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re: watched the 1980 florida/ georgia game on sec network
Posted on 7/16/17 at 9:27 am to tedmarkuson
Posted on 7/16/17 at 9:27 am to tedmarkuson
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that was sort of my point. i'm sure those types of conversations had to be had back in the day and the potential for shenanigans in the scheduling must have huge.
An even better example: the year before that Georgia started out 5-0 in conference play...but was 5-5 overall. The conference office and Sugar Bowl sweated out the Auburn-Georgia game, praying that Auburn would win that and then lose to Bama in the Iron Bowl, to send a team with a good record to the Sugar Bowl.
This post was edited on 7/16/17 at 10:31 am
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Posted on 7/16/17 at 9:47 am to TheDude321
I remember that well
One of the carpool moms we rode with was a big Auburn fan and totally raised hell with me on the way to school - will never forget that...
One of the carpool moms we rode with was a big Auburn fan and totally raised hell with me on the way to school - will never forget that...
Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:06 pm to msudawg1200
You are correct. Upvote.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 12:16 am to TheDude321
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He famously didn't tell his radio audience that Scott scored on the play. Ditto for his call on the famous Herschel Walker knock-down run against Tennessee. Good announcers shouldn't leave their audience hanging for several minutes until the extra-point team attempts their kick.
You are criticizing one game from his entire career?
Who would you say is better?
Posted on 7/17/17 at 6:15 am to msudawg1200
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In another note of that UGA-UF game if UGA had lost there would have been a 3 way tie at 5-1 between Bama, UGA, and Miss State.
Um, no. Florida would have been champions because:
There would have been a 4 way tie for first (bama, msu, uga, and Florida) at 5-1. Florida's only conference loss would have been to LSU 19-7 but UF beat msu 21-15 that year. UF didn't play bama that year. So Florida would have won the conference.
UF would have gone from 0-10-1 to conference champs. We didn't because of Belue to Scott.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:08 am to dcbl
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SEC champion always got the Sugar Bowl; Sugar would always get whoever had been there the least recently, so sometimes they got the weaker team
That was back in the '70s and maybe the beginning of the '80s, but the Sugar Bowl got that changed to their choice of which team they wanted in case of a tie. That's how Auburn went to the Sugar Bowl in 1988 even though they had lost head-to-head to co-champion LSU.
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