
| Rank | Team | Points | Top 20 | Top 10 | Top 5 | 1st | 2nd |
| 1. | Michigan | 715 | 51 | 36 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
| 2. | Notre Dame | 701.5 | 47 | 35 | 22 | 8 | 5 |
| 3. | Oklahoma | 689.5 | 44 | 32 | 27 | 6 | 4 |
| 4. | ALABAMA | 637 | 44 | 32 | 18 | 6 | 2 |
| 5. | Ohio State | 630 | 44 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 6 |
| 6. | Nebraska | 617 | 41 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| 7. | Texas | 544.5 | 37 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| 8. | TENNESSEE | 533 | 39 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 4 |
| 9. | Southern Cal | 530 | 39 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 5 |
| 10. | Penn State | 484 | 37 | 22 | 14 | 2 | 3 |
| 11. | Miami (Florida) | 439 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 4 |
| 12. | Florida State | 413 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
| 13. | GEORGIA | 373 | 27 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 14. | AUBURN | 368 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 15. | LSU | 364 | 29 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| 16. | UCLA | 352 | 30 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| 17. | FLORIDA | 332.5 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 18. | ARKANSAS | 282 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 19. | Michigan State | 266 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| 20. | Texas A&M | 264 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 21. | Washington | 260 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 22. | Georgia Tech | 227.5 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 23. | OLE MISS | 223.5 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 24. | Colorado | 218 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 25. | Iowa | 217 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 |

• LSU defeated Ohio State, 38-24, in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan.
7 in New Orleans. The Tigers give the SEC its second consecutive national championship
(Florida, 2006), its fourth title in 10 yeaars of the BCS and its sixth since conference
expansion in 1992. It is the SEC’s 18th national championship in its history
(counting only AP, UPI, FWAA and USA Today polls).
• The SEC is the only league to currently have five football coaches who have won a
national championship.
Steve Spurrier, South Carolina (won title in 1996 while at Florida)
Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee (won title in 1998)
Nick Saban, Alabama (won title in 2003 while at LSU)
Urban Meyer, Florida (won title in 2006)
Les Miles, LSU (won title in 2007)
• The SEC had five teams ranked in the top 15 of the final Associated Press poll and
five of the top 16 in the final USA Today coaches poll - the most of any conference.
The SEC had five of the top 15 teams in the final AP poll four previous times (1952,
1971, 1997 and 2005) and five of the top 16 teams in the final USA Today poll four
times since conference expansion (1992, 1997, 1999, 2005).
• LSU and Georgia finished 1-2 in the final AP poll marking the first time the SEC has
accomplished that feat and the first time for any conference since 1971 (Big Eight).
• The SEC finished the 2007-08 bowl season with a 7-2 record. The seven wins are
the most bowl victories by any conference in NCAA history. The league had won six
bowl games last year and five bowl games six times with the latest coming in 2003.
• In 2007, the SEC led all NCAA FBS conferences with a 82.4 winning percentage in
non-conference games. The SEC posted a 47-10 overall non-conference mark, edging
out the Big 12 Conference with a 41-15 mark (73.2 percent) and the Big Ten
Conference at 38-14 (73.1 percent). The 47 non-conference wins by the SEC ties the
most by the league in its history (47 in 2006).
• The SEC finished the 2007 season with eight teams earning at least eight-or-more
victories for the second straight season. Before the last season, the most teams in a
season that had eight wins was six in 2002 and 2003.
• The SEC drew a conference record 6.6 million fans to its games in 2007, the most
by any conference in NCAA history. In 89 game dates, the SEC averaged 75,139 fans
per game, which is also the best in NCAA history. SEC games filled stadiums at 97.7
percent of capacity, whcih is the highest since 2001.
• SEC student-athletes won 12 individual national awards this season, an SEC alltime
high with LSU’s Glenn Dorsey winning four, Florida’s Tim Tebow winning three
and Arkansas’ Darren McFadden claiming two honors. Dorsey won the Nagurski,
Outland, Lott and Lombardi Awards while Tebow won the Heisman, O’Brien and
Maxwell Awards and McFadden claimed the Walter Camp and Doak Walker Awards.
Arkansas’s Jonathan Luigs won the Rimington Award and Kentucky’s Jacob Tamme
and Terry Clayton won the Bowden Award and Rudy Award, respectively.
• Florida’s Tim Tebow and Arkansas’ Darren McFadden represent the 12th and 13th
National Player of the Year honored in SEC history. Tebow won the Maxwell and
Heisman Trophies while McFadden won the Watler Camp Trophy. It is the first time
two SEC student-athletes have been named National Player of the Year in the same
season.
• The SEC had seven football student-athletes earn first-team All-America mention in
2007. Included are consensus All-Americas: Arkansas C Jonathan Luigs, Florida QB
Tim Tebow, Arkansas RB Darren McFadden (unanimous), Arkansas KR Felix Jones,
LSU DT Glenn Dorsey (unanimous) and LSU DB Craig Steltz. Also earning first-team
mention was Arkansas PK Daniel Lincoln.