SEC Football Trivia
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48 free SEC Football trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
49 free SEC football trivia questions with answers. SEC football trivia for tailgates, watch parties and anyone who says 'It just means more.' This quiz covers the Southeastern Conference from its founding at a Knoxville hotel in December 1932 through the departures of Sewanee, Georgia Tech and Tulane, the expansions of 1990, 2012 and 2024, and the first conference championship game in college football. It also covers the people and moments: Bear Bryant's Junction Boys and 323 wins, Nick Saban's title count, Steve Spurrier's Fun 'n' Gun, Kirby Smart's back-to-back titles, and Heisman winners from Herschel Walker to Joe Burrow. The rivalries get their own questions - the Golden Egg, the Third Saturday in October's illegal victory cigars, the Florida-Georgia game's Jacksonville home, the Iron Bowl's 41-year hiatus - along with stadium and mascot lore from Kyle Field's capacity to Ole Miss's 18 mph speed limit, and the miracle finishes: the Kick Six, the Bluegrass Miracle and the Prayer at Jordan-Hare. About a third of the questions are easy warm-ups any SEC fan will get; the rest climb to expert-level details. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01In which Tennessee city was the SEC established in December 1932?
Knoxville
Knoxville's Farragut Hotel hosted the meeting where thirteen schools walked out of their old league to start their own; ten of the thirteen were still SEC members in 2025.
Q 02The thirteen schools that founded the SEC in 1932 all broke away from which older conference?
Southern Conference
The Southern Conference lost all thirteen of its schools south and west of the Appalachians at once, and in 1953 seven more members walked out to found the ACC.
Q 03In which Alabama city is the SEC headquartered?
Birmingham
Birmingham has housed the league office since 1948; before that the SEC's first headquarters sat one state over, in an office building in Jackson, Mississippi.
Q 04In 1935 the SEC became the first conference to legalize what?
Athletic scholarships
Athletic scholarships stayed contentious: the NCAA's 1948 'Sanity Code' tried to limit such aid to students in financial need, but colleges balked at enforcing it and it was repealed within a few years.
Q 05Which charter member left the SEC after 1940 without ever winning a conference football game?
Sewanee
Sewanee had once been a power: its 1899 'Iron Men' went 12-0 and won five road games in six days, but by the 1930s the small private school could not keep up with the state universities.
Q 06Georgia Tech quit the SEC in 1964 after the league refused to curb which practice, used by Bear Bryant and others?
Oversigning players
Oversigning players was the practice coach Bobby Dodd most wanted banned; when the league voted against tighter rules he pulled Georgia Tech out, and it played as an independent until joining the ACC in 1978.
Q 07Which two schools' arrival in the early 1990s took the SEC to 12 members and made a championship game possible?
Arkansas and South Carolina
Arkansas and South Carolina both began SEC football in 1992; Arkansas had walked out on the Southwest Conference, which folded four years later.
Q 08Missouri and Texas A&M both arrived in the SEC in 2012 from which conference?
Big 12
Big 12 departures took the SEC to 14 members, and Missouri was placed in the East Division although it lies west of five of the seven West schools.
Q 09Which two schools joined the SEC in 2024, a year ahead of schedule, to make it a 16-team league?
Texas and Oklahoma
Texas and Oklahoma had been due in 2025 but bought their way out of their old league a year early, and the SEC scrapped its East and West divisions the season they arrived.
Q 10Which Texas A&M quarterback became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, in 2012?
Johnny Manziel
Johnny Manziel, 'Johnny Football', won it in Texas A&M's first SEC season after leading a 29-24 upset of top-ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Q 11Which stadium hosted the first two SEC Championship Games before the event moved to Atlanta?
Legion Field
Legion Field staged the 1992 and 1993 games; the first was settled by Alabama's Antonio Langham, who returned a Florida pass for the winning touchdown with 3:16 left.
Q 12Fans of which SEC team ring cowbells at home football games?
Mississippi State Bulldogs
Mississippi State Bulldogs fans kept ringing them through decades of an SEC ban on artificial noisemakers, until the league relented in 2010 and let cowbells back into the stadium.
Q 13Which SEC commissioner, in office from 1990 to 2002, created the Bowl Championship Series?
Roy Kramer
Q 21Steve Spurrier's pass-happy Florida offense of the 1990s was nicknamed what?
Fun 'n' Gun
Fun 'n' Gun football brought Florida four straight SEC titles, and when Danny Wuerffel won the 1996 Heisman, Spurrier, the 1966 winner, became the first Heisman winner to coach another.
