Boise State has become the 10th team since 1920 and
the 14th in history to win nine or more games in nine years of a decade.
The Broncos downed Louisiana Tech 45-35 on the road to
record their ninth win of the season against zero defeats.
Texas
already achieved their 10th season this decade of nine or more wins and is the fifth team ever to finish a decade with nine wins in every season.
Oklahoma has nine wins in eight years since 2000 and can join Boise State in
this elite group with two more wins. No other school in the nation has the accomplishments to join the
Broncos, Sooners and Longhorns in this prestigious historic group.
Boise
State
started out the decade going 10-2 in 2000 before an 8-4 campaign in their
first season in the Western Athletic Conference.
That was to be their only season of less than nine wins so far this
decade. After that introduction,
the Broncos improved by leaps and bounds in 2002 going 12-1 and defeating Iowa State of the Big 12 Conference in the Humanitarian Bowl.
Boise
State
followed that up with great seasons of 13-1 and 11-1 in 2003 and 2004
respectively, including a win over TCU on their home field in the 2003 Fort
Worth Bowl.
2005 was a disappointment as the Broncos went 9-4 but
rebounded strongly to finish 2006 as the nation’s only undefeated team,
capped off by the classic Fiesta Bowl game in which
Boise
State
shot out to a 21-10 lead and held off
Oklahoma
43-42. The Broncos were 10-3 in
2007 and 12-1 last season.
Florida, Georgia, Ohio State, TCU , USC and Virginia Tech have each won
nine games in seven years this
decade.
Georgia, USC and Virginia Tech have a chance to make it eight years but none
of those can join Boise State in the elite group of teams that have won nine
games in nine years of a decade. Auburn
, Boston College, Miami of Florida,
Louisville, Michigan, Penn State and LSU have won nine or more games six
times since 2000.
Just 10schools and 14 teams in history have won
nine or more games in nine out of the ten years in a decade.
Nebraska
accomplished this incredible feat in three different decades (the 70’s,
80’s and 90’s). Yale recorded
nine or more wins in nine seasons in both the 1880’s and 1890’s.
Other teams to do it are
Pennsylvania
and
Princeton
in the 1890’s,
Arkansas
and Oklahoma
in the 70’s, Florida, Penn
State and Tennessee
in the 90’s and now Boise State and Texas
in the 00’s.
Here are those schools that finished a decade with at
least six seasons of nine or more wins. Successful
teams of the current decade are also listed.
Mississippi 50’s (3), 60’s (3), Arizona State 70’s
(7), 80’s (4), Arkansas 60’s (5), 70’s (9), 80’s (6), Auburn 80’s
(7), 00’s (6), Boise State 00’s (9), Boston College 00’s (6), BYU 70’s
(4), 80’s (8), 90’s (4), Carlisle 1900’s (6), Clemson 80’s (6),
Colorado 90’s (5), East Carolina 70’s (4), Florida 90’s (10), 00’s
(6), Florida State 80’s (6),
Fresno State 80’s (5), 00’s (5), Georgia 80’s (6), 00’s (7), Georgia Tech 50’s (5), Harvard 1880’s (4), 1890’s (8), 1900’s (6), Hawai’i
00’s (5), Houston 70’s (5), Kansas State 90’s (7), Louisville 00’s
(6), LSU 00’s (6), Miami of Florida 80’s (8), 90’s (8), 00’s
(6), Miami of Ohio 70’s (4), Michigan 1900’s (5), 70’s (8), 80’s (7),
90’s (7), 00’s (6), Nebraska
60’s (6), 70’s (10), 80’s (10), 90’s (10), Notre Dame 20’s (6),
40’s (4), 70’s (6), 90’s (6), Ohio State 70’s (8), 80’s (7), 90’s
(6), 00’s (6), Oklahoma 50’s (7), 70’s (9), 80’s (6), 00’s (8),
Oregon 00’s (5), Penn State
60’s (3), 70’s (7), 80’s (5), 90’s (9), 00's (6), Pennsylvania
1890’s (9),
1900’s (8), Princeton 1880’s (4), 1890’s (9), San Diego State 70’s
(5),
USC
20’s (5), 30’s (4), 60’s (4), 70’s (6), 00’s (7),
SMU
80’s (4), Syracuse 90’s (5), Tennessee 30’s (5), 40’s (3), 80’s (4),
90’s (9), 00’s (5), Texas 60’s (6), 70’s (6), 80’s (4), 90’s (4),
00’s (10), Texas A & M 90’s (8), TCU 30’s (7), 00’s (7), Toledo
00’s (5), UCLA 80’s (6), Utah 00’s (4), Virginia Tech 90’s (5), 00’s
(7), Washington 80’s (4), 90’s (4), West Virginia 80’s (4), 00’s (5),
Wisconsin 00’s (5), Yale 1880’s (5), 1890’s (9), 1900’s (9)
