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re: Is Georgia vs South Carolina a big rivalry?
Posted on 9/14/23 at 8:39 am to gamecockman12
Posted on 9/14/23 at 8:39 am to gamecockman12
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UGA fans have a weird complex of needing to be our #2 rival for some reason. It's quite odd.
I think message boards have a tendency to bring out some un-truths for many people. I think the VAST majority of SC fans in real life, without a message board e-agenda, would put us #2. I'm guessing some of the folks living in Augusta might even say 1B.
My theory is that SC is so down, so far down in the depths of the gutter, that the absolute very last resort they ahve when it comes to ANY kind of shite talk is to flippantly and casually say "psh. I mean, y'all aren't even like a big rival to us anyway. Yall really want us as rivals it's weird just leave us alone k?" It's kind of a weird strategy but honestly I just ignore it becuase it's more deflating than anything. There's a teeny, tiny shred inside me that kinda misses when SC did pose a bit of a threat and got the heart pumping a bit leading up to gameday.
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Posted on 9/14/23 at 8:56 am to WG_Dawg
quote:it's Tennessee and it's not close - Georgia was a complete shite-show when Carolina entered the SEC - Tennessee was not. Carolina & Georgia had also played regularly for the past few decades so it wasn't anything different for us to play UGA yearly.
. I think the VAST majority of SC fans in real life, without a message board e-agenda, would put us #2.
Tennessee anointed themselves are #2 on our most hated in 1992 - with an unforgettable group of loud mouth loons who descended upon Columbia as though they invented football - and left with a loss and Johnny Majors soon without a job -
the Carolina-Tennessee series was filled with grueling moments and near misses for USC until Spurrier beat Fulmer in 2007 largely killing the UTK program and changing Gamecock fortunes in the series -
it's Tennessee -
Georgia is a long-standing border feud that comes and goes in a week each fall - we hate Tennessee 24/7/365 much like we hate the Upstate school 24/7/365.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 8:57 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 9:41 am to WG_Dawg
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My theory is that SC is so down, so far down in the depths of the gutter, that the absolute very last resort they ahve when it comes to ANY kind of shite talk is to flippantly and casually say "psh. I mean, y'all aren't even like a big rival to us anyway. Yall really want us as rivals it's weird just leave us alone k?"
I mean, you're welcome to your theory. I'd say it's more indicative of football being cyclical. Uga/USC had a really competitive, hard-fought series from about 2000 to 2015-ish. Since then, as I've mentioned multiple times, USC fell off the cliff and UGa got significantly better.
The game just isn't as "big" as it used to be, for either side, as you yourself have admitted.
The Mizzou and UK series have been more interesting, and the UTK series has been infinitely more competitive during that same run. I personally hate aTm more, but I'm in the minority there, for sure. UF we just kinda play.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 9:44 am to WG_Dawg
I imagine outside of clemson usce is in kinda a rival purgatory, you have uga who is geographically close and play every year but has been one sided talent wise. Unc close by, relatively similar talent wise in football and bad blood from acc days but is a basketball school plus infrequent meetings. Tenn is competitive the last decade talent wise and play every year but proximity isn't what unc and uga have. Kentucky talent wise comparative but is a bball and proximity is further than tenn. I'd go with uga as number 2 buy I'm guessing it varies amongst its fans.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 10:48 am to WG_Dawg
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I think message boards have a tendency to bring out some un-truths for many people. I think the VAST majority of SC fans in real life, without a message board e-agenda, would put us #2. I'm guessing some of the folks living in Augusta might even say 1B.
no we wouldnt...again you guys just want to think that because to you we arent rivals, and you want people to crave you as a rival.
You guys don't see us as "rivals" so we don't see you as rivals. We have real hate for UNC, and real hate for Clemson. we just don't like you
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