Bama’s scoring margins vs. all other SEC teams since 2008 are hilarious

Alabama’s scoring margin against the rest of the SEC since 2008, when Nick Saban got rolling after a mulligan year:

(The SEC Network’s Cole Cubelic, one of the sport’s best analysts, tweeted out a similar list of numbers. It appears his list excludes the 2008 SEC Championship. Adding it in boosts Florida’s numbers, though it’d take quite a few more of those to make up the difference.)

The one that’s probably jumping out at you is that 41-41 score against South Carolina. The Tide and Gamecocks have only played twice since Saban showed up. Bama beat Carolina, 20-6, at home in 2009, but Steve Spurrier got the 35-21 W in Columbia in 2010. A team with Stephen Garcia at QB tied the worst scoring margin Saban’s Bama has ever suffered, making this comfortably one of the most amazing of Saban’s 19 losses since taking over.

But besides that, it’s just blood and agony in every direction. Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt have been doubled up (or worse). Bama’s won three SEC titles in a row and four of the last five, so thoroughly dominating the conference that Georgia and LSU fired steady 10-win coaches who couldn’t keep up.

You could throw in Bama’s 7-6 2007 season without changing much of the numbers here, though Vandy’s margin would creep up to 58-10. That ‘07 team played a lot of close games and lost a couple of embarrassing ones, but it also blew out Tennessee and Vandy and beat Arkansas and Ole Miss.