The Press-Register and al.com are counting down the final days (73) until the first Saturday of the college football season on Sept. 4. Last season, the SEC compiled a 15-8 record against teams from the other conferences that are members of the Bowl Championship Series. Nine of those meetings came in bowls, meaning the SEC faced BCS foes in 14 of its 48 non-conference games in the regular season.
This season, the SEC will go one better, facing off against other BCS conferences 15 times.Vanderbilt has the fullest slate, playing Northwestern of the Big Ten, Connecticut of the Big East and Wake Forest of the ACC.Neither Ole Miss nor Mississippi State has a BCS opponent on its non-conference slate. Alabama, Georgia and LSU play two each. Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee play one apiece.Teams from the ACC are the most common BCS opponents, appearing seven times on SEC schedules this season. SEC teams meet the Big East four times, the Big 12 twice and the Big Ten and Pac-10 once each in the 2010 regular season.Of the 15 games against BCS opponents, the SEC is at home in seven and on the road in six, with two at neutral sites. LSU plays North Carolina in Atlanta and Arkansas plays Texas A&M at the Dallas Cowboys' stadium.Of their other 33 non-conference games, SEC teams will be on the road for only three, Ole Miss at Tulane, Mississippi State at Houston, and Tennessee at Memphis.Louisiana-Monroe is the Sun Belt Conference's SEC auxiliary member this season. The Warhawks visit Arkansas, Auburn and LSU.
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