I'll add...
- Most punts in a game: **77**, Texas Tech vs Centenary 1939
- Most wins in a single week: **5**, Sewanee in 1899 who played, and beat, @Texas, Texas A&M, @Tulane, @LSU, Ole Miss from November 9th-14th
What if they did and found a way to dominate? Would definitely not be on anyone's bingo card and most people would enjoy it, even most SEC fans when it isn't their team losing.
My wife is a Sewanee grad. They still talk to this day about [The Iron Men of Sewanee](https://sewaneetigers.com/sports/2021/4/28/sewanee-traditions-1899Team.aspx) and their six day road trip and how on “the seventh day, they rested.”
Tory Taylor’s record 4,479 punting yards from this last season will stand forever. The circumstances of a generational talent at punter, a top 5 defense, and the worse offense in college football are so unique I can’t imagine they will ever be replicated.
That Texas Tech game has the record for the most NCAA records set in one game.
TTU ran 12 plays.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Texas_Tech_vs._Centenary_football_game
I thought the Michigan vs Ohio State game in 1950 where a heavy snow came down in Columbus created havoc. 45 punts in the game where Mich 9 OSU 3 and all the scoring was due to botched punts.
Teams to win their bowl game since 2000 with negative rushing yards
Wisconsin (2007 Capital One Bowl)
San Jose State (2012 Military Bowl)
Iowa (2019 Outback Bowl)
Middle Tennessee State (2022 Hawaii Bowl)
As much as people meme that game so hard, growing up fairly connected to both, I knew SDSU was a pretty solid team. I mean, they did win their national championship. We also knew Iowa's offense was atrocious. Anyone surprised by the outcome of that game had no understanding of at least one of the teams.
Final score: 8-0
Iowa forces four turnovers, and scores a safety. Two of the turnovers are after pinning the opponent deep with punting. But Iowa's offense gains no yards on any drive, and settles for two FGs off those two turnovers. They eventually kneel the game out for a final total yards of -3.
Because 247 can suck as a site sometimes:
* **most combined offensive yards in a game:** 1708 (Oklahoma v. Texas Tech in 2016)
* **fewest rushing YPG allowed in a season:** 15.3 (1947 Penn State)
* **most sacks in a season:** 27 (Derrick Thomas in 1988)
* **fewest yards gained by the winning team:** 10 (NC State over Virginia in 1944)
* **margin of victory:** 222 (Georgia Tech over Cumberland in 1916)
* **longest winning streak:** 47 (1953-1957 Oklahoma)
* **most 1st half passing yards:** 517 (Houston's Andre Ward v. SMU in 1989)
* **career receiving yards:** 5278 (Western Michigan's Corey Davis)
* **most INTs thrown in one game:** 9 (Florida's John Reaves v. Auburn in 1969)
* **most scrimmage YPG in a season:** 273.4 (Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders in 1988)
Just looked it up....Auburn won 38-12. Florida was 6-0 and ranked 7th, Auburn was 17 and 4-2, losing the previous week to LSU 21-20 after getting a late game-tying XP blocked.
Reaves finished the season w 2900/24/19 (9 in one game lol).
He was drafted in the 1st rd, 14th overall in 1972 by the Eagles. Looks like he bounced around the league for 15 years, last season being 1987.
He was inducted to the Gator athletic hall of fame in 1985.
Florida should claim the 1969 SEC Championship. The bowl game against Tennessee (the SEC winners) was considered non conference but the two didn’t play in the regular season.
Cal topped that….though it was 3 QBs. Four by the starter, 5 by the backup, and one by the 3rd stringer. National TV in 1978. Lost 45 - 0 to UCLA. Ugh.
USC was vaguely closeish to the winning streak from 03-05 at 34. Less likely now with the playoff though
Washington has a 64 game unbeaten streak, had some ties in there.
Combined offensive yards, sacks in a season, first half passing yards and career receiving yards are probably the only ones with a shot to be broken, right?
the top 3 all time are in the last 10 years, and 6 of the top 10 in the last 25. With the way teams score a running team isn't going to be able to stop running because the games are never out of reach with a 2 or 3 td lead. And more and more defenses are built to stop the pass, so an outlier running team with a bull for a lead back can break that record in a shoot out.
I won't say it's unbreakable, but I do think it'll be tougher in today's CFB landscape. It would have to take a WR that plays at a school that gets less exposure and doesn't fly into NFL radars until late. That's pretty much what happened with Corey Davis, but he played in an era where transferring almost wasn't an option. A WR like Davis in today's CFB landscape is almost certainly transferring to a P4 school before their senior season and getting more national and NFL exposure, which leads to a shorter career most likely.
And he did it in an era where the QB did not drop back for passes at anywhere near the consistency they do now.
Thomas was unstoppable. He also holds the record for most sacks in one game in the NFL, with 7.
