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MrWoodson said...
We can't help it that the rest of you sucked for so long. I laugh at people who think UF, which didn't win its first title until the 1990s, and Oregon, which has yet to do so, deserve greater respect. And for all of Bama's success under Coach Saban, you were pretty pathetic for most of the decade prior to that. Michigan has played Bama three times, all in the past 20 years, and we are 2-1 in those games. And those wins have nothing to do eith our success in the early 1900s. The fact is that all programs go through cycles and, except for about 20 years after WWII and the three-year debacle that was the RR era, we have been nationally relevant in CFB for more than 130 years. That absolutely dwarfs all but a few programs.
But you are right that Michigan was overwhelmingly dominant in the early days of CFB and, in fact, is one of a handful of teams that invented the game and/or were responsible for its evolution into what we see on the field today. We make no apologies for that. We are, in fact, proud of it. We are also proud that, unlike most of the other elite programs from that era, we are the only one that remains consistently relevant today.
It's hard to do something well for 133 years. And every great CFB program has had a few down years here and there. But based on any measure - national championships, major conference championships, wins, win %, All Americans, Heismans and other major awards, coaches/players in the HOF, players drafted by the NFL, etc - Michigan is at or near the top in every category. Very, very, very few programs can say the same thing.
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kitemac said...
I don't care how many you guys claim. Knock yourself out with how many you want to claim. It will be a number of years before you could possibly catch up to the Yale and Princeton juggernauts.
TURDS ALL UP IN THIS MUG. /// "2010 Auburn Tigers, my favorite team. Unbeaten in all ways." -- Dan Wetzel, April 4, 2013, 6:29 p.m.
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MrWoodson said...
National titles are weird things. You can have the best team in the country but lose one game at the wrong time and it gets away from you. I am not making excuses, but it is what it is. Look at Auburn in 2004. Or even take last year. Alabama was extremely lucky to make it to the BCSCG after losing to LSU. If Okie St (or maybe Houston or Boise or Oregon) had run the table, Alabama might have found itself on the outside looking in. A lot of things need to fall in place to win a national title and some are simply out of your control.
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Totally agree. We were lucky as all hell to make it in last year. Many teams that looked unbeatable and probably were the best teams in the country lost at unfortunate times and it cost them a championship.
Still, I'm only in my late 20's but I can't remember a time where Michigan was right there looking like the best team in America then lost a game and a chance at a title. Obviously, 2006 comes to mind but I think everyone knew Ohio State was going to win that game at home and then Michigan lost to USC anyways. I can remember Michigan doing that to Ohio State a couple times in the 90's but don't really remember Michigan losing a shot when it looked like they would win it all. I remember plenty of really good Michigan teams, sure, but not great ones. Again though, I wasn't around in the olden days.
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