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re: What do you consider to be the "modern era" of college football?
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:42 pm to cardboardboxer
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:42 pm to cardboardboxer
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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.
USC's non BCS championship carries no weight in the era of the BCS, the system all conferences agreed would award championships.
USC just got pissy and wanted to move the goalposts when it didn't work out for them.
Combine that with the scandals surrounding Carroll's program.
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Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:46 pm to sabes que
The day that the Bear went home to momma to the present.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:47 pm to Sid E Walker
Talking about when Bear died? That would be right after Dye beat him in 82. Agreed.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:48 pm to sabes que
Around 83 or 84...when Miami started to dominate CFB.
Their defensive speed completely changed the game...along with their passing game.
As much as I hated those guys you cant deny they changed CFB big time.
Their defensive speed completely changed the game...along with their passing game.
As much as I hated those guys you cant deny they changed CFB big time.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:49 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Talking about when Bear died? That would be right after Johnny Majors beat him in 82. Agreed.
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Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:49 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
But not what I had in mind.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:07 pm to sabes que
Depends. It's certainly after WWII, because everything was silly before then. I'd discount the entire '40's, because the war hindered so many schools for that decade. This knocks Big Ten schools and Oklahoma to a lower level.
You could argue for the fifties and I'd be okay with that, but the game was still at an infant level imo (sorry Ole Miss, Auburn and LSU). I'd start at 1960, which was the decade the game finally matured, although you could also argue that the '70's are a better starting point, because that would include integration and more modern rule changes.
Anyone starting later then that is probably young and just doesn't know better, imo.
You could argue for the fifties and I'd be okay with that, but the game was still at an infant level imo (sorry Ole Miss, Auburn and LSU). I'd start at 1960, which was the decade the game finally matured, although you could also argue that the '70's are a better starting point, because that would include integration and more modern rule changes.
Anyone starting later then that is probably young and just doesn't know better, imo.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:14 pm to SavageOrangeJug
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Say what?
College football was a truly major national sport WAY BEFORE then.
And that brings up what I think is an important point for many of us. It really beame a major national sport in the sixties, if not the fifties. Someone mentioned when TV earlier and these were your first TV games.
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:15 pm to pioneerbasketball
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"since my team started winning"
so the LSU game last year for Arkansas fans ?
17-0 ushered in the modern era
not to be confused with the other modern ear that was from 2009-2012
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:19 pm to SammyTiger
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so the LSU game last year for Arkansas fans ?
17-0 ushered in the modern era
not to be confused with the other modern ear that was from 2009-2012
We have as many 10-win seasons in the past 55 years as LSU does, but keep 'on dreaming.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:23 pm to sabes que
When pretty much all TV Games were available in HD.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:29 pm to skrayper
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965 - AP poll decides to wait until after bowl games (previously, bowl games were more or less considered exhibition games)
My initial thought was 1980, but I have to agree with this.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:31 pm to redeye
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We have as many 10-win seasons in the past 55 years as LSU does, but keep 'on dreaming.
Its nice knowing you have to go back to Frank Broyles to catch what LSU has done since 2000.
Did you count the pre desegregation seasons or not?
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:34 pm to SammyTiger
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Its nice knowing you have to go back to Frank Broyles to catch what LSU has done since 2000.
Did you count the pre desegregation seasons or not?
I look at as LSU was shite before 2000.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:35 pm to redeye
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I look at as LSU was shite before 2000.
And Arkansas is still shite. So suck on that.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:38 pm to Outside looking in
The modern era football start long before any of us were born:
In 1906 the forward pass is added to football...it totally changed football from a near rugby game into the modern game.
This how the little Indian team of Carlisle would beat teams like Army
and much later how Notre Dame beat the Army team in 1913.
The 2 keys plays in the LSU-Auburn game are passes by Fenton to beat Auburn in 1908.
Passing allowed the smaller teams to balance the large lines of teams like Army, Michigan, Penn etc.
In 1906 the forward pass is added to football...it totally changed football from a near rugby game into the modern game.
This how the little Indian team of Carlisle would beat teams like Army
and much later how Notre Dame beat the Army team in 1913.
The 2 keys plays in the LSU-Auburn game are passes by Fenton to beat Auburn in 1908.
Passing allowed the smaller teams to balance the large lines of teams like Army, Michigan, Penn etc.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:39 pm to sabes que
Integration.
It's been touched on by others, but I think this is the answer.
From year to year, surely you can't distinguish much, so it's hard to say an era begins on a certain year.
It's been touched on by others, but I think this is the answer.
From year to year, surely you can't distinguish much, so it's hard to say an era begins on a certain year.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 6:42 pm to East Coast Band
And scholarship limits in 1975.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 7:03 pm to wadewilson
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USC's non BCS championship carries no weight in the era of the BCS, the system all conferences agreed would award championships.
Um.....
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