re: What program is better overall in football: Auburn or Georgia?

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There's no advantage either way so you can only go by what happened. What happened in 1950 counts just as much as what happened in 2016

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Not really, because in the 1950s some of the best players didn't even get to enroll at most major colleges in the US, let alone play football in the SEC.

Some of those great black college teams back in the day could probably have kicked the asses of a lot of major college teams.

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Man are you being serious? So nothing mattered in college sports before 1970? Are you a damn retard? Even by your dumbass metric LSU is still a better program than auburn since 1970.

Head to Head since 1970: LSU leads series 18-12
National titles since 1970: LSU leads 2-1
Natonal title game appearances: LSU leads 3-2
SEC conference title game appearances LSU 5 (4-1 record) Auburn 5 (3-2 record)
SEC Titles since 1970: LSU- 7 Auburn-7 (one of which was a frickin 3 way tie lol)
BCS bowls and record: LSU 5 (4-1) Auburn 3 (2-1) record.

shut the frick up now.

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Dumb frick, when was LSU ever part of this conversation ?

You must be part of the generation from LA prior to 1990, where they didn't concentrate on education. For the most part, LSU wasn't relevant until Saban got there. All the good athletes had to go to other schools out of state.

I mean, is it really a question when you compare hardware? thUGA May have the overall record by what two games? GTFO

Before 2010, Georgia had the upper hand. Both are mostly even overall, but as of now I'd give the slight edge to Auburn as they have played for two titles winning one.

Edging out by an arse hair isn't exactly "trumping"

That's your evidence? The word of a disgruntled self-employee who was fired in shame? Who wasn't even at Auburn during the time frame in question?

Somebody like that could never possibly have an ad to grind, and has all the incentive in the world to tell the truth.

Here's more from the article you quoted (from Bleacher Report, that well-known fount of credibility, by Matt Hayes, of whom his former employer The Sporting News thought so highly that they removed links to every article he wrote over 16 years from their website):

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But here's the catch: I've seen the ledger.

Saw it 13 years ago when Bowden—now the coach at Akron—was a studio host for ABC's college football coverage and lived in my hometown. I went to his house one sleepy spring morning, expecting to talk about why such a successful coach had walked away from it all. He sat behind the desk of a makeshift office in his master bedroom, pulled out the ledger and plopped it on his desk.

Just like it had happened to him.

I saw the names, saw the money, saw the way players were recruited and what they were paid.

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And yet, in the decade between the time the ledger came into Bowden's possession and the day he showed it to Hayes, not a single player ever came forward and admitted they were paid by AU. And a team of NCAA officials somehow overlooked a huge pay-for-play scheme that was still going on in the middle of their investigation, despite the fact that the center of that investigation was a disgruntled former player who most certainly would have been willing and able to provide names of his teammates who would have been paid, and the coaches that paid them. And in the 14 years since Bowden showed his 'proof' to a nationally-published sports journalist, said journalist also apparently failed to contact any of the names he allegedly saw in print to verify the story (which, coincidentally, he didn't include any contemporaneous quotes from Bowden when he published this piece last fall, mainly because Bowden has never made these allegations anywhere except 'off the record').

But hey, let's accept your premise: AU under Dye was dirty as hell, Bowden really was telling the truth, and there really was a system in place to recruit players with cash and other illegal benefits, all written down in ledger form. I'm willing to believe that's all accurate (despite the fact that, even at this late date, no one has ever managed to wrangle a confession from any one of the literally dozens of players who allegedly benefited from AU's elaborate 12-year pay-for-play system).

Who was AU's recruiting coordinator under Dye? Where was he in 1999, when this 'little black book' story first came to light, and where was he in 2003 when Bowden allegedly showed Hayes concrete proof that AU was cheating?

How far down this rabbit hole do you want to go?