re: Who's Georgia's biggest rival?

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I am not arguing the legitimacy of their claims.

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You just said that anybody who did not recognize the 1983 team as champions are stupid.

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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.

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They were not chosen by what the football establishment consider the official polls...the final say. The AP and the UPI were the only polls that people gave any weight at all to for many, many years. Either you are being obtuse, or you are too young to remember.

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Ironically, in a classic shell game we still don't crown a champ based completely on the performance on the field.

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I'm pretty sure that the playoff game settled it on the field.

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If UCF claims this year...not sure if anyone actually selected them. They'd have a right to it.

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Ok. As soon as you said this, it is obvious there is no use discussing it any further. If you think UCF had any kind of claim to being the best team in the country then there is simply no reasoning with you.

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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.

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Well they were not selected by any publication or organization that was the consensus to pick a National Champion. In your world if Women's Day Magazine selected Auburn national Champions for 2017, then somebody selected them so they can claim it. Hold on, and I will see if i can find somebody somewhere that named Georgia national Champions in a few more years, because...you know...if somebody named them then they must be Champions.

I guess Butch was right. Tennessee players were Champions of Life, because he said so.