The two sued the magazine's publisher for libel, and the case reached the United States Supreme Court as Curtis Publishing Co. After the story broke, Butts resigned as athletic director, though Butts and Bryant denied the allegations. In 1963, The Saturday Evening Post magazine reported that Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Georgia athletic director and former coach Wally Butts had conspired to fix the 1962 game, which Alabama won 35–0. Highlights of that era included two separate five-game winning streaks by Alabama and the first-ever college football game to be televised by the ABC network, Alabama's 21–6 win in 1960 in Birmingham. The teams played each other in every season from 1944 to 1965. The teams did not meet again until 1901, another Georgia win, then continued to meet on a regular basis for the next several decades. Georgia defeated Alabama by a score of 30–6.
The two southern schools first met in 1895 in Columbus, Georgia. Despite no longer playing annually, Alabama and Georgia have met in several nationally important matchups in the twenty-first century, including three Southeastern Conference championship games and two College Football Playoff national championship games since 2010, bringing the rivalry back into national prominence.
The two bordering state schools were charter members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 1933 and played every season from 1944 to 1965. The Alabama–Georgia football rivalry is a college football rivalry game between the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama and the Bulldogs of the University of Georgia.
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