It Just Means More: SEC continues incredible streak of college football dominance
The S-E-C chant is alive and well. Georgia demolished TCU 65-7 on Monday night in Los Angeles to become back-to-back national champions.
Georgia’s 2022 title extends an incredible run for the conference. Starting with LSU in 2019, SEC teams have now won the last 4 national championships. Alabama won in 2020 before UGA won the last 2 national titles.
The SEC’s run of national championship dominance started back in the BCS era. Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia and LSU have combined to deliver 13 of the last 17 national championships for the SEC.
More recently, Alabama, Georgia and LSU have made it 6 of the last 8 for the SEC, with Clemson claiming the other 2 in 2016 and ’18.
Georgia has joined an exclusive club of back-to-back national champs. Before Monday, the last team to go back-to-back winning the national championship was Alabama in 2011 and ’12.
The @SEC has now won…
4 CFB Titles in a row by 3 different teams.
6 of the last 8 championships
13 of the last 17 championships#ItJustMeansMore
— Peter Burns (@PeterBurnsESPN) January 10, 2023
Every single Playoff National Title except the first one has been won by a Southern football team.
Cry more, B1G fans!
Draw a line from the intersection of I-35 and I-40 in Oklahoma City and go all the way east to where I-40 ends in Wilmington, NC. All but three of the last 24 National champions are due south of that line. ( yes, Norman, OK falls barely within that).
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia and LSU have combined to deliver 13 of the last 17 national championships for the SEC.
Edit: Arkansas
I like how you threw Arkansas in there thinking nobody would notice. ???
Its an Arky thing.
Speak it into existence.
As much as I cannot stand Georgia…………I will say, just an absolute performance last nite. There simply was not a team in college football that would have even stayed close to them the way they executed last nite. Nobody. Go Vols!
I can stand Georgia just fine except for when they’re playing “my” team – but I don’t think even the Dallas Cowboys would have prevailed last night. This is truly one awesome team.
Everyone knows the real National Championship game happens every year in Atlanta, after that its just about participation trophies for the loser conferences.
The Peach Bowl was the real national championship game.
The SEC is just better.
In just about every collegiate sport but cricket.
Sick of the $EC. The $EC has two dominant pro teams. The whole conference is not better than others. Still wish Ark, Missouri, and Texas A&M would go with the Big 12. And that Texas and Oklahoma would stay in the Big 12. More of a cultural fit. I was pulling hard for TCU, but they played a pro team last night with predictable results.
Don’t you never ever pull for a team from another conference against an SEC team!!!!!
That said, I think Arkansas and TAMU are good fits, but Mizzou not so much. I’m afraid Texas and Oklahoma are after $$, but the old adage of ‘be careful of what you wish for’ certainly applies. Otherwise, this is madness in that college football’s essence is geographical. West Va and Cincinati in the Big-12? UCF too, for many more reasons than just location. The world is upside down! :)
Anyone think that TCU will have a difficult time getting ranked in the top ten again ? The Committee learned a valuable lesson last night…they wanted diversity in the Playoffs and they got it. A Blowout/Beatdown of a team that should not have ever been in the Playoffs. Way to go Dawgs !
Normally, yeah. A loss like that indicates a team didn’t belong in the first place. What makes TCU different is that they beat Michigan, which no one really doubted was worthy of being there. So they “proved themselves” just before getting destroyed.
If Michigan had blown them out, then it would be hard in the future for them to get in.
Ironically, with UT and OK coming to the SEC, TCU is now the “powerhouse” program of the BIG12 and we could actually see more of them in this the BIG12 Champ / Playoff contender role.
Texas** not UT
Well, I think they deserved to be there. I think they proved that by beating the undefeated number 2 team in the country. I think this simply shows that the SEC is on a different level. I also said that UGA just did not come out with fire against OSU, they were flat. Last night they rectified that against a TCU team that had never been there before, and it showed.
I think you’re right, AFan. Living in Texas, I naturally follow the Big-12 – my prediction was that TCU – if they didn’t come out tight and intimidated – would be competitive in the first half, but Georgia would wear them out in the second. Wrong. In fact, 65-7 wrong!
To be the “powerhouse” of the conference, though, they’re going to have to contend with K-State and Houston, the latter emerging once they’re back in. Bad move by the Big-12 to dismiss them in the first place …. the only thing I can figure is that they must have confused them with Rice. :)
Any thought of the committee trying to get a B1G Natty?
Over the last 5-6 years the NCAA has had two dominant teams, they just happen to be from the SEC. The 12-team playoff will show the true depth of the SEC unless it’s manipulated from keeping too many SEC teams in it.
Regardless of rankings, the 5th-8th ranked sec teams would be top 2-3 in any other conference. Mediocre
Mizzou led UGA for 55 minutes. Give that team an offense and they are a top 15 team.
The “rest” of the SEC is better than most in other conferences, having to play them makes our top teams better than the top teams from other conferences.
Mattmd2 – “Michigan, which no one really doubted was worthy of being there”. You cannot be serious. Michigan beat Ohio State, ok, aside from that game their toughest game was Illinois. ILLINOIS! They played no one. Undefeated playing weak competition should not earn you a spot in the playoffs. Michigan had no business being there. They only proved they were of similar caliber to TCU, and look how that turned out.
I saw today a quote from a TCU staff member from yesterday. He said “TCU has already won just by getting here”. That sums up the attitude of the Big 10 and Big 12 ( the Pac 12 does not even matter). Michigan does not really care about the post season and it shows. TCU had a great run, but they fell flat. The SEC does not stop until the natty has been won. I predict the Gators will win in 2029. You heard it here first!
gary420,
You will have to change coaches if you win the Natty in 2029. Billy will not get it done.
17 of the last 30 going back to Alabama ’93. 18 counting the one Auburn got screwed out of in ’04. 20 of the last 30 counting soon to be SEC teams Oklahoma and Texas.
For some reason, I can’t reply to the comments below. As a fellow Vol noted, it is “Texas,” not the other “UT.” As I remind my Texas neighbor and friend, if it weren’t for a few hundred Tennessee men and their rifles, The University of Texas would be La Universidad del Noreste de Mexico, and their sport would be futbol.