With its win over
Hawai’i
over the weekend,
Boise
State
recorded its seventh win of the season against no defeats.
Fans and recruits should be able to recognize a pattern here, because the
Broncos have won seven or more games every year since 1999.
Boise
State
is now one of just 17 schools in the history of college football to win seven
or more games each year in a decade. (A
decade is defined as beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending in a year
ending with 9: example 1950-1959,
1990-1999, 2000-2009).
This achievement reflects consistent success, and shows the
ability to win year in and year out. Thus
far, it has only been achieved 27 times in major college history.
Florida
and
Texas
have joined the Broncos as 10-time seven-game winners in a decade.
For the Longhorns, it is also historic as this is the first time in
Texas
history that they have been consistent seven-game winners over an entire
decade.
Florida State
,
Texas
Tech,
Boston College
,
Georgia
Tech, LSU,
Oklahoma
and Virginia Tech have won seven or more every year this decade and are still
in line to record the feat if they win seven games this season.
Auburn
and
Michigan
were on track as well but both suffered poor seasons last year.
Auburn
was just 5-7 last season while
Michigan
did even worse, going 3-9.
Oklahoma
accomplished the feat three times (50’s, 70’s and 80’s) and a similar
performance this decade would set a record for the most times that one school
has done it.
Nebraska
accomplished the feat three times (70’s, 80’s and 90’s) as well but will
not do it this decade since the Cornhuskers finished 5-6 in 2004.
Michigan
and
Penn
State
both won seven or more games each year of the 70’s and 90’s.
Notre Dame did it in the 40’s and 70’s.
Harvard
,
Pennsylvania
and Yale achieved the feat twice in the 1890’s and 1900’s
BYU,
Florida
,
Florida
State,
Tennessee
,
Virginia
and Miami of Florida recorded the feat once last century.
Princeton
did it once in the 19th century.
Noticeably absent from this list of schools are
USC
,
Ohio
State
and
Texas
, although as noted above the Longhorns and Buckeyes can achieve the feat this
decade.
Schools that have won matched or exceeded
Boise
State
’s achievement of winning seven or more games in nine years of a decade are
listed below. Schools that have been
successful this decade are also shown.
Decade: Alabama
60’s (9), 70’s (9), 80’s (9), 90’s (9), Auburn 50’s (7), 80’s (8),
00’s (8), Boise State 00’s (10),
Arizona State 60’s (8), 70’s (8), Arkansas 60’s (8), 80’s (9),
Boston College 00’s (9), BYU 80’s (10),
90’s (8), California 20’s (7), 00’s (7), Carlisle 1900’s (8), Clemson
50’s (7), 80’s (8), 00’s (8), Colorado 90’s (9), Colorado State 90’s
(7), Cornell 1900’s (7), East Carolina 70’s (8), Florida 80’s (8), 90’s
(10), 00’s (10),
Florida State 80’s (9), 90’s (10), 00’s (9), Fresno
State 00’s (8), Furman 20’s (7), Georgia 40’s (7), 80’s (9), 00’s (9),
Georgia Tech 40’s (7), 00’s (9), Harvard 1880’s (7), 1890’s
(10), 1900’s (10), 1910’s (7), Iowa
80’s (7), Kansas State 90’s (8), Lafayette 1900’s (9),
LSU 60’s (8), 70’s (7), 80’s (7), 00’s (9), Louisville 00’s
(7), Maryland 70’s (7), Miami of
Florida 80’s (10), 90’s (9), 00’s (9),
Miami, OH 70’s (8), Michigan 1890’s (7), 1900’s (6), 40’s (7), 70’s
(10), 80’s (9), 90’s (10), 00’s (8), Michigan State 50’s (7), Mississippi
50’s (8), 60’s (8), Nebraska 1900’s (8), 70’s
(10), 80’s (10), 90’s
(10), 00’s (7), North Carolina 70’s (7), 90‘s (8), North Carolina State 70’s (7), Notre Dame 20’s (9), 40’s
(10), 70’s (10), 90’s (8), Ohio State 70’s (9), 80’s (8), 90’s (9), 00’s (9), Oklahoma 50’s
(10), 70’s
(10), 80’s (10), 00’s (9), Oregon
00’s (8), Oregon State 00’s (7), Penn State 60’s (7), 70’s
(10), 80’s (8), 90’s (10),
Pennsylvania 1890’s (10), 1900’s
(10), Pittsburgh 30’s (8), Princeton 1880’s (9), 1890’s (10), 1900’s (8), Rutgers 70’s (7), San Diego State
70’s (8),
USC
20’s (7), 60’s (8), 70’s (8), 80’s (7), 00’s (7), Southern
Mississippi 00’s (8), Stanford
20’s (7), Syracuse 60’s (7), 90’s (9), Tennessee 30’s (7), 40’s (7),
70’s (7), 80’s (7), 90’s (10), 00’s
(7), Texas 40’s (8), 60’s (8), 70’s (9), 80’s (7), 00’s (10), Texas A & M 90’s (9), TCU 30’s
(8), 00’s (8), Texas Tech 00’s (9), UCLA 80’s (9), Utah 90’s (7), 00’s
(7), Utah State 60’s (7), Virginia 90’s (10),
Virginia Tech 90’s (7), 00’s (9), Washington 80’s (9), 90’s (9), West Virginia 80’s (7), 00’s (8), Western Michigan 90’s (8), Wisconsin 00’s
(8), Yale 1880’s (8), 1890’s (10), 1900’s (10)
