TENNESSEE
With Derek Barnett on location in Minnesota set to play in Super Bowl LII for the Eagles, Tennessee has now been represented in the last nine Super Bowls.
That mark doesn’t lead all SEC programs, as Georgia and LSU have both sent players to the Super Bowl for 17 consecutive seasons — representing the high mark in the league. However, Barnett’s trip to the NFL’s big game does help Tennessee extend one important SEC record, as the Volunteers have sent 61 players to the Super Bowl since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.
That mark is the best in the SEC and second only to Miami’s 62 — according to the research of NFL.com.
Georgia is the next closest SEC program to Tennesse, as the Bulldogs have sent 47 players to the Super Bowl — tied for 12th best. Florida is at No. 14 with 46, Alabama and LSU are tied for No. 15 with 40 all-time Super Bowl participants.
Those five SEC programs are the only ones to rank in the top 20.
To Voltrainconductor: That’s 61 higher than the amount of SEC wins you had this past season.
To rest of Vol fans: Voltrain sucks but it’s impressive to only be 1 back from Miami considering who they have put in the league in recent memory.
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Wring out your panties Cool_Story_Hansel, and get a fresh pair. Times they are a changin’.
Yikes, that headline is brutal.
“…in NFL history” is unnecessary and redundant.
Welp, see ya later!
Awesome user name.
And………… Nobody cares. Let me know when we win a NC.
Recruits care, knucklehead. And who gets you national titles? Elite players. How do you get elite players? Recruiting.
…unless you’re Auburn or Ole Miss, you can buy players in that case…
Strictly speaking, UT’s elite players the past decade haven’t even won the SEC East. What makes that even more impressive is that the East was historically bad in that period. I mean, even Missouri won it twice.
Recruit do not care about historical success in sending players to the NFL. They care about the current staff’s ability to coach them up and hopefully win games.
Well boxster355, I’m not so sure about that. I think that recruits do care about their chances of getting into the NFL. Sure, they want to be on a winning college team (who wouldn’t), but they also are looking to the future – where they will be making the big, big bucks if they can make it to the NFL.
tsnapp, re-read my comment. I never said they aren’t interested in their prospect of making it to the NFL. I said they don’t care about a school’s history of former coaches sending players to the NFL. Rather, they care about the school’s current coaches being able to prepare them for the NFL.