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re: How does UGA's national championship affect the SEC all time program rankings?
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:02 am to cyarrr
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:02 am to cyarrr
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Sports writers
Many of them did have opportunities to watch the games or at least were around at the time the games were played.
Seriously? You think a sportswriter had time to watch 20 or so games a week? More considering top 20 teams did not play each other every week. It would take more hours than one person had to watch all the games. Most probably didn't even watch all the games from the conference they were covering.
quote:So people who never saw....look. Do you honestly believe that a sportswriter from California had a chance to watch Georgia play games? Very few games were televised in the 70's and earlier. And if you are talking about 1942 there MIGHT have been 2-3 games televised at all.
They probably had a better understanding about what they were reporting on than someone looking at stats 50 years later.
quote:Neither am I and Georgia was consensus in 1942....but you seem to want to revise that.
Just my opinion though, I'm not much for revisionist his
Do you really believe a sportswriter in 1942 had a chance to watch a lot of football games?
Very few were even televised back then. This post was edited on 4/1/22 at 10:03 am
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:17 am to DawgsLife
Agree to disagree I guess
Revisionist because the majority of the selectors you are calling a consensus did not come to this conclusion until decades after the teams played.
Sportswriters didn't likely view all the games but had opportunity to do so. Are you of the assumption that sports writers didn't attend games? Games were also broadcast on radio with play by play announcers.
My point is, they were there during the era and probably understood the game and it's players better than someone looking at a computer generated report 50 years later.
Is it your opinion that Clemson won the natty in 2019 since one of the NCAA's selectors rated them higher than LSU after the championship?
Revisionist because the majority of the selectors you are calling a consensus did not come to this conclusion until decades after the teams played.
Sportswriters didn't likely view all the games but had opportunity to do so. Are you of the assumption that sports writers didn't attend games? Games were also broadcast on radio with play by play announcers.
My point is, they were there during the era and probably understood the game and it's players better than someone looking at a computer generated report 50 years later.
Is it your opinion that Clemson won the natty in 2019 since one of the NCAA's selectors rated them higher than LSU after the championship?
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