The SEC may have failed to bring home a trophy for their on-field performances the past two seasons, there is still one area in which the conference reigns supreme.
Using data compiled from the ArrestNation.com website, former San Jose Mercury News reporter Mike Rosenberg details the individual schools that have compiled the most arrest over the past five years. In that span, Washington State was far and away the leader, with the Cougars seeing a total of 31 arrests involving their football players*.
(*The number of players involved in those arrests wasn’t detailed.)
Conference-wise, though, no one can touch the SEC.
In the timeframe involved, from 2010-2015, a whopping 11 members of the 14-team SEC “earned” spots in the Top 25 for total number of arrests. Six of those claimed spots in the Top 10, including Nos. 2 and 3a/b. Below is the league’s breakdown:
2. Florida, 24
T3. Georgia, 22
T3. Texas A&M*, 22
T6. Missouri*, 20
T6. Ole Miss, 20
T10. Tennessee, 19
T12. Alabama, 18
T12. Kentucky, 18
T15. LSU, 16
T19. Arkansas, 15
T23. Auburn, 13
(*All of those arrests didn’t occur while members of the SEC)
The only SEC schools that didn’t make this ranking? Mississippi State, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
The only Power Five league even remotely in the SEC’s zip code is the Big 12, which had five teams in this ignominious Top 25. The Big Ten and Pac-12 were next with three schools each, followed by the ACC’s two teams. Marshall of Conference USA was the only Group of Five member listed.