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Last 5 years - teams in D1 collegefootball who have won 50+ games...
I can find 8 teams in college football that won 50+games between 2002 and 2006.
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flea'd, of course, from somewhere else...
Last 5 years - teams in D1 collegefootball who have won 50+ games...
I can find 8 teams in college football that won 50+games between 2002 and 2006.
Now, I started this research because someone on the Bunker asked theother day why we always started to talk about CTTs success beginning in2004 instead of probably 2002 when he had his first SR class - so Istarted checking to see how AU matched up. From 2002 to 2006 we won 50 games. Ican only find 7 other programs in that time that have won that many or moresince 2002. If you add in the first part of 2007, here are the total wins forthose 8 teams:
USC 63 (just wow)
BSU 61 (not so much wow, more on thatlater)
Texas 60
OSU 60
Oklahoma 58
LSU 57
UGa 57
AU 53
8th out of 117+ D1 schools in college football. But....I know that acommon complaint among the AU faithful is that CTT loses to too many unrankedteams. Well, so does everybody else. LSU has the most impressive record againstunranked teams, losing only twice. Here is the number of losses per school tounranked teams (incl 2007 games):
USC 3
BSU 4
UT 5
OSU 4
OU 5
LSU 2
UGa 3
AU 6 (4 until this year was even w/UT, OSU, BSU, andOU)
So, CTT loses slightly more often the others to unranked teams, buthis numbers against ranked teams are a little better:
USC 20-3
OSU16-5
UT 15-5
OU 13-8
LSU 16-11
AU 13-9
UGa 14-11
BSU 2-4 (BSis right, 6 ranked teams in 5+ years and a .333 win%)
Interesting thatthe teams w/3 of the 4 highest number of games against ranked teams are from theSEC and all 3 are super close to each other in win % (LSU .5925, AU .5909, UGa.56). But here's where CTT has earned his $$$ - no one has won more gamesagainst top 10 teams since 2002 than Tubs. Percentage wise, he does trail OSU(72.7%) and USC (70%) (AU 68.8%) but total games and total wins are way outfront.
OSU 8-3
USC 7-3
AU 11-5
UT 5-4 (55.6%)
LSU 5-6(45.5%)
OU 4-6 (40%)
UGa 3-5 (37.5%)
BSU 0-1
Hell,we'vebeaten as many top 10 teams as anyone else has even played.
I started looking into this just to see how CTT compared and I cameout of it a much bigger supporter of Tubs than when I began. He's built aprogram we can and should be proud of - on and off the field - and hewins a lot of games,including more big games than anycoach in the country.
So, my two cents, if you want CTT gone you either have an agenda(rtr, politics, whatever) or you aredeluded. Has AU ever had a coach average 10 wins a year for 5 years? Hasany coach ever won 9 out of 10 games against top 10 teams? Do you expect AU toaverage 10 wins a year the next 5 years given the talent on the team right now(roughly 29 freshmen and sophomores on the 2-deep)? I'm starting tosound like Jimmy Sexton I'm sure, but I was blown away by these numbers when Istarted comparing how we stacked up to the rest of the country.
One more interesting note - 6 of those 8 teams have had only 1 headcoach in that time and all of them except UT and USC havehad at least one 4+ loss season. I'm just sayin'.
Now, I pose this question for the bammers & aubies who think he's NOT won enough titles...
If, over the NEXT 5 years (counting this year and whatever record Auburn winds up with)...if over the NEXT 5 years, he (and Auburn) win 50+ games,averaging 10 wins a season, beat 9 out of 10 top 10 teams...AND...wins ONE (1) and ONLY one (1) SEC title....is THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU...OR NOT?
If NOT...you're gonna have a lot of disappointing coaching searches and changes ahead of you for the next 2-3 decades.
