Arkansas finally pulls ahead of the Fightin Neckbraces
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Arkansas finally pulls ahead of the Fightin Neckbraces
Heard this week on Sirius XM that he has no support from any of the big boosters, his days are numbered.Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
EMU beat Arizona State. Every G5 conference has at least one, and I think several, P5 scalp(s)....except CUSA. Southern Illinois (FCS) beat the Big 10's Northwestern. Tulane beat Kansas State. The same K State that smoked Mizzou, who clobbered us.
All these schools, some not very good, are beating P5s....except Tech.
We beat one....less than 3 years ago in a bowl game.EMU beat Arizona State. Every G5 conference has at least one, and I think several, P5 scalp(s)....except CUSA. Southern Illinois (FCS) beat the Big 10's Northwestern. Tulane beat Kansas State. The same K State that smoked Mizzou, who clobbered us.
All these schools, some not very good, are beating P5s....except Tech.
But I know what you're saying.
It just seems like forever ago because since then we've either 1) let those types of games slip away, or 2)not shown up.
Since 1986 - when Tech announced its intention to move to I-A we've had 15 "power" conference wins, and before the tiebreaker era began in the 90s, 2 ties.
Boise has 17 in that time period.
Tech just hasn't done anywhere near what should have done over the years to promote that fact.
The problem comparing what we have done to what Boise did for those years is the difference in opponent. Boise beat OU level teams and we beat Illinois, Virginia, and really bad Ole Miss level teams.
I posted Boise's number because they are the gold standard in that area. I'm not trying to say our wins are better.
The vast majority of the G5 schools have only a handful of P5/power conference wins in their history. Some none at all.
Yet, our leadership in the past 10 years has ignored it.
It's as if because Skip couldn't get it done on so many occasions when he had the teams and opportunities to do so, our leadership didn't want to point it out or celebrate the teams that did get it done.
Also, Tech has a win against a team from each P5 conference. Few, if any other G5 team can claim that.
Help me out here...Lafayette never went to 1AA, but has only won one game in their history against a current P5. Is that correct? Maybe two. We are talking 40 years.
You are correct about the way our "leaders" didn't want to point out anything in the past. In doing so the ran off about half the living fan base that had been attending and tailgating at Tech games since the early to mid 80s.
In the past 40 years I think it's 4 wins. They beat Iowa State a couple of years ago, Kansas State about 15 years ago, and then their win over Texas A&M in the mid 90s.
They also have a win over Rice when the Owls were in the Southwest Conference in the early 80s.
The SWC was never a P5 (or P6) conference. Even if some former SWC members are now in a P5 conference, Rice was never in that group and should never be considered as such.
The BCS started in 1998 and the SWC was gone after 1995.
I bet Tech is also the only G5 program to beat an SEC champ (Bama 99)
I think Bama was the SEC champ the year nlulm beat them (2007). That was the year the SEC champ went to the Indy Bowl vs. the MWC Champ.
If 4-4 won the SEC West that year, you would be correct.I think Bama was the SEC champ the year nlulm beat them (2007). That was the year the SEC champ went to the Indy Bowl vs. the MWC Champ.
I just looked and I think lsu won the SEC in 2007 beating Tennessee in the championship.
I wasn’t serious
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