Speaking of grasping concepts, do this, Google...Best College Football Teams All Time.
You will always find this team near the top. And ya see nobody plays this..."who can beat who"...it's never about that at all...NEVER~ If it was then how would this team from thr 40's who would get manhandleed by most teams today be ranked that high? Where did you ever get idea it's..who can beat who? That means....0.
No. 3—1945 Army, 9-0
Army absolutely dominated the college football season in 1945. They averaged 48 points a game, while giving up only five and recording five shutouts. None of their games were closer than 19 points. The Black Knights of the Hudson had back-to-back Heisman winners in 1945 (Doc Blanchard) and 1946 (Glenn Davis), and each ran for more than 1,000 yards in the 1945 season. Army beat rivals Notre Dame and Navy by scores of 48-0 and 32-13, respectively.
West Point bookended the 1945 team with two other pretty good clubs. The Cadets went undefeated and won the national championship in 1944, and played eventual champion Notre Dame to a scoreless tie in the 1946 “Game of the Century.”
Like boxing, college football has a rich tradition, and also like boxing it's ALWAYS about ....DOMINATION OF ERA.
This 2016 Jets would totally destroy that Joe Namath team that won the SB, yet when asked what was the best Jets team, guess what?
You will never read anything like this about any football team at any level. This really is hard to believe.
"Point-a-Minute" teams[edit]
Joe Curtis scored 49 points in a single game in 1904.
In Yost's first five years as Michigan's head coach, the team compiled a record of 55–1–1 and outscored its opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42. The teams from these years became known as Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams, owing to the fact that their offensive production resulted in an average of at least one point being scored for every minute of play.
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In 1901, Michigan compiled an 11-0 record while outscoring its opponents 550 to 0.
[9] The
1901 team scored the highest number of points ever scored in a single season by a recognized team. The team became known for the speed of play, running 219 plays in a single game.
[10] The fast pace earned the coach the nickname "Hurry Up" Yost. Michigan defeated the
University of Buffalo by a score of 128–0 -- a victory so dominant that Buffalo quit 15 minutes before the game should have ended.
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At the end of the 1901 season, Michigan traveled to
Pasadena, California, to play against
Stanford (the team that had fired Yost one year earlier) in the
1902 Rose Bowl. The game was the first post-season bowl game in college football history.
Neil Snow scored five touchdowns, and with Michigan ahead 49-0 and eight minutes remaining, Stanford captain Ralph Fisher asked that the game be stopped, and Michigan agreed.
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The
1902 team compiled the school's second consecutive undefeated season and national championship and outscored opponents 644 to 12. The margins of victory run up by the 1902 team included scores of 119–0 against Michigan Agricultural (now known as Michigan State), 107–0 against Iowa, and 86–0 against Ohio State.
[13] Michigan's undefeated streak continued through the
1903 and
1904 seasons (with one tie against
Minnesota in 1903).
[14][15] The 1904 team ran up the biggest winning margin in school history with a 130–0 victory over West Virginia. Left tackle
Joe Curtis scored 49 points against West Virginia on six touchdowns (then valued at five points) and 19 extra points.
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The
1905 Michigan team won its first 12 games by a combined score of 495 to 0, continuing its high-scoring tradition. However, in the final game of the season, the Wolverines lost by a score of 2–0 against
Amos Alonzo Stagg's
Chicago Maroons.
[17] The loss to Chicago broke Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak and marked the end of the "Point-a-Minute" years. The game was lost in the final ten minutes of play when
Denny Clark was tackled for a safety as he attempted to return a punt from behind the goal line. Newspapers described Clark's play as "the wretched blunder" and a "lapse of brain work."
[18] Clark transferred to
M.I.T. the following year and was haunted by the play for the rest of his life. In 1932, he shot himself, leaving a suicide note that reportedly expressed hope that his "final play" would atone for his error at
Marshall Field in 1905.
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