re: Right or wrong, Alabama is the GOAt in college football?

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I realize people can have different opinions, but you shredded your credibility when you put Texas, ahead of Bama. That is absurd.

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He based it on wins, which you can't do alone with any kind of credibility. You had teams like Michigan playing 10-11 game schedules in the early-1900s, while teams like Alabama were still scheduling 4 or 5 teams per season. Take 1901 for example. The 1901 Michigan Wolverines went 11-0 and won the first ever Rose Bowl. Alabama finished 2-1-2 in that same year. It wouldn't be until the 1920s that Alabama would start having seasons that were as long as Michigan's had been from the 1890s onward.