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During SEC Media Days, Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban brought up the conversation of parity in the SEC and how he believes it still exists.
The Crimson Tide have won the SEC Championship Game four of the past five years. No active coach in the SEC has beaten Saban twice. A number of SEC teams have yet to beat Alabama since he became the head coach.
They did not lose a conference game last season. There hasn’t been a lot of parity when SEC teams face Alabama. Besides the Tide, only LSU and Auburn have won the SEC West since Saban landed in Tuscaloosa.
Here are concurrent world events that happened the last time each SEC team beat ‘Bama.
Arkansas
Date: Sept. 23, 2006
Score: Arkansas 24, Alabama 23
Event: Barry Bonds smashed his 734th home run, which passed Hank Aaron’s NL record. Bonds ended his career with 762 bombs.
Auburn
Date: Nov. 30, 2013 “The Kick Six”
Score: Auburn 34, Alabama 28
Event: Actor Paul Walker passed away in a car crash at the age of 40. He was best known for his role in the Fast and Furious movies.
Florida
Date: Dec. 6, 2008 (SEC Championship)
Score: Florida 31, Alabama 20
Event: Movie producer Judd Apatow turned 41 years old. His movies include Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, etc.
Georgia
Date: Sept. 22, 2007
Score: Georgia 26, Alabama 23 (OT)
Event: Florida quarterback Tim Tebow rushed for 166 yards that day, breaking the record for single-game rushing yards by a Gators quarterback. The same season, he went on to win the Heisman Trophy.
Kentucky
Date: Oct. 4, 1997 (ending 75-year drought)
Score: Kentucky 40, Alabama 34 (OT)
Event: The Loomis Fargo robbery occurred in Charlotte, N.C. Over $17 million in cash was stolen, the second-largest heist in the United States at the time.
LSU
Date: Nov. 5, 2011
Score: LSU 9, Alabama 6 (OT)
Event: Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested. He was charged with a number of counts dealing with sexual abuse of minors.
Mississippi State
Date: Nov. 10, 2007
Score: Mississippi State 17, Alabama 12
Event: Miami loses 48-0 to Virginia in the Orange Bowl, the biggest shutout in the stadium’s history. It would be the Hurricanes’ final home game there after 70 years.
Missouri
Date: Sept. 8, 1975
Score: Missouri 20, Alabama 7
Event: Gerald Ford was president of the United States. A year prior, he pardoned President Richard Nixon.
Ole Miss
Date: Sept. 19, 2015
Score: Ole Miss 43, Alabama 37
Event: NBC night host Jimmy Fallon turns 41. The show before his birthday, Fallon read off the some of the worst gifts his fans had been given.
South Carolina
Date: Oct. 9, 2010
Score: South Carolina 35, Alabama 21
Event: A drill breaches the enclosing of a mine where 33 Chilean miners are trapped underground. The movie The 33 is based on their story.
Tennessee
Date: Oct. 21, 2006
Score: Tennessee 16, Alabama 13
Event: College GameDay visited Clemson for its duel with Georgia Tech. Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit picked the No. 12 Tigers that morning and they won 31-7 against the No. 13 Yellow Jackets.
Texas A&M
Date: Nov. 10, 2012
Score: Texas A&M 29, Alabama 24
Event: Josh Peck turned 26 years old. Recently married, Peck is best known for his role in Nickelodeon’s hit TV series Drake and Josh.
Vanderbilt
Date: Sept. 29, 1984
Score: Vanderbilt 30, Alabama 21
Event: Let’s Go Crazy by Prince becomes the No. 1 song in the United States.
Tye is a contributing writer for Saturday Down South. He works on-air for ESPN Arkansas in Fort Smith. You can follow him on twitter @TyeSportsRadio.
