In the vein of Schmolik's thread today, enjoy some useless information!

In the CFB section of Sports-Reference, I found all instances of major football conferences having a "rainbow" of team records, which I'm defining thusly:

A "rainbow" exists if a conference has played a full single round-robin and ends up with no ties and all different records. For example, a conference with 6 teams ends up with records of 5-0, 4-1, 3-2, 2-3, 1-4, and 0-5.



Obviously the two at the bottom are war-depleted conferences, but they technically qualify, so I included them for good measure.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/

It happened three times in four years in the Big 8. It almost happened in 1987 except for a tie between Kansas and K-State.

I love that 1956 SWC Rainbow:

A&M 6-0
Texas 0-6

Perfect season!

(12-19-2023 05:04 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  It happened three times in four years in the Big 8. It almost happened in 1987 except for a tie between Kansas and K-State.

And the PCAA (now the Big West) had it happen 3 years straight (1975-77). But it's easier to accomplish this with smaller conferences.

(12-19-2023 05:10 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  I love that 1956 SWC Rainbow:

A&M 6-0
Texas 0-6

Perfect season!

Four game were one point games:

A&M 7 TCU 6
TCU 7 Baylor 6
SMU 14 Rice 13
SMU 20 Texas 19

If exactly one of the TCU games was reversed it would still be a rainbow. It would also be a rainbow if the SMU-Rice game was reversed.

A&M was on probation at the time and did not go to a bowl game despite being ranked 4th in the AP Poll under Paul Bryant. A&M was 9-0-1 overall, with the tie against Houston making the two schools state co-champions.

Bevo was 1-9 with the win against Tulane. They were curb-stomped by the SWC 68-170, and drubbed by Oklahoma 0-45. OU was 10-0 and ranked #1, but unable to go to a bowl game because of a Big 7 rule against going to a bowl game in consecutive years.

Elsewhere, 1956 was the initial year of Ivy League football. Here we are 67 years later and those smarties still haven't figured out realignment.

(12-20-2023 09:42 AM)jimrtex Wrote:  A&M was on probation at the time and did not go to a bowl game despite being ranked 4th in the AP Poll under Paul Bryant. A&M was 9-0-1 overall

OU was 10-0 and ranked #1, but unable to go to a bowl game because of a Big 7 rule against going to a bowl game in consecutive years.

The whole history of Bowl games is so weird.