Vols Records By Decades

[Sarms58]

I've seen these numbers many times and Numbers can be manipulated. Football is cyclical not necessarily by decade by decade. What if wins and losses were counted 1954-1964, 1965-1975, 1976-1986, etc, and so on. We are Historically great football school and fans who can see can tell this coaching staff on offense doesn't cut it. I'm one biggest vol fans on the planet, I'm not a negavol but reality is reality.

The college Football data warehouse is a good site for looking at historical data...they have info on all teams and also calculate the best 5 year, 10 year and 25 year runs by each school...it's a weighted calculation based on winning percentage, schedule strength, national championships and major bows...all the results are put into a single table and top 250 "Best 10 Years" listed. No surprise that Bama has 27 different ten year runs in the top 250...it is kind of surprising that we don't have a single team to make the cut...it was a bit shocking to my orange tinted reality...

Alabama 27
Notre Dame (IN) 26
Southern California 26
Oklahoma 22
Nebraska 20
Ohio St. 17
Texas 16
Florida St. 12
Michigan 12
Florida 11
Miami (FL) 11
Louisiana St. 8
Penn St. 6
Minnesota 5
Mississippi 3
Michigan St. 2

But, if you shorten the span down to 5 year runs, we do make the list...we have 4 five year runs in the top 250...

Southern California 28
Notre Dame (IN) 26
Alabama 23
Ohio St. 17
Nebraska 14
Oklahoma 14
Florida St. 12
Michigan 11
Texas 11
Miami (FL) 9
Florida 8
Michigan St. 8
Minnesota 8
Louisiana St. 5
Army (NY) 4
Penn St. 4
Tennessee 4
Mississippi 3
UCLA 3
Washington 3
Georgia 2
Georgia Tech 2
Texas Christian 2
Illinois 1
Iowa 1
Oregon 1
Pittsburgh (PA) 1
Princeton (NJ) 1

 

[NorthDallas40]

Ok wait a minute. What exactly does 27 "10 year runs" mean? The game has only existed since the late 1800's

 

[Sarms58]

Ok wait a minute. What exactly does 27 "10 year runs" mean? The game has only existed since the late 1800's

27 ten year windows...so 1991 through 2000 would be one window and 1992 through 2001 would be another...

The 4 Five Year windows where we made the top 250 are:
126 1995-1999 Tennessee
187 1994-1998 Tennessee
230 1997-2001 Tennessee
243 1996-2000 Tennessee

Our best 5 year run in our history ranks 126th among all school's best five year runs...

 

[VolnJC]

27 ten year windows...so 1991 through 2000 would be one window and 1992 through 2001 would be another...

I could see that if you look at our best decade(90s) of the last 50 years, we won 3 SEC titles, UF won 5, and Bama won 2.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Ok wait a minute. What exactly does 27 "10 year runs" mean? The game has only existed since the late 1800's

I haven't seen the database, but I would guess that they would take say 1990- 1999 and then 1991- 2000 might be counted as a separate 10 year run. If true it would be kind of a skewed statistic.

 

[Sarms58]

I haven't seen the database, but I would guess that they would take say 1990- 1999 and then 1991- 2000 might be counted as a separate 10 year run. If true it would be kind of a skewed statistic.

It pulls the best 10 year (or 5 year - you can select) run for you program and continues to do so until it compiles a complete table...