NC_Dawg wrote:
I believe the 1980-1984 UGA class rivals and perhaps surpasses the accomplishments of CUM's Cryer's! Likewise, one could advance the notion that Herschel did in 3 what took Timmie 4 to surpass. Given the increased number of opponents per season, plus an additional year, I suspect Herschell's TD record would be intact. Then again, I took issue when steroid boy leapt of Hank Aaron's HR record....
We've said it before, but Tim Tebow had an UNGODLY number of games to \"beat\" Herschel's record. Let's not go into that crap here.
1980-84 would encompass five seasons, but the Dawgs had 50 wins in that time span. From 1980-83, the Dawgs won three SEC titles, a national championship, two bowls and 43 games. From 2006-2009, Florida won two SEC titles and two national championships. Then again, from 80-83 the Dawgs only PLAYED 48 games, and so they would have had to have a four-year win streak to equal what Florida was able to do from 2006-09, when they played 14 games three times('06, '08 and '09) and 13 games in 2007. That would have given Georgia an additional SEC title and THREE additional national championships. Georgia's winning percentage from 1980-83 is a little over 89.9%. Florida's from 2006-2009 was a little over 87.3%.
The most telling thing, though, is that of those 48 wins that Florida had, eleven were against the following teams:
Southern Miss
UCF
Western Carolina
Western Kentucky
Troy (twice)
Florida Atlantic
Hawai'i
The Citadel
Charleston Southern
FIU
That is, eleven of Florida's 48 wins in a four-year, 55-game span came against non-BCS schools. Two of those teams (UCF and FIU) had senior classes who could boast at least one season with no wins. FIU's seniors also had a one-win season under their belts, and FAU's had a two-winner to brag about. By way of comparison, five of Georgia's 43 wins in a four-year, 48 game span came against \"non-BCS\" schools. Those schools, for the record, were:
BYU (in 1982, two years before the Cougars would win the National Championship)
TCU (in 1980)
Temple (1981 and 83)
Memphis State, now just Memphis (1982)
Only one of those schools had a senior class of stinkers; TCU didn't win more than two games in a season from 1974-1983.
The percentage of wins against BCS schools then becomes 37 of 44 (84.1%) for Florida and 38 of 43 (88.4%) for Georgia.
Of the eleven non-BCS wins for this year's crop of Gators, three came against schools currently not in the FBS (Citadel, Charleston Southern and Western Carolina), and one more against Western Kentucky in its first year as a PROVISIONAL, rather than a full, FBS member. By way of comparison, Georgia played NO teams outside of what is now called the FBS from 1980-83. Back then, those wins didn't count towards a bowl game. So if we don't count them here as games, Florida has 44 wins out of 55 games, or an 80% win ratio. Still one more win than Georgia, but nearly 10% worse win rate.
Also, Georgia's SEC win rate is better than Florida's. From 1980-83, Georgia lost to ONE conference team (Auburn) in 1983. That is, they lost the last possible SEC game they could lose, those seniors. Florida, on the other hand, lost five SEC games, to Auburn (twice), LSU, Ole Miss and Georgia. Georgia's SEC record from 1980-83 is 23-1 (95.8%). Florida's record from 2006-2009 is 30-5 (85.7%).
One last metric: Tim Tebow's senior class lost to Georgia once, in 2007. John Lastinger's senior class never lost to Florida.
