SEC finishes on top again

If you're a Florida fan feeling a little bummed about LSU's win over Ohio State for the BCS national championship, look at it this way: a win for LSU is a boost for the SEC.

For the second consecutive season, an SEC team won the BCS national title game, the first time in BCS history.

Here are a few other notes from the league on this season's success:

* LSU's 2007 BCS National Championship is the Southeastern Conference's fourth
in the 10 years of the BCS.  Tennessee won the BCS National Championship in
1998, LSU in 2003 and Florida in 2006.

* The SEC is the first conference to win back-to-back BCS titles.

 
* The SEC is 11-4 all-time in BCS bowl games.  The SEC has won four BCS bowl
games in the last two seasons.

* The SEC's seven bowl wins this season is an all-time high for any conference. 
SEC had six last season (previous high).

* The SEC's 7-2 bowl record this season is first among the automatic qualifying
BCS conferences (.778 percent) and second overall (Mountain West - 4-1, .800
percent) this season.

* This season, the SEC posted a 47-10 record against non-conference foes (.825
percent), which is the highest percentage of all FBS conferences.  47 wins ties
an SEC high all-time (last season, had 47).

* The SEC now has 184 bowl wins in its history, which is tops in FBS.

* The SEC's bowl win percentage of 52.8 (184-164-13) is percentage points ahead
of the ACC's 143-128-5 percentage of 52.7 for tops among FBS conferences. 
Records are using 2007 conference alignments.