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number of best decades on the list
Bama 11
Huskers 8
Sooners 8
Noles  7
Canes 6
Irish 5

Your Huskers are a case of feast-or-famine.  

When you look at the best lists, they are:

• Tied for second in decades over .850 (your list)
• Tied for second in decades of .800 (see below)
• Fourth in decades over .750 (see below)

However, when you look at worst lists (from among this group) they are:

• They have the worst decade of any of the teams on this list
• They are tied for the most decades under .500 (FSU shows up as more but that includes decades when they didn't play)
• They have nearly the most decades under .600 (Only Clemson, LSU, and the three Florida schools have more).  

Same list, by eras:
1. 50s/Wilkinson OU
2. Recent/Saban Alabama
3. 70s/Switzer OU
4. 80s/90s Miami
tie 70s Bear Bryant Alabama
6. 90s/Bowden Florida St.
7. 90s Nebraska Osborne+
8. 40s Leahy WWII Notre Dame
9. 30s Frank Thomas Alabama (birth of SEC)
10. 70s Michigan Bo
11. 30s/WWII General Neyland+
12. 60s Bama Bryant, Mama Called
13. Recent/Meyer+ Ohio St.
14. 70s JoePa begins Penn St.
15. 00s Mack Brown Texas

This is what I was thinking about when I decided to compile this.  Basically, "When was the best era ever to be a fan and of what team?"  Sorting your list by recency:

• Bama's current era is the 2nd best in the history of CFB
• tOSU's current era is the 13th best in the history of CFB
• Texas in the 00's was the 15th best era in the history of CFB
• FSU in the 90's was the 6th best era in the history of CFB
• UNL in the 90's was the 7th best era in the history of CFB
• Miami in the 80's/90's was the 4th/5th best era in the history of CFB
• Oklahoma in the 70's was the 3rd best era in the history of CFB
• Bama in the 70's was the 4th/5th best era in the history of CFB
• Michigan in the 70's was the 10th best era in the history of CFB
• PSU in the 70's was the 14th best era in the history of CFB
• Bama in the 60's was the 12th best era in the history of CFB
• Oklahoma in the 50's was the best era in the history of CFB
• Notre Dame in the 40's was the 8th best era in the history of CFB
• Tennessee in the 30's/40's was the 11th best era in the history of CFB
• Bama in the 30's was the 9th best era in the history of CFB

I sorted it this way to put it in perspective.  I remember the top-6 (back to Miami 80s/90s).  I was alive for part of the 7th-10th (OU, Bama, M, and PSU in the 70s) but I have no recollection of it.  11-15 are basically ancient history to me.  

What is Wisconsin's best decade? The current one, or very recent?

I'm just curious. If you find the time, great. If not, no biggie.

I think right now is probably "the good old days" for Big Red.

osu's best isn't "the best", but their worst is by far the best. or, another way, their ceiling isn't the tallest (it's certainly up there though), but their floor is by far the highest. they're never bad. and almost always good. sometimes even great, but not quite greatest. or rather, not the greatest as often as others have been, but they've been there. makes for a fairly convincing argument for top program all time, imo.

I'm a bit curious about Ohio State's worst ten year period, since say 1937.  It's probably better than a lot of programs' best.

Ohio State's worst decade from 1928-1937 to the present was that they went .6319 from 1943-1952.  That was 54-30-7 made up of:

• 3-6 in 1943 (funny because tOSU won an NC at 9-1 in 1942 but then everybody left for WWII)
• 9-0 in 1944
• 7-2 in 1945
• 4-3-2 in 1946
• 2-6-1 in 1947
• 6-3 in 1948
• 7-1-2 in 1949
• 6-3 in 1950
• 4-3-2 in 1951 (Woody's first year)
• 6-3 in 1952

It is an extremely good "worst" especially when you consider that they won the NC a year prior (9-1 in 1942) and also two years later (10-0 in 1954).  

Ohio State's only other decade under .650 was that they went .6494 from 1938-1947.  That was 54-28-5 made up of:

• 4-3-1 in 1938
• 6-2 in 1939
• 4-4 in 1940
• 6-1-1 in 1941 (Paul Brown's first year)
• 9-1 in 1942 (NC)
• 3-6 in 1943 (Paul Brown's last year)
• 9-0 in 1944
• 7-2 in 1945
• 4-3-2 in 1946
• 2-6-1 in 1947

UGA arguably just had it's best decade 2010-2019, with some mediocre years thrown in.

2010 a disappointing 6-7
2011 10-4
2012  12-2 getting somewhere maybe
2013  8-5 meh
2014 - 10-3 meh
2015 10-3 meh, last year for Mark Richt
2016  8-5 first year for Kirby
2017 13-2, another "almost" year
2018  11-3 disappointing losses again
2019  12-2 weird loss to USCe
2020  15-0 finally win another NC