Who's Blown Out the Most in the SEC?

Richt holds up 1 finger for each of Nutt's blowouts

Phillip Marshall of the Huntsville Times wrote an interesting piece about the frequency that certain SEC coaches get blown out. Per his article:

For the comparison to be fair, I limited it to coaches who have spent at least five seasons in the SEC. I limited my research to the last five seasons each coach spent in the SEC. I didn't look at coaches from Vanderbilt, the Mississippi schools or Kentucky for obvious reasons. I also decided a "blowout" would be a game in which a team lost by 14 points or more.

That left me with Tuberville, Alabama's Nick Saban (from his LSU days), Georgia's Mark Richt, Tennessee's Phillip Fulmer, Arkansas' Houston Nutt and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier (at South Carolina and Florida). When I began to look through the records, I really wasn't sure what to expect.

Richt came out *extremely* well.

1. Nutt, 10 blowouts (no shocker there)
2. Saban, 9
3. Fulmer and Tuberville, 8
5. Spurrier, 6
6. Richt, 3

I will say that the rankings are a little misleading. Saban was in Year 1 and Richt in Year 2 when Marshall started his tracker while Tuberville (Year 4), Nutt (Year 5) and Fulmer and Spurrier were already well established. In other words, Tuberville's and Fulmer's stats are even worse than the others given their well established tenure.

PWD

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