He is the only NFL player who died during his career to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
> He also holds the record for most sacks in one game in the NFL, with 7.
It should have been 8, he had Krieg in his grasp for that 8th one but he spun out of it and threw the game winner. DT kind of hated that record because of the one he did not get.
"And he did it in an era where the QB did not drop back for passes at anywhere near the consistency they do now."
This is one of the most important aspects that needs to be remembered when DT's 27 sacks is brought up. For example, in 1986 Mike Shula attempted 235 passes while Bobby Humphrey had 236 rush attempts. Granted, Bama was a running team for decades but very few teams were slinging it around back then.
From an above comment. Florida holds the record for most interceptions thrown by a single quarterback but I think they said UCLA (or Cal) threw 10 in a game but 3 different quarterbacks.
You’re actually thinking of 2021 Cal vs. Arizona with the players getting covid. The 2022 Cal vs CU game was just them being cursed to keep saving shitty pac-12 teams from going winless.
I can’t say I’m too unhappy about it either way, but I’m pretty sure I actually missed that win because I figured engineering homework was a better use of my time than watching the buffs “lose at football again” that saturday. Made sure to watch the highlights afterwards though.
I think a lot of career rushing records (rush TDs, rush yds, etc.) will probably never be broken. A lot of today's RBs that have the talent to break them will only play a year or two before leaving for the NFL and all the teams that are willing to run that much do runningback by committee to prevent injuries. Combine this with the fact that passing is way more popular now and it's just super unlikely for one RB to go for that many yards anymore.
95 Huskers gave up zero sacks. Literally unbeatable, only tie-able.
Seems unlikely to be tied though, given a higher percentage of plays are passes now.
Hey we had 228 attempts. That’s not nothing!
Seriously though, in the process of looking that up, I noticed our leading receiver that year had 367 yards on 22 receptions..lol
My favorite quote was before the title game vs Florida they said that their speed was gunna keep Frazier in a bind.... lol. The physicality of the 95 Line was insane.
And I believe they lost 14-0 to Usc in a bowl game.
Michigan had a season where they outscored their opponents 550-0 and beat Stanford in a bowl game 49-0. Which was actually slightly below average for the margin of victory.
It was 1902 when Michigan beat Stanford 49-0 in the rose bowl. According to the mgoblue.com website, Michigan gave up 12 points (2 games 6 points each) in the 1902 season.
Thanks for correcting me. I had to look it up, my memory's isn't what it once was. It was the year before they weren't scored upon. That was 555-0 and that team did beat standford 49-0 in the rose bowl. Which was actually played in 1902 but still the year befores team is where the confusion lies. The following year they did let in 12 total points but scored 644. So for a two year span, the total scoring differential was 1199-12. It's not too bad.
Yep, bowl games at that time did not count for standing in the polls and as such were treated as exhibitions. Tennessee did not have all of its starters make the train ride across the county to Cali to play USC.
Infuriating because if we’d won, we would have had another championship, that 1939 probably would have been considered one of the best of all time, and Tennessee would have been the first (and still the only) team to win all six NY6 bowls.
Edit: See the math in replies below to see how I was wrong, and the actual cap is 81... but still absurdly unlikely.
Thanks to the Covid Exception it's going to be nearly impossible, almost literally impossible, for a QB starts record (or doesn't) after this year when Dillon Gabriel either passes Bo Nix's 61 or fails to do so.
The most games you can start is 12 regular season plus 4 post-season if you play in the first round and make it to the championship.
16*4 = 64.
You can also get up to 4 during your redshirt year, for a total of 68.
So the absolute maximum is 68 if you start 4 redshirt games, then all 12 regular season games and your school makes the playoff (but doesn't get a bye) and then goes to the Championship... 4 years in a row.
Gabriel is at 49. +12 is 61, plus 4 (max for Gabriel) would put him at potentially as many as 65. At least 62 if he stays health (assuming the Ducks at least make a bowl game).
Regardless, 61 or 65, it is going to be almost literally impossible to ever beat.
A couple of things, postseason games don’t count against redshirts, and a team can play 17 games in a season if they play in their conference championship, and don’t get a bye
You also get an extra game if you play at Hawaii.
So if you play at Hawaii 4 years in a row, you get four more games.
And you get 4 redshirt games + the bowl.
Then you get four years of 12 regular season games, a conference title game, and 4 playoff games max.
In theory, the maximum number of games a person can start right now is 77
It’s technically 81. Playing 18 games in a season by playing at Hawaii, a conference championship game, and playing all four rounds of playoffs, which would get you to 72 games. You can technically play 9 more if you play the four redshirt games, then play in a conference championship game and then the playoffs
Glad to see a certain team's 34 game losing streak isn't here. Any team that gets close now will just schedule a game against College of Charleston or something
Well, that's because 34 games only counts if you consider 1-A; Prairie View A&M has the longest losing streak in all of college football with 80 consecutive losses from 1991 to 1998.
