boxedlunch

When the author bases his point on bad data, there's no point in even writing a long article, must less reading it. Use bad data, you write a bad article.

The team going second wins less than 55% of the time. Don't let half-hearted efforts from bloggers determine your opinion.

While easy to supply such a list would be severely limited in context.

Don't expect accuracy from this site in general. Most everything do is off. That being said, this is better than their average attempt. Except for shorting Arkansas and Missouri some wins, they are accurate here.

The moment I saw "facts", I knew this would be worthless. Since you say Ole Miss has 632 wins and a very quick check showed they have 645, I knew it was pointless to read on.

Wow, you guys have produced more than your share of crap, but the accuracy of this is so amazingly awful, it's special. The number of .500 or better seasons per program: Alabama 103 LSU 94 Tennessee 93 Auburn 93 Georgia 93 Arkansas 88 Florida 85 Texas A&M Missouri 79 Mississippi 75 South Carolina 70 Vanderbilt 68 Kentucky 66 Mississippi State 59 And for the record, Alabama did not "vacate" games in 1993, nor did Missouri "vacate" games in 1975-1977. Alabama did forfeit some games in 93 and Mississippi State did forfeit games in 75-77. I suppose that's what you mean. And of course, Mississippi had forfeit wins in 3 seasons that took them from 5-6 to 6-5. Auburn had a forfeit win in 1977 that took them from 5-6 to 6-5. You make no mention of what you attempted to do with those.

You know it's real easy to look up football stats on the internet. You don't have to keep posting inaccurate information.

Not sure what you're getting at here, wolfman. These are conference records of conference opponents. SEC teams played no conference games against division 3, 2 or IAA teams. Nor do they have much say in who they get scheduled for their conference games. Nor does the conference record of these opponents have any division 3, 2 or IAA teams. Not sure what that has to do with it. Nor do "non-conference" opponents factor into conference records at any time, so again that would seem irrelevant to these stats. And, while overall, conference numbers will drop to 50% over time, obviously it won't for every program, which is the point. Auburn's opponents are at over 53% since 2000, and it unlikely to ever drop to 50%. I'm not sure you're understanding what these are.

Do you guys just grab stuff from random web sites? You know the same information can be found in Georgia's media guides and you don't have to worry about finding a source that has it wrong.

This is about reason 30 why you should never use sports-reference for anything. All-time winning percentage according to the NCAA: Alabama (850-325-43)--0.71552 Tennessee (811-367-53)--0.68034 LSU (761-401-47)--0.64888 Georgia (777-410-54)--0.64786 Auburn (734-421-47)--0.63020 Florida (691-400-40)--0.62865 Texas A&M (709-461-48)--0.60181 Arkansas (694-475-40)--0.59057 Mississippi (645-501-35)--0.56097 Missouri (653-537-52)--0.54670 South Carolina (584-552-44)--0.51356 Vanderbilt (585-591-50)--0.49755 13. Kentucky (587-599-44)--0.49512 14. Mississippi St. (531-558-39)--0.48803*

There are two source you can check for accurate team records: 1. Team media guide 2. NCAA Record Book These will differ slightly for a few reasons. Mostly, the NCAA gets their info from the team anyway but teams alter records for various reasons that the NCAA doesn't also follow suit on. cfbdatawarehouse is a good source, if you're not too particular about accuracy, but if you're looking for accurate all-time records, it's not where to check. Wikipedia can be shaky as well, because they try to update from the NCAA and they make it second hand.

Well, this is pretty much completely wrong. 1. This is not how the NCAA calculates SOS. 2. A 10-2 FCS team does NOT carry more weight than a 7-5 FBS team does. 3. A&M would be #4, Tennessee would be #5 with the NCAA's method, Kentucky #7. I am sure that any method you came up with would to a better job, though.