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You're ranking "teams" and "programs in recent years"....
Posted on: October 23, 2020 at 19:22:50 CT
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you're not ranking "programs".
Yale has a storied tradition in football, but I agree with you (and most sportswriters) that it was before CFB reached a sufficient threshold of competition.
That's why most sportswriters, when ranking programs, only consider the so-called "modern era" of college football, which began in either 1936 with the first AP poll (the beginning of the "poll era") or after WW2, depending on who you ask. Either way, the cutoff is circa 1940.
That's the convention for ranking CFB programs. Some sportswriters (a minority) consider the entire history of CFB, thus include Yale and a couple others in their rankings. You could argue those sportswriters are ranking "tradition" rather than "programs", but really the only difference is that a few Ivy League schools get included, which you can simply ignore.
Nebraska was ranked #8 regardless of what cutoff the sportswriters used.
To remove Nebraska from the top 10, your cutoff would have to be 2005 or later... but then you're not ranking programs anymore, you're ranking "programs in recent years" which is different.
Yale has a storied tradition in football, but I agree with you (and most sportswriters) that it was before CFB reached a sufficient threshold of competition.
That's why most sportswriters, when ranking programs, only consider the so-called "modern era" of college football, which began in either 1936 with the first AP poll (the beginning of the "poll era") or after WW2, depending on who you ask. Either way, the cutoff is circa 1940.
That's the convention for ranking CFB programs. Some sportswriters (a minority) consider the entire history of CFB, thus include Yale and a couple others in their rankings. You could argue those sportswriters are ranking "tradition" rather than "programs", but really the only difference is that a few Ivy League schools get included, which you can simply ignore.
Nebraska was ranked #8 regardless of what cutoff the sportswriters used.
To remove Nebraska from the top 10, your cutoff would have to be 2005 or later... but then you're not ranking programs anymore, you're ranking "programs in recent years" which is different.
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RE: If the OP had said "program" instead of "team" he would have - sarasotatiger MU - 10/23 15:25:11You're ranking "teams" and "programs in recent years".... - zounami MU - 10/23 19:22:50