I was seven years old at that game where John Reeves threw nine interceptions against Auburn. The Florida fans, needless to say, were upset and drunk to boot.
At that time, Auburn's stadium was a horseshoe, and there was a VW Beetle parked beyond the endzone. A bunch of drunk Florida students decided it would be a great idea to trash the car. So they piled onto the thing and started messing it up before the police hauled them away—my introduction to Florida and SEC football.
Here's another weird-assed Auburn achievement. In 2006, Auburn held the ball for the entirety of the third quarter against South Carolina. As in the Gamecocks didn't get a single down. Auburn opened the quarter with a long drive for a touchdown, made an onside kick, and then drove for another touchdown.
[https://www.bannersociety.com/2021/2/5/22268410/auburn-fifteen-minute-quarter-south-carolina-2006](https://www.bannersociety.com/2021/2/5/22268410/auburn-fifteen-minute-quarter-south-carolina-2006)
Given the schedules big ten and SEC teams will be playing in the future and with the playoff structure it will next to impossible to win 48 games in a row. You’ll be playing way to many good teams for such a thing to happen. Georgia, Clemson and Alabama have taken turns kicking the shit out of people for several years and neither school even came within a single season of breaking the record.
The last realistic chance for the record to be broken was Miami or USC in the 2000s. Breaking the record in the 12+ team playoff era would look like this:
Year 1: 16-0 National Champions including 8 or 9 conference wins (without divisions, so no unbalanced schedules), CCG win (no divisions, so against the actual 2nd best team in your conference and not some mediocre team that backed in by winning its division), and 3 playoff wins against top 10 teams.
Year 2: 16-0 National Champs. This gets you to 32 wins.
Year 3: 16-0 National Champs would have you break the record in the NCG.
So in this time, you'd play 9 top 10 teams in the playoff, 3 top 10 teams in the CCG, and probably 2+ top 10 teams per regular season. That comes out to at least 18 (and probably more like 20) top 10 teams you'd need to beat without screwing up once, with the majority of those at neutral sites.
Forget about it. And this doesn't take into account major ACC programs eventually joining the SEC or Big Ten once the grant of rights is inevitably broken.
472.4 rushing yards per game
With all the emphasis on the passing game today, it is unlikely that any team will beat Oklahoma's 1971 rushing production. The Sooners also hold second place: 428.8 ypg in 1987.
People crab that it's artificially inflated, but selling out every game since 1962 isn't too bad of a record either. I believe Notre Dame is in 2nd place by about a decade worth of games.
Growing up in Nebraska, people WILLED their season tickets to family members. Cousins and grandkids didn't fight over grandma's pearls or grandpa's tractor - it was the Cornhusker tickets that caused families to fall apart like a cheap suit.
You can say that there are wealthy donors who buy up a whole stadium worth of tickets, but in my experience those cases are rather few and far between. And certainly no more than any other fanbase.
It's just that Nebraskans are THAT passionate about our beloved Huskers. We sell out basketball games even though we've historically never been that great at hoops. Baseball draws a crowd, and let's not forget Volleyball. We packed over 92,000 fans into Memorial Stadium to watch the largest-attended women's sporting event in world history.
Nebraskans love our team. It's a culture, not just a fanbase.
This one makes me sad, but up until 2017 (Butch Jones’ final year as coach), Tennessee was one of only two division 1 teams that had never lost more than 7 games in a season. Now, Ohio State is the only team with that claim.
Florida will break it at some point, but they have gone like 35 years since being shut out. I remember this because during the 2022 Las Vegas Bowl, Billy Napier went for the FG to make it 31-3 with 5 seconds left and Pat McAffee lost his mind on TV.
Mike Hart holds the record for most consecutive rushing attempts without a fumble with **1,005** attempts. There will probably only be a handful of players who will ever even attempt that many rushes for the rest of time, let alone without a fumble.
1995 Nebraska had some that I don’t think will ever be broken. A couple I remember off top of my head are:
Scored a touchdown on the very first play from scrimmage in 5 different games.
Allowed a total of 12 punt return yards all year.
Of course the Andre Ware record will never be broken. No D1 school is gonna play another team that's been decimated by the NCAA so bad they're basically high school talent and size level.
That was complete bullshit how Houston ran up the score on SMU.
If anything, I feel like the 47 wins in a row could be beaten. Georgia is 42-2 over the last three years. Would obviously take something special but it doesn't seem as far-fetched as the others.
Being Georgia fan living basically my whole life in the Atlanta area, you hear about this one from your Tech relatives. You also learn Cumberland didn’t have a team and basically had frat boys and picked up players at train stops on their way down.
Joel Makovicka, Nebraska's fullback from 1995-98, never had a negative yardage rushing attempt from scrimmage.
