The SEC has taken their talents on the football field and translated them to the hardwood. The Southeastern Conference hasn't had a National Champion in basketball since Kentucky in 2012, but seems poised to end that drought this season with some of the best teams in the country calling their conference home.

The SEC is a dominant college football powerhouse, especially when it comes to bowl games. See which other conferences also have bowl success.

Conference win-loss records AAC: 6-2 (.750) Frisco Bowl: Memphis defeats West Virginia, 42-37. Gasparilla Bowl: Tulane loses to Florida, 33-8.

When Texas announced plans to enter the SEC, the Longhorns immediately embarked on a 5-7 season in 2021 that was historic for all the wrong reasons. Since that moment, Texas has truly brought itself back from the brink and now stands alone as the only SEC team remaining in the first 12-team College Football Playoff.

Will the Texas football season end at the hands of Ohio State in the CFP? Here's the case for a Buckeyes win in the Cotton Bowl.

Days later, we got a better idea of why the story took off: 6.8 million people watched the Pop-Tarts Bowl on ABC, the highest viewership for the Orlando bowl since 2008 — even with a Denver Broncos-Cincinnati Bengals overtime game airing on NFL Network at the same time.