Surprising college football facts...

[GoWVU]

This is just for fun during the off-week. I found each of these facts to be very surprising in its own way. Which one amazes you most?

1) Colorado, Washington, Miami(FL), Nebraska, Michigan, and Tennessee each won national championships during the 1990s...yet Wake Forest has won a P5 conference more recently than ALL of them.

2) Tulane dropped out of the SEC 50 years ago...yet still has won as many SEC championships (3) as half the current members COMBINED (Kentucky-2, Mississippi St-1, Vanderbilt-0, Arkansas-0, South Carolina-0, Missouri-0, Texas A&M-0).

3) Of its 15 conference victories since joining the Big 12, WVU has just 3 of them against teams which finished with a winning record in conference play that season (Texas 2012, Oklahoma St 2013, Baylor 2014).

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

1) Colorado, Washington, Miami(FL), Nebraska, Michigan, and Tennessee each won national championships during the 1990s...

And Colorado split that NC with Georgia Tech in 1990 (GT got the UPI and Colorado the AP). GT then split the ACC Championship with FSU in 1998; FSU got the BCS Bowl Bid.

 

[GoWVU]

Yes, sir. Entirely correct. I'd like to think GT fans have to be pleased overall with the Paul Johnson era, last year aside. Is that mostly true from what you hear down there?

 

[atlksnwvu]

If true,, #3 is a pretty pathetic statement

 

[GoWVU]

If true,, #3 is a pretty pathetic statement

It is true. I honestly thought it would've been more if someone had asked me beforehand.

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

Yes, sir. Entirely correct. I'd like to think GT fans have to be pleased overall with the Paul Johnson era, last year aside. Is that mostly true from what you hear down there?

Hard to say as they are on their 3rd AD during that time period. Dan Radakovich, now at Clemson, was the AD who stated (I paraphrase); "At Georgia Tech 7 or 8 football wins is about all you can ask for." The next year he packed his bags for Clemson.

The guy who replaced him in 2012, Mike Bobinski, just left for Purdue. They have an interim now, can't think of his name. Johnson was Radakovich's hire, Bobinski has kept him on, but I think the fan base wants more consistency, something Johnson hasn't done quite yet.

He is 63-44, but the record has peaks and valleys; 7.6 average wins per season. About what Radakovich proclaimed. The GT fan base is not as vocal as UGA; they fired a coach for going 10-3!

 

[GetYaNumbersUp]

#1 is pretty amazing to me.

#2 on the surface sounds unbelievable, but those teams are either historical doormats or new to the conference. I think Arkansas has come close a couple times.

 

[ColoradoMountaineer]

This is just for fun during the off-week. I found each of these facts to be very surprising in its own way. Which one amazes you most?

1) Colorado, Washington, Miami(FL), Nebraska, Michigan, and Tennessee each won national championships during the 1990s...yet Wake Forest has won a P5 conference more recently than ALL of them.

2) Tulane dropped out of the SEC 50 years ago...yet still has won as many SEC championships (3) as half the current members COMBINED (Kentucky-2, Mississippi St-1, Vanderbilt-0, Arkansas-0, South Carolina-0, Missouri-0, Texas A&M-0).

3) Of its 15 conference victories since joining the Big 12, WVU has just 3 of them against teams which finished with a winning record in conference play that season (Texas 2012, Oklahoma St 2013, Baylor 2014).

GoWVU why stop at 3? How about this

4) Since WVU has been members of the big 12 only Oklahoma has had more NFL draft picks than WVU

5) Since WVU has been members of the Big 12 the conference has failed to record a winning Bowl record.

We can make this thread longer than one of Bucks expansion threads

 

[GoWVU]

#2 on the surface sounds unbelievable, but those teams are either historical doormats or new to the conference. I think Arkansas has come close a couple times.

I think that SEC factoid is so interesting because to some degree it helps contradict the oft-repeated line about how it's the toughest league "top to bottom."

Another random fact which also undercuts that argument is that during the 2012 season, the bottom 7 teams in the SEC went winless against the top 7 teams in the SEC.

 

[MikeRafone]

Georgia Tech has developed a terrible problem that doesn't affect most BCS schools. Academics come now first .

 

[GetYaNumbersUp]

I think that SEC factoid is so interesting because to some degree it helps contradict the oft-repeated line about how it's the toughest league "top to bottom."

Another random fact which also undercuts that argument is that during the 2012 season, the bottom 7 teams in the SEC went winless against the top 7 teams in the SEC.

I remember that 2012 season, that was crazy and something I'd be surprised to see happen again.

Either way, the SEC has come back to earth with the rest of the conferences. It's Bama and then the rest of them. Who is the second best team in the SEC? LSU, Ole Miss, or Tenn I'm guessing. Would either of those 3 teams win a P5 league this year? doubtful.

 

[ColoradoMountaineer]

I remember that 2012 season, that was crazy and something I'd be surprised to see happen again.

Either way, the SEC has come back to earth with the rest of the conferences. It's Bama and then the rest of them. Who is the second best team in the SEC? LSU, Ole Miss, or Tenn I'm guessing. Would either of those 3 teams win a P5 league this year? doubtful.

The sec may have come back to earth but the big 12 has fallen off the face of the earth.