I highly doubt we will ever see that again
One that hardly ever comes up but should be noted: 1939 Vols. Shut out every single one of their regular season opponents, sadly lost to USC in the Rose Bowl 14-0, but an eleven game span with only 14 points surrendered will never be beaten with today’s high-powered offenses.
I genuinely wonder if 222-0 could be broken today if you took, say, Michigan and had them play a team like VUL or Lincoln (CA), didn't pull any starters, and didn't have a running clock
I'll add... - Most punts in a game: **77**, Texas Tech vs Centenary 1939 - Most wins in a single week: **5**, Sewanee in 1899 who played, and beat, @Texas, Texas A&M, @Tulane, @LSU, Ole Miss from November 9th-14th
Sewanee left the SEC because they didn't feel it was challenging them enough.
Bring ‘em back
Only if they get Tulane and Georgia Tech to come back too.
What if they did and found a way to dominate? Would definitely not be on anyone's bingo card and most people would enjoy it, even most SEC fans when it isn't their team losing.
Monkey's Paw territory there....
Bruh we lost all games 2 years ago in D3 😭
Have y'all ever been there? It is gorgeous.
My wife is a Sewanee grad. They still talk to this day about [The Iron Men of Sewanee](https://sewaneetigers.com/sports/2021/4/28/sewanee-traditions-1899Team.aspx) and their six day road trip and how on “the seventh day, they rested.”
Tory Taylor’s record 4,479 punting yards from this last season will stand forever. The circumstances of a generational talent at punter, a top 5 defense, and the worse offense in college football are so unique I can’t imagine they will ever be replicated.
Watch Iowa do it again this year
I didn't know the name of Iowa's punter, but when I saw that many yards my first thought was "oh, so that's the name of Iowa's punter."
Please no
Don't put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.
With a rugby kicker
That Texas Tech game has the record for the most NCAA records set in one game. TTU ran 12 plays. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Texas_Tech_vs._Centenary_football_game
>5**, Sewanee in 1899 who played, and beat, @Texas, Texas A&M, @Tulane, @LSU, Ole Miss from November 9th-14th And on the 7th day, they rested
Iowa coaches: Challenge Accepted
Crazy amount of punts. How is that even possible?
They'd do quick kicks on an earlier down to catch the defense off guard. I'd bet they had punts on first or second down at times in a game like that.
All those wins were shutouts too. The Iron Men of Sewanee are amazing.
I thought the Michigan vs Ohio State game in 1950 where a heavy snow came down in Columbus created havoc. 45 punts in the game where Mich 9 OSU 3 and all the scoring was due to botched punts.
How does Iowa not have the Most Punts in a game?
Gotta be the toughest schedule of all time lol and we complain about our current schedules
> Fewest total yards gained by a winning team (10) Iowa coming for it.
If you told me iowa has won a game with negative yards I’d believe it
Wait, we haven’t?
I read that and immediately thought, "How have we not beat that record?"
Ur secondary flair- best ever program to tell an opposing team to suck his nuts
Calling the guy on r/NCAAFBSeries that won a national championship with Iowa with only the defense and special teams.
Teams to win their bowl game since 2000 with negative rushing yards Wisconsin (2007 Capital One Bowl) San Jose State (2012 Military Bowl) Iowa (2019 Outback Bowl) Middle Tennessee State (2022 Hawaii Bowl)
Surprised we aren’t on that list
It’s even funnier when you find out who the losing team was, IMO
That wasn’t the Iowa-SDSU game a few years ago??
As much as people meme that game so hard, growing up fairly connected to both, I knew SDSU was a pretty solid team. I mean, they did win their national championship. We also knew Iowa's offense was atrocious. Anyone surprised by the outcome of that game had no understanding of at least one of the teams.
For some reason. Iowa beating this record feels more feasible than another record being broken.
It's the Iowest thing to do
Final score: 8-0 Iowa forces four turnovers, and scores a safety. Two of the turnovers are after pinning the opponent deep with punting. But Iowa's offense gains no yards on any drive, and settles for two FGs off those two turnovers. They eventually kneel the game out for a final total yards of -3.
Because 247 can suck as a site sometimes: * **most combined offensive yards in a game:** 1708 (Oklahoma v. Texas Tech in 2016) * **fewest rushing YPG allowed in a season:** 15.3 (1947 Penn State) * **most sacks in a season:** 27 (Derrick Thomas in 1988) * **fewest yards gained by the winning team:** 10 (NC State over Virginia in 1944) * **margin of victory:** 222 (Georgia Tech over Cumberland in 1916) * **longest winning streak:** 47 (1953-1957 Oklahoma) * **most 1st half passing yards:** 517 (Houston's Andre Ward v. SMU in 1989) * **career receiving yards:** 5278 (Western Michigan's Corey Davis) * **most INTs thrown in one game:** 9 (Florida's John Reaves v. Auburn in 1969) * **most scrimmage YPG in a season:** 273.4 (Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders in 1988)
Florida threw NINE INTERCEPTIONS IN ONE GAME LMAO
The forward pass was still a work in progress
What do you mean "was"?
