The trend toward more neutral-site non-conference games as well as the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M in 2012 has added some serious miles to the travel log of most SEC teams.

Still, the SEC team traveling the most in 2015 (LSU — 5,662 miles) will need a trip to the SEC championship or at least a far-away bowl game to surpass the mileage of the NFL’s least-traveled team (Philadelphia Eagles — 6,818 miles). The San Francisco 49ers will travel 27,998 miles during the 2015 NFL season, according to CBS Sports.

The prevailing eyebrow-raiser? LSU must travel about 2.6 times as many miles as Georgia.

The SEC’s head coaches spent the offseason grumbling about competitive disadvantage, tying it to discrepancies in cost of attendance, satellite camp rules and transfer rules. But we heard relatively few grumbles about the difference in annual crossover games, and maybe none at all about the varied travel schedule.

A chunk of LSU’s mileage comes from a 2,400-mile round-trip flight to Syracuse on Sept. 26. Georgia’s “long” trip is a 309-mile one-way jaunt to Nashville in order to play Vanderbilt.

Texas A&M also has a favorable schedule. Thanks to neutral-site games against Arizona State (in Houston) and Arkansas (in Arlington), the Aggies leave the Lone Star State just once before Nov. 21.

TRAVEL MILES FOR EVERY SEC TEAM IN 2015

Team Total Miles
1. LSU 5,662
2. Florida 4,692
3. South Carolina 4,306
4. Arkansas 4,292
5. Missouri 4,180
6. Vanderbilt 3,986
7. Auburn 3,874
8. Texas A&M 3,502
9. Mississippi State 3,410
10. Alabama 3,220
11. Tennessee 3,190
12. Kentucky 2,508
13. Ole Miss 2,368
14. Georgia 2,262

*Trips of longer than 5 driving hours calculated by air miles via USA Today. Trips of shorter than 5 hours calculated stadium to stadium via Google maps. Totals are round-trip.

ALABAMA

Longest: vs. Wisconsin in Arlington, Texas (1,092 miles)
Shortest: at Mississippi State (168 miles)
Total Miles: 3,220

ARKANSAS

Longest: at Tennessee (1,138 miles)
Shortest: vs. Toledo at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark. (378 miles)
Total Miles: 4,292

AUBURN

Longest: at Texas A&M (1,198 miles)
Shortest: vs. Louisville in Atlanta (220 miles)
Total Miles: 3,874

FLORIDA

Longest: at Missouri (1,694 miles)
Shortest: vs. Georgia in Jacksonville, Fla. (148 miles)
Total Miles: 4,692

GEORGIA

Longest: at Vanderbilt (618 miles)
Shortest: at Georgia Tech (140 miles)
Total Miles: 2,262

KENTUCKY

Longest: at Mississippi State (812 miles)
Shortest: at Vanderbilt (432 miles)
Total Miles: 2,508

LSU

Longest: at Syracuse (2,400 miles)
Shortest: at Mississippi State (608 miles)
Total Miles: 5,662

MISSISSIPPI STATE

Longest: at Texas A&M (992 miles)
Shortest: at Southern Miss (364 miles)
Total Miles: 3,410

MISSOURI

Longest: at Georgia (1,182 miles)
Shortest: vs. BYU in Kansas City (240 miles)
Total Miles: 4,180

OLE MISS

Longest: at Florida (1,068 miles)
Shortest: at Memphis (166 miles)
Total Miles: 2,368

SOUTH CAROLINA

Longest: at Texas A&M (1,838 miles)
Shortest: vs. North Carolina in Charlotte, N.C. (198 miles)
Total Miles: 4,306

TENNESSEE

Longest: at Missouri (994 miles)
Shortest: at Kentucky (344 miles)
Total Miles: 3,190

TEXAS A&M

Longest: at Vanderbilt (1,354 miles)
Shortest: vs. Arizona State in Houston (198 miles)
Total Miles: 3,502

VANDERBILT

Longest: at Houston (1,360 miles)
Shortest: at Middle Tennessee State (76 miles)
Total Miles: 3,986