Fair to say Georgia fans more cocky then most?

[unfrozencvmanvol]

History is nice to have but it has to be recent.

Minnesota has 3-4 National Titles but no one remembers that.

Tennessee's best run was Neyland. We were BY FAR the most dominate SEC program from 1933-1951. It wasn't close. Since 1951, we have had major spurts of success but nothing as sustained as Neyland. Nothing like the Bear Bryant or Saban runs at Alabama.

Neyland also lived so far back that we probably don't get as much credit as we deserve for National Titles, etc.

We had a great run in the late Johnny Majors and Phillip Fulmer era but even during that run we had a losing record to Florida and only won 5 Conference Titles (85, 89, 90, 97, and 98) and 1 National Title. Compare that to Alabama's run right now or Georgia with Mark Richt and Kirby Smart and we really are not that strong.

The fact is we went 15 years in the desert and most people remember that now about Tennessee football and not the successes of the past. Let's just focus on what Heupel is building and not worry about the past because the recent past is NOT good for Tennessee.

We weren't just the best team in the SEC from 1933-51, we were the best team in College Football.


You are right that the last dozen years are nothing to write home about in particular but as bad as those years were, we've still won 525 games since 1952, good enough for 16th in that time period.

The key is we may have woken up at exactly the right time, to keep Georgia and LSU from passing us (or pass Southern Cal back, which we did yesterday) to stay Top 10 all time.

And let's not forget we had the most wins in CFB from Neyland's first year to our last SEC championship game appearance. That's a not insignificant period of 82 seasons.

 

[volbound1700]

We weren't just the best team in the SEC from 1933-51, we were the best team in College Football.
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You are right that the last dozen years are nothing to write home about in particular but as bad as those years were, we've still won 525 games since 1952, good enough for 16th in that time period.
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The key is we may have woken up at exactly the right time, to keep Georgia and LSU from passing us (or pass Southern Cal back, which we did yesterday) to stay Top 10 all time.
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And let's not forget we had the most wins in CFB from Neyland's first year to our last SEC championship game appearance. That's a not insignificant period of 82 seasons.
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Most of these records are a result of how good we were under Neyland.

Still it doesn't matter, looks like we finally got a good coach and our program is going in the right direction.

 

[Kylo]

The only SEC team more arrogant than Georgia fans are Alabama fans.

It's close. At least Bama wins all the time. Georgia fans I know have been bragging about their teams my entire life. And they've only been good enough to win twice in it. I probably hate them more than Alabama fans.

 

[CR-vol]

We weren't just the best team in the SEC from 1933-51, we were the best team in College Football.
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You are right that the last dozen years are nothing to write home about in particular but as bad as those years were, we've still won 525 games since 1952, good enough for 16th in that time period.
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The key is we may have woken up at exactly the right time, to keep Georgia and LSU from passing us (or pass Southern Cal back, which we did yesterday) to stay Top 10 all time.
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And let's not forget we had the most wins in CFB from Neyland's first year to our last SEC championship game appearance. That's a not insignificant period of 82 seasons.
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Man Heup couldn't have poured it on at a better time really. Georgia just 3 games behind us crazy how much ground they made up on us the past 10 years! Kind of sucks that Texas and Oklahoma coming into the SEC sort of bumps us down to the #4 conference spot (assuming we maintain our lead over UGA when that happens) when they don't have a history of playing multiple SEC teams every season for well over 100 years.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Georgia isn't that good. Last year, the defense carried them.

This year, they will require a big-time quarterback to go anywhere. Stetson Bennett won't even get a tryout with a NFL team. He is tuuuurrible

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Georgia isn't that good. Last year, the defense carried them.

This year, they will require a big-time quarterback to go anywhere. Stetson Bennett won't even get a tryout with a NFL team. He is tuuuurrible

Stetson is better than people think. He's not Hooker or Young but he's 11 out of 130 college quarterbacks in total QBR for the season. He was top 10 in the statistic last year too. That's not luck. He's a good college quarterback, though he's too little to be an NFL quarterback. I wouldn't count on him folding as the reason we win. We've got to dictate the game on offense.

 

[OrangeInKy]

The only SEC team more arrogant than Georgia fans are Alabama fans.

This. I have lived in GA and known scores of their fans and I never found them to be more arrogant, obnoxious, or embarrassing as Bama fans. UK fans make me laugh due to their simplicity. It's almost adorable when they buy the hype for their team, like when a toddler tells you he is going to be Spiderman when he groes up. You just laugh and think it's cute.

Bama fans are the worst in every category imo. Do some googling and you will find countless fans who/ve committed some serious crimes as a reaction to a loss.
UGA fans are confident, and sure, many are arrogant, but as a whole, Bama and Florida are worse in that area. Just my opinion. Maybe I've been blessed to know mostly rational/cool UGA fans.

 

[OrangeInKy]

Georgia isn't that good. Last year, the defense carried them.

This year, they will require a big-time quarterback to go anywhere. Stetson Bennett won't even get a tryout with a NFL team. He is tuuuurrible

Many non "big time QB's" have won titles. Stetson Bennett is an example. Jay Barker, Ken Dorsey, Matt Flynn, those dorks at Bama earlier in Saban's tenure. That OSU qb in 2002. I am not as convinced UGA will need Bennett to be any more than he has been and is, but I usually get this stuff worng.