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

its all relevant.

obviously to most folks "now" is more relevant, but it wont be "tomorrow".

as far a national titles, if a school has received a majority of votes from the pre wire service polls (ap 1936, coaches 1950) then i think they should count if a school wants to use em, like the 4 bama claim pre 1936, but any after 1935 shouldnt because we had the ap poll. why bama counts 1941 i have no idea.

i start in 1947, post ww2 because a lot of programs stopped playing "big time" cfb, plus recruiting became a bit different as far as pay, etc. also, army and nd teams from ww2 (also aTm) where full of guys trying to get out of going to war and had their rosters stocked with draft dodgers, aTm tried to curb this by putting out inferior officers with brief training programs. "military college" during the war years is always associated with entitled, connected kids who could get out of the war or put it off and they all stockpiled the talent from around the country. theres nothing patriotic about army and its bullshite draft dodging nattys from the 40s.