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Why did Auburn and Ole Miss play so infrequently before expansion?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:37 pm
These 2 teams rarely played each other before 1992.
Other priorities? Full schedules? Grinders called dibs?
Other priorities? Full schedules? Grinders called dibs?
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Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:38 pm to weagle99
REC ruled the SEC and padded their schedule with them.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:39 pm to weagle99
distance. Oxford was very hard to get to until they 4 laned hwy 6. That's why they played in Jackson all the way up into the early 90's.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:40 pm to weagle99
We were always pretty loaded down with rival games before expansion.
UGA, Bama, Florida, and UT were our rivals every year no matter what so we didn't have a lot of room to rotate everyone else.
UGA, Bama, Florida, and UT were our rivals every year no matter what so we didn't have a lot of room to rotate everyone else.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:40 pm to weagle99
Because Alabama cheated
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:40 pm to weagle99
We were busy playing Florida & Tenn. every year
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:40 pm to pankReb
I 22 is helping as well
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:42 pm to pankReb
Is that why we didn't play LSU in Oxford for like 28 years?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:08 pm to pankReb
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distance. Oxford was very hard to get to until they 4 laned hwy 6. That's why they played in Jackson all the way up into the early 90's.
Both schools were considered difficult drives, especially prior to completion of many of the southern interstates between the late 60's and early 80's. Tennessee insisted on playing Auburn in Birmingham until the end of the 70's.
Teams didn't use chartered planes back then.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:51 pm to UMRealist
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Is that why we didn't play LSU in Oxford for like 28 years?
Yes. The easiest way to get from BR to Oxford was via train....which was a pain in the arse.
Then(1920)
Now
My understanding is they would take two trains to Baton Rouge.....one for the team/staff and boosters...and one for students.
I've heard some fun assed stories about the student train.
The road by the stadium was the railroad all the way up until late 90's-early 2000's. Can't remember exactly when they did that.
My all time favorite moment was playing LSU in the late 90's...the SEZ mirrored the NEZ exactly so it left each corner of the stadium open. It was obviously a night game and between the 3rd and forth quarter, they played "In the Air Tonight" over the PA. I was sitting midway up the West side and right before that epic drum breakdown....a small but thick cloud of fog rolled off the railroad tracks(which were a lot lower then...they raised the surface a lot to build the road)..anyways... It came from the railroad tracks, entered the stadium via the Northeast corner of the stadium....crossed midfield right in the middle of the drum breakdown...and exited via the Southwest corner of the stadium. You wanna talk about goosebumps.
MSU fans get pissy when I say that I consider the LSU/MSU game a bigger rivalry for me and that I love it so much...This is probably the first reason why I say that.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:32 pm to Evolved Simian
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Both schools were considered difficult drives, especially prior to completion of many of the southern interstates between the late 60's and early 80's. Tennessee insisted on playing Auburn in Birmingham until the end of the 70's.
Good point.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:52 pm to pankReb
Wait is that a train/bus station in the second pic? I always wondered what it was.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:00 pm to weagle99
LSu and Auburn didn't play much then either.
Auburn was essentially an eastern division team, mainly playing florida and georgia in addition to the iron bowl.
Auburn was essentially an eastern division team, mainly playing florida and georgia in addition to the iron bowl.
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