Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin said it best when he (rightfully) was critical of his team getting passed over for an at-large College Football Playoff berth last season. Those outside of the Southeastern Conference have a lack of understanding about the venues across the league.
Simply put, going to West Lafayette to play a struggling Purdue team late in the season is a completely different challenge than going to Gainesville, Fla., to play the Florida Gators in The Swamp.
SEC teams routinely post stellar home records, so it’s not rare for a program to go undefeated at home during a season. Georgia hasn’t lost a home game this decade, for example.
But it’s not as common as you’d think, so let’s look at the last season every SEC program did not lose at home.
Georgia 2024
Alabama 2024
Missouri 2024
Tennessee 2024
LSU 2023
Oklahoma 2023
Ole Miss 2023
Texas 2023
Texas A&M 2020
Florida 2019
Auburn 2017
Mississippi State 2014
South Carolina 2013
Arkansas 2011
Vanderbilt 1982
Kentucky 1977
The Bulldogs hold the nation’s best current home winning streak at 32 games. The last loss was a 20-17 double overtime shocker in 2019 against South Carolina.
This season, Georgia hosts Texas, Alabama and Ole Miss at Sanford Stadium after amazingly being scheduled by the league office to visit Austin, Tuscaloosa and Oxford in 2024. Despite that, UGA won the Southeastern Conference Championship and played in the College Football Playoff Semifinals at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans before falling to Notre Dame, 24-13.
