The SEC Forum at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Southern cities might claim to be desegregated, but it was widely "understood" who could go where and when after that happened.  Around here, the main E-W road {Poce de Leon was the N-S dividing line, if you lived north of that, you were white, aside from some small enclaves, and vice versa.  This isn't true today of course, but several N-S roads that cross Ponce change their names at that point.  Monroe becomes Boulevard, etc.

One area south is termed "Old Fourth Ward" and is now a hotbed of gentrification.  I don't know how hotels here handled things in 1967.  There still are "black neighborhoods" mostly south of downtown.  But white folks are moving back inside the city limits now, a reverse while flight.

y'all are fast becoming candidates for area-51.  

.... i'll send a recruiter your way. 

I'm not sure how much the Dallas ISD would bear on that decision even if it were on Penn St's mind.  ISDs =/= hotel/UT policy.  I'm assuming it's possible whatever the school districts were doing had nothing to do with what UT and hotels were doing, and that PSU people may not have cared about the Dallas ISD at all. 

I wasn't there, and I wouldn't know.  But without direct evidence, it seems tenuous to assert a stronger connection than need be warranted.  

I've always liked Georgia, other than that little issue of the 1984 Cotton Bowl.  But as I've said before, that was more our fault than theirs.

But yeah, a history of good players from Georgia, lots of tradition, what's not to like?  I've also always liked Alabama, and LSU, and Tennessee.  I guess I've got a lot of love for the SEC.

Except for A&M, and Arkansas, and Oklahoma, of course.  No love there at all!

We're talking about the 1969 season.  That year the Coaches' Poll completed its final voting in early December, before the bowl season, and 10-0 Texas was voted #1 while 10-0 Penn State was voted #2.  The AP Poll completed its final voting in January after the bowls, and 11-0 Texas voted #1 while 11-0 Penn State was voted #2. Had Penn State accepted the Cotton Bowl invitation and beaten Texas in Dallas, then it's presumed (and highly likely) that they would have won the AP Poll vote for #1.  I don't know about any of the other rankings, the AP and Coaches' polls are really the only two that mattered at the time and they're the only two that matter still.

Despite the popular myth, Nixon awarding Texas the "national championship" via a small plaque he had made up, after the Texas-Arkansas game, really had nothing to do with the actual national championship.  The voters in both polls were still free to vote for whichever teams they saw fit.

Then it was the following year, the regular season for 1970, where the polls were split and Texas was voted #1 by the Coaches' Poll at the end of the regular season, while Nebraska was voted #1 by the AP Poll after the bowl games (Texas finished #3 in the AP that year).

This Georgia football talk is fun!

I thought it was the UPI at the time. 

Yes Coaches' Poll was the UPI Poll, same thing.  In 1990 it changed to the USA Today poll and was some form of that for a couple of decades, and now apparently it's called the US LBM Poll, whatever that is.

But regardless of press affiliation/sponsor, it's been the Coaches' Poll since 1950.

 now apparently it's called the US LBM Poll, whatever that is.

It either stands for Until Saturday, Let's Blather More, or it's the Unforgotten Stories--Little Big Matt.  

I forget which.