Mack's 8 yrs in Austin v. 111 yrs of Aggy Football

Discussion in 'Classics' started by Mitch Cumsteen, Aug 19, 2006.

  1. Tums

    Tums 100+ Posts


     
  2. softlynow

    softlynow 1,000+ Posts


     
  3. balzac

    balzac 25+ Posts

    Pooooooooor effing aggy!
     
  4. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts


     
  5. aggy doesn't celebrate the eweltide season as much as they'd like.
     
  6. Mitch Cumsteen

    Mitch Cumsteen 250+ Posts

    I left off a couple of things:
    Top 5 Finishes:
    MB: 3; Aggy: 2 (1939 & 1956)

    Top 10 Finishes:
    MB: 4; Aggy: 10

    And there is one error (that I know of and probably more) -- I counted Ricky's 1997 Doak Walker award which occurred under Mackovic. So Mack only has 2 Doak Walker awards. I'm going back and editing the original post.

     
  7. toucan82

    toucan82 1,000+ Posts

  8. Longhorn_Fan68

    Longhorn_Fan68 1,000+ Posts

    Wait, Notre Dame only has 13 bowl wins??????????? Were they all for the national championship?
     
  9. LonghornLawyer

    LonghornLawyer 500+ Posts


     
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  10. Jive_Turkey

    Jive_Turkey 1,000+ Posts

    Notre Dame didn't play bowl games for a long time. We brought them out of hibernation in 1969 (actually, it would have been January 1, 1970) for the Cotton Bowl. Before that, I don't think they had played in a bowl in like 30 or 40 years. They were above bowl games.
     
  11. mez2

    mez2 100+ Posts

    how are they doing in the "moral victory" category? pretty sure they have us beat
     
  12. Orange Salad Ranch

    Orange Salad Ranch 250+ Posts

    There should be more posts like this. No biased arguments, just numbers.

    I've always felt (especially before the NC) Mack Brown didn't get enough credit for the results he was producing and A&m always gave themselves way too much credit for never really accomplishing anything.
     
  13. Bill in Sinton

    Bill in Sinton 5,000+ Posts

    Notre Dame did not compete in bowl games between 1925 to 1970 - 45 years! [​IMG] Notre Dame and the Four Horsemen defeated Standford in the 1925 Rose Bowl 24 to 10. In 1925 the fall semester lasted in January. Colleges would get back right after the Christmas-New Years' holidays and have about a week of classes then finals. It seems that due to train delays that the team got back to campus late and since acedemics were the main thing ND decided no more bowl games at all. All this because of an unfortunate train experience. Of course teams soon started traveling by airplane but ND still didnt' play bowl games and when they finally decided to play in the 1970 Cotton Bowl many people joked that it took ND 45 years to discover the airplane. [​IMG]
    Of course also I think ND caught on that the polls were going to start considering bowl games in their NC choices so that probably got them to start playing bowl games plus other reason$.
     
  14. ACuriae

    ACuriae 500+ Posts


     
  15. Longhorn_Fan68

    Longhorn_Fan68 1,000+ Posts

    Thanks for the clarification on ND. I did not know that.
     
  16. beehorn

    beehorn 25+ Posts

    MB 7
    aggy 1
     

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