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re: Now that Arkansas and Kentucky are back to being the big 2 in basketball
Posted on 2/21/15 at 9:16 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 2/21/15 at 9:16 pm to Cheese Grits
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Bear Bryant era, back in the 50's
Polls ened last day of the season and had Oklahoma #1 then UK beat them in the bowl (back when you only had 4 bowls or so and they meant something)
1950 Kentucky team
SEC champions
Sugar Bowl Champions
National Champions
The 1950 Kentucky team concluded its season with a victory over Bud Wilkinson's #1 ranked and NCAA champion Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl. The living players from the 1950 Wildcats team were honored during halftime of a game during the 2005 season as the #1 ranked team for the 1950 season, even though they finished the season ranked #7 by the AP. In 1990, Jeff Sagarin released a retroactive ranking of teams for the 1950 season and Kentucky was listed #1.
They had 1 selection that didn't exist until 1978. Does UK seriously claim it?
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Posted on 2/21/15 at 9:18 pm to Korin
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Does UK seriously claim it?
No, we do not claim it.
Posted on 2/21/15 at 9:21 pm to Korin
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They had 1 selection that didn't exist until 1978.
Back then polls closed at seasons end and did not include the post season. Clearly now we can see that the post season affects the modern polls. If the polls in the 50's followed the more modern polls, Sooners would not have been #1 for 1950. I know most Gator fans forget college football existed prior to Charlie Pell but old folks have different memories.
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