STAT OF THE WEEK
Arkansas has fallen and cannot get up. The Razorbacks had better figure out how to get off the deck soon, because they’re staring at some SEC infamy.
The Hogs have lost 19 straight league games, longest run of futility since Vanderbilt lost 22 straight from 1995–98. They open against Georgia, then go on the road twice (at Mississippi State and at Auburn), which would seem to give them a solid shot at equaling that Vandy losing streak. After that comes a home game against Mississippi, the last SEC team Arkansas beat, back in 2017.
But the Hogs will have to
really screw things up to get near the league’s longest losing streak. It was set by Sewanee, which undoubtedly will go down as the worst major-conference football program in the history of the sport.
The tiny school in Tennessee was a football pioneer in the South, earning renown in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But those days were long gone when Sewanee somehow became a charter member of the SEC in 1932. The Tigers played football in the league from 1933–40 … and never won a game. They went 0–37 before bowing out and finding their comfort level in what would become NCAA Division III.
Sewanee did at least have an entertaining fight song back in the day, which included this stanza: “Rip `em up! Tear `em up! Leave `em in the lurch. Down with the heathen. Up with the Church. Yea, Sewanee's Right!"
Entire article:
https://www.si.com/college/2020/09/01/heisman-trophy-delay-big-ten-vote
OK, who new Sewanee use to be a SEC school?
