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Greatest Dynasties of the Modern Era

Trivia question:

20 times Nebraska faced an SEC squad from 1962 - 2001

Name the opponent and year

*LongIslandHusker is disqualified as I'm sure he already knows the answers!
 

Adds even more emphasis to how far we've fallen.

I'm curious -- maybe look at the largest drop from a great 20-year span to the following 20 years. Something along those lines. Where would Nebraska rank among the biggest falls from an extended period of great success?
 
treeplanter said:
This is how phenomenally dominant we really were

40 yrs
1962-2001:

1. Nebraska at 83% {.83264}

a

very

distant

2. Penn St at 76% {.76124}

Consider, also, that with just one exception, there is no discrepancy greater than 2 percentage points separating any two successively ranked teams all the way down the list from #2 Penn St to last place #111 UTEP at 29%

Outside of the difference between NU/PSU, the biggest dip is as follows:

20. Washington at 65% {.65011}
21. Miami-Ohio at 62% {.62933}
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And Penn State’s was against hand picked Paterno opposition using his hand picked referees at home.
 



Can you calculate Alabama's % over that last 40, 50 years? I'm too lazy. They have a rough patch in the late 90s.
 
HuskerWeatherman said:
Adds even more emphasis to how far we've fallen.

I'm curious -- maybe look at the largest drop from a great 20-year span to the following 20 years. Something along those lines. Where would Nebraska rank among the biggest falls from an extended period of great success?
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Just off the top of my head, how about ranking, with just 3 losing seasons, as the 8th winningest program in the nation over our 1st 51 years of football {1890 - 1940} to ranking, with a whopping 17 losing seasons, as the nation's 126th winningest program over the next 21 years {1941 - 1961}

Thar's quite a fall from grace, no?
 
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And here are the top 10 best 40 year winning percentages (since 1945)
NU 1962-2001 .83264
NU 1963-2002 .82335
NU 1961-2000 .82218
NU 1964-2003 .81996
NU 1960-1999 .81303
NU 1965-2004 .81173
NU 1966-2005 .80595
OU 1948-1987 .80337
NU 1959-1998 .80127
NU 1967-2006 .80102
11-20 consists of 5 more OU and 5 more NU
The current edition of Ohio State, if they continue at their current pace, will crack the top 20 in a year or two. But that’s it. It’s all NU , with some OU mixed in
 
HuskerWeatherman said:
Adds even more emphasis to how far we've fallen.

I'm curious -- maybe look at the largest drop from a great 20-year span to the following 20 years. Something along those lines. Where would Nebraska rank among the biggest falls from an extended period of great success?
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Minnesota is #1, as they were a force 70 years ago. They are still trying to get back.
 
LongIslandHusker said:
And here are the top 10 best 40 year winning percentages (since 1945)
NU 1962-2001 .83264
NU 1963-2002 .82335
NU 1961-2000 .82218
NU 1964-2003 .81996
NU 1960-1999 .81303
NU 1965-2004 .81173
NU 1966-2005 .80595
OU 1948-1987 .80337
NU 1959-1998 .80127
NU 1967-2006 .80102
11-20 consists of 5 more OU and 5 more NU
The current edition of Ohio State, if they continue at their current pace, will crack the top 20 in a year or two. But that’s it. It’s all NU , with some OU mixed in
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Truly, the two best programs informing the better part of my own lifetime - Nebraska and Oklahoma

With the Huskers coming ahead of the Sooners, of course!
 



Ok treeplanter, I was a little surprised by the 30 year results. Not that I wasn’t expecting NU to be at the top, but they were actually more dominant than the 40 year results. Here’s the top 10(spoiler- it’s all NU)
NU 1970-1999 .84189
NU 1969-1998 .83832
NU 1971-2000 .83784
NU 1968-1997 .83699
NU 1972-2001 .83243
NU 1967-1996 .82459
NU 1966-1995 .82361
NU 1973-2002 .82124
NU 1974-2003 .82038
NU 1965-1994 .82033
To be fair, the Stassen website only goes up to 2021, so Ohio State 1993-2022 might crack the top 10
 
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The second 10 consisted of 7 more for NU, 3 from Ohio State(all from the most recent teams), and 1 from Alabama(1960-1989). There was a tie for 20th, that’s why there’s one extra. I was just surprised that there weren’t more 30-year runs that were over .800. All told, there were 24(NU had 17 of them). There were 10 40-year runs that were over .800(NU had 9 of them). Not to beat this into the ground, we all know what a great run it was. But truly remarkable, the consistent excellence of those teams
 

LongIslandHusker said:
Ok treeplanter, I was a little surprised by the 30 year results. Not that I wasn’t expecting NU to be at the top, but they were actually more dominant than the 40 year results. Here’s the top 10(spoiler- it’s all NU)
NU 1970-1999 .84189
NU 1969-1998 .83832
NU 1971-2000 .83784
NU 1968-1997 .83699
NU 1972-2001 .83243
NU 1967-1996 .82459
NU 1966-1995 .82361
NU 1973-2002 .82124
NU 1974-2003 .82038
NU 1965-2004 .82033
To be fair, the Stassen website only goes up to 2021, so Ohio State 1993-2022 might crack the top 10
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Nice!
 
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