On the one hand, that’s depressing as hell, but on the other, how do you manage to win at better than a 70% clip over a forty-year period without another title? Pretty astounding…
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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This is definitely Play Pen material.
If that means “shit you don’t want to see.”
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The curse is real, and it is spectacular.
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All I can say is Old Lady Luck has really stopped smiling on us. Maybe it’s the football gods paying back for all the times Lady Luck smiled on us in 1980. George Rogers fumbling in the red zone, Scott Woerner beating Clemson almost by himself, Lindsay Scott, beating ND when they almost tripled our total yardage. She’s been frowning on us since Todd Blackledge.
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You forgot Dan Marino the Sugar Bowl before that.
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We still wouldn’t have won it in ‘81. 6 turnovers at Clempson plus their win in the Orange Bowl assured that.
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.715 including the Goff years, that is amazing.
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As bad as it was Goff’s winning percentage was higher than Saban’s when he got the alabama job. .650-ish as i recall.
That tells you something about the value of stats.
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No, Saban was 91-41-2 at Toledo, MSU and LSU. That is a 67.1% Saban also had an SEC conference championship and a BCS national title before he got the Alabama job.
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We’ve arguably played for 4 since then: ’81, ’82, ’12, ’17…
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me. It’s been a long time! It’s been 11 years for the Mighty Gators. It’s been 21 years for Big Orange. It’s been 29 years for North Avenue. Those are the fan bases that #1980 more than anyone and they’re acting like they won it yesterday. Keep winning, keep grinding, we’ll be there.
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Arguably is doing a lot of heavy lifting there in regards to 2012. And the issue is not playing for one, it’s winning one.
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Now, see, you’re just being negative.
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Yeah. I’d say “played for in 81, 82, and 17” and “was in contention for in 02, 07, 12, and 18.”
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CU was, is, and shall forever be National Champions of 1990. Nats can suck it.
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I ordered me a CU National championship t-shirt that year just to remind the Nerds that theirs wasn’t unanimous!!
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And very close in 1992, 2002 and 2007.
Truth is, under todays system, we’d have another one by now.
Harder to win it because of the three post season games but its easier to be in position to win it.
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Simple. It’s U-G-A.
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If ESPN had not campaigned against us we might have stopped the curse in 2007
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Truth!
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I guess the question to asked here , is why did they campaign against us? Not saying it didn’t happen, I just wondering why?
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We didn’t win the division; in fact, we were beaten at home by a terrible South Carolina team (sound familiar) and then were blown out at Tennessee by the team that did win the division because Soft Willie wouldn’t adjust his defense and allowed Erik Ainge to pick us apart bit by bit until a few slants broke big.
PS – Erik Ainge owes his somewhat former, yet lucrative career as a NFL clipboard holder to Soft Willie.
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And who won it that year? LSU with 2 losses one of which was to Kentucky! Georgia had every bit as much of a claim to play for a nattie that year as LSU.
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That is ridiculous. No we didn’t. The rules weee different then. LSU won the conference. We didn’t even win our division, and we had two terrible losses. Losing to that Sakerlina team was bad. Getting blown out by an average Tennessee team wasn’t as bad, but it wasn’t good.
Would we have beaten LSU had we won the division? Maybe, given the way we played at the end of the year. However, Richt and Soft Willie couldn’t get the team playing well until the last half of the season, something that often plagued Richt: Not having his team up for every game.
Losing that Sakerlina game at home against a terrible team kept us out of the SEC Title Game. We didn’t have claim on shit. Blame Richt and Soft Willie, not ESPN.
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Under your rationale Bama wouldn’t have been eligible to play for two natties the Tide WON.
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Nope, not even close to the same situation.
Bama didn’t have two losses in 2011 and 2017, we did.
Bama didn’t lose to an under .500 team at home in 2011 and 2017, we did.
Bama didn’t get blown out in a loss in 2011 or 2017, we did.
You need to understand what I say, not only look for confirmation bias to support a poor argument.
Stop blaming ESPN and blame Richt and Soft Willie. Especially for that Sakerlina loss, which was even worse than this year’s loss.
