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Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:41 pm to FourThreeForty
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downvotes for saying the same fricking thing
If you quit sucking cock, the up votes will come.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:42 pm to sabes que
2035
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:45 pm to Monticello
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1992: First year of the bowl coalition which began having an actual #1 v. #2 national title game. Also the beginning of conference championship games. 1992 is when college football started becoming a truly major national sport.
If that is the criteria then 2014 is a better line in the sand. Many of those BCS titles were questionable (hence both LSU and USC claiming the same national title). 100 years from now football will be split into the playoff era (where the titles are legitimate) and the pre-playoff era where titles are looked at like we look at the pre-AP era today.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:49 pm to theGarnetWay
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LSU: 2000-Present
Florida: 1990-Present
Tennessee: 1910-2000
South Carolina: 2010
tamu: 1939, 2012-2013, 2015-TBD
FIFY
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 3:50 pm to cardboardboxer
It's never ending. People will question the initial playoff format as time passes.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:01 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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It's never ending. People will question the initial playoff format as time passes.
Maybe but in the playoff era we will never have two champions like we had with USC and LSU that year, or we should have had with Auburn in 2004. That fact alone adds a lot of legitimacy even if the playoff goes to 8 or 16 teams later.
The third best team could maybe claim part of a national title. The fifth best team can't. That is huge.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:02 pm to sabes que
Several different possible answers:
1950 - major rule changes to the sport
1965 - AP poll decides to wait until after bowl games (previously, bowl games were more or less considered exhibition games)
1967 - SEC integration begins (final hold out)
1974 - Coaches poll begins to count bowl games
1992 - SEC expansion, and SECCG, as well as Bowl Coalition
Generally speaking, I think MOST people will use the term to basically mean "since 1950" because the sport we watch now began essentially then. I think we'd have a hard time following a game that was run during the 1910s.
1950 - major rule changes to the sport
1965 - AP poll decides to wait until after bowl games (previously, bowl games were more or less considered exhibition games)
1967 - SEC integration begins (final hold out)
1974 - Coaches poll begins to count bowl games
1992 - SEC expansion, and SECCG, as well as Bowl Coalition
Generally speaking, I think MOST people will use the term to basically mean "since 1950" because the sport we watch now began essentially then. I think we'd have a hard time following a game that was run during the 1910s.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:03 pm to logjamming
Coming from the guy whose username is logjamming 
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:05 pm to sabes que
Around 1980 is a good answer. Scholarship limits were set at 95, close enough to the current 85. Passing began to become more prevalent, seems like football as we recognize it today was being played by the early 80s.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:06 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
1992 makes a lot of sense.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:06 pm to FourThreeForty
50 years from now people will view the BCS era as tainted and the Playoff Era as true champions since it is earned on the field.
Just the evolution of the sport at the college level.
Just the evolution of the sport at the college level.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:10 pm to CapstoneGrad06
IMO - go back 50 years.....1965
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:00 pm to sabes que
If I had to really pick I'd probably go along with 1980.
While all teams were integrated by the early '70s, it wasn't until the late '70s that you started to see the most talented black players consistently signing with SEC teams, meaning that by the end of the decade all of the best athletes had an opportunity to play for every Division 1-A school.
1980 seems pertinent, because that's the first year in which an African-American player became a national superstar playing for a program based in the Deep South.
While all teams were integrated by the early '70s, it wasn't until the late '70s that you started to see the most talented black players consistently signing with SEC teams, meaning that by the end of the decade all of the best athletes had an opportunity to play for every Division 1-A school.
1980 seems pertinent, because that's the first year in which an African-American player became a national superstar playing for a program based in the Deep South.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:21 pm to sabes que
2001-2007
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:25 pm to sabes que
1959 to present. No reason.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:35 pm to Tornado Alley
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1980 - present
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:39 pm to Monticello
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1992 is when college football started becoming a truly major national sport.
Say what?
College football was a truly major national sport WAY BEFORE then.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:41 pm to dallasga6
Scholarship limitations
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