What I've done here is to add together each team's winning percentage in football and basketball, counting only regular season conference games. For example, if a team won half of its football games and half of its football games, it would have a score of 1.000 (0.500 + 0.500 = 1.000)
1. Florida: 1.387 (.780 + .607) (football percentages listed first)
2. Alabama: 1.179 (.658 + .521)
3. Tennessee: 1.155 (.640 + .515)
4. Georgia: 1.063 (.634 + .429)
5. Kentucky: 1.042 (.268 + .774)
6. Louisiana St: 1.030 (.604 + .426)
T7. Auburn: 0.985 (.589 + .396)
T7. Arkansas: 0.985 (.476 + .509)
9. Mississippi St: 0.887 (.366 + .521)
10. S. Carolina: 0.816 (.432 + .384)
11. Mississippi: 0.801 (.375 + .426)
12. Vanderbilt: 0.673 (.179 + .494)
It'd be cool to come up with a standard to measure a team follower's happiness with a given team. There could be a baseline standard to apply to any sport (say, "HP 1986 Team Follower's Happiness Rating"), but then there might be extensions that would factor in league-by-league variances (HP 1986.1 Team Follower's Happiness Rating, NCFA"). The working group creating the baseline standard would have to work out consensus to tough questions such as, How much greater is the sadness created by a loss in the playoffs than the happiness created by a win in the regular season? And then the league-extension working groups would get into all sorts of stuff like, How much sweeter is it to complete a three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium is it than to win three games at wherever it is the Florida/Miami/Tallahassee Marlins are playing this season?
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