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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
That's true up until it isn't. College football is dynastic, but there are a lot of teams that we would lump in like that who have crashed the party.
There were decades where Florida, FSU, and Miami were absolute dog shit programs. Nebraska was the best program of the 90s, and teams like Colorado, Georgia Tech, Washington have won national titles, where there have been long stretches where Alabama, Auburn, and Texas were flat out bad. Clemson was an also-ran for 20+ years until they hired Swinney, and Oregon went from a perennial doormat to an elite program for a decade, until they hired the wrong guy.
The right coach can make any Power 5 school a destination and the wrong one can destroy any dynasty.
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The perennial powers stay elite.....and that class is small. You would have to lump Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Michigan and maybe Penn State to that group. Alabama's bad stretch was really short in comparison to most.....and Ohio State and Oklahoma still seem to be good even in down years.
The reality is that MU will probably be Top 20 at different times....maybe climbing to Top 5 once in a while, but never be an "elite" team.