BleedGopher
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per BamaHammer:
Last January we published a detailed list of college football’s greatest dynasties. To us the conclusion was irrefutable. The current Alabama Football Dynasty is the greatest in the history of college football.
Our assessment was not blinded by Crimson. We admitted Minnesota could make a reasonable claim of coming close to matching the Crimson Tide feat. The Gophers, under Bernie Bierman, won five national championships over an eight-season span from 1934-1941. A Gopher argument can be made it was the greatest ever because it took Alabama football nine seasons to win five. A small problem with such a claim is one of the Minnesota championships was in 1934, before the poll era. A bigger problem for Minnesota is the Gophers were 3-4-1 in 1939. There is nothing dynastic about a team winning less than 40 percent of its games in a season.
Admittedly our Minnesota argument points out the murkiness in dynasty claims. There is no defined standard. When a UCF can claim a national championship last season, objective fact is clearly optional.
We can hope for an end to truth decay but for now, the best we can achieve is a preponderance of opinion. After Alabama football won another national championship in January 2018, there was a strong chorus for the current dynasty being the greatest ever. That chorus reflected a consensus across the world of college football but it is not a unanimous opinion.
https://bamahammer.com/2019/01/01/alabama-football-greatest-dynasty-debate-stubbornly-lingers/
Go Gophers!!
Last January we published a detailed list of college football’s greatest dynasties. To us the conclusion was irrefutable. The current Alabama Football Dynasty is the greatest in the history of college football.
Our assessment was not blinded by Crimson. We admitted Minnesota could make a reasonable claim of coming close to matching the Crimson Tide feat. The Gophers, under Bernie Bierman, won five national championships over an eight-season span from 1934-1941. A Gopher argument can be made it was the greatest ever because it took Alabama football nine seasons to win five. A small problem with such a claim is one of the Minnesota championships was in 1934, before the poll era. A bigger problem for Minnesota is the Gophers were 3-4-1 in 1939. There is nothing dynastic about a team winning less than 40 percent of its games in a season.
Admittedly our Minnesota argument points out the murkiness in dynasty claims. There is no defined standard. When a UCF can claim a national championship last season, objective fact is clearly optional.
We can hope for an end to truth decay but for now, the best we can achieve is a preponderance of opinion. After Alabama football won another national championship in January 2018, there was a strong chorus for the current dynasty being the greatest ever. That chorus reflected a consensus across the world of college football but it is not a unanimous opinion.
https://bamahammer.com/2019/01/01/alabama-football-greatest-dynasty-debate-stubbornly-lingers/
Go Gophers!!
