Saturdays in the South: A History of SEC Football

In the aftermath of the Civil War, America's South is looking to put the past behind it, and finds one path in a growing cultural passion of the North: Football. The sport steadily...

In the early years of the SEC, through the Great Depression and World War II, many young men in the South get the opportunity to become first-generation college students, and play...

In the 1960s, as Georgia Tech leaves the conference and the Civil Rights Movement becomes embedded in the history and image of the region, Bear Bryant, hired in 1958, becomes the f...

As the 1970s dawn, Bear Bryant recommits himself with a wishbone offense that will generate a claim to three more national titles at Alabama over the course of the decade. Meanwhil...

The 1980s begin with Georgia recruiting the finest halfback the South, and perhaps the country, has ever produced, Herschel Walker, who leads the Bulldogs to a national title as a...

The 1990s bring change to the South, with businesses moving into the region, and the rust belt giving way to the Sun Belt - while on the football field, the SEC is transformed as w...

The first Division 1-A college football game played after the attacks of 9/11 is in the SEC when South Carolina visits Mississippi State. Nick Saban comes to LSU in 2000 and eventu...

Over a century and a half of college football, and nearly 90 years of the SEC, so much has changed. But the conference is where the best football in the country is played - as the...