Michigan Can Overtake Notre Dame for Best Winning Percentage this Week

Submitted by rambouhh on

With a Michigan win against Penn State and a ND loss against Duke (probably not likely) Michigan will overtake ND for best all-time winning percentage. 

The Fan in Fargo

September 19th, 2016 at 9:01 PM ^

It is gross to think such lizards brag about such things. To the knowing man or woman that hears that it obviously doesn't mean shit in their own mind. Yay, we have the all time winning percentage! How long have you had it for notra lame? Comeon guys! Spill it to the world! Tell everyone just how long you have had the all time winning percentage. That's also a fact the people deserve to know right?

Tater

September 19th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^

Michigan is headed up and ND is headed slightly down.  I can see fans turning on Kelly and ND struggling for a few years during the struggle and inevitable transition to another coach.    Kelly could probably go 9-4 indefinitely there, but their fans won't allow it.  

ND"s cherry-picking,  half-indie schedule should still result in a 9-3 record followed by a bowl loss due to being overrated and slotted higher than they deserve.  Meanwhile, Michigan is going to have 1,  2 and 3 loss seasons for the next ten years or so.  The winning percentage will take care of itself.

The Fan in Fargo

September 19th, 2016 at 9:17 PM ^

Yep, in the next ten years Michigan will well be comfortably ahead in wins and win %. I had a tall skinny and kind of athletic punk confront me in a bar the other weekend I was wearing my #1 jersey. Yeah, laugh all you want schmucks but I do look good in it. You all probably have too big of guts and no traps or shoulders to pull it off. Anyway, this guy came up to me in a bar and asked me if that was an irish jersey I was wearing and I turned around to expose the block m on the back of my old addidas piece of shit. He then put me in a head lock. I just stood there knowing that's all that candy ass irish fan would do and I was right. He let go and I turned around with a smirck. He told me that notra dame was catching up to Michigan with the total wins and would soon surpass them. I chuckled while shaking my head and looked him right in his candy ass eye and stated that they have a very long way to go. Especially now. I later confronted him at bar close outside to see what he had to say or if there were any more head locks in store. He turned away. Four leaf clovers are for the fairy folk all you men in the world! Bullshit always talks first!  

RockinLoud

September 19th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^

Close. Apparently ND gives out the #1 jersey for the game to whatever player performs the best in practive that week in order to signify them having the "highest winning %" in CFB history. The announcers were practically nutting themselves talking about it.

M Ascending

September 19th, 2016 at 5:54 PM ^

I was at the 2006 game in South Bend, and the PA announcer loudly proclaimed before the start of the game that the winner would take the lead in all-time winning %. They are totally hung up on that --mainly because they're about 40 wins behinds us and will never be No. 1 in that category. Oh, by the way, remember how that 2006 game turned out for Brady Quinn and the Irish?

Muttley

September 19th, 2016 at 5:27 PM ^

It's early in the season and so some weighting of initial assumptions must be still in these rankings, but still:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/

 
Notre Dame Fighting Irish #22
1-2, 2nd in Independents (FBS)
Remaining Schedule
 
 
 
Sat, Sep 24 vs Duke   68
 
 
Sat, Oct 1 @ Syracuse   80
 
 
Sat, Oct 8
@
North Carolina State
 
44
 
 
Sat, Oct 15
vs
Stanford
 
3
 
 
Sat, Oct 29
vs
Miami (FL)
 
17
 
 
Sat, Nov 5
@
Navy
 
61
 
 
Sat, Nov 12
vs
Army
 
51
 
 
Sat, Nov 19
vs
Virginia Tech
 
32
 
 
Sat, Nov 26
@
USC
 
25

 

Also, keep in mind that Texas lost 50-43 at California late Saturday night.  It's not exactly Murderer's Row, but if Cal were playing that schedule, I wouldn't deem any game starting w/ NC State as a highly likely win.

Tuebor

September 19th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^

I don't see them losing again until October 15 against Stanford which is our BYE week.  So we won't retake it until we beat Illinois on October 22, which is their BYE week. 

 

Then we play MSU and they play Miami(FL) so it could go right back to them if they win and we lose on October 29. 

 

 

A Lot of Milk

September 19th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^

Ok ND sucks and all that, but they're not going to lose to Duke. Comparing their schedule to ours, I think the next chance they have to get destroyed is October 15th at home against Stanford. We have a bye that week. So if we win out to this point and ND does the same and then loses to Stanford, do we have the record? Or do we have to beat Illinois the next week to retake it?

superstringer

September 19th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^

So, I think this is pretty complicated.  It depends on how you do your math.

The problem is the dreaded TIE.  (That's "draw" to you English fans.)  How do you count it?

If you ask, "who has WON the most games as a percentage of all games played" (meaning, a tie is the same as a loss--it's "not a win"), then WE ALREADY are in first place.  71.660% to 71.440%.

If you treat a tie as "half a win," which Wikipedia apparently does, then we are just behind them -- 73.050% to their 73.120%.  If on Saturday we win and they lose, then yes we retake this calculation too (it will be our 73.071% to their 73.062%).

If you pretend ties were never played, and just looks at Wins as a percentage of Wins and Losses, then we are second to them (73.709% to their 73.924%)--and we would need to win the next 3 games, and them lose the next 3, for us to overtake them.

Data is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins -- which is dated January 2016, so I updated it with this year's 3 results.