	9.7	13.5	16.7
1973 Alabama	11-1	.917	.574	39.8	9.4	30.3	33.2
1978 Alabama	11-1	.917	.636	28.8	14.0	14.8	17.0
1979 Alabama	12-0	1.000	.496	31.9	5.6	26.3	26.3
1992 Alabama	13-0	1.000	.594	28.2	9.4	18.8	18.8
1957 Auburn	10-0	1.000	.557	20.7	2.8	17.9	17.9
1996 Florida	12-1	.923	.675	47.0	17.0	30	32.8
2006 Florida	13-1	.929	.690	29.7	13.5	16.2	18.2
1980 Georgia	12-0	1.000	.455	27.8	11.4	16.3	16.3
1958 LSU	11-0	1.000	.574	25.6	4.8	20.8	20.8
2003 LSU	13-1	.929	.569	33.9	11.1	22.9	25.6
1960 Mississippi	10-0-1	.955	.617	25.5	6.4	21.0	19.1
1952 Georgia Tech	12-0
1951 Tennessee	10-0	1.000	.662	35.1	10.5	27.0	27.0
1998 Tennessee	13-0	1.000	.586	33.2	14.5	18.6	18.6

Pre-NCAA Official Record National Champs (also pre-AP poll)

	W-L-T	Win %	Opps Win %	OSA	DSA	NSA	AMV
1934 Alabama	10-0	1.000	.592	31.6	4.5	27.1	27.1
1936 Alabama	8-0-1	.944	.617	18.7	3.9	14.8	14.8
1935 LSU	9-2-0	.818	.668	20.3	3.7	16.6	20.7
1936 LSU	9-1-1	.864	.593	26.8	4.9	21.9	27.6

Pre-SEC (This is a debatable category as obviously these great seasons occurred prior to formation of the SEC in 1932.)

	W-L-T	Win %	Opps Win %	OSA	DSA	NSA	AMV
1925 Alabama	10-0	1.000	.632	29.7	2.6	27.1	27.1
1926 Alabama	9-0-1	.950	.583	24.9	2.7	22.2	24.7
1930 Alabama	10-0	1.000	.721	27.1	1.3	25.8	25.8
1927 Tennessee	8-0-1	.944	.426	27.2	2.9	24.3	27.4
1928 Tennessee	9-0-1	.950	.555	24.9	5.1	19.8	22.0
1928 Georgia Tech	10-0	1.000	.624	22.1	4.7	17.4	17.4
1929 Tulane	9-0-0	1.000	.429	31.0	5.0	26.0	26.0
1931 Tulane	11-1	.958	.608	29.2	4.7	24.5	27.5

SUMMARY (Combines all categories and comes up with one number)

	Rating	Season	Team
1	22.88	1925	Alabama
2	21.75	1930	Alabama
3	20.88	1934	Alabama
4	19.63	1951	Tennessee
5	19.50	1931	Tulane
6	18.38	1996	Florida
7	18.13	1973	Alabama
8	17.38	1979	Alabama
9	17.00	1961	Alabama
10	16.43	1929	Tulane
11	15.00	1992	Alabama
12	14.75	1928	Georgia Tech
13	14.63	1926	Alabama
13	14.63	1958	LSU
13	14.63	1998	Tennessee
16	14.50	2003	LSU
17	13.29	1927	Tennessee
18	12.88	1936	LSU
19	12.50	1960	Mississippi
19	12.50	2006	Florida
21	12.00	1978	Alabama
22	11.25	1935	LSU
23	11.75	1957	Auburn
23	11.75	1980	Georgia
25	10.57	1928	Tennessee
26	10.50	1964	Alabama
27	8.43	1936	Alabama
28	6.75	1965	Alabama

So, you can see that our pick – '61 Alabama Crimson Tide -- comes in 9th based on the average of these stats. [Although their 2.3 DSA is the lowest Defensive Scoring Average of any NCAA Div. I College Football Champion in history.]

In any event, for the reasons discussed at Best All-Time NCAA College Football Team, we'll stick with them.

We think the above stats are very interesting and informative, but have to be weighed against the dramatic improvement in the quality of college football since its early days.

Today, college football is much bigger, stronger, and more even (parity) then it was back in the 20's and 30's. Not to discount what teams did back then, but it was much easier to run up huge scores against weak competition during that era.

Maybe that same argument could be made about the '61 Bama team (although to a lesser extent). But, in any event, it certainly is debatable. We think weighing everything, Bear Bryant's first national championship team was the best college football team ever.

But, we'd love to hear what you think.

If interested, there's lots more information on this site about SEC national championship teams. Here's a list of some places you might want to check out:

• Best All-Time SEC Football Team -- discusses '57 Auburn; '96 Florida; '80 Georgia; and '61 Alabama


• Biggest All-Time SEC Football Victory -- discusses '96 and '06 Florida; '03 LSU; '92 Alabama; and '98 Tennessee


• Top All-Time SEC Offensive Football Team -- '96 Gators


• Top Offensive Rushing Team in SEC History -- '80 Georgia Bulldogs


• Best All-Time NCAA College Football Player -- Herschel Walker and the 1980 Dogs discussed


• Biggest All-Time NCAA College Football Game -- 1998 Vols


• Best All-Time NCAA College Football Program -- discusses the many great Alabama Crimson Tide Teams


• Best NCAA College Football Stadium -- Tennessee's Neyland Stadium makes the Vols' football program stronger


• Bear Bryant Biography -- info about the 6 Bear Bryant National Championship teams


• Phil Fulmer Biography -- info about Fulmer's '98 Volunteers


• Steve Spurrier Biography -- info about Spurrier's '96 Gators


• Urban Meyer Biography-- info about Meyer's '06 Gators


• Billy Cannon Biography -- info about Billy Cannon's '58 LSU team


• SEC Football -- at the bottom of this page you will find links to football history pages on each SEC football team

Again, thanks to Tex Noel, from 1st-N-Goal for providing the statistics in the tables above. You might be interested in reading his new and outstanding book about college football history. You can find out more about it at Great Early College Football History Book.

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