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Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:06 am to captdalton
Our title domination over OSU made people realize just how good the SEC was basically. Cause we struggled a ton more in most SEC games and made OSU look like a cupcake. Started the SEC title dominance in Football(SEC won fricking seven straight was insane).
Posted on 4/27/26 at 4:01 am to captdalton
Indiana raping bama in the rose bowl imo. Single handily destroyed the SEC for years to come. Maybe forever
Posted on 4/27/26 at 4:56 am to Jimmyboy
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Indiana raping bama in the rose bowl imo. Single handily destroyed the SEC for years to come. Maybe forever
They raped a lot of teams in their own conference too. Is the Big 10 destroyed for years to come?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:36 am to Pauldingtiger
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As far as modern football goes
You mentioned 20 games and no 1989 Alabama? First Iron Bowl in JHS against undefeated #2 Alabama with a share of the SEC championship on the line?
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 11:34 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 7:13 am to AUTiger789
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Washington was an upstart themselves and beating them meant nothing
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Washington had previously set the longest winning streak in college football a little over a decade previous to that game. It is still the second longest winning streak (40 games) in CFB history.
So they certainly weren't an "upstart" in the truest sense... but you are correct in the fact that the eastern press really gave no respect to football in either area... The south nor the PNW. They kind of gave some respect to Cal, USC and Stanford mostly due to the fact that those teams had famous coaches who had gone out there. But the PNW... they just weren't impressed.
Make no mistake though... Alabama getting invited to play in the Rose Bowl was a big deal... and winning it gave exposure to southern football in the only bowl game their was at the time. Attention it could rarely get during the regular season.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:31 am to GoGators1995
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What was so consequential about it?
Until 1989, the game had been always been played at a neutral site. This made sense up through the 70’s, as Bham’s Legion Field was (1) significantly larger than either program’s home stadium and (2) was regularly the site of both team’s biggest home games. Auburn had weaned itself off BHM games in the 70s after it expanded Jordan-Hare Stadium on Auburn’s campus, and following a second expansion in 1987, was one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the country. Alabama, however, continued to play multiple home games every season at Legion Field, including all of its big games. (At the time, Bryant-Denny remained a quaint 60K seat bowl.). While the “Iron Bowl” remained, by contract, at Legion Field through the ‘88 season, the alleged 50/50 split in tickets had long since been a fiction, as the City of BHM received a large allotment and BHM was, and remains, Bammer-Ham.
Approaching the ‘89 season and the end of the Legion Field contract, Auburn told Alabama it was moving its home games in the future on campus to Jordan Hare. Alabama told Auburn it would never agree to that arrangement. Auburn called their bluff, said we’ll see you in Auburn on 12/2/89, and the bammer admin had no choice but to capitulate and agree that Auburn could play its home games wherever it pleased. (The settlement of a threatened lawsuit by the City of BHM resulted in one final AU home game, in ‘91, being played at Legion Field.)
At some point, Alabama would have realized that the permanent “neutral site” game was also not in its long term interest. But the ‘89 game — which was far and away the most electric atmosphere folks of my generation have ever witnessed for any Auburn game — forced Alabama to also eventually leave playing any home games in BHM and begin its investment in BDS.
Oh, and Auburn won the game, secured its 3d straight share of an SEC title, and won its 4th straight game over Alabama — again, something people of my generation would have never considered possible a mere decade earlier, when AU was suffering through a 9-game losing streak at the end of the Bryant era.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:35 am to Cheese Grits
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C6H0
The game that changed college football forever in the South
I had to google it. Centre College 6 Harvard 0. Not part of SEC history, but an important game.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:45 am to Tim the Enchanter
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Centre College 6 Harvard 0
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Not part of SEC history, but an important game.
You need to study history then!
SIAA became SoCon became SEC and ACC. Early days were dominated by the private schools like Centre, Sewanee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. The big shift to state schools did not take hold till after World War II and the GI bill that allowed many to attained college for the first time in their families history.
Centre gave us C6H0 and the 12th man at TAMU. Both TAMU and Utx were in the SEC "mother" conference before forming the SWC,
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