College football week 14 thread: ATLiens

Nine of the first 10 were decided by ≤ 7 points.
Some early scores:
1979: Indiana 38, BYU 37
1980: BYU 46, SMU 45
1981: BYU 38, Washington State 36
1986: Iowa 39, San Diego State 38

 

I believe the '80 game was the wild comeback led by Jim McMahon.

Also, part of the write-up from the '88 game: For the first time in six years, the Holiday Bowl was decided by more than five points. No one complained. Heisman Trophy winner Barry Sanders saw to that. Sanders, who rushed out of obscurity at Oklahoma State for an NCAA-record 2,628 yards and 39 touchdowns during the regular season, rushed for 222 yards (three yards shy of Craig James’ then-bowl record) and a Holiday Bowl-record five touchdowns. And Sanders sat out the fourth quarter!

 

Against Wyoming if I’m not mistaken.

 

The farther north in Florida you go, the further south you get.

 

And if that were the case … FSU still wouldn’t be playing for a title.

 

Curley Hallman and Gerry DiNardo at LSU. Mike DuBose at Alabama. Jim Donnan at Georgia. Terry Bowden at Auburn.

The 1990s were wonderful.

 

And those stats didn't count in his official career totals. I don't think bowls were included in career stats by the NCAA until ~ 2000.

 

So you're saying Arkansas has a chance?

 

they would have a shot at a split title with the Michigan-Washington winner in the rose. They would have played Texas in the Cotton Bowl

 

Whenever they made that change I always wondered why they couldn't make it retroactive. Those were all high-profile games with plenty of reliable historical sources to accurately chronicle them. Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to go back and find the stats and add them to everybody's career totals.

 

Yeah, duh on me.

Liberty could go 14-0 this season and not be a "champion," if you're going to determine that the winner of the CFP the champion of Division IA football.

Hell, UCF did just that several years ago.

 

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