News Article: Ranking the 10 best college football programs of each decade - Bill Connelly

bama2112 · Nov 14, 2016

I dont know if this was ever posted. I did a search and nothing came up on the site . So I am posting this very interesting article. The author is also publishing a book about the 50 Best college teams of all time.

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...istory-alabama-fsu-nebraska-oklahoma-michigan

centerstar · Nov 14, 2016

That was interesting. Thanks for posting.

dayhiker · Nov 14, 2016

Bama is the leader for 4 of the decades. That's impressive. Considering 1925 and 1926, I'm surprised we're not even listed for the 20's. I'm also surprised we're not listed for the 90's with the Stallings era.

cbi1972 · Nov 14, 2016

dayhiker said:
Bama is the leader for 4 of the decades. That's impressive. Considering 1925 and 1926, I'm surprised we're not even listed for the 20's. I'm also surprised we're not listed for the 90's with the Stallings era.

Another power was emerging. Alabama was too inconsistent to make this list -- 11-7-3 in 1921-22 and 17-10-1 from 1927-29 -- but the Tide went 19-0-1 in 1925-26, serving notice as to what was on the horizon.

The omission is salient enough to warrant a specific explanation.

dayhiker · Nov 14, 2016

cbi1972 said:
The omission is salient enough to warrant a specific explanation.

D'oh. I should have read the footnotes. Thanks.

TideEngineer08 · Nov 14, 2016

cbi1972 said:
The omission is salient enough to warrant a specific explanation.

We were just getting our feet under us with Xen Scott in the early 20s. We did Penn in 1922, which was a massive upset at the time.

TIDE24 · Nov 14, 2016

dayhiker said:
Bama is the leader for 4 of the decades. That's impressive. Considering 1925 and 1926, I'm surprised we're not even listed for the 20's. I'm also surprised we're not listed for the 90's with the Stallings era.

The 90's may be missing due to vacated games after the Langam issue. I think we vacated 10 or 11.

dayhiker · Nov 14, 2016

TIDE24 said:
The 90's may be missing due to vacated games after the Langam issue. I think we vacated 10 or 11.

That's what I suspected. We also had 1997 and 1998 in that mix too.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Nov 14, 2016

Just drives home the point that Alabama is the greatest college football program ever.

The Ols · Nov 15, 2016

Can I like this more than once?

JBama_in_PCOLA said:
Just drives home the point that Alabama is the greatest college football program ever.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Nov 15, 2016

JBama_in_PCOLA said:
Just drives home the point that Alabama is the greatest college football program ever.

The Ols said:
Can I like this more than once?

Yes, yes you can.

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RWBTide · Nov 15, 2016

Would never have guessed that in the 2010's so far Stanford would be sitting in 2nd place.

B1GTide · Nov 15, 2016

RWBTide said:
Would never have guessed that in the 2010's so far Stanford would be sitting in 2nd place.

That is because we had to vacate the wins from 2010.

RWBTide · Nov 15, 2016

B1GTide said:
That is because we had to vacate the wins from 2010.

Wasn't aware of that B1G, it was actually your team I was thinking of, I remember being being stunned that you could win every game and not be in the BCS.

BamaMoon · Nov 15, 2016

Frank Thomas moves to Alabama...

Bear Bryant moves to Alabama...

Nick Saban moves to Alabama...

Makes me wonder who will be the next one on this list one day???

BamaMoon · Nov 15, 2016

A couple of reflections:

1. As much as we won at the beginning of the 1990's - the mid 90's highlights how low we started to dip toward the end of that decade and for the next 10 years.

2. What if Bobby Bowden would have followed Ray Perkins??? Oh to think of the additional titles Bama might possess today!

BamaJama17 · Nov 15, 2016

BamaMoon said:
Frank Thomas moves to Alabama...

Bear Bryant moves to Alabama...

Nick Saban moves to Alabama...

Makes me wonder who will be the next one on this list one day???

Well let's just hope the 2020's aren't a replete of the 1950's. I say Bill Clark at UAB.

TampaTide813 · Nov 15, 2016

BamaMoon said:
A couple of reflections:

1. As much as we won at the beginning of the 1990's - the mid 90's highlights how low we started to dip toward the end of that decade and for the next 10 years.

2. What if Bobby Bowden would have followed Ray Perkins??? Oh to think of the additional titles Bama might possess today!

I ponder these things from time to time and wonder "if only...then..." I soon remind myself that even 1 or 2 more wins (let alone a better hire and NCG appearance) could have put us in a completely different situation now. Maybe we are talking about Les vs Urban as the best ever. Maybe it's Saban but at a different school. Things needed to play out the way they did for us and CNS to be ready at the same time.

BamaMoon · Nov 15, 2016

TampaTide813 said:
I ponder these things from time to time and wonder "if only...then..." I soon remind myself that even 1 or 2 more wins (let alone a better hire and NCG appearance) could have put us in a completely different situation now. Maybe we are talking about Les vs Urban as the best ever. Maybe it's Saban but at a different school. Things needed to play out the way they did for us and CNS to be ready at the same time.

Trust me, I've thought about that side of it as well. I doubt any of us would trade CNS and the last decade for anything different from the '90's.

But, I guess we can wonder what would have been if Bowden would have coached at Bama instead of all those years at FSU and then we still got CNS.

RammerJammer14 · Nov 15, 2016

Very cool. Looking at that list by decade, you can see why Tennessee is our biggest rival, and not Auburn or LSU. Stacked right on top of each other for 2 decades and always in the same ballpark for most of the rest.

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