re: UGA'S BIGGEST RIVAL

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Our biggest rival is the one that potentially keeps us from an East championship.

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The east has only existed since 1992. How can a school be "UGA's biggest rival" if that designation can change in the breeze every so often due to different circumstances? That's not how it works. A school's biggest rival is their biggest rival, period. Forever. It doesn't change on a whim.


I heard a pretty good explanation a while back that I like. Tech is our biggest rival (obvs) but we have cycles of having a different main "nemesis". In the early 80s you couldn't find a more heated foe for us than clemson. Throughout the entire 80s we had some classics with AU, they kept us from being SEC Champs several times and likewise we did the same to them. In the 90s UF and UT owned us so we turned our hatred a bit more towards them. Over the last 10 years SC has been a thorn in our side and caused us some trouble. Just because all of those teams may have surged up the "teams we hate more" rankings doesn't change the fact that tech is still our biggest rival.