re: Florida or Auburn...who gets "back" first?

Ask PanhandleSlim why he chose that date

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1948 seems ... not very useful in any semi modern context.

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Maybe not to you but it fundamentally changed the game as we know it. Felt today more than ever. The GI Bill did more to change football than anything else. Take that away means you take away the fuel that has fed college sports (and football the most) the growth it is now reaping the money from today.


GI Bill allowed the masses to attend college and grow their alumni base substantially and provided the bodies and the cash to create the rise of state schools over the private schools that dominated the landscape prior to WW II. Before the war college was for the very few and after the war the GI Bill allowed families that could never enter college before to do so.

University of Chicago (private) gave way to Ohio State
Tulane (private) gave way to LSU
Centre (private) gave way to Kentucky

No GI Bill and the Ivy League would still dominate CFB


It is why history (tho unimportant to you perhaps) still affects the game today.