re: “Biggest blowout loss for each current college”

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Going into a list like this blind you'd naturally expect Alabama, as the most successful program in conference history, to have been the team dishing out most of these beatings, but nope

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That’s because Alabama’s strength through the years primarily has been defense, and it has never been in the program’s DNA to run up the score.

Switzer and Osborne (both on the list) were notorious for blowing up the scoreboard.

60+ pt. outputs by Switzer/Osborne in 41 combined years.

60-69: 36
70-79: 12
80-89: 2

60+ pt. outputs by Bryant/Saban in 42 combined years:

60-69: 16
70-79: 1
80-89: 1

Yet somehow Bryant/Saban managed to win twice as many national titles as Switzer/Osborne.

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quote:What date is considered the genesis of the "modern era"? In my mind, post WW2 is that I consider the modern era. But I can see an argument for starting it in 1998 since that's when the true Playoff era began... probably need more time but 50 years from now I think we'll say '98 was the start of the modern era. Probably not there yet.

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The “modern era” probably really should start with integration.