Is our schedule a record?

[volprof]

I've heard a lot of talk about toughest schedule ever. It's a legitimate question and, relevant to that, has another team ever faced as many top-10 foes back-to-back as UT? Today will be our fourth, and I am confident that next week will be our fifth after Auburn finishes Arky off. You UT/NCAA historians: has such a gauntlet ever been faced by any team, let alone UT?

 

[ScreaminVolHawkins]

it wouldnt matter unless we won every game. who cares how good the guys who beat you were

 

[TennesseeOrange]

Sewanee 1899.

 

[volprof]

it wouldnt matter unless we won every game. who cares how good the guys who beat you were

Your post was exceptionally informative. Thanks!

 

[ScreaminVolHawkins]

Sewanee 1899.

The 1899 Iron Men team's most notable accomplishment was a six-day period from November 9 to 14 which is arguably the greatest road trip in college football history. Manager Luke Lea put together an improbable schedule of playing five big name opponents in six days, outscoring them for a total of 91-0, including Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sewanee played and shut out them all while traveling by train for 2500 miles. This feat, barring fundamental changes in modern-day football, can never be equaled.

Pretty ridiculous, howd you know about this? nice post

 

[ScreaminVolHawkins]

Your post was exceptionally informative. Thanks!

yours too kid

 

[volprof]

Crap, just saw the other thread about our schedule. Should have made the thread title different.

 

[Oskie Volum]

it wouldnt matter unless we won every game. who cares how good the guys who beat you were

Short, sweet and dead on. Very well said!!
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[volprof]

yours too kid

Kid? **** you, I'm forty! I'm a man!




Nah, just playing with you, bud! ha!

 

[TennesseeOrange]

The 1899 Iron Men team's most notable accomplishment was a six-day period from November 9 to 14 which is arguably the greatest road trip in college football history. Manager Luke Lea put together an improbable schedule of playing five big name opponents in six days, outscoring them for a total of 91-0, including Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sewanee played and shut out them all while traveling by train for 2500 miles. This feat, barring fundamental changes in modern-day football, can never be equaled.

Pretty ridiculous, howd you know about this? nice post

It was in some book I read at some point in my life. Couldn't tell you which one though.

 

[volprof]

Sewanee 1899.

But were they ranked in the top-10.

 

[Volosaurus rex]

Polls, as such, did not exist in 1899. The first AP poll was convened in 1934 and has run continuously since 1936 (AP Poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). The Coaches Poll, originally published by UPI, was first released in 1950 (Coaches' Poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Earlier ranking systems were essentially statistical power rankings released by individuals, such as Dunkel (DunkelIndex.com The Most Accurate Sports Index Since 1929          DunkelIndex © 2003) and Litkenhous. Many "national championships," which truly qualify as mythical, have been awarded retroactively by such services for years prior to the existence of the major polls.

Incidentally, here is one analyst's attempt to rank the fifty toughest college football schedules of all-time: http://www.cfrc.com/Encyclopedia/SOS/T_50.htm.