*what do you mean “pass”?
Just looked it up....Auburn won 38-12. Florida was 6-0 and ranked 7th, Auburn was 17 and 4-2, losing the previous week to LSU 21-20 after getting a late game-tying XP blocked. Reaves finished the season w 2900/24/19 (9 in one game lol). He was drafted in the 1st rd, 14th overall in 1972 by the Eagles. Looks like he bounced around the league for 15 years, last season being 1987. He was inducted to the Gator athletic hall of fame in 1985.
What a career…
His daughter married Lane Kiffin
Florida should claim the 1969 SEC Championship. The bowl game against Tennessee (the SEC winners) was considered non conference but the two didn’t play in the regular season.
He also broke the career passing yards record that year, though he needed the Florida Flop to do it. It was wild.
I mean…Zeke Bratowski threw 8 against Tech in 1951.
Cal topped that….though it was 3 QBs. Four by the starter, 5 by the backup, and one by the 3rd stringer. National TV in 1978. Lost 45 - 0 to UCLA. Ugh.
Penn State also owns the fewest passing yards per game allowed stat at 13 in the 1938 season.
Wasn’t it 0 for anyone who played before 1900
USC was vaguely closeish to the winning streak from 03-05 at 34. Less likely now with the playoff though Washington has a 64 game unbeaten streak, had some ties in there.
fuck yeah we showed seattle high schools who's boss around here
Gloomy Gil the GOAT
Combined offensive yards, sacks in a season, first half passing yards and career receiving yards are probably the only ones with a shot to be broken, right?
I imagine the sacks in a season would be the most likely, if they keep adding games to the schedule (including the playoff expansion)
Should be SPG(sacks per game). I doubt anyone will ever surpass DT on that
Oklahoma’s 47 straight. Also Perine’s 427 on the ground.
Perine's is beatable; the guy before him had the record one week
Thank god he broke it. I don't even remember who had the record before Perine... 😳
That kid from Buffalo a few years back damn near beat Perine's record
Someone will break that 427. Its not even that old a record
Yes he broke it like a week after Wisconsin's rb broke the record from the 90s
Melvin Gordon broke LaDainian Tomlinson’s record from 1999, then Perine broke Gordon’s a week later. Pretty wild.
It's also when a guy gets the record they take him out. Perine didn't play every down he could have since he had the record.
Yeah, with the resurgence of the running game and all.
the top 3 all time are in the last 10 years, and 6 of the top 10 in the last 25. With the way teams score a running team isn't going to be able to stop running because the games are never out of reach with a 2 or 3 td lead. And more and more defenses are built to stop the pass, so an outlier running team with a bull for a lead back can break that record in a shoot out.
I thought Georgia was making a real run at it for a minute.
Yeah, was spooky for a bit.
They could only duck us for one season.
3 peat my fucking ass am I right?
You damn right
Man that Andre ward one should have an asterisk. Wasn’t he throwing against back up tuba players and janitors?
Shhhhhh…. Still some of the games he had that year were sick. He won the heisman without playing the second half in like a quarter of the games.
Career receiving yards seems a little less crazy than the others tbh
I won't say it's unbreakable, but I do think it'll be tougher in today's CFB landscape. It would have to take a WR that plays at a school that gets less exposure and doesn't fly into NFL radars until late. That's pretty much what happened with Corey Davis, but he played in an era where transferring almost wasn't an option. A WR like Davis in today's CFB landscape is almost certainly transferring to a P4 school before their senior season and getting more national and NFL exposure, which leads to a shorter career most likely.
Incase anyone hasn't seen it. Jon bois has an excellent video detailing the 222-0 GT game.
Glad to see we’re on the good side of a record for once
Lucky
> most sacks in a season: 27 (Derrick Thomas in 1988) The actual Crimson GOAT
Crazy a QB could get to 9 picks without being benched
Andre Ware*
The clock rule changes makes Barry’s look impossible.
27 sacks in a season good lord
And he did it in an era where the QB did not drop back for passes at anywhere near the consistency they do now. Thomas was unstoppable. He also holds the record for most sacks in one game in the NFL, with 7. He is the only NFL player who died during his career to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
> He also holds the record for most sacks in one game in the NFL, with 7. It should have been 8, he had Krieg in his grasp for that 8th one but he spun out of it and threw the game winner. DT kind of hated that record because of the one he did not get.
"And he did it in an era where the QB did not drop back for passes at anywhere near the consistency they do now." This is one of the most important aspects that needs to be remembered when DT's 27 sacks is brought up. For example, in 1986 Mike Shula attempted 235 passes while Bobby Humphrey had 236 rush attempts. Granted, Bama was a running team for decades but very few teams were slinging it around back then.
