Georgia cried foul.
"I was very much stunned they did that," Georgia ticket manager Freddy Jones said.
But the same feelings didn't stop Georgia from moving 3,200 of its visitors' seats to the upper deck three years ago in Athens. Visiting fans at Georgia games formerly occupied the whole west end zone on the lower level.
"And we noticed if our team got backed up on the 3-yard line on the west end, it was like a homefield advantage for the visitor because of the noise down there," Jones said.
So Georgia --and other schools -- did what they had to do: They shed that old Southern hospitality and started putting visiting fans in seats where they'd have less of an impact on the game.
Of the five SEC schools that haven't moved visiting fans upstairs since 2000, two don't have upper decks (Ole Miss and Vanderbilt).
