Is Georgia a “Blue Blood”Program?

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What – or who, rather – jumps out at you the most in this data set:

What’s amazing to me is that Georgia has the most wins in the SEC since 2000…yet how many SEC titles can we claim in the same time span? It’s amazing how all that success over all those years never translated into a national title until 2021 and 2022. And how did Alabama rule the land from about 2007-2020 and not have more wins than us? How we keep losing to the Tide needs to be studied…for science’s sake.

Now add in the 90s…yeesh.

The other one that really jumps out at me is Virginia Tech, and all those years under Beamer in the Big East and an arguably weaker ACC during the early 2000s, yet never could seem to turn the corner and finish it out after their appearance in the National Championship game against Florida State in 1999.

Also, I can see why Phil Knight wants to dump his life’s savings into Oregon football.

Anyway, I’m digressing. There’s been substantial chatter after the Suckeyes claimed the title that there are schools that can be designated as “blue bloods” and those who aren’t. Loudly, fans of mostly B1G programs like to trot this out like that wealthy kid you knew in school who likes to flaunt daddy’s Mercedes and trust fund health while simultaneously demonstrating that they were also as dumb as a bag of hammers. You know, entitled little shits, like these people:

I sobered up and I got to thinkin, you ain’t much fun since I quit drinkin.

Largely, the status quo deems the following as Blue Bloods:

  • Michigan
  • Alabama
  • University of Spoiled Children
  • Notre Dame
  • Ohio State
  • Texa$$
  • Nebraska
  • Oklahoma

Id argue there’s some recency bias here, in the inverse manner, when someone tries to deem Oklahoma and Nebraska as elite of anything as of late, and how a list like this can leave off schools with long traditions in college football – LSU, Georgia, hell even Tech has a long and storied tradition if you’re getting in the WABAC machine -and since we play a yearly contest called “The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry”, then I’m only left to assume that a Blue Blood program is one that meets the following requirements:

  • Has a traditional and catchy fight song
  • Has alumni that are filthy rich/entitled
  • Has a shit ton of casual bandwagon fans
  • Proclaim things like “we’re back” …every .500 year
  • Smokes actual Cuban cigars
  • Brags and chortles over a glass of brandy of their victory in the Flaming Hot Cheetos Bowl over an SEC team (note: it was Tennessee, let’s not get ahead of ourselves)
  • Can achieve erections (amorously or hatefully) lasting longer than four hours while watching the final five minutes of Rudy
  • Eats lamb and olive appetizers at tailgates with cloth napkins
  • Is actively on Kirk Herbstreit’s screen saver
  • Plays bowl games at Bohemian Grove, tickets do not exist, and entry is granted if you know the code word “Fidelio”
The Nebraska Cornhuskers are pictured here huddling prior to playing the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Anyway, I personally couldn’t care less about this “Blue Blood” bullshit, but it’s been a nauseatingly ongoing debate on Twix, so I thought I’d throw it out to the group to properly school me on what this actually means. Also, this:

Well here’s my code word for the Blue Blood social: FTMFs. If being a “Blue Blood” means being in the same club with Longhorns and Cornhuskers, I respectfully decline.

19 thoughts on “Is Georgia a “Blue Blood”Program?”

  1. I would think the national perception of us is that we are among the bluest of blue bloods and have been for a long time, the only thing that’s questionable from year to year is our elite status. We seem to dip in and out of that based on our talent pool.

  2. The blue blood vs new blood debate is silly. It’s for programs with storied pasts who haven’t done anything in the lifetimes of their incoming freshman.

    Being a blue blood doesn’t mean anything. Georgia is a better program and has more advantages than all of those except probably Ohio State.

    • Ohio State’s all time record vs SEC Teams: 5-14-1.
      Blue bloods up north..losers against the SEC.

