It has been a great season for the Georgia Bulldogs. They beat Tech. Forget the comparative records and conference championships and who is going to what bowl.

There is a generation of Georgia Bulldogs that has a very simple point of view when it comes to success on the football field: Beat Georgia Tech. Period.

To the majority of (younger) Dawg fans, the formula for a successful season includes beating Florida, Auburn and Tennessee, going at least 10-1,winning the SEC, going to a BCS bowl, winning that and finishing in the Top Five at the end of the season. They will still whine about not winning the national championship, but deep in their heart of hearts they will be pretty satisfied.

Not my generation. For those of us who grew up in the 1950’s. We don’t like to lose any more than the next guy, but the Bulldogs can go 1-11 every year until the sun rises in the west and we will be happy – as long as that “one” is Georgia Tech.

It was in that dark period of the ’50’s that Tech beat Georgia like a drum. We lost close ones (1950), got our heads handed to us (1951,1956) and had our hearts broken (1954). Through it all, we had to endure the specter of Bobby Dodd, beaming and reminding us that his teams didn’t scrimmage once the season had started. We were getting clobbered annually by a team that didn’t even hold scrimmage! Oh, the indignity of it all!

Finally, in 1957 Theron Sapp broke the drought (and on Grant Field!) and a few years later, Vince Dooley showed up and started a streak of his own against Tech that has more or less endured. But the memory of those years of the drought still lingers with those of us who had to endure 84 months of beatings and snide remarks from North Avenue.

Yes, my generation would like to beat all those other teams and win another national championship and go to a big-shot bowl, but as long as we are state champions, we will be happy.

You had to be there, I guess.