Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-dosadi!pannell From: pannell@dosadi.DEC (Roger D. Pannell 229-6893) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Re: RE: re: conference comparisons Message-ID: <1237@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:51:07 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1237 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:51:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 21:58:30 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 30 >Yes, and I seem to remeber a year where Georgia had a very soft >conference six (skipped Alabama & LSU that year; funny they usually >seem to give Alabama a miss...), finished 5-1 in those six, 0-5 in >the other five, and almost made the Sugar Bowl. > > >-- >James C. Armstrong, Jnr. {ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa I think I remember the year too. Heading into the last game of the year against Georgia Tech, Georgia would have been the SEC representative to the Sugar Bowl if Auburn beat Alabama. Vince Dooley said that if it turned out that they were the SEC representative and they lost to Tech, then Georgia would decline the trip to the Sugar Bowl. As it turned out, 'Bama beat Auburn and went to the Sugar Bowl. And as far as Georgia "giving Alabama a miss", that could work both ways especially during the '80s. In fact, if you watched the Georgia-Bama game Labor day, then you should have seen a graphic that indicated Georgia has done quite well against Alabama. Besides, I don't think you could place any blame with a certain school for not playing a certain other school. Scheduling would be handled by the conference, following the rules of that conference. No school would be able to break those rules just to get a soft schedule and the schedules would be known years in advance, so that you couldn't even predict which teams would be the best. -- Roger Pannell ARPA: pannell%dosadi.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA, pannell%dosadi.DEC@Purdue-Merlin.ARPA UUCP: {allegra, decvax, ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!dosadi!pannell