re: Who's Georgia's biggest rival?

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And yet you have been arguing their legitimacy to the claims. Why?

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I am not arguing the legitimacy of their claims. Those teams based on what happened on the field were selected champions. You may give more weight to the AP poll or the UPI, but that doesn't make them more valuable. The AP is the press who make their money (in that era) via newspapers sold. They had a financial interest in the story more than finding a legit champ. It is the reason the BCS and CFP exits.

Ironically, in a classic shell game we still don't crown a champ based completely on the performance on the field. The CFP may be better than the BCS but way to much emphasis goes into "finding the best" but then we are forced to use words like you use...whenever someone starts talking about the best 2 teams or 4 teams they always have to use words like "i felt" or "anyone can see" or "it was obvious" a true champion would have predetermined data points to enter into a playoff that crowned the champion. The CFP playoff is also about money like the BCS before it...there is a reason bama got in and while they won the title on the field their participation was based on money. There wasn't data to show they deserved to be in it over OSU or Wisconsin, etc...it certainly wasn't predetermined data. tOSU benefitted from the same branding phenomena last season and simply didn't take advantage like bama.

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I mean, UCF was named National Champions this year, too. Do think anybody takes that seriously. At all? it's silly for any Auburn fans to make arguments for those teams....based upon "somebody" named them a national Champion.

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If UCF claims this year...not sure if anyone actually selected them. They'd have a right to it. Of the two teams in question this season they are the only one that beat Auburn when they played them.

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I mean, you have made the argument that Auburn is the better program based on these seasons, that you came close. Do you really want Georgia fans to start saying we came close in some years therefore we are the better program?

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I am not claiming that we came close in the years I mentioned. We came close in 1988, 1989, 1994, 2013...those are like the years uga came close in 2007, 2012 or 2017. The years we were selected champions we actually did everything on the field we could do to become champion and rightfully so we were selected by someone champion.