Our Ace Reporter, Jimmy Hyams, posted a column earlier this week giving you his stock tips (buy or sell) for each football program in the SEC… based on what he thinks will happen in the upcoming four years.

That got me to thinking, which programs have already risen or fallen over the last 15 years?

So I broke the league down in 5-year intervals: 1993-1997, 1998-2002, and 2003-2007.

Initially, I looked at the overall records of each school, but after collecting all that data and tabulating it, I decided a more accurate measure of success would be a comparison of each program’s SEC record over those time periods.

That way a game against Western Carolina won’t push up the numbers for one team, while a loss to Southern Cal won’t drive down the numbers for another.

From 1993 to 1997, here’s how the league broke down by winning percentage in conference games:

1. Florida .909 (The Gators were a mind-blowing 40-4 over this 5-year span.)

2. Tennessee .817 (The Vols were the 90s other dominant SEC program.)

3. Auburn .720

4. Alabama .616

5. LSU .562

6. Georgia .438

7. Miss. State .388 (Look at the level of

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