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Did you know that Coach Bryant didn't even let his teams get SEC Championship rings in 1966 (when we went undefeated but lost the NC to 9-0-1 Notre Dame)? His words: we win and celebrate NATIONAL Championships here.

Who gives a shite what an admittedly great coach said half a century ago? The college football landscape has changed drastically sense then and the SEC championship is a HUGE deal. You focus on winning each game so that you can reach the SEC championship and play for the privilege of representing your school and conference in a BCS bowl.

Still, some games are more important than others. Just ask Bill Curry what happens when you don't beat Auburn. The Auburn and Tennessee games are important to alumni, faculty, current students, and sidewalkers in a way that the Miss St and Arkansas games are not. A coach better realize quickly that those games carry a bit more weight to the people that sign his check.

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Posted by dbt_Geaux_Tigers_196

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Posted on 1/31/13 at 10:56 pm to PurpleandGold Motown

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Just ask Bill Curry

Definitely. Went 10-2, lost to eventual #1 Canes by 8 points and got canned. Course it worked out getting Stallings but still, damn. But I think it was his 3rd in a row to AU, if I remember right.

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