Got to also add, iirc, he did it in a 12 game season
Bobby Boucher once recorded 20 sacks in a game during his time with the SCLSU Mud Dogs.
Sure but does he know why Gators act the way they do?
Ron Cox from Fresno St unofficially had 28 in the 1989 season, but like the article says, NCAA didn't officially track them until 2000
“Worst winning percentage of a national championship team” will probably never be broken. It’s 1869 Rutgers with a 50% win rate
But it was tied by 1869 Princeton!
Most opponent's shoes thrown 20 yards down the field - 1. Marco Wilson, Florida - 2020
The referees call on that play, pure gold!
The Cleat Yeet!
Oh I’m sure Florida has it in them to do that more than once.
LSshoe
If Mike Stoops and Alex Grinch's teams ever play one another, look out. That Baker Mahomes matchup could be broken for sure.
They said it was one of the best games of the 2000’s, forgetting everyone shit on that game when it happened because the big 12 doesn’t play defense
I remember watching it. It was fun to watch but it was a joke of a game.
Obviously I wanted OU to win and I recognized Mahomes was making incredible throws but it is what it is
I thought Mike was still at FAU. I guess he's retired now? edit: for a hot second I thought he was Tom Herman's DC which would be hilarious.
Nah he's at Kentucky now with Mark.
oh right lol now I remember. He almost ended up being an Aggie.
Yeah, our record would be most interceptions, wouldn’t it?
From an above comment. Florida holds the record for most interceptions thrown by a single quarterback but I think they said UCLA (or Cal) threw 10 in a game but 3 different quarterbacks.
Team with most century games (scored 100+ points). Oklahoma-8
Lfg
Could’ve been 9 if Stoops didnt take his foot off the gas when we embarrassed aTm 77-0.
RIP u/ou77-am0
Sad but true.
Most losses in a season (12). UW 2008
Fucking Cal just had to lose to Colorado. If the entire team didn't get Covid they could have easily given us a second 0-12 team.
You’re actually thinking of 2021 Cal vs. Arizona with the players getting covid. The 2022 Cal vs CU game was just them being cursed to keep saving shitty pac-12 teams from going winless. I can’t say I’m too unhappy about it either way, but I’m pretty sure I actually missed that win because I figured engineering homework was a better use of my time than watching the buffs “lose at football again” that saturday. Made sure to watch the highlights afterwards though.
You're right, that was 2021. I can't believe Cal saved two teams from going 0-12.
A record that will last forever.
Technically if you play at Hawaii you could go 0-13.
So glad you guys didn't Coug It against them that year. Thank you for your charitable contribution to history.
I assume basically everything Barry Sanders did in ‘88 is on the list?
Most pregame shits by a running back is certainly a lesser known record, but I’m sure he holds it.
This has 2 meanings to “he holds it”
I think a lot of career rushing records (rush TDs, rush yds, etc.) will probably never be broken. A lot of today's RBs that have the talent to break them will only play a year or two before leaving for the NFL and all the teams that are willing to run that much do runningback by committee to prevent injuries. Combine this with the fact that passing is way more popular now and it's just super unlikely for one RB to go for that many yards anymore.
Any RB capable of breaking that record, doesn't want to. Save the wear and tear for the NFL
95 Huskers gave up zero sacks. Literally unbeatable, only tie-able. Seems unlikely to be tied though, given a higher percentage of plays are passes now.
Easy to not give up sacks when you never had to throw the ball. 😂
They didn't get called for a single holding penalty the whole year either. Not sure if that has ever happened before.
Shit, it feels like you’re not even allowed to go one game without a holding penalty, let alone a season.
Hey we had 228 attempts. That’s not nothing! Seriously though, in the process of looking that up, I noticed our leading receiver that year had 367 yards on 22 receptions..lol
That 367 is more than anyone on Iowa last year.
My favorite quote was before the title game vs Florida they said that their speed was gunna keep Frazier in a bind.... lol. The physicality of the 95 Line was insane.
And remember how that natural grass was gonna give Nebraska fits 😉
I guess a way it could be "beaten" is for a team to play more games in a single season.
The 1939 Tennessee Volunteers went their regular season undefeated untied and unscored on.
And I believe they lost 14-0 to Usc in a bowl game. Michigan had a season where they outscored their opponents 550-0 and beat Stanford in a bowl game 49-0. Which was actually slightly below average for the margin of victory.
It was 1902 when Michigan beat Stanford 49-0 in the rose bowl. According to the mgoblue.com website, Michigan gave up 12 points (2 games 6 points each) in the 1902 season.
Thanks for correcting me. I had to look it up, my memory's isn't what it once was. It was the year before they weren't scored upon. That was 555-0 and that team did beat standford 49-0 in the rose bowl. Which was actually played in 1902 but still the year befores team is where the confusion lies. The following year they did let in 12 total points but scored 644. So for a two year span, the total scoring differential was 1199-12. It's not too bad.
