We’re exactly a week removed from one of history’s most entertaining Super Bowls, a game that devoured any crumbs left in the mouths of those arguing against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady being the greatest head coach-QB combo ever.

Not always, but more often times than not, we use ultimate success in our greatest of all time debates. Of course, there are exceptions, but the five rings won by the New England Patriots’ duo are more than any head coach and more than any quarterback, both individually and collectively.

Ascending to that status can’t be understated, so that got us thinking about the best head coach-QB combo in SEC history.

If we’re using that measure, there’s only one pair as head coach and starting QB from the conference that’s claimed multiple national championships together, and that’s Alabama’s Nick Saban and AJ McCarron.

The two led the Crimson Tide to back-to-back national crowns from 2011-12, including the 2012 SEC championship. Over a three-year stretch from 2011-13, they went 36-4.

Alabama avenged the first loss of that stretch to LSU by posting the only shutout since official national championship games became a thing in 1998, beating the Tigers 21-0 in New Orleans. McCarron went 23-of-34 with 234 yards against that historically good defense to earn Offensive Player of the Game honors.

The second loss came at the hands of Texas A&M and eventual Heisman winner Johnny Manziel at the peak of his powers.  However, McCarron would later be at his best against Heisman runner-up, Notre Dame LB Manti Te’o, in the national title game.

In the 42-14 win over the Irish, McCarron went 20-for-28 with 264 yards, 4 TDs and 0 INTs. McCarron threw a touchdown in every quarter of that game and recorded a QB rating of 197.8, second-highest of any QB — win or lose — in a national championship game since the start of the BCS era.

That wrapped up a season in which the 6-foot-3, 220-pounder from Mobile, Ala. tossed a single-season school record 30 TDs.

In his senior campaign in 2013, McCarron was a runner-up for the Heisman as he completed more than 67 percent of his passes for a little over 3,000 yards with 28 TDs and only 7 INTs. It took a miraculous Kick-Six to stop the Tide from playing for a national title in all three years with McCarron.

His incredible accomplishments, like many before and after him, are mostly overshadowed by the uncanny consistency of a coach who — like Belichick — has already proven himself as the greatest in his realm with no signs of anyone slowing him down.

The only SEC coach who seemed capable of doing that was Urban Meyer who, with Tim Tebow as his starting quarterback, went 35-6 in three years from 2007-09, including the 2008 national title. While Meyer and Tebow did win the ultimate prize twice with the Gators, Tebow wasn’t the team’s starting QB in 2006.

It’s crazy to think that the SEC East hasn’t managed to win the conference since those two were on the same sideline nearly 10 years ago.

Speaking of Florida, Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerffel weren’t too shabby. Over a four-year span from 1993-96, Florida claimed four straight SEC titles as well as the school’s first national title in ’96 while going 45-6-1.

Spurrier had the luxury of several prolific passers during his 23 years as an SEC head coach, but that 1996 team alongside Wuerffel remains his only time winning it all.

The measuring stick for Saban in that regard is Paul “Bear” Bryant. His three-year pairing with Joe Namath from 1962-64 produced SEC and national titles in 1964 with a 29-4 overall mark.

It’s always worth paying some more respect to history. Georgia’s Wally Butts-John Rauch combination yielded a 36-8-1 record, an unofficial national championship in 1946 and two SEC titles in 1946 and ’48 over a four-year span following World War II.

The Bulldogs also enjoyed a highly successful tandem more recently with Mark Richt and David Greene. In four years from 2001-04, the Dawgs went 42-10 with an SEC title in 2002.

Another more modern twosome was Phil Fulmer and Peyton Manning at Tennessee, which went 39-6 in three-and-a-half seasons from 1994-97 with an SEC title in ’97.

If we’re talking one-year wonders, it doesn’t get much better than Auburn’s Gene Chizik and Cam Newton, who went an undefeated 14-0 while winning the SEC and national title in 2010.

Newton won the Heisman, and Chizik (with Gus Malzahn as his offensive coordinator) took down the Associated Press’ Coach of the Year, Oregon’s Chip Kelly, in the final game of the year.

Still, if we use the pinnacle of success as our guide, the argument for the best head coach-QB combo in SEC history points to the Saban-McCarron glory that coincidentally began after Auburn’s perfect season and ended with the Kick-Six.