MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1915 We’re not sure how far back we will go with this miniseries (maybe just to the year of the first Rose Bowl?), but today is another look at the mythical national champion on MNC Wednesday. Not…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1916 As this MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries goes back deeper and deeper in time, it gets a little more rough trying to decipher numbers in a spreadsheet. Yet in the absence of reliable objectivity in …

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1918 The MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries returns this fine day after St. Patrick’s Day to check in on the 1918 season, which included a Rose Bowl on January 1, 1919. This year is a strange one to…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1919 When it comes to sports and the year 1919, no one thinks of college football. But our MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries continues today to assess “established” mythical national championship analysi…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1920 Our MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries continues today to assess “established” mythical national championship analysis. This was clearly a hit-or-miss process to retroactively decide an M…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1924 We’re back today with our MNC Wednesday miniseries, diving deeper into the past to see if the “experts” got it right. Sometimes they do, but as we move back through time, the last…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1926 The MNC Wednesday miniseries continues with the prequel years, those before the onset of the Associated Press polling era that began in 1936. This season we explore today is odd, as the even the ex…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1927 We always have enjoyed our MNC Wednesday miniseries, as it is was one of the originals here when we expanded to near-daily postings at the onset of the 2020 Covid lockdown. We started then with the…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1928 Our MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week as we journey back to the innocent times of 1928. We have done eight of these prequel evaluations, and seven times now we have agreed with t…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1929 The MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week as we go back in time to 1929. Everyone remembers that year for the Stock Market Crash, which happened in the middle of the college football…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1930 The MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries continues as we go back in time to 1930. Herbert Hoover was President; the Philadelphia Athletics won the World Series. And Notre Dame football had the attent…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1931 Our MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week with a look at the 1931 college football season. America still was stuck in the Great Depression, and the New Deal wouldn’…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1932 The MNC Wednesday miniseries was one of our original pieces of regular programming, going back to March 2020. We are proud of the revisions we made to historical mistakes, and we intend to keep doi…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1933 Our MNC Wednesday miniseries continues with prequel installments: we are reviewing the pre-Associated Press mythical national championships prior to 1936, in reverse chronological order. Sabermetri…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1956 The Michigan State Spartans return to Rose Bowl Friday for the second time in three weeks, while we also celebrate the most dominant stretch of college football in the sport’s history. By our…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1955 Our Rose Bowl Friday weekly visit is back to look at the 1954 regular season, where the Ohio State Buckeyes went a perfect 10-0 to win the mythical national championship. We know this takes away mu…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1954 The Western Conference added a tenth member (again) to informally be known as the B1G once again, as reflected this week’s Rose Bowl Friday column. The University of Chicago had pulled out fu…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1938 We give thanks on this Rose Bowl Friday for the Alabama Crimson Tide’s first loss in the Granddaddy of Them All. The Red Menace from the Confederacy had been 3-0-1 before rolling into Souther…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1937 We have reached the point on Rose Bowl Friday where we started so long ago with MNC Wednesday: the 1936 season. That was the first year the Associated Press started its college football poll, and w…

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