re: Can you imagine being Georgia Tech right now

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Just stop. Y'all went back and claimed 1942 sometime in the 80s.
Ohio State didn't play a bowl that season because the Big 10 didn't allow its members to play in bowls until the 1947 season. There's this myth perpetuated by UGA fans that the Rose Bowl chose Georgia over the Big 10 champ.

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Wow,YOU really are obsessed with UGA and several polls did indeed put UGA at #1 and you know had the AP waited till after the bowl season UGA probably would have been voted #1 and a case can be made for '46 as well.



1942: Wally Butts wins his first SEC championship. Before the bowls (Georgia would win the Rose Bowl that year), the Berryman, DeVold, Houlgate, Poling, Litkenhaus and Williamson polls declared Georgia national champions. Among other polls, the AP and NCF declared Ohio State the winner. The Helms poll declared Wisconsin its national champ. While the AP-happy historians declare OSU the only champ that year, many folks - including the University - declare a split between Georgia and the Buckeyes in 1942. Our final record was 11-1.

1946: The one that really REALLY chafes me. We went UNDEFEATED AND UNTIED in '46, including winning the Sugar Bowl 20-10 over UNC. Notre Dame and Army split the major polls despite having a tie apiece, and either ND or Army didn't even go to a bowl. The only poll with sense that year was the Williamson, who declared us national champs. If we got our hackles up like Auburn did in 2004, we'd declare ourselves national champs like they do. Too much class, perhaps?