re: Has the "Big Six" jumped the shark?

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Ga. Tech would be #7 & they left the SEC in the 60's.

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When I was younger GT was one of the six as Florida was a nobody back then. Ole Miss was a power at the absolute wrong location and time in history. They got screwed.

I think the definition of the six probably changes with time and the fluctuating nature of the game. In the early days Sewanee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt were the beasts of southern college football.

Sewanee gave us the Iron Men who will forever be the greatest single college football team of all time

Tulane gave us the Sugar Bowl and the "Queen of the South" and their decline of the Rose Bowl as it interfered with academics allowed Bama to carry the flag

Vanderbilt was a beast in the early days of college football and if not for the efforts of Dr Dudley what is now the SEC would not exist at all.

Georgia Tech in the early days was along the lines of Notre Dame as a representative of the south and should be remembered for their effect on the national power of SEC football.