Discussing sports trivia you might have found on the web can be a nice way to pass time at your favorite bar.

But today we flip the script, offering up bar-related trivia on our web site. (Not that you can’t participate while at your favorite bar, of course.)

Yes, of course it’s SEC related. Well, most of it anyway. This spring, delish.com listed the top college bars for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (We’ll provide a link to the specific story below the answers.)

We’ll offer up some questions based on the list, and put the answers below. No peeking.

Let’s play:

Questions

  1. Which school kept the SEC from a clean sweep of its 11 states by not having the best college bar in its state?
  2. Which school has the top bar in the state, Alabama or Auburn?
  3. Tennessee or Vanderbilt?
  4. Ole Miss or MSU?
  5. Can you name the winning sports bar in your SEC state? (We’ll list all 10 winners in the answers.)
  6. Which Power 5 conference outdid the SEC, percentage-wise, by taking all of its states?
  7. Did any other conference match the SEC’s 10 wins?
  8. Which is the most sorry Power 5 conference, by far?
  9. Did the Ivy League beat out the sorry conference from question No. 8?
  10. Which city claims the top college bar in Alaska: Fairbanks, Anchorage or Juneau?

Answers

  1. Florida, beaten out by a place called Mr. Dunderbak’s in Tampa, home of the South Florida Bulls. Granted, for all its charm, landlocked Gainesville faces stiff competition in the Sunshine State.
  2. Alabama
  3. Vanderbilt
  4. Sorry to pile on yet again, Rebels fans, but Mississippi State is winning on this front too.
  5. Alabama: The Houndstooth; Arkansas: Sideways; Georgia: The Globe; Kentucky: Two Keys Tavern; LSU: The Chimes; Mississippi State: Dave’s Dark Horse Tavern; Missouri: Shiloh Bar & Grill, South Carolina; The Whig; Texas A&M: Chimy’s; Vanderbilt: Flying Saucer.
  6. The Pac-12 covers only six states, and took them all.
  7. Nope. The Big Ten had 9 of 11, losing out because of those chokers at Ohio State. The Buckeyes were out-barred by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The other state the Big Ten missed was Indiana, as Notre Dame topped Indiana and Purdue.
  8. The ACC lost every head-to-head vs. the SEC — what’s new? — and took only 2 of 9 states (UNC and Va. Tech). … The (not so) Big 12 covers only five states with its 10 teams, and it took three of those.
  9. Yep, the Ivy topped the ACC by taking three of its seven states. Tip your glass to Harvard (Massachusetts), Brown (Rhode Island) and Dartmouth (New Hampshire).
  10. Fairbanks. And the Nanooks of Alaska Fairbanks proved a couple years that even a low-profile athletic program way up north can’t hide from NCAA oversight. They don’t have football, but play D-I hockey and D-II basketball. And hey, at least they have the best college bar in The Land of the Midnight Sun. So there’s that.

In case you want to make hitting the top college bar in every state part of your bucket list, you can check out delish.com’s full story here.