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49 free SEC football trivia questions with answers. SEC football trivia for tailgates, watch parties and anyone who says 'It just means more.' This quiz covers the Southeastern Conference from its founding at a Knoxville hotel in December 1932 through the departures of Sewanee, Georgia Tech and Tulane, the expansions of 1990, 2012 and 2024, and the first conference championship game in college football. It also covers the people and moments: Bear Bryant's Junction Boys and 323 wins, Nick Saban's title count, Steve Spurrier's Fun 'n' Gun, Kirby Smart's back-to-back titles, and Heisman winners from Herschel Walker to Joe Burrow. The rivalries get their own questions - the Golden Egg, the Third Saturday in October's illegal victory cigars, the Florida-Georgia game's Jacksonville home, the Iron Bowl's 41-year hiatus - along with stadium and mascot lore from Kyle Field's capacity to Ole Miss's 18 mph speed limit, and the miracle finishes: the Kick Six, the Bluegrass Miracle and the Prayer at Jordan-Hare. About a third of the questions are easy warm-ups any SEC fan will get; the rest climb to expert-level details. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01In which Tennessee city was the SEC established in December 1932?
Knoxville
Thirteen Southern Conference schools met at the Farragut Hotel; ten of them are still in the league today.
Q 02How many charter members did the SEC have when it broke away from the Southern Conference?
13
Three of them - Sewanee, Georgia Tech and Tulane - were gone by the late 1960s.
Q 03In which Alabama city is the SEC headquartered?
Birmingham
The same city's Legion Field hosted the first two SEC Championship Games and, for decades, the Iron Bowl.
Q 04In 1935 the SEC became the first conference to legalize what?
Athletic scholarships
Thirty years later a fight over how those scholarships were handed out drove Georgia Tech out of the league.
Q 05Which charter member left the SEC after the 1940 season having gone 0-36 in conference play?
Sewanee
Its 1899 'Iron Tigers' had been one of the most dominant teams in the country, but the tiny private school could not keep up with the big state universities.
Q 06Georgia Tech quit the SEC in 1964 because the league would not crack down on which Bear Bryant-linked practice?
Oversigning players
Coach Bobby Dodd pulled the Yellow Jackets out when the vote went against him; they played as an independent until joining the ACC in 1978.
Q 07Which two schools joined in 1990 to bring the SEC to 12 members and make a championship game possible?
Arkansas and South Carolina
Vanderbilt was placed in the East despite sitting in the Central time zone, purely to keep its rivalry with Tennessee.
Q 08Missouri and Texas A&M both arrived in the SEC in 2012 from which conference?
Big 12
Twelve years later the same conference lost Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC too.
Q 09Texas and Oklahoma were originally slated to join the SEC in 2025. What let them arrive a year early?
A buyout deal with the Big 12
The deal was announced on 9 February 2023, and the SEC scrapped its East and West divisions the same year the newcomers arrived.
Q 10In what year did the SEC stage the first Division I conference football championship game?
1992
Alabama and Florida met in the first three; the Big 12 was the next league to copy the format, in 1996.
Q 11Where were the first two SEC Championship Games played before the game moved to Atlanta?
Legion Field
Atlanta has hosted every edition since 1994, first at the Georgia Dome and, since 2017, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Q 12During the divisional era, which side led the SEC Championship Game series 19-13?
The West
Only six programs have ever won the game: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn and LSU.
Q 13Which SEC commissioner, in office from 1990 to 2002, created the Bowl Championship Series?
Roy Kramer
He came to the job from Vanderbilt, where he had been athletic director, and had earlier won a Division II national title as Central Michigan's coach.
Q 21Steve Spurrier's pass-heavy Florida offense, which forced the run-first SEC to adapt, was nicknamed what?
Fun 'n' Gun
Spurrier won the 1966 Heisman as a Gator himself, then became the first Heisman winner to coach one when Danny Wuerffel won in 1996.
Q 22Kirby Smart led Georgia to back-to-back national championships in which two seasons?
2021 and 2022
Smart played at Georgia himself and was a long-time Saban assistant before returning to Athens.
Q 23Which Georgia running back won the 1982 Heisman Trophy?
Herschel Walker
He was national champion as a freshman in 1980 and left early for the USFL, later joining the Dallas Cowboys.
Q 14Greg Sankey, SEC commissioner from 2015, was born in a town named after which SEC school's home?
Auburn, New York
Media outlets have called him 'the most powerful man in college athletics'; he previously ran the Southland Conference.
Q 15On what date did the SEC Network officially launch?
August 14, 2014
Its very first live event was an exhibition women's soccer match between Arkansas and Creighton, streamed on WatchESPN.
Q 16How many national titles did Bear Bryant win in his 25 years at Alabama?
Six
They came in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978 and 1979, and his final career record was 323-85-17.
Q 17Bear Bryant's brutal 1954 Texas A&M training camp gave the survivors what nickname?
The Junction Boys
Bryant later admitted to Time that he had been too hard on them and would have quit too; the team went 1-9 that year.
Q 18Bear Bryant's trademark hat had which pattern?
Houndstooth
Oddly, he normally wore a plaid one; the famous version stuck in the public memory anyway, along with his habit of leaning on the goalpost during warmups.
Q 19Before Alabama, Nick Saban left LSU after the 2004 season to coach which NFL team?
Miami Dolphins
He had earlier spent four years as Bill Belichick's defensive coordinator in Cleveland, years he later called 'the worst of my life'.
Q 20Which backup quarterback threw Alabama's 2nd-and-26 overtime winner against Georgia for the 2017 title?
Tua Tagovailoa
The catch went to DeVonta Smith, and the win tied Saban with Bryant at six poll-era national championships.
Q 24Besides football, which sport did Bo Jackson play at Auburn on his way to the 1985 Heisman?
Baseball
He was an outfielder for the Tigers and went on to play both sports professionally, with the Raiders and the Royals.
Q 25In 2008, Tim Tebow got the most first-place Heisman votes but finished third. Who won?
Sam Bradford
Tebow had won it in 2007; the Oklahoma winner and Texas's McCoy split the rest of the ballot ahead of him.
Q 26Joe Burrow won the 2019 Heisman and a national title at LSU after transferring from which school?
Ohio State
He was drafted first overall by Cincinnati in 2020, the third straight Heisman-winning quarterback to go No. 1 after Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.
Q 27Cam Newton skipped every Heisman ceremony after his 2010 win until returning in 2024 to support which finalist?
Travis Hunter
Newton's Auburn team went 14-0 and beat Oregon for the BCS title that season.
Q 28The Egg Bowl's Golden Egg trophy was created in 1927 after what happened at the 1926 game?
A melee between fans
The trophy is a brass football on a wooden base, but 1920s footballs were so blunt and ovoid that to modern eyes it looks like an egg.
Q 29The winner of the Alabama-Tennessee game knowingly breaks an NCAA rule every year by handing out what?
Victory cigars
Alabama trainer Jim Goostree started it in the 1950s; both schools kept it quiet until Alabama restarted it publicly in 2005 and self-reported a violation.
Q 30In which year was the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry officially named the Third Saturday in October?
1939
The first meeting, a 6-6 tie in 1901, ended early when fans rushed the field after an offside call and could not be cleared.