re: Who's Georgia's biggest rival?

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No doubt. the sweet thing is, after they brought that out as "proof" they were better than Georgia, I went through it and it showed Georgia with one more National Title than them.

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This is the thing you continually do not seem to understand. Auburn isn't arguing superiority to uga throughout history. The point and the reason "1980" evokes this type of emotion from uga fans is because it was the only team in the modern era that accomplished enough to be selected National Champion. I know it was posted in this thread but it was a pretty weak schedule, but honestly you'd have to look at the teams that finished 2 and 3 or maybe even 4 to make a serious comparison of whether it was a title given as a beauty contest or actually earned. I'll let you look it up.

Since 1980 Auburn is proud of our ability to have seasons worthy of being selected National Champion. In 2010 winning it was pretty sweet, but honestly any Auburn fan who was around in 1983, 1993 and 2004 knows those teams could go toe to toe with anyone no matter what selector chose them or not. The results were proven on the field.

So uga has 6 National Title selection all before 1980...some of them are pretty suspect much like Auburn's 1913 selection. I honestly believe Auburn's 1914 team would have likely won a poll era title. The reason is simple the 1913 isn't really debatable, and the 1914 team only slipped up once on the road in Baton Rouge...a team coming off a championship season who slips up and has a comparable record to other teams often gets the benefit of the doubt in human opinion polls. So maybe Auburn should claim 6 not 5...I know some Auburn fans who believe it's 7. I'll let you figure out what year Auburn's players earned on the field the right for people to consider them a champion.