Georgia is my second favorite SEC team. I don't know why. I guess because some team has to be, and it certainly can't be another west team or Florida.
I tell this story every few years, but because I'm still amazed by it, I'll continue to do so.
When I was living in Austin in the 2004, I hung my LSU flag off the front porch prior to the season. My next door neighbors were Michigan transplants who had hung their maize and blue M flag similarly. I was coming home one day, they happened to be in their front yard as I was getting out of my car. They asked me to take my LSU flag down.
I waited for the punchline.
They just stared me at me.
"You want me to take my flag down?"
Yes, they said. My LSU flag was ugly colors, they didn't like looking at it, could I please take it down. They were polite, but as far as I could tell, totally serious.
I said that wasn't happening, they got kind of a bitter "I can't believe he didn't do what we said do" look on their face, and they never spoke to me again, or wave, or even look at me.
Now, damn yankees are oddballs who can't even say y'all correctly, but this was a whole new breed of idiot. And other than Gatorama, they're the only Michigan fans I've ever met. It's almost to where I'd believe they were actually Buckeye fans out to disparage the perception of UM people.
The moral of the story is, I'm rooting for UGA in this one, and since 2004, Michigan's failures generally amuse me.