Georgia vs Tennessee is History of college football No. 1 vs. No. 2 games puts Dawgs.

 

At the point when Tennessee visits Georgia on Saturday for the SEC on CBS Round of the Week (3:30 p.m. ET), it will check the 25th time that the No. 1 and negative. 2 groups in the AP Top 25 have played each other in the customary season since the survey started in 1936. However the Workers and Bulldogs have been a piece of such matchups in the postseason - - in 1999 and 1983, separately - - they have never played in an ordinary season standoff of top-two groups like this.

Thusly, the Dawgs and Vols as of now possess a sought after corner inside school football's rich history regardless of the result.

Getting the No. 1 versus No. 2 in the normal season is particularly uncommon in the cutting edge time with just four such games starting around 2000. Being in the game can affect program discernment. In the lifetime of latest players, the main groups to have taken part in these vigorously advertised middle of the season standoffs are Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Michigan and Texas.

A No. 1 versus No. 2 standoff resounds past school football and creates consideration from the games world and public at large. For that reason it's nothing unexpected that the groups that have played in them, and particularly the ones that have won, are related with significance all through the various times. For a game based on old stories, fanciful stories and talking, dominating matches like this is the means by which you get recognized as a boss, regardless of whether you wind up coming out on top for the public title.

Early history: Nobility status procured

The first No. 1 versus No. 2 gathering came in 1943 when highest level Notre Lady went making a course for beat Michigan, 35-12, in Ann Arbor. Wartime school football was overwhelmed by the Battling Irish, alongside any semblance of Armed force and Naval force, and those competitions created four different top-two standoffs between 1944-46.

School football persons of nobility Texas and Oklahoma showed up in a best two matchup in 1963 with Ohio State, Nebraska and USC joining the rundown presently. Alabama and Penn State played in no customary season gatherings of top-two groups before 2000; in any case, of the six postseason gatherings of top-two groups from 1971-86, five included either the Blood red Tide or the Nittany Lions. The two strikingly gotten down to business in the 1979 Sugar Bowl as No. 2 and negative. 1, individually.

Notre Lady, which has been a consistent idea in top-two matchups all through the game's set of experiences, played in three such customary games: 1988 versus Michigan, 1989 versus USC, 1993 versus Florida State. The Irish won each of the three, and however the program has only one public title from that heavenly run, it was one of the notorious groups of that period.

Then, at that point, through the 1990s, Florida State, Florida and Miami exchanged blows top-two fights that assisted shape the assumption for football in the Daylight With expressing until the end of time. Simply ask anybody in the Daylight State about "Wide Right I" in 1991.

BCS, School Football Season finisher times give a bend

Before the rise of the BCS framework, games between No. 1 and negative. 2 were sufficiently uncommon to become social minutes inside the game, addressing depictions of the peak. The BCS time changed that as 13 of its 16 public titles included No. 1 versus No. 2 in the AP Top 25 with 2000, 2001 and 2003 as the main exceptions. In the event that you eliminate those 13 BCS title games, the absolute number of top-two matchups in AP Top 25 survey history drops to 39 games in 86 years.

Since the reception of the CFP, there have just been three games between No. 1 and negative. 2 in the AP Top 25, including the postseason. The CFP Public Title has just remembered the main two groups for the AP survey two times in eight years: No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 Clemson in 2015-16, and negative. 2 Clemson beat No. 1 Alabama in 2018-19.

The BCS filled its need of choosing the main two groups in the game to play for a public title with almost 10 years of progress (as far as being in accordance with AP citizens) before the framework was canceled. The season finisher has apparently taken care of its business by making a framework that doesn't naturally compensate the main two groups in the standard season with six of eight such games not being No. 1 versus No. 2.

Eventual fate of Georgia versus Tennessee competition

By playing Saturday as the main two groups in the AP survey - - and by each having a case to No. 1 at the hour of the opening shot between the AP Top 25 and the underlying CFP Rankings - - Georgia and Tennessee could be nearly becoming one of school football's incredible present day competitions (in addition to a champion SEC East game each season).

Starting around 2010, the main two customary season games between No. 1 and negative. 2 have highlighted Alabama and LSU with the Tigers winning in 2011 and 2019. Georgia and Tennessee, similar to Alabama and LSU, are rivals in the feeling of being in a similar division and seeking similar titles, yet neither would call the other a boss verifiable opponent.

However, we have come to see Alabama-LSU as one of the extraordinary contentions in this game in light of their seriousness and public importance. While they don't have the a popular moniker like "Third Saturday in October," or an extravagant prize like the Brilliant Boot, it is the game on which the whole gathering, and public title, race pivots virtually every season.

Georgia and Tennessee can be that game for the 2020s, and it begins with conveying the sort of awe-inspiring that we are anticipating given the No. 1 versus No. 2 stakes and the famous history the game is joining.

