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(75.4.210.62) on 11/15/2019 - 9:59 a.m. says: ( 27 views
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"The history of Auburn vs Georgia"
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Thought y'all might enjoy at least some of this.
Via The Banner Society (Spencer Hall and Jason) - I can't find a direct link.
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Perhaps you read Spencer's story from this week entitled "The Auburn Tigers, college football's greatest ruiner of things" and, though marveling at the extent of the damage, wondered about the lack of Georgia Bulldogs content.
That's because the Auburn-Georgia mayhem deserves its own entry entirely. And the best part about this series is: it's the rare rivalry in which Auburn receives just as much random pain as it gives.
First, a partial list of the times the Tigers have wrecked the Dawgs:
1892: Auburn wastes exactly zero time in getting to the business of ruining Georgia. UGA wins its first-ever game, then loses to Auburn in Auburn's first-ever game, and that's Georgia's whole season.
1911: The best team in UGA history to that point closes with a tie to a 4-2 Auburn in Savannah, one of five Georgia towns these two play in for decades before ever visiting Auburn.
1916: A 3-0 Georgia loss in which a dude named “Moon Ducote” puts his helmet on the ground, uses it as a kicking tee, and boots a 40-yard field goal is peak Auburn ruination.
1942: #1 UGA (scary words) is favored by 30 or so over a .500 Auburn in glimmering Columbus, Georgia. The Tigers unveil a T-formation attack and win by 14. This opens the door to Ohio State claiming a piece of the national title, by which Buckeyes coach Paul Brown climbs into the pros, where he later founds the Cincinnati Bengals. Auburn, you are to blame for the Cincinnati Bengals existing.
1971: A masterpiece. Auburn strolls into Athens and ruins a Georgia that would've finished with a few #1 votes and perhaps a piece of a title claim. What does Auburn gain? A loss to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl stolen from Georgia, of course.
1978: The #8 Dawgs can share an SEC title, if they only avoid a blemish against a three-loss Auburn. So Auburn fires itself up by wearing surprise orange jerseys for the first time in 23 years and gives Georgia a debilitating tie.
1983: Georgia holds a 23-game SEC winning streak. Auburn snaps it in an ugly, 13-7 game, only allowing the Bulldogs to cross the 50-yard line three times, securing an SEC championship, and yet again robbing Georgia of some final #1 votes.
1985: Georgia comes in fresh off a 24-3 win over #1 Florida. A win over Auburn would reroute an otherwise rough UGA season toward the Sugar Bowl. A quote from Bo Jackson will let everyone know how that goes for Georgia: “I ran over someone." No one stops Bo from taking some of Athens' hedges, either.
1988: Vince Dooley, an Auburn alum and UGA’s head coach, needs just one win for his 200th victory. Auburn denies that with a 20-10 defeat and hopefully sends him an alumni fund donation form.
1997: #7 Georgia can finish Jim Donnan's second year with a promising 11 wins. Auburn is averaging 75 rushing yards, coming into Sanford Stadium after a 20-0 shutout by Mississippi State. Naturally, the Tigers run for 159 yards and five TDs in a 45-34 upset.
1999: Five-loss Auburn stuns #14 Georgia, racing to a 31-0 lead at the half and hanging on from there.
2001: #19 Georgia trails #24 Auburn 24-17 in Athens. The Bulldogs have the ball on the Auburn two. It is first and goal with no timeouts and 16 seconds left. The move would be to spike the ball and stop the clock in order to run two or three plays. Otherwise, Georgia squanders its chance to take the game to overtime. Guess which one Georgia chooses.
2005: #15 Auburn trails #9 Georgia when Tigers QB Brandon Cox hits Devon Aromashadu on fourth down for what appears to be a game-winning score. Georgia cornerback Paul Oliver strips Aromashadu, though. Auburn somehow recovers, gets it at the three after refs rule the fumble cannot be advanced, and kicks the winning field goal.
2013: “OH NO—”
And now, a majority of the years in which Georgia was Auburn's Auburn:
1899: With 30 seconds to go, 3-0 Auburn leads 2-2 Georgia, 11-6. As fans surge onto the unlit Atlanta field, the conference ref calls the game due to nightfall, turning Auburn's 11-6 lead into a 0-0 final. (This is already the second time Georgia spoils a 4-0 start for Auburn, lest we forget 1896.)
1912: The best team in Auburn history to that point closes with a loss to a twice-blemished Georgia in Athens, one of five Georgia towns these two play in for decades before ever visiting Auburn.
1914: Auburn has won 15 games in a row. Georgia has lost five games in a row. Nothing has to give. They play a scoreless tie in Atlanta, then wisely avoid meeting there for more than a century.
1959: #8 Auburn, fresh off consecutive shutout SEC wins, loses to a Georgia that'd had its title claim ruined by South Carolina. Historically speaking, South Carolina has always been Georgia's other Auburn. (Auburn's other Georgia is Auburn.)
1970: Auburn is again #8. Georgia has lost to four teams who'd each lose four games on the year. So Auburn loses at home to Georgia by 14, but at least gets to ignore Ole Miss for a season! Surprise: this means an Auburn-Ole Miss Gator Bowl.
1986: Making it four straight years of ruinings in this rivalry, the #9 Tigers surrender a piece of the SEC title by losing to a three-loss Georgia, then deploy water hoses to blast UGA fans off the field.
1994: #3 Auburn, on the verge of its second straight spotless season, suffers a home tie at the paws of four-loss Georgia. The is one of several games in college football history known by a name like "[Underdog] Beats [Favorite] 23-23."
1996: The Dawgs otherwise average only 17 points per game, so surely a 21-point deficit on the road against #20 Auburn is a wrap. Actually, Georgia finishes with 56 points, thanks in part to the new FBS overtime rule. (And also the game when Uga tried to bite Auburn's Robert Baker, because in this rivalry, everyone gets in on ruin.)
2006: Georgia enters the Plains on a 1-4 slump, including losses to Vanderbilt and Kentucky. These possum Dawgs nearly triple Auburn's yardage, win by 22, and deprive #5 Auburn of football's greatest joy: getting to demolish Notre Dame in a big bowl game, handing the honor to LSU instead.
2014: An act of charity by Mark Richt. His Dawgs give #9 Auburn such a convincing beating that the Tigers don't have to face blood-mad TCU or squirrely Georgia Tech in a New Year's bowl. The SEC's Mississippi schools do, however, and thus Richt ensures they receive lessons in humility.
2016: Once more, Auburn gives "being ranked #8 against a lesser Georgia" a try. Kirby Smart's defense holds the Tigers to 32 entire yards in the second half and hands the SEC West title ahead of schedule to his former boss, Nick Saban.
2017: October 14: Gus Malzahn must be fired. November 11: Gus must not be fired, having trampled #2 Georgia. November 25: Eternal god-emperor Gus Malzahn defeats #1 Alabama, moving one game away from becoming the first-ever two-loss Playoff team. December 2: Georgia upsets #4 Auburn by 21 in the only 2017 meeting between the two that ultimately matters. January: Auburn laughs last as the Dawgs suffer the cruelest title game loss in college football history while the Tigers hand upstart UCF transitive wins over Georgia and Alabama, helping make Bama's latest title an official split, per NCAA rulebook minutiae. (Note: Auburn laughing last never necessarily correlates with any actual benefit to Auburn.)
Annual cross-division rivalries are mostly kind of dumb, except for this one. This is the most essential game on the schedule for either of these teams. While we should probably cancel a game like Alabama-Tennessee forever, we should also consider canceling all football games that are not Auburn-Georgia.
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