(02-04-2018 05:42 PM)Mav Wrote:  

(02-04-2018 02:11 PM)bullet Wrote:  There are no sleeping giants in football. Other than the Florida schools, the teams at the top are the same teams you would see in the late 60s and early 70s.

Basketball where you only use 7-8 players is different.

Yeah, I mean, TCU, Oregon, and Wisconsin were so competitive back then, and Nebraska, Tennessee, and Colorado are doing so well. We might as well pack it in and accept Alabama running the sport until they try to outlaw football again.
Bad post. There's still room to rise and fall.

Oregon had a great run since 2010. It appears to be over. Wisconsin is just getting into that 3rd tier behind the kings and the SEC 4 (Auburn, LSU, TN, UGA). The only time they made the final top 5 was at #4 in 1999. TCU has done well, but again, are still working their way into that 3rd tier. None of them are giants.

There are 17 schools that have won AP national championships since 1984. They have 82 of the 99 top 3 finishes. With UGA and Oregon added, its 89 of 99. Washington and TCU are the only other schools with more than 1 in that 33 year period (each has two). And if you go back to the late 60s and early 70s, its that same group of 17 schools at the top (except for the 3 Florida schools who did move up in the 80s and early 90s).