College Football: This week

[Guynemer]

Fret not, Nebraska will be back on track within two seasons at most.

[Drake Tungsten]

I hope you're right. I'm optimistic, but who knows what can happen?

[PLATO]

Some additional bowl facts:

Most appearences:

Alabama(51) (Tennessee is #2 !! with 44)



Nebraska & Michigan:

Nebraska is 21-21 in 42 appearences

Michigan is 18-17 in 35 appearences

Nebraska ranks fourth in all time appearences
Michigan ranks tenth in all time appearences.

Most bowl wins:

Alabama is again # 1 with 29

Tennessee ranks 5th with 23
Nebraska ranks 8th
Michigan ranks 12th

[Imran Siddiqui]

I guess you enjoy unemployment more than most.

Solich is going to get a job soon enough. He's being considered for a number of openings. Recently Cincy has been inquiring as well as UNLV. And before that there was talk he may go to Army or Colorado. And those are just the jobs which are assured of being open (though they may keep Barnett at Colorado now, who knows).

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by PLATO
Some additional bowl facts:

Most appearences:

Alabama(51) (Tennessee is #2 !! with 44)



Nebraska & Michigan:

Nebraska is 21-21 in 42 appearences

Michigan is 18-17 in 35 appearences

Nebraska ranks fourth in all time appearences
Michigan ranks tenth in all time appearences.

Most bowl wins:

Alabama is again # 1 with 29

Tennessee ranks 5th with 23
Nebraska ranks 8th
Michigan ranks 12th

hmm, who has the best ratio?

who is #2 number of victories?

Jon Miller

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think it's gotta be Notre Dame... if not 2, then 3.

[mrmitchell]

Arkansas's season ended last Friday with the 43-14 loss against LSU at War Memorial in Little Rock. We were holding okay until the second half, which was just 20-14 IIRC. This ends a big deal in Arkansas: Houston Nutt's 17-0 streak in Little Rock. And we are 5-6 so no bowl game, breaking Houston Nutt's 6-year bowl streak. AR hero Matt Jones was still hurt from his hamstring and groin injuries, and that's just the way it goes sometimes. But we still had a fairly decent season. When you remove the "Arkansas will go undefeated" nuts from the average expectations, we did better than we were expected to, I figure.

As for next year? Arkansas will go undefeated.

[Drake Tungsten]

Solich is going to get a job soon enough. He's being considered for a number of openings. Recently Cincy has been inquiring as well as UNLV. And before that there was talk he may go to Army

Yes, he's clearly in demand by quality programs...

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


hmm, who has the best ratio?

who is #2 number of victories?

Jon Miller

Best bowl winning % (minimum 20 appearances)

Georgia Tech 65.6%
Penn State 64.9%
Southern Cal 64.3%
Oklahoma 63.5%
Mississippi 61.3%
Alabama 59.8%
Syracuse 59.5%
Florida State 59.4%
Georgia 57.7%
Miami (FL) 57.1 %

Others of note:
Tennessee (#14) 52.3%
Michigan (#17) 51.4%
Nebraska (#19) 50%

Most Bowl Victories:
Alabama 29
Southern Cal 27
Oklahoma 23
Penn State 23
Tennessee 23
Georgia 21
Georgia Tech 21
Nebraska 21
Texas 20
Mississippi 19

Others of Note:
Michigan (#12) 18

[gjramsey]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
Arkansas's season ended last Friday with the 43-14 loss against LSU at War Memorial in Little Rock. We were holding okay until the second half, which was just 20-14 IIRC. This ends a big deal in Arkansas: Houston Nutt's 17-0 streak in Little Rock. And we are 5-6 so no bowl game, breaking Houston Nutt's 6-year bowl streak. AR hero Matt Jones was still hurt from his hamstring and groin injuries, and that's just the way it goes sometimes. But we still had a fairly decent season. When you remove the "Arkansas will go undefeated" nuts from the average expectations, we did better than we were expected to, I figure.

As for next year? Arkansas will go undefeated.

that is my kind of projection!!!!

Ark did better then expected before the season started, but once we played Texas close, the expectations grew, as usual.

[pchang]

Wow! Tyrone Willingham appears to be out at Notre Dame. Hello Urban Meyer (which prety much screws over Florida).

[Imran Siddiqui]

WOW... that's just a bad move by Notre Dame... seriously.

And, personally, I think Meyer stays at Utah.

[pchang]

Urban Meyer has a specific out in his contract for Notre Dame. I don't think he will stay if Notre Dame is offered to him.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I realize that, but his family really seems to love Utah. I'm not sure he'd move if his family pushed on him to stay.

[pchang]

You don't put a specific out like that in your contract unless it really is your dream job. The whole world of being a coach puts career first. Any wife who would demand family comes first would never have married a coach in the first place.