re: Most Important Football Games in SEC History

For UGA and LSU, the Alabama losses in 2012 (regular season for LSU) are the most important lynch pins resulting in Kirby's run and 2019 for the Tigers.

Richt wins that game, UGA destroys ND in the natty, and there is no way he is moving on from UGA 3 years later even if there is a similar decline after 2012. UGA does not get Kirby.

LSU wins, likely loses to UGA in Atlanta, but the "Les can't beat Saban" whispers don't start. The decline still happens, but Les can't save his job by beating A&M in 2015, isn't fired in September 2016 - but is likely still fired in 2016 , and Coach O has no chance to win the job after we frick up the coaching search. Without O there, we do not have anything like the 2019 season that year.

In the unlikely hypothetical event where LSU beats UGA in Atlanta, UGA still moves on from Richt and gets Kirby, but LSU beats ND - not as bad as Alabama did or Georgia would have. We would still end up with 1 natty in the 2010s, but would have had to put up with Les for another 3-5 years, and miss out on 2019.

I don't think any of these scenarios changes Alabama's run. Saban still ends up with 5 or 6 or maybe more without Kirby and 2019 LSU standing in his way.

Two damn good games in 2012 in which Alabama was "on the ropes" with less than 5 minutes in the 4th and found a way to rip our hearts out. Change one play late in either of those games going against Alabama, and the last 15 years for UGA and LSU are remarkably different.

bama fans like the OP should really focus on games that happened once they became a bama fan.... so basically once saban arrived.

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Alabama beat Washington to win their first national championship. But more importantly it changed the perception of Southern football teams.

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This is the most over exaggerated myth that exists in all of college football. Washington was an upstart themselves and beating them meant nothing. The myth of “Southern football finally getting respect because the Rose Bowl” was manufactured sometime in the 1980s around the same time bama created a bunch of fake national titles to try to counter the historic appeal that Notre Dame had the market on in those days.

Georgia Tech’s 1917 team was far more widely regarded in that day as the best team the South had ever produced. They were proclaimed as the best team in the country by the New York Times a full decade before Alabama road a train out west to beat a literal upstart from the Pacific Northwest with zero program history or prestige at that point.

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This is the most over exaggerated myth that exists in all of college football. Washington was an upstart themselves and beating them meant nothing. The myth of “Southern football finally getting respect because the Rose Bowl” was manufactured sometime in the 1980s around the same time bama created a bunch of fake national titles to try to counter the historic appeal that Notre Dame had the market on in those days. Georgia Tech’s 1917 team was far more widely regarded in that day as the best team the South had ever produced. They were proclaimed as the best team in the country by the New York Times a full decade before Alabama road a train out west to beat a literal upstart from the Pacific Northwest with zero program history or prestige at that point.

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And this folks, is your classic bitter melt from a jealous boog