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the secX3 shenanigans thread: it just means moar


Hagbard Celine

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for @immamac's content/traffic initiative, this thread is for fully-developed dissertations on secX3 chicanery.

another topic at the top of the list is the "28 extra wins by playing d2 dogs + 1 less conference game" screed.

today's cincy/jawja thread had a brief exchange on jawja being a blue blood & an assertion that they run that league with bammer.

this led to a geek-out on that series.  i've looked at it before, but it's even more egregious than i ever realized.

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there were 12 teams in the secX3 until gatech left after the 1964 season.

jawja/bammer played 24 times between 1941 and 1965.

why did they stop playing each other every year in 1966?

tulane departed after the 1966 season; there were only 10 teams until the arrival of pig+cock in 1992.

in those 25 years, in a 10-team league, jawja/bammer was only contested 8 times.

jawja/bammer games in national title years during that 25-year run:

1965 bammer AP 9-1-1: athens, georgia 18 - 17 alabama

1973 bammer UPI 11-1: tuscaloosa, alabama 28 - 14 georgia (last year coaches' final poll before bowl games)

1978 bammer AP 11-1: not played

1979 bammer AP & UPI 12-0: not played

1980 georgia AP & UPI: 12-0: not played

in 1992 the secX3 added pig+cock to go to 12 teams split east/west & played the first conference championship game between 2 divisions.

in the last 28 years, in a 12/14-team league, jawja/bammer has been contested 11 times, but 3 of those were secX3 title games in atlanta.

in the past 3 decades, alabama & georgia have managed to play a total of 4 regular season home & home contests.

games in national title years since 1992:

1992 bammer AP & UPI 13-0: not played

2009 bammer BCS 14-0: not played

2011 bammer BCS 12-1: not played

2012 bammer BCS 13-1: not played

2015 bammer CFP 14-1: athens, alabama 38 - 10 georgia

2017 bammer CFP 13-1: not played

2020: bammer ???  ??-??: tuscaloosa, alabama 41 - 24 georgia

as of this writing, since 1965, pending the 2020/2021 CFP results, alabama & georgia have won 12 combined national championships.

in those 12 years, alabama & georgia only played 3 times ((13 years, played 4 times, if bammer wins the 20/21 title)).

thus in 2/3rds of those national title years they didn't play.

Edited by Hagbard Celine
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