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Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:03 pm
How often has this happened? I have to believe an intraconference national final is generally pretty rare, but I know we've had close to a handful.
LSU vs Bama - 1997 baseball
LSU vs Bama - 2011 football
USC vs UF - 2012 baseball
UGA vs Bama - 2017 football
LSU vs UF - 2017 baseball
Am I missing any? Is this more common than I am framing it? I can imagine it may have happened somewhat frequently in basketball with the domination of certain conferences at times, but I don't know.
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I'm only considering instances where the teams played each other and were in the same conference at the time. This wouldn't count situations where two teams finished 1 and 2 after they each played someone else, or potential instances where two current sec teams played each other before one joined.
LSU vs Bama - 1997 baseball
LSU vs Bama - 2011 football
USC vs UF - 2012 baseball
UGA vs Bama - 2017 football
LSU vs UF - 2017 baseball
Am I missing any? Is this more common than I am framing it? I can imagine it may have happened somewhat frequently in basketball with the domination of certain conferences at times, but I don't know.
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I'm only considering instances where the teams played each other and were in the same conference at the time. This wouldn't count situations where two teams finished 1 and 2 after they each played someone else, or potential instances where two current sec teams played each other before one joined.
This post was edited on 4/2/19 at 10:09 pm
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Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:08 pm to GRTiger
There was a famous all Big East final and a Big 8 final in basketball.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:12 pm to MetryMauler
Yea I figured basketball would be the outlier. I almost mentioned 2006 when LSU was one game shy of playing UF in the tourney championship as an aside, but I imagine that's probably very common, relatively speaking.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:12 pm to GRTiger
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LSU vs Bama - 2000 baseball
97, not 2000.
2000 was Stanford.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:13 pm to BrerTiger
Shame on me. I knew it was one of those.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:23 pm to GRTiger
Kentucky vs Florida in 2014 should have happened. Scottie Wilbekin was a monster
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:39 pm to GRTiger
Only a couple in hoops. I think in earlier days you had to win your conference to get in the tournament.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:50 pm to GRTiger
Closest game I know of from pre-BCS era is the 1960 Sugar Bowl.
#2 Ole Miss vs. #3 LSU
LSU beat Ole Miss during the regular season in that legendary Halloween night game everyone remembers.
No one remembers that LSU lost the very next game at Tennessee. Though Gerry DiNardo tried in vain to remind everyone during his radio show the week after LSU's huge win over #1 Florida in '97. Naturally, the team proved him right by losing the next game to Ole Miss.
Because of segregation, the Sugar Bowl would only feature Southern schools between 1957 and 1964. 2 of the 3 All SEC Sugar Bowls were during those years and the other was in 1953.
Ole Miss beat LSU in the rematch by a score of...
2
1
-
0
As far as I know, no one was teabagged in the Quarter that night.
Ole Miss claims a national title for 1960 but unlike the more recent 21-0 nobody really cares because...Ole Miss.
#2 Ole Miss vs. #3 LSU
LSU beat Ole Miss during the regular season in that legendary Halloween night game everyone remembers.
No one remembers that LSU lost the very next game at Tennessee. Though Gerry DiNardo tried in vain to remind everyone during his radio show the week after LSU's huge win over #1 Florida in '97. Naturally, the team proved him right by losing the next game to Ole Miss.
Because of segregation, the Sugar Bowl would only feature Southern schools between 1957 and 1964. 2 of the 3 All SEC Sugar Bowls were during those years and the other was in 1953.
Ole Miss beat LSU in the rematch by a score of...
2
1
-
0
As far as I know, no one was teabagged in the Quarter that night.
Ole Miss claims a national title for 1960 but unlike the more recent 21-0 nobody really cares because...Ole Miss.
This post was edited on 4/2/19 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:51 pm to GRTiger
2012 South Carolina Florida CWS
Honorable mention: South Carolina Mississippi State WBB
Honorable mention: South Carolina Mississippi State WBB
Posted on 4/2/19 at 10:10 pm to CNB
Added 2012 CWS.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 10:11 pm to BrerTiger
I was thinking of LSU/Ole Miss back then, but I wasn't sure if it ever happened that the winner of a bowl game between the two would have resulted in a national title no matter who won.
Posted on 4/3/19 at 3:56 am to GRTiger
2014 Florida beat Alabama in softball
Posted on 4/3/19 at 4:51 am to Mystictiger
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Kentucky vs Florida in 2014 should have happened. Scottie Wilbekin was a monster
That UK team was loaded too, but had lost quite a few games (started off as #1 or #2, and ended up a 8 seed).
Posted on 4/3/19 at 6:59 am to MetryMauler
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Only a couple in hoops. I think in earlier days you had to win your conference to get in the tournament.
1985 Georgetown/Villanova and 1976 Indiana/Michigan are the only ones that come immediately to mind.
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:29 am to GRTiger
2017 Women's college basketball
Mississippi State vs South Carolina
Mississippi State vs South Carolina
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:47 am to VADawg
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1985 Georgetown/Villanova and 1976 Indiana/Michigan are the only ones that come immediately to mind.
88- Kansas vs Oklahoma
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:53 am to Al Bundy Bulldog
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2017 Women's college basketball
Mississippi State vs South Carolina
2014 Softball
Florida vs Alabama
Interesting tidbit:
Until last year, starting in 2011 an SEC team was either the national champ or runner up in Softball (and 9 of the last 12, with eventual SEC team Texas A&M runner up in 2008.).
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:56 am to skrayper
2001 Men's Tennis
Georgia vs Tennessee
Georgia vs Tennessee
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