At the end of the '07 season & bowl game, UT is 4 wins back of Notre Dame for second place behind Meat Chicken. The lowly Irish may be dreadfully awful again in '08 or they might win 5-6 games if any of the highly touted incoming freshmen contribute at a high level. Assuming ND wins a few more games than '07 and the Horns win 9-10 games during the 2008 season, UT could tie or take over second place. Now that my friend would be allsome! The Link
KC - I don't believe the UT total includes the forfeits. Other comments: Nebraska is closer to UT in total wins than I thought they were, especially after a disastrous season in '07. Ohio State is climbing. Alabama has slowly been losing ground, as I believe they were # 3 in total wins about 15 years ago... and ou sucks.
Their numbers are slightly off. Nebraska is actually twelve wins behind us. They also credit us with three more losses and an extra tie, which resulted from a series of exhibition games we played in Mexico against Missouri during the winter of 1896.
Here's the link to the all-time records from UT's site. I believe these are the "official" NCAA numbers, which vary slightly from the ones listed on the CFD Warehouse site: The Link According to Mack's site, we are 5 back. I imagine these are the records UT will "go by," so to speak.
Iceberg, Mack's site does not include our Holiday Bowl victory. We are officially at 820 wins, which puts us four behind ND. Think of it like this, remember Keith Jackson stating during the ’06 Rose Bowl that it was our 800th win? Well, two 10-win seasons later that puts us at 820. We are also still third in all-time winning percentage, despite what that site says. If you want to count forfeits, go to stassen.com, which has us 1 win behind ND: stassen all-time win %
stassen is a neat site. Just for fun, plug in the year the AP was introduced as a yearly tabulation (1936) & go by winning %.
Try 1940 to 1973. Good time to be alive. Too bad I wasn't born until '74. top winning % between 1940 and 1973
Miami of Ohio used to be a good program. I suppose other people here might remember back to '83, when the Miami Hurricanes won their first national championship, they were called Miami, Fla. to differentiate them from the other Miami. I remember the AP Poll used to refer to them that way. After a few years, everyone just started calling them Miami.
In ND's defense (which didn't exist last season), UT played 29 more games. Of course, catching up to ND's win total seemed almost impossible 10 years ago.
Eating Club - One reason UT has played more games than the lowly Irish, is due to ND's self imposed policy of no end of season bowl games. This lasted something like 30+ years? Furthermore, it does give me great pleasure to point out that the Irish have helped our cause by losing 10 consecutive bowl games Irish prospects for a break-out year in '08 look very meek... thanks Charlie.
Yes, in November 1969 ND ended their self imposed bowl ban to face # 1 TEXAS in the Cotton Bowl on Jan.1, 1970. How'd that one work out for ya' domers?
