re: What was the best upset your team pulled off

1950 Tennessee-Mississippi State.

State won 7-0 in Starkvegas handing the Vols their only loss that year. It cost UT the SEC and the National Championship.
General Neyland was so mad he vowed to never bring another Tennessee team to Starkvegas. He was true to his word as UT did not play again at Scott Field until 1987 well after he retired. The teams only played intermittently through the years and several times played in Memphis.

That game and the 1980 Bama game (that I mentioned previously) are probably the two greatest upsets in State’s history.

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Let’s talk about how Georgia for 43 years after that game didn’t play a regular season road game outside the South.

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WTF does this have to do with anything?You REALLY wanna talk about going home and home with OOC opponents the last 15 years? Multiple years UGA had only 6 home games because of Jacksonville and went home and home OOC with SC,Clemson and GT (Sorry an instate game we have to play)

Ohio State also cancelled a home and home along with UCLA pulling it's guarantee for a return game in the 80's.

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The second most important upset was in 1971, Alabama vs USC in California. Alabama running the wishbone for the first time stunned the Trojans, QB Terry Davis (from Louisiana) pitching the ball to Johnny Musso, my favorite Alabama RB of all times.

As a sidelight to that game and season. Prior to 1971 Bama’s offense was balanced and the Tide was known as a passing team. Two of the WR’s were from Meridian (George Ranager (1968-1970) and David Bailey (1969-1971). They were part of Bob Tyler’s 2 year run at Meridian High when the Wildcats were unbeaten (1966-1967) and won back to back Big 8 Championships (equivalent to today’s 6A MS high school Championship.
George Ranager later became a SEC Referee and he still works in the booth even in the present day.

Anyway back to 1971, David Bailey was a Senior and would have possibly been a candidate for All-SEC and All-American honors. However he was relegated to pretty much nothing with the wishbone offense being introduced and utilized at Bama. His parents, particularly his Dad, were so disgusted that they tore up their season tickets and did not attend any games that year. His family was historically State fans but the reason he went to Bama was his cousin, George Ranager was already there and they were running a more wide open offense.
David’s widow has said he was never a Bama fan in later years despite playing there and being an alum. In fact she said he would pull for State when they played Bama.

Just an interesting story IMO. When a team radically changes its offense, there will invariably be some fallout from it.
Of course in Bama’s case, it was win-win as it led to a 10 year period of dominance for the Tide.

of course, UGA fans are sooo classy, right?

10 title. Probably not your traditional upset, but most were pulling for Oregon because of the arse beatings Cam and Gus were handing out.

So because you play GT (which is a joke of a program and has only been relevant like 3 or 4 seasons in 50 years) you can’t schedule games outside the South?

What kind of delusional logic is that? For 43 years while you were staying in the confines of the South Alabama was playing Southern Cal, UCLA, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Missouri, Penn State, Maryland, etc. at their place.

Georgia is notorious for not leaving the southeast. Your future scheduling is something new so don’t act like you have been doing it forever. You haven’t.

UK over #1 LSU when Brooks was here, though that win against Florida in the swamp last year was really special. Still can't believe we finally won

Upsetting LSU simply by existing

2007 UF. That is top on my list anyway.

Holttthhh had a much better chance of being a Florida Thenator than Auburn had of beating UF.


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