10-game winning streaks since 1950

Submitted by Human Torpedo on

With the win today, dating back to the bowl game against UF, we have a current winning streak in the double digits for just the eighth time since that given year. Incredibly 6 of these 10+ game winning streaks were under Bo and 4 were at the start of each season from 1971-74. Longest winning streak in that timeframe was only 13 wins in a row from 1985-86. No winning streaks longer than 8 games prior to Bo, naturally

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Elmer

November 5th, 2016 at 8:36 PM ^

Somewhat hard to believe how different this team is under Harbaugh after only two years.  

With our two previous coaches, even shorter win streaks were not something we had to discuss very often.  Without Harbaugh, I believe we would have lost to Colorado this year (then made ourselves feel a little better by noting CU is pretty good), lost to Wisconsin and then dropped another miscellaneous game before heading to Columbus.

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Picktown GoBlue

November 5th, 2016 at 8:41 PM ^

Winning streaks I found

  • 14 wins from '84 to '88 (1884 to 1888 that is).
  • 55-0-1 with Yost from '01 to '05 (56 unbeaten streak) with 29 wins before the tie and 26 wins after it.
  • 25 wins from '46 to '49

Other unbeaten streaks:

  • 22: 18-0-2 streak from '21 to '24
  • 22: 20-0-2 streak from '31 to '33
  • 21: 20-0-1 by Bo '73 to '74

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schreibee

November 5th, 2016 at 11:41 PM ^

There are so many things about 1950 that makes it at least a pretty fair demarcation line in college football history. *Integration begins (slowly) following WW2 *Massive changes in population spread in general following WW2 *Michigan introduces platoon system late in 1940s separating offensive players and defensive players for first time, revolutionizing the game *Woody takes over osu *Bud Wilkinson takes over Oklahoma shortly after This is not to denigrate Michigan's historic accomplishments prior to that year, but we all know Michigan has won 11 National Championships in football and that only 1 has been since 1950. I'm actually curious why so many would react so adamantly about that only somewhat random year being selected?

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schreibee

November 6th, 2016 at 8:21 AM ^

This is all pretty obvious, but 1950 was used by OP because it has a 0 at the end & marks the midpoint of the 20th century. All the historical changes I listed were "around" then as well. Now, I'm fine with for our purposes as Michigan football fans we use 1946 instead - that's an even 7 decades ago from now, has all the historical markers I listed, and includes a couple more long winning streaks and NC. But you do realize if you were having a discussion about college football that included fans of other teams, using 1946 would look like you were cherry picking a favorable year to start from? It smacks of spartyism. Like asking what does Woody Hayes have to do with how many long winning streaks Michigan has had?! Like, everything man! Virtually every streak listed began following and ended with a loss to that team. But hey, fuck the fans of other teams anyway!

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snarling wolverine

November 6th, 2016 at 9:14 AM ^

We're not discussing this with fans of other teams, so it really doesn't matter how it looks to them. That is something I've struggled to understand: this fear of posting certain things because "fans of other schools will think poorly of us." People make this argument regularly, which is just bizarre to me. Why would I care what a fan of another school thinks? What does that matter to me? Anyway, I suspect that the OP simply wanted to make the current team look as good as possible, historically speaking, so he chose a cutoff that conveniently eliminates a lot of historical frames of reference. It's unnecessary; the current team looks like can stand on its own as a great team even if we go back to 1879.

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schreibee

November 6th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^

In my work world I have lots of conversations about college football with fans of other teams. The reason I personally try to frame any discussion in terms that look at comparisons - both between teams and eras - as objectively as possible is that I've found the fans of most other teams (most especially our rival & our "rival") are idiots and I don't want to sound anything like them! I guess I carry that over to posting here. So, like I said, count winning streaks from 1946, 1921, 1901 if you want, fine by me. But if you go all the way back to 1901 I'm afraid you'll find that good as Team 137 is, they don't hold a candle to that team! OTOH, you can't find too many better performances than yesterday's! Objectively Edit: know what I just noticed? Mgoblog doesn't automatically change to Standard time! My post is time stamped an hour ahead. As Marvin Barnes said, "I ain't getting in no time machine!"

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Tater

November 6th, 2016 at 1:06 AM ^

Mic higan had two periods of "Missing Years:" the one we just suffered through and the one from 1951-1968.  The "Den of Mellow Men," for whatever reasons, had a lot more arrogance than results.  They had a great year in 1964, but that was their only Big Ten Chammpionship during those years.

Michigan was 4-12-2 aganst Sparty and 6-12 against OSU.   AFAIC, keep the Original Missing Years out of it and start modern football in 1969.

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