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Posted on 8/3/15 at 7:07 pm to sabes que
It's a very hard question to answer. Really depends on your definition of "modern" though. Hence the reason for so many different answers given so far.
Personally, I would put it somewhere near the end of the 80's or start of the 90's. Up until then, most of college football was allergic to the forward pass. The game, the players, even the national coverage have changed dramatically since then. If I had to pin down a certain year for me, I would go with 1992. Major changes to conferences (ACC and SEC), addition of conference championship games, and start of the BCS era. College football really took off from being a regional sport with a few pockets of intense interest, to nationwide entity behind only the NFL.
Personally, I would put it somewhere near the end of the 80's or start of the 90's. Up until then, most of college football was allergic to the forward pass. The game, the players, even the national coverage have changed dramatically since then. If I had to pin down a certain year for me, I would go with 1992. Major changes to conferences (ACC and SEC), addition of conference championship games, and start of the BCS era. College football really took off from being a regional sport with a few pockets of intense interest, to nationwide entity behind only the NFL.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 7:08 pm to sabes que
When black people could play. So early 70s.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 7:44 pm to cardboardboxer
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Um.....
Everyone knows that the AP poll is all that matters, right?
Posted on 8/3/15 at 8:31 pm to theGarnetWay
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LSU: 2000-Present
Florida: 1990-Present
Tennessee: 1910-2000
South Carolina: 2010
tamu: 2012
FIFY
Posted on 8/3/15 at 8:49 pm to sabes que
With the increased use of the forward pass in the mid 1930s
Posted on 8/3/15 at 9:02 pm to tigger1
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The modern era football start long before any of us were born:
In 1906 the forward pass is added to football...it totally changed football from a near rugby game into the modern game.
I don't think there is necessarily a "right" answer to this question. A lot of people have brought up a lot of good points to support their respective opinions. However, if there is a wrong answer, you definitely win. The modern era of college football did not start in 1906. It is a laughable statement. The modern era started before any one alive today was even born? To say this is idiotic is being kind.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 9:13 pm to redeye
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Everyone knows that the AP poll is all that matters, right?
Not during the BCS.
But I guess if your team embarrassed the conference in the only BCS bowl they ever played in, you'd like to forget about it.
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 8/4/15 at 5:34 am to sabes que
sabes que before the pass the game was run up the middle, run right, run left that is it.
The flying wing had been outlawed before 1900, but you still saw teams using even into the late 1890;s and some into the early 1900's by designed play to stack a side of the play. The flying wing is the main play that was causing the deaths in the early game.
Without the change to open the field up, the game was on it's way to being outlawed. Go read up a little more on the history of football before posting.
Look at the photographs of the players lined up on the field and everyone is stacked up on a huge field all in place to run block in a limited area.
I am a football historian and one of the few that works on the era of 1880's-1920's football and writing a book on 1908 football and the change of the game by passing.
The flying wing had been outlawed before 1900, but you still saw teams using even into the late 1890;s and some into the early 1900's by designed play to stack a side of the play. The flying wing is the main play that was causing the deaths in the early game.
Without the change to open the field up, the game was on it's way to being outlawed. Go read up a little more on the history of football before posting.
Look at the photographs of the players lined up on the field and everyone is stacked up on a huge field all in place to run block in a limited area.
I am a football historian and one of the few that works on the era of 1880's-1920's football and writing a book on 1908 football and the change of the game by passing.
Posted on 8/4/15 at 5:35 am to DannyB
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The 85 scholarship limit.
This is the real answer
Posted on 8/4/15 at 5:47 am to sabes que
The game has evolved many times.
For the SEC, I think 1992-present is an era.
Other eras might include 1933-1945
1946 to whenever the substitution rules changed, guessing 1960 or so.
Then 1961 to whenever scholarships were limited, guessing 1975 or so.
For the SEC, I think 1992-present is an era.
Other eras might include 1933-1945
1946 to whenever the substitution rules changed, guessing 1960 or so.
Then 1961 to whenever scholarships were limited, guessing 1975 or so.
Posted on 8/4/15 at 7:29 am to redeye
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I look at as LSU was shite before 2000.
same number of nation championships pre 2000
post 2000?
not close
Posted on 8/4/15 at 7:38 am to Sid E Walker
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The day that the Bear went home to momma to the present.
frick THAT DAY!!! frick IT TO HELL!!!
Murder a mother duck and her trailing ducklings.
Burn down a daycare.
DOUBLE DIP A CHIP IN THE SALSA!!!!!
Posted on 8/4/15 at 7:53 am to KaiserSoze99
For some reason every time you post I see this guy:
MOVE THAT MISERABLE PIECS OF shite!!!!!!
MOVE THAT MISERABLE PIECS OF shite!!!!!!
Posted on 8/4/15 at 8:21 am to sabes que
Two choices:
1) The end of one-platoon football in the early/mid 60s. Playing both ways put a premium on conditioning and athleticism vs. size and strength. No 350 lb linemen.
2) Advent of ESPN and the Interwebs. The TV money and 24/7/365 publicity has completely changed the game from what is was before. For the worse, IMHO.
1) The end of one-platoon football in the early/mid 60s. Playing both ways put a premium on conditioning and athleticism vs. size and strength. No 350 lb linemen.
2) Advent of ESPN and the Interwebs. The TV money and 24/7/365 publicity has completely changed the game from what is was before. For the worse, IMHO.
Posted on 8/4/15 at 9:34 am to BammerDelendaEst
1973 when I started college
Posted on 8/4/15 at 9:35 am to sabes que
When Mizzou & A&M joined the SEC
Posted on 8/4/15 at 10:09 am to Monticello
Since integration. About 1960.
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