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re: 1980 UGA sucked and was lucky to beat ND
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:53 pm to oligarchgator
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:53 pm to oligarchgator
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1980 UGA sucked
Well, they sucked less than the 19 other teams in the AP Poll that all had at least one loss.
By the way, I didn't see Florida in the final AP poll for that season.
Interdasting.
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Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:56 pm to RD Dawg
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THEY WEREN'T RANKED 2ND WHEN THE BOWL INVITES WENT OUT.
Why is so difficult to understand?
Maybe because you're so difficult to understand? Congrats on your championship 39 years ago. Get your shinebox, bitch. For AU, LSU, UA, UF & UT. Let us know when that generous bowl-cut payroll actually pays off.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:58 pm to Korin
I was around back then and remembered exactly what happened.
That's what bowls did back then.They ALL tried to get best teams/matchups possible and always extended early invites
Why in the world would the Sugar Bowl not try to get Pitt or FSU to play if they were higher ranked?
BTW how old were you in '80
That's what bowls did back then.They ALL tried to get best teams/matchups possible and always extended early invites
Why in the world would the Sugar Bowl not try to get Pitt or FSU to play if they were higher ranked?
BTW how old were you in '80
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:59 pm to RD Dawg
Did I say anything about when the bids went out, moron!? I said should have played #2 FSU! Go ride a surf board to China and fall off half way there
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:01 pm to Ag Zwin
Every '72 Dolphin game was televised in Albany, GA. That team was dominant. Damn Good Dawgs Jake Scott and Bill Stanfill were monsters on defense. Scott was Super Bowl MVP. The offense featured an unstoppable running game with Mercury Morris, Jim Kiick and Larry Csonka. That team could win it all with any QB.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:01 pm to 4Ghost
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I said should have played #2 FSU! Go ride a surf board to China and fall off half way there
Why should they have they played a team not ranked 2nd at the time of the invite?
This post was edited on 9/18/19 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:02 pm to oligarchgator
So what your saying is that win a title you need the ball to bounce your way a couple of times? Got it. Thanks for the tremendous insight.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:05 pm to RD Dawg
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BTW how old were you in '80
I was 6.
FWIW, this account by I-59 Tiger appears to confirm what you are saying:
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The Sugar Bowl in its zeal to have Notre Dame jumped the gun on the pairing that season. Whereas bowl selections for 'at-large' teams was all over the boards back then, two weeks after Notre Dame had been tied by a Georgia Tech team that would finish 1-9-1 and Alabama had lost to Mississippi State for the first time since 1957, the Sugar decided to invite the Notre Dame-Alabama winner to play the Bulldogs.
Notre Dame, of course, lost their final regular season game against USC two weeks later on December 6.
I don't remember 1980, but I am old enough to remember that in 1982 LSU was awarded the Orange Bowl after destroying FSU. Students rained oranges onto the field. LSU proceeded to lose their next game against Tulane (the last time LSU lost to Tulane).
So as you say early invites were a thing back then.
This post was edited on 9/18/19 at 6:06 pm
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:06 pm to RD Dawg
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What?
They ended up playing a poser in the Sugar Bowl. That 7-0 upset victory of Alabama by Notre Dame was the best thing that could have happened to the Bulldogs. Had Alabama won that game, Georgia would have been playing the Tide.
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They beat 4 ranked teams including Bama
And clearly were running out of juice by the end of the season. They tied a terrible Georgia Tech team, struggled against a terrible Air Force team, and lost to USC down the stretch.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:38 pm to RollTide1987
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That 7-0 upset victory of Alabama by Notre Dame was the best thing that could have happened to the Bulldogs. Had Alabama won that game, Georgia would have been playing the Tide.
Okay? WGAS? And you've yet to prove your point of ND being "not deserving" when they clearly were at the time.
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And clearly were running out of juice by the end of the season
Clearly! It's not like they just came off a road victory over a top 5 team or anything.
Do you tie your own shoes?
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:45 pm to RD Dawg
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And you've yet to prove your point of ND being "not deserving" when they clearly were at the time.
They might have been deserving at the time of their invite, but they were hardly deserving by the end of the year as their losses to USC and Georgia clearly show.
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It's not like they just came off a road victory over a top 5 team or anything.
The Alabama and USC games were played nearly a month apart.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:54 pm to beatbammer
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This is the schedule UGA won a national championship with in 1980:
The one BYU won it with is way more embarrassing.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:00 pm to RollTide1987
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They might have been deserving at the time of their invite
It doesn't really matter.
It was a different time. There was no grand playoff committee or BCS.
There were bowl games all out to serve their own best interests. Thus they extended early invites to lock up the teams they wanted before another bowl snatched them up. Especially a highly coveted free agent like Notre Dame.
Nitpicking it 40 years after the fact is silly. I mean, the whole reason we moved to the process we have now (which is still flawed but *better*) is because it resulted in endless discussions like this one about teams that never played and those that should've played but didn't because the bowl system was such a terrible way to produce a national champion.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:09 pm to BrerTiger
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I don't remember 1980, but I am old enough to remember that in 1982 LSU was awarded the Orange Bowl after destroying FSU. Students rained oranges onto the field.
You misspelled “urine”.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:15 pm to oligarchgator
UF sucks and was lucky to beat Kentucky.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:25 pm to oligarchgator
What is this thread about again??
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:05 pm to RollTide1987
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The Alabama and USC games were played nearly a month apart.
What? You used the GT game as one your examples of ND running "out of juice" at the end of the season and they played that game a WEEK before they upset Bama.
"Nearly a month"They played 3 weeks apart.
This post was edited on 9/18/19 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:25 pm to oligarchgator
UGAG also didn't play 3 of the other 4 best teams in the SEC that year
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:44 pm to RD Dawg
UGA fan so butthurt over 1980, cannot understand the issue was not about UGA, but who they played and UGA had no control when bids went out
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:46 pm to RiverCityTide
And y’all won one off a loss to Ole Miss
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