Monday, December 12, 2016

OK, So That Was A Tease

Sunday's BGA Daily noted that a soon-to-be available book titled The 50 Best* College Football Teams of All-Time; * The most interesting, innovative, and important, anyway . . .

. . .  had Dartmouth listed at No. 26.

If you followed the link you found the author's list of his top 49 (he hadn't "unveiled" his final team as of his last website update). Here's his list:

1. 1906 Chicago (4-1)
2. 1917 Georgia Tech (9-0)
3. 1923 Illinois (8-0)
4. 1924 Notre Dame (10-0)
5. 1925 Alabama (10-0)
6. 1930 Utah (8-0)
7. 1931 USC (10-1)
8. 1938 Tennessee (11-0)
9. 1938 TCU (11-0)
10. 1940 Minnesota (8-0)
11. 1941 Northwestern (5-3)
12. 1943 Iowa Pre-Flight (9-1)
13. 1945 Army (9-0)
14. 1947 Notre Dame (9-0)
15. 1951 Michigan State (9-0)
16. 1955 Oklahoma (11-0)
17. 1957 Auburn (10-0)
18. 1959 Ole Miss (10-1)
19. 1959 Syracuse (11-0)
20. 1960 Iowa (8-1)
21. 1962 Nebraska (9-2)
22. 1965 UCLA (8-2-1)
23. 1968 Texas (9-1-1)
24. 1968 Purdue (8-2)
25. 1970 Alabama (6-5-1)
26. 1970 Dartmouth (9-0)
27. 1972 Tampa (10-2)
28. 1973 Michigan (10-0-1)
29. 1974 Miami-Ohio (10-0-1)
30. 1978 Missouri (8-4)
31. 1980 Georgia (12-0)
32. 1981 Florida State (6-5)
33. 1982 Pittsburgh (9-3)
34. 1984 Boston College (10-2)
35. 1985 Oklahoma (11-1)
36. 1988 Miami (11-1)
37. 1990 Virginia (8-4)
38. 1991 Washington (12-0)
39. 1991 Florida (10-2)
40. 1993 Wisconsin (10-1-1)
41. 1993 Texas A&M (10-2)
42. 1994 Nebraska (13-0)
43. 1998 Ohio State (11-1)
44. 2002 USC (11-2)
45. 2004 Texas (11-1)
46. 2007 Oregon (9-4)
47. 2010 Boise State (12-1)
48. 2011 LSU (13-1)
49. 2013 Auburn (12-2)

Now, don't forget the asterisk at the end of his main headline. In case you skipped over it, the asterisk points to this critical qualification of the author's 50 Best: The most interesting, innovative, and important, anyway.

The book is a Kickstarter project you can learn more about, or order from THIS LINK.
The (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette has a story about the Illinois football fortunes under the headline, Ground game priority for UI under center. The story includes this tasty nugget:
So (Illinois coach Lovie) Smith’s task is retaining an effective aerial game, which has become the Illini brand dating back to White, John Mackovic, Greg Landry, Ron Turner, Paul Petrino and most recently Bill Cubit (is he joining Buddy Teevens at Dartmouth?) while switching emphasis to the ground attack.
Find that story HERE.