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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 706036, member: 289"] Here’s a little bonus: These are the Division1A schools that have had the highest winning percentage since the Dome opened in 1980: [url]http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/calc-wp.pl?start=1980&end=2012&rpct=30&min=5&se=on&by=Win+Pct[/url] Dropping Boise State, who hasn’t even been major college the entire period and has never been at a BCS level, the top ten teams are: Nebraska, Miami, Florida State, Ohio State, Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan, Georgia, Brigham Young and Texas. We are 41st on the list, (including Boise) but we have played all of those top ten teams since the Dome opened and beaten 8 of them. We bobbled away changes to beat the other two, (Oklahoma and Florida State). By Howell’s ratings, we’ve been better than Nebraska 4 times, better than Miami 5 times, better than Florida State once, better than Ohio State 6 times, better than Florida 3 times, better than Oklahoma 8 times, better than Michigan 3 times, better than Georgia 10 times, better than Brigham Young 12 times and better than Texas 9 times. The current Godzilla of college football, Alabama finished 14th on the list. We’ve been better than them 8 times since 1980.”Yeah but those were during down years for those team”. But that’s the point- they have down years and we have up years, even if we are usually not as good as they are. The bad thing about college football is the extent to which location, the type of school, facilities, budget, the head coach’s reputation and a recent history of winning dominate recruiting. The good thing about it is that they are recruiting teenagers, young men who are not yet what they are going to be and might not become what they could be. The deck gets shuffled every year as to who is better than who. Those recruiting advantages have their greatest impact in terms of year-to- year consistency, rather than single season or even game potential. That Auburn team that beat Oregon for the national title looked like the our 1998 team if Dwight Freeney had been a healthy senior rather than an injured freshman, (McNabb= Newton and Freeney = Fairley). The difference between Syracuse and the football factories is the difference between the Greek Phalanx vs. the Roman Legion, not either of those vs. the Starship Enterprise. We need to be realistic about what we can accomplish over time but we can still dream about great success in individual seasons and games. Those dreams could come true. [/QUOTE]

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