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80s was the greatest decade of SEC football
Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:57 pm
The 1980s was the best decade of SEC football. It started with Bear Bryant retiring and ended with Spurrier starting at Florida. In between Pate Dye and Vince Dooley had great teams. Tennessee and LSU both won two titles. There were great players like Herschel, Bo, Reggie White, Emmitt Smith, and Derrik Thomas. Florida was number 1 for a time in 1985. This was the decade of best collection of coaches, players, and parity.
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:00 pm to VFL67
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The 1980s was the best decade of SEC football. It started with Bear Bryant retiring and ended with Spurrier starting at Florida. In between Pate Dye and Vince Dooley had great teams. Tennessee and LSU both won two titles.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:02 pm to VFL67
no
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:03 pm to VFL67
Best decade for everything except football!!...movies, music, a strong leader in the WH!
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:07 pm to VFL67
Bcs was the best era of sec football. Might be the best era any conference has seen in the foosball
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:22 pm to VFL67
I'm pretty sure Kerwin Bell was Florida's QB for the entire decade.
Also, games were on TBS following re-runs of Andy Griffith.
Long before Oregon made it en vogue, Vandy would change uniform styles and colors every year in the hopes of "shedding" the previous season's terrible results. (spoiler alert: it didn't work).
There were non-conference rivalries: Bama-Penn St, Auburn-FSU, UGA-Clemson, LSU-Texas AM, etc.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:27 pm to VFL67
I disagree 100%. You could make an argument for the 90's but not the 80's and I don't think the 90's was the best. We did start the SEC championship game in the 90's and that separated the SEC from all other conferences so bad....they had to start their own by expanding. That was a major development for the SEC. No question about it.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:09 pm to VFL67
A YouTube video I put together about the LSU Tigers 1982 season:
Hilliard was amazing!
Hilliard was amazing!
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:26 pm to VFL67
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80s was the greatest decade of SEC football
UGA won every National Championship won by an SEC team that decade!!! Greatest team of all time in greatest SEC decade ever???!!!
80s were fun for football, but far from the SECs greatest decade
Posted on 2/18/25 at 4:18 pm to blueridgeTiger
His legs were UUUGE
Posted on 2/18/25 at 4:21 pm to VFL67
Was a solid decade but far from the best.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 5:04 pm to flagshipuniversity
im with you on the 90's...but I also am a big spurrier fan...even before he came to Carolina. That was the decade of change from the beginning of the SEC title game to the revolution of the passing offense
Posted on 2/18/25 at 5:20 pm to VFL67
The SEC won six years in the 2010s. How could that be worse than the 1980s?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 5:57 pm to VFL67
Yet only one natty in the 80s (Georgia 1980)
Posted on 2/18/25 at 6:17 pm to GamecockUltimate
My biggest problem with the 90s being the best is when ppl think of the 90s they don’t think Florida or sec(mighta been different if fat Phil coulda beat spurrier more), they think big 3 plus Nebraska. When ppl talk bcs era, sec dominance is synonymous.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 6:22 pm to bamabaseballsec
The 90s were ruled by
FSU
Nebraska
Florida
Vols were up there too but a distant 4th IMO.
FSU
Nebraska
Florida
Vols were up there too but a distant 4th IMO.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 6:23 pm to VFL67
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LSU won two titles
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 7:16 pm to VFL67
if you were a UMiami Hurricanes fan - sure - it probably was -
Posted on 2/18/25 at 7:23 pm to VFL67
The Lou Holtz / Ken Hatfield years. We won a lot of SWC games in that decade.
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