re: 1928-2007 no team won more games than the Vols

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You’ve almost got to try to be bad if you’re a program like Tennessee with the way the deck is stacked in CFB. It’s really quite an amazing feat how shitty they’ve become

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It's amazing how shitty Mizzou has always been. We walked the dog on you last year and will continue to do so for years to come. Hope you all enjoyed the past few years, cause the days of us losing to your high school program are over.

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What has Notre Dame and Michigan done since black players were allowed to play as well?

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Notre Dame was an integrated team by the mid-60s. Since that time they have won four AP national championships. Michigan has made it a habit of choking in the Rose Bowl or the Ohio State game since that time, hence their lack of national titles.

1950 is a fine starting point. Or whenever the first actual poll was inviented.

What gets me is this games from 1800’s counting back when the game was more like soccer, different teams played under different rules until Walter Camp drew up official rules of the game. Also any win against high school teams and club teams like fire departments needs to be removed. Univ of Michigan has about 100 wins that were really just scrimmages.

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1928-2007 no team won more games than the Vols

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only because in its infinite wisdom the ncaa decided Alabama should forfeit or vacate 31 victories for Antonio Langham signing a napkin for an agent and athletes selling or giving away textbooks.

Even excluding those victories, from 1896 through 2019 Alabama has won more games than any other team.

LINK

I-A Wins 1896-2019 (124 years)
(Teams not qualifying for the table are listed at the bottom.)
Rank Team name Winning
Percentage Games
Won Games
Lost Games
Tied Games
Played
1 Alabama 0.73195 911 320 43 1274
2 Oklahoma 0.72611 908 326 53 1287
3 Michigan 0.73153 904 321 34 1259
4 Ohio State 0.73787 902 304 51 1257
5 Texas 0.70145 901 374 33 1308
6 Notre Dame 0.72850 895 321 40 1256
7 Nebraska 0.69071 881 384 38 1303
8 Penn State 0.68959 869 381 37 1287
9 Tennessee 0.67852 842 385 53 1280
10 Southern Cal 0.69774 838 348 53 1239


Finally,according to ncaa.com UT has won 2 nationals titles.

1951 and 1998

But traditionally, Tennessee is in fact the 2nd best team in the SEC and will eventually be championship contenders again. I think Pruitt will probably get them there just in time to return to Alabama when Saban retires.

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Gotcha. So the accomplishments of the Babe, Lou, Ted, Ty should also be dismissed. Gotcha.

They weren't as strong as McGwire, Bonds, Canseco, and Sosa. So, frick 'em.

The game was different, doesn't mean it didn't exist

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Not the same, back then CFB wasn't as popular as Baseball, since Baseball attracted most of the USA's best Athletes, the players back then were much better Athletes and much closer to a mofern day MLB Player, than a CFB player from the same Era could compare to a CFB Player in 2020

Also, Baseball the way the game is, the maximum of human potential by earlier players has come closer to hitting that Maximum potential in earlier Eras unlike CFB

For example, Bob Feller had a fastball that hit the high 90s or 100mph back in the late 30s or early 40s, very similar to Aroldis Chapman in the current Major Leagues, and Duke Snyder was 6-3 190lbs and was a 200 meter track guy that was a JUCO Teammate of Jackie Robinson and his athleticism was comparable to MLB players from this Era

In summary, MLB Players from back in that Era got the best Athletes in the entire Country due to the popularity back then, so using Baseball for a CFB comparison won't work

Shocked Missouri rant about another football team ! They remind me of Georgia Tech ! So sad !!!

NCAA DOT COM — Updated info as of June 2020

Congrats Gumps — Tied for 4th place with TX in wins (916)

Gumps 5th in Winning % (.727) behind Michigan & OSU & Notre Dame & Boise St

Draw your own Conclusions folks!

Gumps draw your own DELUSIONS!

Good Luck catching OSU with Sabah ready for the nursing home and Cutty Sark leading that Dump Jones offense and Petey G ready to take it up the @$$ again in 2020.

Factual History Lesson Concluded!

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Whenever they did well regionally, they crumbled nationally. E.g., in their "unscored on season", they went to the Rose Bowl and were shutout 14-0. The General, who was a great coach, was 3-6 in major bowl games in his career at UT.

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Nutrition in the South lagged behind the rest of the country until pretty recently, so teams from here were probably a bit smaller on average. It was a huge upset when Bama won that Rose Bowl, " The Game that Changed the South"

The meta controversy is: there is no timeframe which can be selected which won't piss-off somebody.

If the cutoff ain't the forward pas, it's platoons, otherwise integration, else, some other bench mark.

The key to wisely picking the period start-date is: come to a firm decision ahead of time on which fan-bases you're trying to piss-off.