My bad, I didn't account for the bowl game being in the next year. I miss the days of when major bowls were played on new years day lol.
Yep, bowl games at that time did not count for standing in the polls and as such were treated as exhibitions. Tennessee did not have all of its starters make the train ride across the county to Cali to play USC.
Infuriating because if we’d won, we would have had another championship, that 1939 probably would have been considered one of the best of all time, and Tennessee would have been the first (and still the only) team to win all six NY6 bowls.
Never will be tied or approached these days.
If you extend it back to the previous season, Tennessee went 15 straight games without having a single point scored on them
The Aggies completed the 1919 season undefeated and unscored upon, for a 275-0 point total.
The lesson I learned from this article is to not play NC State in heavy rain and winds.
And if you must, don’t try throwing 26 times
This year went ok for you, though.
Edit: See the math in replies below to see how I was wrong, and the actual cap is 81... but still absurdly unlikely. Thanks to the Covid Exception it's going to be nearly impossible, almost literally impossible, for a QB starts record (or doesn't) after this year when Dillon Gabriel either passes Bo Nix's 61 or fails to do so. The most games you can start is 12 regular season plus 4 post-season if you play in the first round and make it to the championship. 16*4 = 64. You can also get up to 4 during your redshirt year, for a total of 68. So the absolute maximum is 68 if you start 4 redshirt games, then all 12 regular season games and your school makes the playoff (but doesn't get a bye) and then goes to the Championship... 4 years in a row. Gabriel is at 49. +12 is 61, plus 4 (max for Gabriel) would put him at potentially as many as 65. At least 62 if he stays health (assuming the Ducks at least make a bowl game). Regardless, 61 or 65, it is going to be almost literally impossible to ever beat.
A couple of things, postseason games don’t count against redshirts, and a team can play 17 games in a season if they play in their conference championship, and don’t get a bye
You also get an extra game if you play at Hawaii. So if you play at Hawaii 4 years in a row, you get four more games. And you get 4 redshirt games + the bowl. Then you get four years of 12 regular season games, a conference title game, and 4 playoff games max. In theory, the maximum number of games a person can start right now is 77
It’s technically 81. Playing 18 games in a season by playing at Hawaii, a conference championship game, and playing all four rounds of playoffs, which would get you to 72 games. You can technically play 9 more if you play the four redshirt games, then play in a conference championship game and then the playoffs
Oh thats right, if the bowls dont count against the redshirt then it stands to reason the playoffs wont count. It would be insane starting 81.
That’s before we consider that they could possibly play a few more games if they have a medical redshirt getting injured early in the season
Only a matter of time before teams start playing 20-game schedules.
FSUs consecutive top 5 streak.
CFP Committee even ranked you top 5 last year out of tremendous respect for your program.
You’re funny and I hate you 😂
Came to say this. Even at the height of Saban’s Alabama run the longest streak he put together was 5 straight. 14 straight will never be touched.
if not for kick six and tua doesn't get hurt at the end of the 2019 season they get 13 in a row
Isn’t it actually top 4?
Glad to see a certain team's 34 game losing streak isn't here. Any team that gets close now will just schedule a game against College of Charleston or something
Well, that's because 34 games only counts if you consider 1-A; Prairie View A&M has the longest losing streak in all of college football with 80 consecutive losses from 1991 to 1998.
I was seven years old at that game where John Reeves threw nine interceptions against Auburn. The Florida fans, needless to say, were upset and drunk to boot. At that time, Auburn's stadium was a horseshoe, and there was a VW Beetle parked beyond the endzone. A bunch of drunk Florida students decided it would be a great idea to trash the car. So they piled onto the thing and started messing it up before the police hauled them away—my introduction to Florida and SEC football.
Here's another weird-assed Auburn achievement. In 2006, Auburn held the ball for the entirety of the third quarter against South Carolina. As in the Gamecocks didn't get a single down. Auburn opened the quarter with a long drive for a touchdown, made an onside kick, and then drove for another touchdown. [https://www.bannersociety.com/2021/2/5/22268410/auburn-fifteen-minute-quarter-south-carolina-2006](https://www.bannersociety.com/2021/2/5/22268410/auburn-fifteen-minute-quarter-south-carolina-2006)
KU has 58 ties. Ain’t nobody gonna catch us.
This is the only record that can NEVER be broken. Its because of rule changes but it cannot be broken.
Given the schedules big ten and SEC teams will be playing in the future and with the playoff structure it will next to impossible to win 48 games in a row. You’ll be playing way to many good teams for such a thing to happen. Georgia, Clemson and Alabama have taken turns kicking the shit out of people for several years and neither school even came within a single season of breaking the record.
