re: A 10-win season at your school is _____?

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Your failure is that you are averaging wins per year without taking into account that for most of the history of college football, the regular season was 10 games or less. Alabama's regular season win percentage all time is .726 and overall is .718, which equates to 9 1/3 wins in a 13 game season - meaning 10 wins is really pretty much average for Bama,

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I'm not sure why someone would downvote your post - that distinction between 12 and 13 games is hugely important. Single-season records have fallen because of it, and too many people forget that the greats of the past did what they did with a whole game fewer.