  3. All 92,000 of my closest friends bleed “Red &Black”….GO DAWGS!!

  4. For me, Blue Blood programs are those that have history and tradition going way back and doesn’t necessarily mean the program is at the top now. In my opinion, it doesn’t mean those programs are better either. I think of it as more the most storied programs.

    My tiers would be:
    Tier 1 – Bama, ND, Michigan, USC, & Ohio State

    Tier 2 – Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Georgia, & Penn State

    Tier 3 – Miami, FSU, LSU & Tennessee

    Tier 4 – Army, Minnesota, Yale, Harvard, Michigan State, & teams that were dominant way back.

    I’m not saying this list is correct, but my perception from growing up watching football.

  5. Face it. The national CFB media hates the SEC because of the S. Many of them hate the south just in general. A portion of the southern CFB media (cough, cough … Andy Staples … cough, cough) engage in self-loathing. That’s how programs like Michigan, USC, Notre Dame and Nebraska continue to be looked at as the bluest of blue bloods. Texas gets the benefit of the doubt because Austin is now more Silicon Valley mixed with New York than Dallas and Atlanta.

    Georgia is a blue blood program (that wins statistics is unbelievable and is evidence enough). The reason I know that is that everyone we play gives us their best shot other than for a couple of stretches (the 50s and the 90s). Even then our rivals relished their rarely gained dominance over us.

  6. Losers worry about being Blue Bloods, Winners worry about getting better everyday and “Not saying bleep to their undisciplined arses and just pointing to the scoreboard and laughing”!

  7. fuckin Boise should be at 260 instead of 261…but for the grace of the power ranger uniforms go I…embarrassment of a game and vêtement.

  8. CFB has always talked about storied programs, traditional programs, and they always have looked primarily at ND, Bama, Michigan, and a small number of others (at least in my memory). Those arguments tend to based on nostalgia for the past, but also based on the number of “claimed” nattys. If UGA took the Bama approach to nattys, we be in the double digits. But I digress.

    But this “Blue Blood” argument is pulled straight out of college basketball. Those “blue bloods” are indisputably Kansas, Kentucky, UNC and Dook… who all just happen to be blue. I really don’t remember using that term for CFB in the past, but since they’re trying to turn the sport into a gridiron version of March Madness, they’ll import all of the same terminology used on the hardwood to help smooth the transition.

    • As for national titles, I still don’t know why we don’t claim 1946. The only undefeated, untied major school that year, plus we played and beat in the Sugar Bowl a top 10 UNC with their all-star back Charlie Justice. Army and ND didn’t play bowl games back then.

      • That line of thinking is how Alabama claims so many “titles”. UCF and Tuberville as well.

        • I don’t necessarily agree. There were multiple polls back then. Do you claim 1942? AP lists Ohio State as NC that year. Personally, i think 1946 was a better season than 1942 because we were undefeated against a tough schedule.

          1946 College Football National Championship https://search.app/1UV2GL9rC8MDwggE8

  9. They can have all of the subjective labels, I’ll take the wins and the historical record of sucess. We have an excellent football program that has been a blast (well, most of the time) to follow. That’s good enough for me.

  10. The great thing about getting old is you don’t give a shit about what people think about you. The great thing about winning recent back-to-back titles is everybody else knows you don’t give a shit.

  11. GREAT write up, Sir!
    Yes..as ee stated, the Northeast and the Midwest are full of ignoramuses that hate the South….out of jealousy. That’s what’s fueling this whole CFP debacle. The more Yankee teams they can install, the more $$ can be made selling their false sense of superiority back to their pirogi stuffing fans.

  13. Damn! Averaged over 10 wins a season for a decade. Better than all other conference breathern in the toughest league in college football. With a bunch of head coaches and assistant coaches message board geniuses have consistently criticized.
    Maybe the professionals know more than us amateurs.

  14. uhhh, Wisconsin. I know Barry Alvarez had his day in the sun, but I never would thunk they’d be on here. Feels like they’re 8-4ish every year.

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