A discerning college football fan doesn’t need statistics to know that the SEC is the nation’s deepest and toughest conference. But the numbers do bear it out.

More than half of the league’s 14 teams (8) have posted .500 or better campaigns at least 70 percent of the time, and all have more of those seasons than losing ones in their history.

LSU has the league’s longest span without a losing season. The Tigers haven’t finished below .500 since a 3-8 mark in Gerry DiNardo’s final season in 1999.

Alabama tops the SEC charts with 107 .500 or better seasons, including three later impacted by vacated wins. The Crimson Tide has more 10-win seasons than losing ones, and only Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Ohio State boast a better percentage nationally.

Only two percentage points separate the rest of the top six, with Tennessee, Florida, LSU, Auburn and Georgia falling in behind Alabama.

Six-straight winning seasons in Starkville have pushed Mississippi State above the 50 percent mark, and only three SEC schools (LSU, Alabama and Texas A&M) boast longer streaks.

Here’s a look at each SEC school (seasons, records based on SEC Media Guide):

Team Seasons .500 or better seasons Percentage Last losing season**
Alabama 121 107* 88.40 2006
Tennessee 119 94 79.00 2013
Florida 109 86 78.90 2013
LSU 122 95 77.90 1999
Auburn 123 95 77.20 2012
Georgia 122 94 77.00 2010
Arkansas 122 89 73.00 2013
Texas A&M 121 85 70.20 2008
Missouri 125 79 63.20 2015
Ole Miss 121 76 62.80 2011
South Carolina 122 70 57.40 2015
Vanderbilt 126 68 54.00 2015
Kentucky 125 66 52.80 2015
Mississippi State 116 60 51.70 2009

* Includes 1993, 2006, 2007 seasons in which vacated wins dropped winning percentage below .500.

** Last losing season does not include vacated wins. Alabama, for instance, went 7-6 in 2007 but had five wins vacated. Its last losing season was 2006, when it went 6-7 before wins were vacated.