CFB's Top 30 Most Influential Teams of All Time

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Not a single Michigan or Ohio State team? Seems like an oversight
 
I wish I had ESPN+,,,, kind of

What I did see was #29 2010 TCU????

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MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Not a single Michigan or Ohio State team? Seems like an oversight
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I don't have ESPN+ so I couldn't read it. But I'm assuming these are more teams that "influenced" CFB because of some unique they did. Not just because of how good they were as an overall program.

Example: I'm guessing '68 Texas is because of Emory Ballard and the introduction of the Wishbone. (I think that was about the time.) But I may be all wet because Bill Yoeman's Houston Veer probably influenced it just as much and they aren't on here.
 
Deep Creek said:
Why 2008 Texas Tech? That wasn't Leach's first year was it?
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Not sure, can't read that far.
But that was when they beat Texas last minute, and then Oklahoma hung 60 on their ass and it knocked Texas out of the BCS Championship Game.
 
outofyourmind said:
Not sure, can't read that far.
But that was when they beat Texas last minute, and then Oklahoma hung 60 on their ass and it knocked Texas out of the BCS Championship Game.
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@ericd7633 What's the reason 2008 Texas Tech made the list? And Carlisle and Iowa Wesleyan.
 
Deep Creek said:
@ericd7633 What's the reason 2008 Texas Tech made the list? And Carlisle and Iowa Wesleyan.
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5. 2008​

Head coach: Mike Leach
Record: 11-2

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Mumme indeed carried his Air Raid vision from the Texas high school ranks to Iowa Wesleyan and everywhere else in his career. And his right-hand man for a lot of that journey brought it to fruition in a single play.

When Leach arrived in Lubbock in 2000, Texas Tech was in a bit of a rut: The Red Raiders had won between five and seven games in eight of the nine previous years. His gunslinging offense fit West Texas like a glove, and after a pair of seven-win seasons, he would win at least eight in each of his final eight years on the job. (Tech has won eight games only four times in the 14 years since he left.)

The peak came in 2008. With a four-star quarterback (Graham Harrell) throwing to the best receiver in the country (Michael Crabtree), Tech began the season 10-0 and moved to No. 2 in the AP poll after a classic upset of top-ranked Texas. The Red Raiders lost two of their final three to slip to 12th, but this season provided a new level of proof of concept for the Air Raid offense. So many of its concepts have become part of the generic college football offense in the years that have followed, and that's an incredible thing to say considering its counter-culture thinking and small-town start.
 
Deep Creek said:
I don't have ESPN+ so I couldn't read it. But I'm assuming these are more teams that "influenced" CFB because of some unique they did. Not just because of how good they were as an overall program.

Example: I'm guessing '68 Texas is because of Emory Ballard and the introduction of the Wishbone. (I think that was about the time.) But I may be all wet because Bill Yoeman's Houston Veer probably influenced it just as much and they aren't on here.
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Sure. Pretty hard to make a list in CFB without Michigan or Ohio State making none of the top 30. Hell, Michigan started and won the first bowl game ever played.
 
Teams that innovated something seems to be the theme.

Wish I could read it.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Sure. Pretty hard to make a list in CFB without Michigan or Ohio State making none of the top 30. Hell, Michigan started and won the first bowl game ever played.
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I was surprised one of the early 1900 Michigan teams weren't on the list. I'm less surprised about Ohio State. They've been consistently elite, but for what this article is talking about haven't really been all that innovated.
 
ericd7633 said:

5. 2008​

Head coach: Mike Leach
Record: 11-2

i
Mumme indeed carried his Air Raid vision from the Texas high school ranks to Iowa Wesleyan and everywhere else in his career. And his right-hand man for a lot of that journey brought it to fruition in a single play.

When Leach arrived in Lubbock in 2000, Texas Tech was in a bit of a rut: The Red Raiders had won between five and seven games in eight of the nine previous years. His gunslinging offense fit West Texas like a glove, and after a pair of seven-win seasons, he would win at least eight in each of his final eight years on the job. (Tech has won eight games only four times in the 14 years since he left.)

The peak came in 2008. With a four-star quarterback (Graham Harrell) throwing to the best receiver in the country (Michael Crabtree), Tech began the season 10-0 and moved to No. 2 in the AP poll after a classic upset of top-ranked Texas. The Red Raiders lost two of their final three to slip to 12th, but this season provided a new level of proof of concept for the Air Raid offense. So many of its concepts have become part of the generic college football offense in the years that have followed, and that's an incredible thing to say considering its counter-culture thinking and small-town start.
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