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Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:36 pm to BreakawayZou83
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:36 pm to BreakawayZou83
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the Mizzou band played Dixie after the team scored a touchdown.
I went to a Mizzou game when I was a kid in the 60's. A guy about 3 rows down from me had a big black and gold rebel flag.
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Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:37 pm to CBandits82
Kentucky had checkerboard end zones before any other SEC school.
Stoll Field 1914
Stoll Field 1914
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:38 pm to TonyMontana
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Mississippi State has zero championships. In anything. Ever.
I thought you guys were a baseball school?
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:39 pm to CBandits82
Auburn was granted permission to not participate in football in 2012 and resume the next season. Only team I know of to ever get such an agreement in the SEC.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:43 pm to CBandits82
In the 1892 UGA/Auburn game, UGA had no official nickname but they used a Goat, named Sir William, as their mascot. Apparently Auburn also brought a mascot, a black man named “Dabble”.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:46 pm to I Bleed Garnet
2-0? Hell, we’re 7-2 vs Ohio St, Michigan, Texas, and So Cal combined.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:46 pm to CBandits82
"Despite a lifetime of philanthropic giving to a variety of causes, James M. Fail never felt the desire to have anything actually named in his honor. "After all," he says, "who would want anything with the name 'Fail' on it?"
In ceremonies Monday morning at Bryant-Denny Stadium, his question was finally answered. Made possible by Fail's generous gift to the Crimson Tide Foundation, the Visitors' Locker Room was officially named "The Fail Room."
In ceremonies Monday morning at Bryant-Denny Stadium, his question was finally answered. Made possible by Fail's generous gift to the Crimson Tide Foundation, the Visitors' Locker Room was officially named "The Fail Room."
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:48 pm to kywildcatfanone
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I thought you guys were a baseball school?
You thought wrong. We are a javelin school. Finished 1-2 in the NCAA this year.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:51 pm to Allyn McKeen
While at LSU, Les Miles was 1-34 in games he lost
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:57 pm to CBandits82
Mississippi State has had a live bulldog mascot living on campus since at least the 1920s....however the school did not officially adopt "Bulldogs" as its team nickname until 1961. They were first the Aggies, and then the Maroons.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:59 pm to CBandits82
My elementary school in the early 80s in Baton Rouge had some LSU book on the bookshelf that I would pick up and pour over whenever we had free time to do as we pleased.
This fact stood out to me as interesting:
LSU played Santa Clara in the Sugar Bowl.
Twice.
And lost both times.
After the 1936 and 1937 seasons. LSU lost one other game over that two year span: a 7-6 loss to Vandy.
Santa Clara has only been to 3 bowl games ever and disbanded the football team after the 1992 season. They never lost a bowl game (their other win was over Kentucky in the 1950 Orange Bowl). Their only loss in 1936 or 1937 was to Sammy Baugh and TCU.
Santa Freaking Clara.
This fact stood out to me as interesting:
LSU played Santa Clara in the Sugar Bowl.
Twice.
And lost both times.
After the 1936 and 1937 seasons. LSU lost one other game over that two year span: a 7-6 loss to Vandy.
Santa Clara has only been to 3 bowl games ever and disbanded the football team after the 1992 season. They never lost a bowl game (their other win was over Kentucky in the 1950 Orange Bowl). Their only loss in 1936 or 1937 was to Sammy Baugh and TCU.
Santa Freaking Clara.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:00 pm to CBandits82
We're 1-0 vs Michigan all Time and the game wasn't even close.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to Allyn McKeen
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You thought wrong. We are a javelin school. Finished 1-2 in the NCAA this year.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to deeprig9
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is incorrectly said that UGA stole the bulldog mascot from Yale, but in fact the original mascot of Georgia was "The Red And Black". In the early 20th century, a newspaper reporter from Atlanta referred to the team as bulldogs, and the name stuck. The bulldog mascot was made official.
I'm not at a computer so can't easily look it up but I believe there was a very brief period in the 1920s where we went by the Wildcats.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to geauxtigahs87
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While at LSU, Les Miles was 1-34 in games he lost
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:08 pm to CBandits82
2008 was the first time Bama beat Auburn in Tuscaloosa, ever
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:15 pm to genro
Bear Bryant once called the Auburn coaches office at 6am sharp, only for a secretary to inform him the coaches had not arrived for the day yet. Bryant growled, "What the hell's the matter with y'all? Don't y'all take your football seriously?" and slammed the phone down
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:24 pm to genro
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2008 was the first time Bama beat Auburn in Tuscaloosa, ever
God that game sucked. On top of that, my car got blocked in so I had no way of leaving for an additional 2 hours after the game.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:25 pm to genro
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Bear Bryant once called the Auburn coaches office at 6am sharp, only for a secretary to inform him the coaches had not arrived for the day yet. Bryant growled, "What the hell's the matter with y'all? Don't y'all take your football seriously?" and slammed the phone down
Not everyone has to be at the bar by 3, Mr. Bryant
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:56 pm to CBandits82
LSU was the first college team to play on foreign soil. They beat Cuba 56-0 in the Bacardi Bowl in 1907.
They also lost to Bama that year, 6 to 4
They also lost to Bama that year, 6 to 4
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