re: How is Georgia vs Tennessee a rivalry?

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Yep. The Bear and Dooley were afraid to play each other and take an L. Doesn't surprise me.

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I believe Dooley beat Bear in Dooley’s rookie year as a HC if I’m not mistaken.

It's not a rivalry, it's just an important game between two traditionally good teams in the same division.

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UGA fans were feeling themselves about turning the tide in that series

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Not sure if this is supposed to be some kind of jab but we're 14-6 against them in that time..

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Georgia made it a point to dodge the two SEC powerhouses prior to divisions.

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What a bunch of garbage.Bama and UGA played regularly til the Saturday Evening Post game fixing artcle about Wally Butts and Bear. Both schools agreed not to play annually afterwords. Both Butts and Bear sued for libel.

Not really a clear answer as to why UT and
UGA didn't play for so many years but there's no evidence either school was avoiding each other.

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Yep. The Bear and Dooley were afraid to play each other and take an L. Doesn't surprise me.

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BS

Not remotely correct and Dooley did played
Bama his 1st 2 years BTW.

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I thought the water fight was FL. trying to claim water from streams/lakes/rivers in Ga..

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Nah, there is a huge fight over where the state line is drawn

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just wasn't expecting Georgia and Tenn fans to be talking like rivals when I first started using msg boards (early-mid 2000s)

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Teams not liking each other doesn't make a rivalry. They had beaten us 9 in a row in the 90s and were still relevant in the early 2000s as richt came on. We ended the streak in 2000 then had the massive upset in 01, plus 2 more in a row. It was back and forth a while til Fulmer retired and we started dominating. In that early 00s time though it was definitely more heated and higher stakes than now, but again that doesn't automatically mean it's a rivalry.

Gotcha. Is there much support for renewing the Clemson series? I've seen some UGA fans say they'd like to play Clemson and drop GT; like LSU dropped Tulane, but not as wide a chasm there with Jackets still a P5

We're not dropping tech. Since the 90s when we stopped playing Clemson regularly, we average playing them about twice a decade. 02/03, 13/14. We open up with them in a couple years then have another home and home.

I don't see that expanding much, we already have tech ooc along with typically another higher profile p5 team most years through the decade

I used to post on a Vol board back in the early 90's that was actually pretty good for the era, but Georgia fans kept hacking it and would shut it down for long periods. LSU eventually gained a few good boards and the Vols became history! The moderator there was actually a diehard Vol fan and a pretty cool dude, I may have to look him up in this offseason.

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I thought the water fight was FL.

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Flarder got all pissy about Georgia regulating the flow of the Chattahoochee River by slowing water flow in the summer and fall months. It messes up fishing in the Apalachicola River Basin.