No. 1 vs. No. 2 meetings

Regular season (24)

• 2019 - No. 1 LSU 46, No. 2 Alabama 41 
• 2011 - No. 1 LSU 9, No. 2 Alabama 6 
• 2006 - No. 1 Ohio State 42, No. 2 Michigan 39 
• 2006 - No. 1 Ohio State 24, No. 2 Texas 7 
• 1996 - No. 2 Florida State 24, No. 1 Florida 21 
• 1993 - No. 2 Notre Dame 31, No. 1 Florida State 24
• 1991 - No. 2 Miami 17, No. 1 Florida State 16 
• 1989 - No. 1 Notre Dame 24, No. 2 Michigan 19 
• 1988 - No. 1 Notre Dame 27, No. 2 USC 10 
• 1987 - No. 2 Oklahoma 17, No. 1 Nebraska 7
• 1986 - No. 2 Miami 28, No. 1 Oklahoma 16 
• 1985 - No. 1 Iowa 12, No. 2 Michigan 10 
• 1981 - No. 1 USC 28, No. 2 Oklahoma 24 
• 1971 - No. 1 Nebraska 35, No. 2 Oklahoma 31 
• 1969 - No. 1 Texas 15, No. 2 Arkansas 14 
• 1968 - No. 1 Purdue 37, No. 2 Notre Dame 22 
• 1966 - No. 1 Notre Dame 10, No. 2 Michigan State 10 
• 1963 - No. 2 Texas 28, No. 1 Oklahoma 7 
• 1946 - No. 1 Army 0, No. 2 Notre Dame 0 
• 1945 - No. 1 Army 32, No. 2 Navy 13 
• 1945 - No. 1 Army 48, No. 2 Notre Dame 0 
• 1944 - No. 1 Army 23, No. 2 Navy 7 
• 1943 - No. 1 Notre Dame 14, No. 2 Iowa Pre-Flight 13 
• 1943 - No. 1 Notre Dame 35, No. 2 Michigan 12 
• SEC Championship Game (2) 
• 2009 - No. 2 Alabama 32, No. 1 Florida 13 
• 2008 - No. 2 Florida 31, No. 1 Alabama 20 
• CFP National Championship (2)
• 2018-19 - No. 2 Clemson 44, No. 1 Alabama 16
• 2015-16 - No. 2 Alabama 45, No. 1 Clemson 40 
• BCS Championship Game (13) 
• 2013-14 - No. 1 Florida State 34, No. 2 Auburn 31 
• 2012-13 - No. 2 Alabama 42, No. 1 Notre Dame 14
• 2011-12 - No. 2 Alabama 21, No. 1 LSU 0 
• 2010-11 - No. 1 Auburn 22, No. 2 Oregon 19 
• 2009-10 - No. 1 Alabama 37, No. 2 Texas 21 
• 2008-09 - No. 1 Florida 24, No. 2 Oklahoma 14 
• 2007-08 - No. 2 LSU 38, No. 1 Ohio State 24 
• 2006-07 - No. 2 Florida 41, No. 1 Ohio State 14 
• 2005-06 - No. 2 Texas 41, No. 1 USC 38 
• 2004-05 - No. 1 USC 55, No. 2 Oklahoma 19 
• 2002-03 - No. 2 Ohio State 31, No. 1 Miami 24 
• 1999-00 - No. 1 Florida State 46, No. 2 Virginia Tech 29 
• 1998-99 - No. 1 Tennessee 23, No. 2 Florida State 16 
• Pre-BCS bowl games (11) 
• 1995-96: No. 1 Nebraska 62, No. 2 Florida 24 - Fiesta Bowl 
• 1993-94 - No. 1 Florida State 18, No. 2 Nebraska 16 - Orange Bowl 
• 1992-93 - No. 1 Alabama 34, No. 2 Miami 13 - Sugar Bowl 
• 1987-88 - No. 2 Miami 20, No. 1 Oklahoma 14 - Orange Bowl 
• 1986-87 - No. 2 Penn State 14, No. 1 Miami 10 - Fiesta Bowl 
• 1982-83 - No. 2 Penn State 27, No. 1 Georgia 23 - Sugar Bowl 
• 1978-79 - No. 2 Alabama 14, No. 1 Penn State 7 - Sugar Bowl 
• 1971-72 - No. 1 Nebraska 38, No. 2 Alabama 6 - Orange Bowl 
• 1968-69 - No. 1 Ohio State 27, No. 2 USC 16 - Rose Bowl 
• 1963-64 - No. 1 Texas 28, No. 2 Navy 6 - Cotton Bowl 
• 1962-63 - No. 1 USC 42, No. 2 Wisconsin 37 - Rose Bowl