re: all time records? "modern era" of football? what's relevant?

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Very few teams from 20 years ago could hang with the teams of today. Different rules, different speeds, different philosophies.

The same thing will be true of this era 20 years hence.

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I disagree with this completely. The thing you have to remember about the "integration criterion" is that there is a bit of a delayed effect.

While integration was fully implemented in the 1970s, it took about a decade for the its effects to really take root. CFB completely opened up in the 1980s. This was a product of integration, along with the fact that the elite football powers had lost sway over the perceptions of the voters.

The 1980s saw, for the first time, the emergence of truly elite athletes like Herschel and Bo. These guys would be able to step on the field today and be just as dominant as they were back then.

The 1980s also witnessed the emergence of elite athletic teams like Miami. A team like 1986-89 Miami would probably beat the best teams in CFB today.

And none of this would have been possible without integration, frankly.