Programs dominant in the 90's are now historically terrible
Seems rather fitting that with the matchup we have upcoming that I post this article from FiveThirtyEight. Mostly about the struggle of Nebraska and the Florida schools, but we do get a brief line: "Florida and Tennessee play on Saturday, while Nebraska will play Michigan — a fellow titan of college football history that, while not quite on the same historically bad trajectory as the teams above, also finds itself out of sorts over Jim Harbaugh's record against top opponents against top opponents"
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-college-football-programs-of-the-1990s-are-suddenly-terrible/
September 19th, 2018 at 2:21 PM ^
Record-wise, yes. But the 90s were far, FAR better when it came to our record against OSU. Went 7-2-1 against them from '90-'99.
Gotta love those Cooper years.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:56 PM ^
We beat Cooper like a drum but would lose to Northwestern and others. Maybe that's a better tradeoff but in the end, the perception of the program wasn't much different back then than it is now, the glorious 1997 season excepted (and we followed that up by starting 0-2 in '98).
September 19th, 2018 at 2:13 PM ^
Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
I hope their first child is a masculine child.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^
I’m glad somebody posted this. I feel like Michigan fans misremember the last 40 years.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
I am so fucking sick of that narrative. We need to curb stomp the next ranked opponent.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
Depending on how msu plays our next ranked away game might be at osu
September 19th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
That site still exists?! Nice job on the election! LOL
September 19th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
I reckon some of that is because the 90s had a lot of historical blue bloods playing kinda ass-y didn't it? USC sucked, Notre Dame fell apart late in the decade, Ohio State was kinda shit for a lot of the 90s, Texas was outright crap until late in the decade when Mack Brown got there, Oklahoma was a disaster, Alabama was up and down and then got real crap at the end of the decade. Throw in strong 80s programs Georgia and Clemson completely collapsing and yeah, things were kinda open for programs like Nebraska, Florida and Tennessee and such to be dominant in a way that was probably unsustainable.
September 19th, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
Ohio State was quite good in the nineties, they simply couldn't beat Michigan
September 19th, 2018 at 6:48 PM ^
It's the lack of bagmen at these titans ... Alabama would be on that list post Bear Bryant but they said "if you can't beat$ them, then join$ them".