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Winning 80% of your games is sort of a magical number.  Not for one season, of course, but for a decade.  It's hard to do.  Since WWII:
1950s - Oklahoma
1960s - Alabama, Texas
1970s - Oklahoma, Alabama, Michigan, Nebraska, Penn St, Ohio St, ND, USC
1980s - Nebraska, Miami
1990s - FSU, Nebraska, Florida, Tennessee
2000s - Boise St, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio St
2010s - Alabama, Ohio St, Boise St, Oklahoma, Clemson

Why did the 70s have so many elite programs over a 10-year period?  What changed in the 80s?  

And to search for other programs......
1953-62...Ole Miss, Oklahoma
1963-72...Nebraska, Texas, Dartmouth
1973-82...Alabama, Oklahoma, Penn St, USC, Ohio St, Michigan
1983-92...Miami, Nebraska
1993-02...Nebraska, FSU, Marshall, Florida
2003-12...Boise St, LSU


and another slice:
1958-67...Alabama, Bowling Green
1968-77...Penn St, Michigan, Ohio St, San Diego St, Oklahoma, ND, Nebraska, Texas, Alabama
1978-87...Nebraska, Oklahoma, BYU
1988-97...FSU, Nebraska, Miami
1998-07...Boise St, Texas
2008-17...Alabama, Boise St, Ohio St

The best 10 year stretch in WVU history was 2002-2011 when they went 95-33 (.742).  It goes to show how hard it is to win at an 80% clip over a 10 year period.  The fact that Nebraska did it over 30 years is nuts.

The best 10 year stretch in WVU history was 2002-2011 when they went 95-33 (.742).  It goes to show how hard it is to win at an 80% clip over a 10 year period.  The fact that Nebraska did it over 30 years is nuts.

Good call, best 10 year stretch for your program.
From 1904-1913, MSU (MSC) went 67-11-5 (.859).  But let's discount that one for a minute, it being 1904 and all.
Using 1936 as an arbitrary start date, being the first year of the AP Poll, from 1948-57, MSU was 74-17-2 (.813).  There is a random 3-6 year in the middle there messing the whole thing up too.
MSU went 9-0 in both 1951 and 1952, winning a national championship one year, and finishing #2 the other.  They then went 9-1, finished #3 in the nation in 1953, winning the Big Ten and going to the Rose Bowl in their first year in the conference.  They fell off to 3-6 in Duffy's first year in 1954, before bouncing right back to 9-1 in 1955, going to their second Rose Bowl in 3 years, and finishing #2 in the polls.
So there was precedent for what happened in 2016, except even more drastic, as from 1950-1957 MSU was possibly the best program in the nation, with a random 8th place Big Ten finish in one year in there.
The current run of 93-39 over the past 10 years (.705) might be the best since then, and really not even close to .800

Nebraska on the list from ‘68-‘97.  Yeesh. Impressive.

And from '70-'99...so assuming they were over .800 for probably three consecutive 30-year stretches at least.  THAT's even more astonishing.

for those of us growing up in the 80's and 90's in Nebraska...  it was a given.  UNL would win.   I don't think people really appreciated (even locally) how good TO was as an offensive coordinator and CEO of a program.   There was really zero reason why UNL's history should not have been KSU, Iowa or ISU.  I know fans would say that discounts what the bobfather did/created... but TO was his OC.  He played a large role in the recovery of UNL's program (UNL was good prior to WWII)

I really like this club

hope to get back there

hopefully, Frost is an outstanding O-coordinator and head coach and coaches until he's 80