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Well, I can’t respond, but that’s not what I’m saying at all. Did Bama have two losses in 2011 and 2017? No. We did. Did Bama lose to an under-.500 team at home in those years? No. We did. Did Bama get blown out in a loss in those years? No. We did. Stop blaming ESPN. Blame Richt and Soft Willie.
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You didn’t answer the question. The ESPN dream BCS championship game was Ohio State and Michigan in a rematch. Desmond Howard versus Kirk Herbstreit.
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Wrong year. That was 2006, the year Florida won, when tOSU barely beat Michigan and Florida jumped them in the pre-bowl AP poll.
See, y’all can’t even get your memories straight about why you blame ESPN.
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No, I remember it was 2007 because we were number 3 before the last week when West Virginia, number 2, lost and I hoped we would move up. J didn’t care enough in 2006 to pay attention because we had no chance at the ABC’s final in 2006.
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No, the mention was about Michigan, which was 2006, not 2007.
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Where are Bama and Clemson?
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In the championship column
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It’s “The Georgia Way”..
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There’s no other logical explanation.
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I blame…Bobo?
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The SEC is a tough neighborhood.
Now nice find…
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I still blame Jan Kemp. Did they ever find out if she floated in water?
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Not sure but she turned me into a newt!!
RIP Terry and Graham
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How many of those schools have had NCAA problems since 1980?
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So many things have to go right to win a national championship. The only one you can control is to play your best to win every game, and even sometimes that doesn’t assure it (Auburn 2004). Hell, sometimes you lose and you still end up winning it (see Bama 2011 and Florida 1996). Sometimes you get a few breaks and take advantage of it (Georgia 1980). Sometimes the breaks go against you one day and that ends your quest (Georgia 1981). Sometimes you run up against a team that’s damn good as well (Georgia 1982 & 1983)
All of this is why I refuse to let myself get all wrapped in this “natty or bust” mentality that seems to have permeated our fan base. Beat your rivals is still #1 to me. If you do that, you have a heck of a chance to be there at the end.
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Well said. On that note: Kirby, please don’t let Boom and Mike make you a bitch next year. OK?
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Amen, amen, amen!!!!
Shit, I am proud we have been consistently so good over 40 years. No, I am not proud to have another team but souvenir caps all those years but I appreciate every one of those damn wins.
This next comment isn’t aimed at you. The “A national championship is all that matters and being very good over a 40 year period without a championship means nothing” crowd ought to become Georgia basketball season ticket holders. I have been one for years and it helps you appreciate the football team’s consistent performance.
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That’s your fault.
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Go Dawgs! What a perfect metric of us
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If I’m reading that right, we’re 2nd on that list? Haven’t won a Natty since the 1980 season, but we’re still 2nd on this winning % list, 40 years later? That seems pretty damn good to me. I like winning football games.
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If you dial up the record since 1981, aside from Boise State (who doesn’t count), you have to go all the way down to number 19, Virginia Tech, to find a team that hasn’t won it since us.
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Just look at our conference in the last 20 years. Or 30.
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Hasn’t been 40 years since a title for me, I place a very high priority on SEC titles. Almost every MNC title, if not all, is BS to begin with, often with legit multiple claims. Many/most schools hid behind conference bowl tie-ins and never played any contender after Thanksgiving…if anyone at all. SEC titles, at least now, are earned on the field. Best of the best, good enough for me. I know others need additional validation, I don’t.
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You want an explanation? Here it is: Georgia plays in the toughest conference in America. We had to play Steve Spurrier coach teams first FU later USCe about 25 times during that period. We also had to play Urban Meyer coached FU teams 6 times when FU was winning two natties under him. Then there was UT under Fuller which was winning about 80% of their games til Fat Phil fell on his face and got fired. And that’s just in the East. On the other side we had to beat LSU or Bama under Saban to win the SEC in the SECCG. And we play Auburn every year-and Auburn won a nattie and played for another during that same timeframe. Georgia probably has the toughest road of any team to the national championship. Compare that to Clemson which plays NOBODY and makes the playoff every year by winning the rink dink ACC.
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