I want Auburn BAD. They have proven how beatable they are...Arkansas exposed it and Florida hurt them pretty badly in the first half. They can be beaten.
That said, YOU DO NOT LOSE TO TECH. Donnan's a moron, no matter what his record says. Five years, forty wins? If you're at Georgia, you BETTER win 8 games a year. He needs to ask Ron Zook or Steve Spurrier or Bobby Bowden about how important it is to beat an in-state, out-of-conference rival. I remember Florida played FSU while I was in the hospital with my wife and newborn son, who until he was around four months old refused to sleep for more than a half hour at a time. Zook beat FSU. It was the first time since HOW LONG that they had beaten FSU in Gainesville? The Gators carried Zook off the field and the applause was so loud and sustained that it functioned like a white noise maker and put my son to sleep. That ain't no lie. Everybody in my family -- myself, my father, three uncles on both sides, aunt, grandmother -- went to Georgia at some point for some degree. YOU WIN THE TECH GAME. No matter how bad either team is, in any given year, that game will be tight, it will be hard-fought, there's gonna be a shoving match or a fistfight, and the loser...my god, the loser.
If you go 1-11, that one win better be the Tech game. They don't call it Clean Old-Fashioned Hate for nothing. This year, I'm taking my father to the Tech game; we're going with my uncle and my grandfather. And it's the only game for the rest of the year that I'm looking forward to.
And the first rhyme I learned as a child was "TO HECK WITH GEORGIA TECH!!!"
Red and Black, Win or Lose