Georgia leads Tennessee in football 28-23-2

You’d be surprised the petty shite that athletic administrators fight and hold grudges over.

GT refused to play Ole Miss because Ole Miss loved segregation and all-white teams.

Nick Saban destroyed Tennessee football.

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GT refused to play Ole Miss because Ole Miss loved segregation and all-white teams.

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Bobby Dodd never coached a black player. Had nothing to do with it.

LSU used to play Kentucky, Ole Miss, MSU, and Bama every year.
They would rotate the other six teams.

LSU started playing Florida every year in 1971.

As for the Georgia-Tennessee deal, The Athletic did a story last year on the history of SEC scheduling. Georgia’s Wally Butts and Tennessee’s Gen. Robert Neyland “weren’t enemies, but they weren’t close friends, either.” Neyland like playing Bama and then rounding out the schedule with weaker teams. Supposedly, the Athens to Knoxville trip through the mountains was brutal.

According to the article, when the league finally mandated a scheduling rotation, they still left it up to the teams to set the dates. Georgia and Tennessee’s ADs weren’t on speaking terms, and each complained to Vandy’s AD, Roy Kramer, who later became SEC commissioner, about the other. Kramer had been named to the SEC “scheduling committee” and later found out he was the committee. He was forced to broker the dates between Georgia and Tennessee, which is why the played each other in the 1980 opener.

Another story out of that was Bama and Ole Miss from 1944 to 1965 without playing each other because Bear Bryant and Johnny Vaught got along great. They figured why beat up on each other when there are other teams to beat. Of course, that doesn’t explain the first two-thirds of that period because Bryant didn’t get to Alabama to coach until the late-50s.

It’s a good article, but it’s behind a paywall. Details other scheduling gaps and how some nonconference games were counted as conference games.

Chaotic history of SEC scheduling

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Tech left the SEC over some petty bullshite and is why I don't revere Bobby Dodd like the older fans do. He screwed the athletics programs over with that mistake.

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The stories over the years paint it as Bobby Dodd got mad at Bear Bryant around scholarship restrictions and an injury in an Bama-Tech game, to name a couple, and pulled Georgia Tech out of the SEC. By the mid-70s, Dodd and Bryant patched things up, and Bryant was willing to sponsor Tech’s reinstatement. But Dodd knew there were a few schools that didn’t want Tech back.

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First meeting 1899. Have always been in the same league with one another.

Have only played 53 times, and just 21 times before 1992. They did not play a single time between 1938-67.

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really?

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LSU used to play Kentucky, Ole Miss, MSU, and Bama every year.

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Florida and Tulane were annual games as well

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Nick Saban destroyed Tennessee footbal

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I mean he did a number on Tennessee for sure. But nick saban had a pretty incredible record against all sec teams. Tennessee just kept making bad hires after fulmer. It's not like they're incapable of being back to a competitive team which is what most teams could ever hope for forever. Sabans just the best to ever do it.