Plenty of schools around the nation pump out top-notch linebackers like clockwork. Penn State claims the “Linebacker U” title, while Ohio State, Southern California and others have the pedigree to come close.

Who holds that title over the last decade in the SEC?

To figure it out, we did some simple tallying. We looked back at the last 10 recruiting cycles (2006-15), seasons and NFL drafts (2005-14). Each four- or five-star wide receiver recruit a school signed earned a half-point, each AP first-team All-SEC selection earned two points, AP All-American selections were worth four points and NFL draft picks were worth three.

In the cases of Missouri and Texas A&M, both of which joined the conference in 2012, we included any AP first-team Big 12 selections from 2006-11.

Here’s how that scoring shook out:

Team 4/5-star signees 1st team All-conference All-American NFL draft picks Total points
Alabama 23 7 5 7 66.5
Arkansas 1 2 0 1 7.5
Auburn 11 0 0 0 5.5
Florida 16 2 2 5 35
Georgia 17 7 2 7 56.5
Kentucky 1 5 0 3 19.5
LSU 12 3 0 4 24
Mississippi State 2 2 0 3 14
Missouri 3 5 0 2 17.5
Ole Miss 4 2 1 1 13
South Carolina 5 3 0 2 14.5
Tennessee 8 2 0 4 20
Texas A&M 5 3 1 2 18.5
Vanderbilt 2 1 0 0 3

It shouldn’t come as a shock that Alabama runs away from the rest of the SEC. Since Nick Saban came to town, the Crimson Tide have recruited an astounding number of elite high school linebacker prospects, and Saban, Kirby Smart and the rest of the Alabama staff have coached many of them to college stardom and onto NFL careers.

With names like C.J. Mosley, Courtney Upshaw, Rolando McClain and more dotting their ranks, Alabama has had more All-American linebackers over the last decade than any two SEC schools put together, while tying for the most players picked in the NFL draft.

The only program to come close to matching Alabama’s linebacking dominance was Georgia. Having Jarvis Jones come through your ranks certainly helps — he earned two All-America nods in his time with the Bulldogs before being drafted into the NFL — but Georgia does as good of a job as anyone outside of Alabama of recruiting and developing linebacker talent, matching Alabama in All-SEC selections as well as draft picks.

The rest of the SEC lags behind big time. Florida is a respectable third, sending players like Jelani Jenkins and Brandon Spikes to the NFL in the last decade and scoring two All-American nods. After the Gators, there have only been two All-Americans in total from the rest of the SEC’s members: Patrick Willis from Ole Miss and Von Miller from Texas A&M (before the Aggies moved to the SEC).

LSU, despite a run of four linebackers drafted during John Chavis’ tenure (and a fifth coming in Kwon Alexander this year) surprisingly lags behind in placing linebackers on the All-SEC first team, while Kentucky has had several standouts (Danny Trevathan, Wesley Woodyard) earn all-conference honors, boosting the Wildcats up higher than expected.