30 years, maybe you should ask Bear after you dig em up. Nobody gives a shit outside your own fans and admittedly by Terry draws way less viewership nationwide.
Personally I would love to have a 9 SEC game schedule, but no permanent rival so it truly is equal all around. Any of these teams can use an OOC for it if they HAVE to have it.
Ok, so let's go with the 9 game schedule and have 3 permanent foes from ther other division. Bama can have UT, UF and USCE. LSU will keep UF and add VANDY and UK.
Outside of playing LSU twice in ATL for the SEC championship? They've made it to ATL three times. Auburn has made it three times. Alabama has made it three times. If you want to start with 2008 there's no argument to be made. EDIT: I started thinking about 2008 being the year after they met LSU in ATL and that led me to remember it took two blocked field goals for Bama to win against UT in 2009. We were lucky in that game. You know what that thought led to? 2010. Surely I don't need to remind anyone LSU was lucky to win that game versus UT. It didn't have a bearing on ATL because Auburn won. A flag with less than five seconds left in the game against the Vols for illegal participation gave the Tigers another shot because the game can't end on a defensive penalty...otherwise it's a season ending with three losses instead of two. What have they done since 2008? They had my anxiety level up in 2009. I know it was the same for anyone here in 2010.
You mean the last 12 years? You got socks that old. Face it, Tennessee is historically and numerically the second best team in the SEC. No verbal hocus pocus will change the cold, hard, facts.
TUSKtimes: Best records in the last 30 years: Team A - Alabama Team B - Florida Team C - LSU Team D - Tennessee You're so worried about propping tenn up that you're starting to argue against yourself. By your own account, in the last 30 years, tenn is fourth best in the SEC. And that's with LSU wandering in the wilderness for most of the 90's and if bama-tenn is 10-10 since the SEC split into divisions, it's more about bama being on probation and having poor coaches. You're damn sure not even lately. Matter of fact, the only team close to playing bama even is us
I won't pretend to understand where the timeline of 30 years comes from other than it's post-Bryant. One thing it does accurately reflect is the parity of the conference. If you take Florida, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and Tennessee and look at head to head records there isn't more than a three game difference with Auburn holding the best record (up three games.) I wouldn't disagree with poor coaching and probation playing a part in the series being tied 10-10. When UT had multiple wins in a row it was in the midst of the Shula era. That's something that has to be played the other way as well. Bama's recent streak has a lot to do with the shuffle of poor coaching hires in Knoxville as well.
Hey luvdimtigers, somebody didn't take the test. Tennessee, team D, is third in wins with a record of 247-106-4. LSU would be team C, coming in fourth in wins, with a record of 239-119-4. And by the way, Tennessee own a 20-7-3 all-time record against LSU.
