Historical significance of today’s game

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OrangeTsar

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Not getting ahead of ourselves obviously as we have one heck of a big game today; but ASSUMING we win, here are some historical milestones I was considering.
1) had any team EVER defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season
2) Has any team ever defeated the previous three National Champions in a single season?
 
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1) I am sure Bama has done this , don't care to Google when (obviously Bama can't beat themselves but the other's probably happened).
2) that is a good question. Could not find anything on Google about this.
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3) has the #2 team ever beaten the #1 team by fiddy? YES, the 2022 Tennessee Volunteer's
 
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VolBricks said:
1) I am sure Bama has done this , don't care to Google when (obviously Bama can't beat themselves but the other's probably happened).
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Bama can't possibly have "defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season." :D

[Edit: Sorry, VolBricks -- if I had bothered to read the entirety of what I quoted, I'd have seen that you had already acknowledged this to be impossible.]
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Not getting ahead of ourselves obviously as we have one heck of a big game today; but ASSUMING we win, here are some historical milestones I was considering.
1) had any team EVER defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season
2) Has any team ever defeated the previous three National Champions in a single season?
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Is anyone even tracking something like this? Like what is significance of beating LSU just because they won title in 2019 with another staff and almost entire roster?
 
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This has been such an extraordinary season that the superlatives seem endless. How about this one? Regarding the Bama-LSU game today, when is the last time there was a matchup in November featuring two Top 10 teams that lost to Tennessee earlier in the season?
 
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Normally I would say it holds some historical significance but considering VOLS BY FIDDY, it’s one no one will ever forget.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Not getting ahead of ourselves obviously as we have one heck of a big game today; but ASSUMING we win, here are some historical milestones I was considering.
1) had any team EVER defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season
2) Has any team ever defeated the previous three National Champions in a single season?
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1993 Auburn beat all 4
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Not getting ahead of ourselves obviously as we have one heck of a big game today; but ASSUMING we win, here are some historical milestones I was considering.
1) had any team EVER defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season
2) Has any team ever defeated the previous three National Champions in a single season?
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We’ve already been down this road. Auburn has done it, more than once too if I recall correctly.

Edit: I’m talking about number 1.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Not getting ahead of ourselves obviously as we have one heck of a big game today; but ASSUMING we win, here are some historical milestones I was considering.
1) had any team EVER defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season
2) Has any team ever defeated the previous three National Champions in a single season?
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(1) Auburn accomplished this twice: in 1989, they beat all four, but lost to Tennessee, heh. And in 1993, they did it again (didn't play us that year).

(2) I seriously doubt any team has had the opportunity to even attempt this, unless you go back to the late 1800s, the days when Princeton and Yale and Harvard took turns beating each other.

EDIT: I found an "almost" for (2), again involving Auburn. In 2010, the Tiggers beat LSU on the 23rd of October, then beat Bama in late November. They did not play Florida that season...but they did play and beat Florida the following season on the 15th of October.

So within 365 days (though over two seasons), the 2010-2011 Auburn Tigers beat the 2007 (LSU), 2008 (Florida) and 209 (Bama) national champs. And were, themselves, the 2010 champs.

So it has been done...sorta. Heh.

Go Vols!
 
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zjcvols said:
Technically 2009 Alabama beat three straight national champions, because they beat Florida (06’, 08’) and LSU (in 07’)

LSU 2011 did it. Beat Florida, Alabama and Auburn.
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2011 LSU also beat Oregon (Pac12 Champion that year) and West Virginia (Big East Champion that year). They were a stud program that got forced into a stupid rematch with Alabama in title game. No one remembers how well that team did, they just remember Alabama beating them in the last game.
 
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As an aside, since division play started we are the only team in the East where it’s even possible to beat Florida, LSU, Alabama and Georgia during the regular season (discounting conference championships and playoffs). We have Alabama for our cross division rival, and can have LSU the same year. Florida has LSU and can have Alabama, but can’t beat themselves.

In the west, LSU can have Florida and Georgia but can’t beat themselves. And Auburn can have Florida and Georgia.

So yeah, always us or them.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I guess the equivalent question for Bama would be if they had beaten Tennessee,LSU, Georgia, and Florida in the same season .
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It would be very rare for Alabama cause they don’t play Fl & Ga in same season except if one in the CG

The ‘98 team beat Fla, Aub, Ga & Ala in about a 5 week span. Only reason they didn’t beat LSU was cause they didn’t play them.
 
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wmcovol said:
It would be very rare for Alabama cause they don’t play Fl & Ga in same season except if one in the CG

The ‘98 team beat Fla, Aub, Ga & Ala in about a 5 week span. Only reason they didn’t beat LSU was cause they didn’t play them.
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Yeah, the rotation of teams from the other division is one thing that made this so improbable but still awesome
 
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WillisWG said:
2019 Tigers beat the last 4 in Clemson, Alabama, Clemson, Alabama
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Wow, turns out (2) has been done a number of times over the years, since the SEC (and Clemson) took over the national championship boards.

Guess it makes it a lot more likely when all the national champs live in the same region, and mostly in the same conference.

And the playoffs help by bringing together teams at the top from different conferences. Once we go to a 12-team playoff, will probably become even more regular occurence.

Go Vols!
 
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DuckInAPen said:
Bama can't possibly have "defeated Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Georgia in the same season." :D

[Edit: Sorry, VolBricks -- if I had bothered to read the entirety of what I quoted, I'd have seen that you had already acknowledged this to be impossible.]
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It’s NOT impossible! Ask any Bama fan after a loss. They either beat themselves or the refs beat them.
 
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