Which SEC Teams Have Done The Heaviest Lifting So Far?

November 14th, 2012 01:56 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
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With the season drawing to a close (and some fans getting rather angry whenever we suggest their favorite school might have faced an easy schedule), we thought it might be interesting to see just who in the SEC has taken down the toughest opponents in 2012.

We looked at the records of each schools’ FBS opponents only, no FCS schools were included. From there, we simply added up the records of each SEC school’s vanquished foes. Yes, that means that Kent State’s 9-1 record is equal — in this quick overview — to the 9-1 records posted by Alabama, Florida and Georgia. If you want to look at “real” strength of schedule, check with a computer ranking service. We just wanted to see which league teams have piled up wins versus other teams that know how to win games (even in lesser leagues).

Below are the results with the SEC schools ranked from best to worst in terms of how many victories their beaten opponents have recorded:

SEC School (Record)	Win Total Of Defeated Foes	Overall Record Of Defeated Foes	Overall Record of Foes Defeated By
Florida (9-1)	52 wins	52-37	9-1
Alabama (9-1)	49 wins	49-41	8-2
Texas A&M (8-2)	41 wins	41-29	17-3
Georgia (9-1)	38 wins	38-52	8-2
S. Carolina (8-2)	38 wins	38-42	17-3
LSU (8-2)	36 wins	36-34	18-2
Miss. State (7-3)	20 wins	20-39	25-5
Missouri (5-5)	18 wins	18-22	41-9
Vanderbilt (6-4)	14 wins	14-36	33-7
Tennessee (4-6)	12 wins	12-19	47-13
Arkansas (4-6)	11 wins	11-19	44-15
Ole Miss (5-5)	10 wins	10-30	40-10
Kentucky (1-9)	9 wins	9-1	63-27
Auburn (2-8)	7 wins	7-13	56-24

Feel free to double check the math on that. We ran the numbers and then ran ‘em again, but there’s still an awful lot of cipherin’ in all that. We could have copied a number over wrong from Excel to the site.

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SECfan

Ole Miss defeated teams with a combined total of 16 wins to date...

John at MrSEC moderator

@SECfan

"We looked at the records of each schools’ FBS opponents only, no FCS schools were included."

UTEP is 2-8, Tulane is 2-8, Auburn is 2-8 and Arkansas is 4-6.

Ole Miss' fifth win over came over Central Arkansas of the FCS. So that's 10-30 for FBS teams the Rebels have beaten.

Thanks for visiting the site,

John

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