GT vs UGA --the better team loses

[GT65_UGA89]

Each GT/UGA game over the last 40 years where the team with the lesser record of the two wins --not the higher ranked team, not the favored team, not the team playing better going into the game-- but the team with the best record at the time the game was played.

2006: UGA (7-4) 15 --- GT (9-2) 12
2001: UGA (6-3) 31 --- GT (7-3) 17
1996: UGA (4-6) 19 --- GT (5-5) 10
1995: UGA (5-5) 18 --- GT (6-4) 17
1993: UGA (4-6) 43 --- GT (5-5) 10
1984: GT (5-4-1) 35 --- UGA (7-3) 18
1974: GT (5-5) 34 --- UGA (6-4) 14
1972: UGA (6-4) 27 --- GT (6-3-1) 7
1969: GT (3-6) 6 --- UGA (5-3-1) 0

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meant to add: 1966 was the last time that both teams came in with one or no losses between them --UGA (8-1) won the game over GT (9-0) 23-14.

I never pull for UGA to win --but I have thought it would be pretty exciting if both teams faced each other with 11-0 vs 11-0 or even 11-0 vs 10-1 records. I guess 1998 was about as close as it's come to that lately --with both teams coming into the game at 8-2.

 

[goldmember]

Each GT/UGA game over the last 40 years where the team with the lesser record of the two wins --not the higher ranked team, not the favored team, not the team playing better going into the game-- but the team with the best record at the time the game was played.

2006: UGA (7-4) 15 --- GT (9-2) 12
2001: UGA (6-3) 31 --- GT (7-3) 17
1996: UGA (4-6) 19 --- GT (5-5) 10
1995: UGA (5-5) 18 --- GT (6-4) 17
1993: UGA (4-6) 43 --- GT (5-5) 10
1984: GT (5-4-1) 35 --- UGA (7-3) 18
1974: GT (5-5) 34 --- UGA (6-4) 14
1972: UGA (6-4) 27 --- GT (6-3-1) 7
1969: GT (3-6) 6 --- UGA (5-3-1) 0

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meant to add: 1966 was the last time that both teams came in with one or no losses between them --UGA (8-1) won the game over GT (9-0) 23-14.

I never pull for UGA to win --but I have thought it would be pretty exciting if both teams faced each other with 11-0 vs 11-0 or even 11-0 vs 10-1 records. I guess 1998 was about as close as it's come to that lately --with both teams coming into the game at 8-2.

This confirmed what I always thought. Those assholes are clearly better than us most years and even in the years they are not - they still beat us most of the time.

 

[dodd_54]

I can't understand what you're trying to say with that long run-on sentence. Can you say it another way?

 

[sfalco]

What he is showing is that out of the last 40 meetings, the team with the better record has won the game 31 times, or 77.5% of the time.

And in the other 22.5% of the time, the winner is still usually UGA.

 

[goldmember]

What he is showing is that out of the last 40 meetings, the team with the better record has won the game 31 times, or 77.5% of the time.

And in the other 22.5% of the time, the winner is still usually UGA.

Given how often we have less wins it is shocking that uga will still have more 'upset' wins.

 

[GT65_UGA89]

Both teams were certainly not much more than mediocre in the mid-90's --with Goff and Lewis at the respective helms who's really that surprised.

 

[Boston]

I don't know if this has been posted already, but has anyone noticed that going into this game we are 7-4 this year and were 9-2 last year, while UGA is 9-2 and 7-4 last year. Perhaps history will repeat itself?