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re: Has a region of the country ever dominated CFB for this long?
Posted on 1/17/22 at 1:10 pm to BranchDawg
Posted on 1/17/22 at 1:10 pm to BranchDawg
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Has a region of the country ever dominated CFB for this long?
If you go back far enough, other regions did but due to bias.
Before Alabama got into the 1926 Rose Bowl (which they didn't even want to invite Alabama to, but were willing to invite a scrappy but undersized Tulane team), lots of GREAT southern teams were completely ignored. 1908 LSU and 1914 Tennessee both come to mind. It also helped that the Southern team won during the Rose Bowl radio debut, marking the first time the game was being called in real-time to a national audience.
Even after that (so you could claim the Ivy League schools dominated the REALLY early football seasons), the bias remained hard. Notre Dame is a clear example of a team getting the benefit of the doubt a lot of times.
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Posted on 1/17/22 at 1:51 pm to skrayper
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If you go back far enough, other regions did but due to bias. Before Alabama got into the 1926 Rose Bowl (which they didn't even want to invite Alabama to, but were willing to invite a scrappy but undersized Tulane team), lots of GREAT southern teams were completely ignored. 1908 LSU and 1914 Tennessee both come to mind. It also helped that the Southern team won during the Rose Bowl radio debut, marking the first time the game was being called in real-time to a national audience. Even after that (so you could claim the Ivy League schools dominated the REALLY early football seasons), the bias remained hard. Notre Dame is a clear example of a team getting the benefit of the doubt a lot of times.
Someone should make a documentary on this. Very interesting and it’s culturally significant.
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