1992 & 93 were pretty funny too.... pretty much the entire Corey Pullig experience of them getting Charlie Brown'd the whole time was fun. They have never been the same.
They have wandered the fucking desert to an insane level.
To think in 1996 Roll Left basically kept them from being the only team in NCAA history to win 4 straight titles
1998 snapped their 47 game home winning streak
2002 book ended another home winning streak
2007 JC goes off for 200+ yards in the 4th quarter alone
2009 Jerryworld almost catastrophe
2010 Squints runs wild for a top 5 road win and NU has never been back in the top 5.
Post Mortem:
Only finished the year ranked 2010-12 been UR in the final poll every year since.
7 years of failing to be ranked in a single week in the polls
Finally after going to an NCAA record 35 consecutive bowl games from 1969-2003 they are finally bowl eligible this year for the first time in 8 years.
Wild the epic collapse choking off your recruting base (TX) and rivalries (CU & OU) will do.
An SEC win or loss to me is defined as a win over a team that was in the SEC at the time you played them regardless of your own conference. Do you ignore BK's 3-3 record vs the SEC at Notre Dame? Do we ignore Kirby Smart's 3-5 record vs the SEC in the SECCG & CFP?
Playoff predictor: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/cfbplayoffpredictor2024/
Scenario 1: Beat A&M & Georgia
Result: Rematch with Georgia then take out Miami & Alabama
Scenario 2: Beat A&M lose to Georgia
Result: Open with Bama in Austin lose to Bama but lulz at them having Notre Dame win
Scenario 3: Lose to A&M
Result: We go to Autzen and win then upset Miami before losing to Tennessee (lulz)
Observations:
They seem confident that Tulane is the 12 seed (all 3 times) same with Boise State at the 4 seed.
They have 4 SEC teams in all 3 scenarios with Alabama (wut?), Georgia, & Texas in all and with S Car in 1, Tenneessee in 2.
Yeah and then they had to walk it back and clarify it's the sacred grass outside the student center dedicated to all the fallen aggy right? I mean how could we play a football game on the field if the grass was sacred? It really was fucking stupid.
They tied Baylor in 1990 for their prior home non-win: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/1990-10-20-texas-am.html
Arkansas in 1989 was their prior last home outright loss: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/1989-11-24-texas-am.html
I'm pretty sure us snapping their 31 game home winning streak set the tempers off. By 2011 they were 13 years removed from being relevant and were used to losing at the guano tacklebox.