Fwiw, I would honestly have to say that other than when UGA is playing us I frequently give in to state pride and pull for them. My beef is with the yahoos who live and die by the sports records and whose year is made or broken by the wins/losses. Whether we like it or not UGA is a good school academically and getting better. Last I read it has gotten a great deal harder to get into, SATs are getting closer to ours, and it has some really good graduate and research programs, especially in agriculture. Cow college jokes aside, anyone want to eat microchips instead of steak and potaotes?
I can't help but remember freshmen orientation when it was emphasized that GT was not just an excellent school but it was also a HARD school as well. Talk about understatement! Anyway, maybe it's an elitist thing, the way Green Berets, Seals, Rangers,Recon Marines feel they are better than the rank and file members of their respective services.
Tech's enrollment is what,12,000 or so, while UGA is +/- 35,000, so the 'we're better than you are' comparison is understandably natural and valid by any number of sociological benchmarks. Also, anytime large groups of people gather,i.e. Sanford Stadium, individual identity and sense of moral responsibility tend to disappear and the mob/herd behavior takes over and people do things that they normally wouldn't think of doing.
That being said, if you ever hear some redneck asshole bragging about hitting a GT band member w/ a full beer(what a waste), I'll cover your back while you kick his ass!
Selah.