In other words, the Sugar was desperate for an SEC team to play and needed Georgia badly to be invited. Oh well.
The Rose never bothered to ask for permission from the Sugar. It wouldn’t have done any good, as I’m sure they knew, for the Sugar didn’t have any better eligible options. So, the Rose could ask permission and be publicly saddled with their second choice, or they could declare that they were delighted to stick with “tradition” and pick the team they would get anyway. They went with the better of two bad choices.