re: Jeff Schultz: Deep South's Oldest Rivalry at risk

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same year

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UGA/Auburn: February 20, 1892

LSU/Tulane: November 25, 1893

herp derp

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The first college football game between the Auburn University and the University of Georgia was played on February 20, 1892 in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] The game was the brainchild of Charles Herty of Georgia and George Petrie of Auburn, both trainers at their respective schools and graduate school classmates at The Johns Hopkins University.[2] The game was also, according to legend, when Auburn's team cheer, "War Eagle," originated. Auburn won the game 10–0.

The Tigers and Bulldogs have played each other nearly every year since. There have only been three exceptions since 1898, when World War I and World War II interrupted the series. Through the 2011 season, the rivalry is tied for the seventh most played college football series at 115 games, and is among the most evenly matched, with Auburn holding a 54–53–8 overall lead in the series. When the Southeastern Conference (SEC) split into its Eastern Division and Western Division in 1992, with Auburn placed in the west and Georgia in the east, the game was designated as the teams' annual cross-divisional rivalry game.

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Staypuff, its the AJC...theyre wrong alot.

I liked it better when it was just ut and bama that were gonna lose their shitty little rivalry.

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Print the frickin t shirts!

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We're printing ours on the Rag

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I don't understand why we wouldn't go to a 9 game conference schedule.

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1) $
2) uneven scheduling (diff # of home and away conference games every season if you play 9 instead of 8)

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Everyone else is doing it too.

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big 10 seems to be staying with 8 conference games. Who other than the PAC has gone to 9 conference games a year? Certainly not the ACC, Big "12", Big East, or midmajors

If anything I think the SEC taking on an extra conference game would be an unnecessary handicap when you could use that slot to play a good team out of conference and/or make money on a home gate

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AUCatfish

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Quick thread hijack. Do you know if the cops down there have any leads on who murdered that Headland farmer last week? TIA!


/hijack.

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the thought of losing it to allow these clowns into my conference makes me sick.

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this is why I hope they all go away

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Don't screw this up Slive. Do whatever you have to do, but don't mess with these games.

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Screw it up Slive, mess with these games

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As a Bama fan, all I have been able to think about during expansion discussions (besides dreading trips to Columbia and College Station) is losing the Third Saturday of October. It is by far the most meaningful rivalry game for me (and I'm only 30) and the thought of losing it to allow these clowns into my conference makes me sick. There is nothing more old school than Bama/UT and AU/UGA. Don't screw this up Slive. Do whatever you have to do, but don't mess with these games.

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Easy fix... move UT to the West and Auburn to the East. Voila!