You put WAY too much weight on SEC Titles… especially the old ones which were much easier to come by.

I mean look at 1980 Georgia’s path to the SEC Championship. They defeated:

Tennessee (5-6)
Ole Miss (3-8)
Vanderbilt (2-9)
Kentucky (3-8)
Florida (8-4)
Auburn (5-6)

That’s it. No having to play in a Championship Game. Just win six games, five against opponents with a losing record, and win a trophy.

1981 was nearly just as bad.

Tennessee (8-4)
Ole Miss (4-6-1)
Vanderbilt (4-7)
Kentucky (3-8)
Florida (7-5)
Auburn (5-6)

GA shared the title with Alabama that year, meaning 20% of the league won the Championship.

That’s 2 SEC Titles in two seasons without ever having to beat a ranked conference opponent.

If you think that somehow compares to Florida in the 1990s who had to get past a typically Top 5 Tennessee just to have a shot at then beating the West Champion, you are crazy. In Florida’s 5 SEC Titles won in the 1990s, they had to play 15 conference opponents that finished ranked in the Top 25… that’s 3 per season.

Not all SEC titles are created equal. Sure you get to claim the trophy, but you can’t expect folks to think Georgia’s 1980 or 1981 team was just as deserving as those Gators teams in the ‘90s, LSU in 2019, Auburn in 2010, etc.

We have eyes. And we have brains. And if one simply applies an ounce of logic, it’s obvious that taking every SEC title since 1933 and pretending they were all won with the same difficulty is insanity.

And Georgia has won more lackluster SEC titles than anyone.

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Posted on 7/13/23 at 3:59 pm to AUTiger789

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You put WAY too much weight on SEC Titles

it's funny that you put utmost importance on national titles but flippantly dismiss SEC titles.

We're comparing SEC programs. There are a metric frickton of variables that go into winning or not winnign (ie, being selected by some fricktard media goons) a national title. There are a whoooole lot less variables when it comes to winning the SEC title, which is only able to be won by the same teams we're caompring, and there isn't an actual vote considering it's won on the field.

If anything we should be putting mcuh higher priority on SEC titles and less on national titles.

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I mean look at 1980 Georgia’s path to the SEC Championship. They defeated:

cool. Who cares. Yep it was a weak schedule, we also went 12-0 which nobody else in america did and we beat the consensus #1 team in america to do it. We're national champs regardless of whatever schedule asshurtedness you still carry about it.

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Not all SEC titles are created equal. Sure you get to claim the trophy, but you can’t expect folks to think Georgia’s 1980 or 1981 team was just as deserving as those Gators teams in the ‘90s

UGA's SEC titles in 1980, 1981, and 1982 saw tyhem go undefeated in the SEC. As in, not a single other SEC program defeeated us during that time frame. The same can't be said for many of UF's titles. But yeah, I'm the crazy one.

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And we have brains

I'm less convinced of that by the minute

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Georgia has won more lackluster SEC titles than anyone.

Yet they all count the exact very same. It's funny how we somehow luck into playing a bunch of nobodies and tomato cans every year, yet we only have a losing record against 2 other SEC programs. We certainly don't have losing records against tech or clemson who we used to play regularly. I guess the universe has just cosmically decided to gift us wiht only playing sec teams when tehy're down en route to winning the sec when we do. Kinda miraculous when you think about it.

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