Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Top 8 programs over the last 5 years

Credit to Mackenzie for the research:

I can find 8 teams in college football that won 50+ games between 2002 and now.

#1 - 63 Southern Cal
#2 - 61 Boise State
#3 - 60 Texas
#3 - 60 an Ohio State University
#5 - 58 Oklahoma
#6 - 57 LSU
#6 - 57 Georgia
#8 - 53 Auburn

Here is the number of losses per school to unranked teams (incl 2007 games):

#1 - 2 LSU
#2 - 3 Georgia
#2 - 3 Southern Cal
#4 - 4 Boise State
#4 - 4 Ohio State
#6 - 5 Oklahoma
#6 - 5 Texas
#8 - 6 Auburn


Records against ranked teams:

#1 20-3 Southern Cal
#2 16-5 an Ohio State University
#3 15-5 Texas
#4 13-8 Oklahoma
#5 16-11 LSU
#6 13-9 Auburn
#7 14-11 Georgia
#8 2-4 Boise State (BSU is right, 6 ranked teams in 5+ years and a .333 win%)

Interesting that the teams w/3 of the 4 highest number of games against ranked teams are from the SEC and all 3 are super close to each other in win % (LSU .5925, AU .5909, UGa .56).

Records against Top 10 opponents.

#1 8-3 an Ohio State University
#2 7-3 Southern Cal
#3 11-5 Auburn
#4 5-4 Texas
#5 5-6 LSU
#6 4-6 Oklahoma
#7 3-5 Georgia
#8 0-1 Boise State

Auburn has beaten as many top 10 teams as anyone else has even played.

Interesting tidbit: 6 of these 8 teams have had only 1 head coach in that time and all of them except Texas and Southern Cal have had a 4+ loss season.