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SEC FOOTBALL BRAG FACTS (As of May 1, 2025)
• Sixteen times in the last 19 seasons, a team from the SEC has advanced to the national
championship game. The SEC has won 13 of those contests, with two losses coming in
the final seconds. The winner of the SEC Championship Game has advanced to the
National Championship Game all but three times since 2006.
• With Florida in January 2009, five different teams from the SEC (Alabama, Auburn,
Florida, LSU, Georgia) have played for and won the national championship in the last 15
seasons. All five have multiple appearances and at least one victory since in the national
championship game since 2007.
• The SEC won four consecutive CFP National Championships, by three different
programs (LSU, Alabama, Georgia), from 2019-2022.
• Not counting games versus each other, the SEC is 16-7 all-time in College Football
Playoff games, playing in eight of the 11 CFP Championship Games (winning six of those
eight). The SEC is 10-3 in CFP Semifinals, including a streak of 10 consecutive semifinal
wins from 2015-2022.
• Since 2006, the SEC has posted a 35-18 (.660) record in BCS/CFP games, more wins,
appearances, and winning percentage than any other A4 conference.
• The Southeastern Conference led the nation yet again in 2024 with 439 former players
on opening weekend 53-man active rosters, including injured reserve.
• A total of 35 former SEC players were on active rosters of Super Bowl LVI between the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.
• The SEC is 122-78 (.610) in bowl games since 2006, the only FBS league with a .600 or
better winning percentage and nearly 40 wins more than the next closest conference.
• The SEC has now won 73 games in the last nine postseasons and has sent no less than
eight teams to post-season bowls in each of the last 18 seasons.
• In the 11 seasons of the College Football Playoff era, only nine programs nationally
have been ranked No. 1 in the weekly CFP Top-25 Poll (which begins in late October
each year) – five of those nine programs (Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State,
Tennessee) are from the SEC. Prior to 2023, no team outside the SEC had been ranked
No. 1 in the weekly CFP Poll since 2019, while four schools from the SEC were ranked
No. 1 during that time.
• Ten different SEC teams, including all seven from the former SEC Western Division,
made BCS/New Year’s Six bowl game appearances since 2006: Alabama, Arkansas,
Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas A&M.
• With Georgia and Alabama both earning victories in the CFP Semifinals in both 2021
and 2017, the national championship game has featured two SEC teams twice in the last
eight years and three times since the 2011 season.
• The SEC Championship has been the most watched conference championship
nationally for 16 of the past 17 seasons, including 12 in a row from 2008-2019. The only
year it was not #1 was 2020 when the SEC did not have a traditional schedule due to the
pandemic.
• The 2024 SEC Championship Game averaged 16.6 million viewers across ABC and
ESPN, the fourth-largest audience on record for the game. The overtime win for
Georgia, which peaked with 19.7 million viewers, delivered the largest audience of the
college football season — surpassing the previous high set by the regular season
matchup between the same two teams. Overall, the SEC title game last season delivered
the third-largest regular season college football audience ever on the ESPN family of
networks.
• The SEC finished the 2024 season as the most-watched conference in college football
based on total minutes consumed for a third-straight year. The SEC was also #1 in
average audience for the 14th consecutive year. The SEC on ABC accounted for more
than two-thirds of the 50 most-watched games in the 2024 regular season.
• The SEC received 105 of the total NFL Combine invites in 2025 - which accounted for
nearly one third of the national total.
• The SEC led the nation's conferences in NFL Draft picks for the 19th consecutive year
in 2025 with 79 selections.
• The 79 selections set a record for a conference in a single NFL Draft, shattering the
previous mark of 65 (which was also held by the SEC).
• This marks the 11th straight year for the SEC to see 50 or more players taken in the
NFL Draft. Only four times in the last 30 years has another conference other than the
SEC seen 50 or more players drafted.
• This is the ninth consecutive year the SEC has seen 25 or more players selected
through the first three rounds of the NFL Draft.
• The SEC has averaged over 50 selections per draft since 2006.
• For the 14th time in the last 15 years, the SEC once again tied or led the nation in First
Round NFL Draft selections, as the league produced 15 opening-round draft picks.
• The 15 selections in the opening round tied for the most in the history of the NFL Draft
(set by the SEC in 2020).
• This is the fifth time in the last six years, and seventh in the last nine, the SEC has
produced 10 or more First Round selections.
• During the last 21 NFL Drafts, the SEC has a nation-leading 194 players taken in the
opening round, an average of over nine per season.
• The SEC had six of the first 15 selections and nine of the first 20 of the 2025 NFL
Draft.
• The SEC now has 170 First Round NFL Draft selections since 2010.
• Since 2010, the SEC has nearly double (170) the total amount of First Round selections
than the next closest conference (Big Ten – 88).
• Nine different SEC teams had a player taken in the First Round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
• The SEC now has 61 Top 10 picks since 2009 and 67 since 2007.
• Since 2009, Top 10 NFL picks by league: SEC (61); Big 12 (28); B1G (28), ACC (27); Notre
Dame (5); AAC (3); MAC (3); BYU (2); Mountain West (1).
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