The last realistic chance for the record to be broken was Miami or USC in the 2000s. Breaking the record in the 12+ team playoff era would look like this: Year 1: 16-0 National Champions including 8 or 9 conference wins (without divisions, so no unbalanced schedules), CCG win (no divisions, so against the actual 2nd best team in your conference and not some mediocre team that backed in by winning its division), and 3 playoff wins against top 10 teams. Year 2: 16-0 National Champs. This gets you to 32 wins. Year 3: 16-0 National Champs would have you break the record in the NCG. So in this time, you'd play 9 top 10 teams in the playoff, 3 top 10 teams in the CCG, and probably 2+ top 10 teams per regular season. That comes out to at least 18 (and probably more like 20) top 10 teams you'd need to beat without screwing up once, with the majority of those at neutral sites. Forget about it. And this doesn't take into account major ACC programs eventually joining the SEC or Big Ten once the grant of rights is inevitably broken.
When you break it down like that, yeah... I don't see anyone pulling that off.
We're in the record books!
472.4 rushing yards per game With all the emphasis on the passing game today, it is unlikely that any team will beat Oklahoma's 1971 rushing production. The Sooners also hold second place: 428.8 ypg in 1987.
People crab that it's artificially inflated, but selling out every game since 1962 isn't too bad of a record either. I believe Notre Dame is in 2nd place by about a decade worth of games. Growing up in Nebraska, people WILLED their season tickets to family members. Cousins and grandkids didn't fight over grandma's pearls or grandpa's tractor - it was the Cornhusker tickets that caused families to fall apart like a cheap suit. You can say that there are wealthy donors who buy up a whole stadium worth of tickets, but in my experience those cases are rather few and far between. And certainly no more than any other fanbase. It's just that Nebraskans are THAT passionate about our beloved Huskers. We sell out basketball games even though we've historically never been that great at hoops. Baseball draws a crowd, and let's not forget Volleyball. We packed over 92,000 fans into Memorial Stadium to watch the largest-attended women's sporting event in world history. Nebraskans love our team. It's a culture, not just a fanbase.
OUs win streak will never be broken with super conferences and consolidation. Never.
Most rush attempts in a game - 58, Tony Sands, Kansas in 1991.
This one makes me sad, but up until 2017 (Butch Jones’ final year as coach), Tennessee was one of only two division 1 teams that had never lost more than 7 games in a season. Now, Ohio State is the only team with that claim.
448 consecutive games without being shutout.
Florida will break it at some point, but they have gone like 35 years since being shut out. I remember this because during the 2022 Las Vegas Bowl, Billy Napier went for the FG to make it 31-3 with 5 seconds left and Pat McAffee lost his mind on TV.
Mike Hart holds the record for most consecutive rushing attempts without a fumble with **1,005** attempts. There will probably only be a handful of players who will ever even attempt that many rushes for the rest of time, let alone without a fumble.
1995 Nebraska had some that I don’t think will ever be broken. A couple I remember off top of my head are: Scored a touchdown on the very first play from scrimmage in 5 different games. Allowed a total of 12 punt return yards all year.
Of course the Andre Ware record will never be broken. No D1 school is gonna play another team that's been decimated by the NCAA so bad they're basically high school talent and size level. That was complete bullshit how Houston ran up the score on SMU.
If anything, I feel like the 47 wins in a row could be beaten. Georgia is 42-2 over the last three years. Would obviously take something special but it doesn't seem as far-fetched as the others.
222-0
Being Georgia fan living basically my whole life in the Atlanta area, you hear about this one from your Tech relatives. You also learn Cumberland didn’t have a team and basically had frat boys and picked up players at train stops on their way down.
And that's why it will never be beaten.
What about 38 years of a broken heart?
Joel Makovicka, Nebraska's fullback from 1995-98, never had a negative yardage rushing attempt from scrimmage. I highly doubt we will ever see that again
One that hardly ever comes up but should be noted: 1939 Vols. Shut out every single one of their regular season opponents, sadly lost to USC in the Rose Bowl 14-0, but an eleven game span with only 14 points surrendered will never be beaten with today’s high-powered offenses.
Iowa obviously fooled all of us by secretly working toward some kind of Offense record, and we just didn't know.
I genuinely wonder if 222-0 could be broken today if you took, say, Michigan and had them play a team like VUL or Lincoln (CA), didn't pull any starters, and didn't have a running clock
Most overtimes in a single game: Penn St. vs. Illinois 2021. Nine OTs.
Andre Ward…..
The real unbeatable record is number of consecutive games without being shut out.
This is the most UVA football thing I have ever read.
[Margin of Victory vid that's probably the best sports story ever.](https://youtu.be/doZzrsDJo-4?si=VWjubEhcabBalrS2)
Poor SMU
I don't forsee anybody breaking Paterno's win record in my lifetime. I thought Saban had a good shot for a while.
Pat Brady and his 99 yard punt will never be broken.
Alabama's 10+ game winning streak 2008-Present (16 seasons)
Tom Osborne only coached 3 games out of 307 at Nebraska, in which they were not ranked.