Q 22Kirby Smart's Georgia won its second straight national title by beating which team 65-7 in January 2023?
TCU
TCU lost by 58 points, the widest margin in a College Football Playoff title game, one year after Georgia had ended a championship drought that went back to 1980.
Q 23Which Georgia running back won the 1982 Heisman Trophy?
Herschel Walker
He was national champion as a freshman in 1980 and left early for the USFL, later joining the Dallas Cowboys.
Roy Kramer also gave major college football its first conference title game: under him the SEC grew to 12 teams, split into two divisions and sent the winners to a championship game.
Q 14Tennessee's live mascot, Smokey, is which breed of dog?
Bluetick Coonhound
Bluetick Coonhound: at a 1953 student contest the last dog introduced, 'Blue Smokey', howled when his name was called, howled again as the crowd cheered, and won the job.
Q 15The SEC Network, launched in 2014, is owned and operated by which broadcaster?
ESPN
ESPN launched the channel on August 14, 2014, and in 2024 it became the sole broadcaster of SEC football, ending the conference's long run of Saturday games on CBS.
Q 16Before Alabama, Bear Bryant won the 1950 SEC title as head coach of which school?
Kentucky
Kentucky won the SEC under Bryant in 1950, but he left after 1953, convinced that Adolph Rupp's basketball team would always come first there.
Q 17Bear Bryant's brutal 1954 Texas A&M training camp gave the survivors what nickname?
The Junction Boys
The Junction Boys went 1-9 that season, but the players who stayed were Southwest Conference champions two years later, and Bryant came to say he had been too hard on them.
Q 18Bear Bryant's trademark hat had which pattern?
Houndstooth
Houndstooth fedoras were so closely tied to Bryant, who wore them often though not always, that the University of Alabama has tried to claim the pattern as a trademark.
Q 19Before taking over at Alabama, Nick Saban left LSU in 2004 to coach which NFL team?
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins: two seasons in, Saban told reporters 'I'm not going to be the Alabama coach', then met Alabama officials eleven days later and took the job.
Q 20Which backup quarterback threw Alabama's 2nd-and-26 overtime winner against Georgia for the 2017 title?
Tua Tagovailoa
Tua Tagovailoa, a true freshman, came off the bench at half-time with Alabama trailing 13-0 and threw the winning touchdown in overtime for a 26-23 win.
Q 24Besides football and track, which sport did Bo Jackson play at Auburn on his way to the 1985 Heisman?
Baseball
Baseball: he hit .401 as a junior, and when Tampa Bay made him the first pick of the 1986 NFL draft he turned it down to sign with the Kansas City Royals.
Q 25Tim Tebow got the most first-place Heisman votes in 2008 but finished third behind Colt McCoy and which winner?
Sam Bradford
Sam Bradford of Oklahoma won on total points although Tebow, the 2007 winner, topped more ballots; Bradford was the second sophomore in a row to take the trophy, after Tebow himself.
Q 26Joe Burrow won the 2019 Heisman and a national title at LSU after transferring from which school?
Ohio State
Ohio State never started him: Burrow spent three years there as a redshirt and a backup, moved to LSU as a graduate transfer, and won the 2019 Heisman with 841 of the first-place votes.
Q 27Cam Newton skipped every Heisman ceremony after his 2010 win until returning in 2024 to support which finalist?
Travis Hunter
Travis Hunter, who played both cornerback and receiver for Colorado, won the trophy that night; Newton had stayed away for 14 years because of the controversy around his own win.
Q 28The Egg Bowl's Golden Egg trophy was created in 1927 after what happened when Ole Miss won the year before?
A melee between fans
A melee between fans broke out when Ole Miss supporters, celebrating the end of a 13-game losing streak, went for the goalposts and the home crowd defended them with wooden chairs.
Q 29The winner of the Alabama-Tennessee game knowingly breaks an NCAA rule every year by handing out what?
Victory cigars
Alabama trainer Jim Goostree started it in the 1950s; both schools kept it quiet until Alabama restarted it publicly in 2005 and self-reported a violation.
Q 30The Florida-Georgia game has been played almost every year since 1933 in which neutral city?
Jacksonville
Jacksonville, until 2026, had lost the game only in 1994 and 1995, while its stadium was rebuilt for the NFL's Jaguars; the partying around it earned the nickname 'World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party'.