re: Is it time to revise or add to the CFB blue bloods roster?

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Dantonio has built them into a B1G power

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After that Alabama game...

Michigan State looked like the 2012 Notre Dame team. Smoke and mirrors.

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I mean lets be fair here. Didn't Baylor just lose like 4 guys to Texas and therefore they plummeted and Texas is going up?

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I don't believe that had anything to do with the rankings. In fact, it should make the #6 class just that much stronger.

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LSU has always done well in the state

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Always? Since the Saban/Miles era. And it's typically confined to the Houston area.

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OSU is trying to open pipelines and other schools are getting a few they hadn't in the past

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Everyone is trying to open a pipeline in Texas. Who wouldn't? Nebraska had a steady, steady stream for a long time. Obviously, Oklahoma recruits very well in the state. Colorado used to recruit Texas (and New Orleans too) well in the 80's and 90's.

Honestly, Ole Miss is probably the out-of-state team recruiting better than any. Shady bustards.

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Texas - #6

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Was that before or after they get the Baylor guys?

I think on one hand, UT fans and admin has been delusional during their last few searches. LSU fans have shown themselves to be just as foolish, thinking "we're LSU, people will be lining up to coach here." What most seem to forget is how important timing is to this whole thing. Both programs want established coaches, but that list is short and those guys already have good jobs. And likely kids who are in school and don't want to leave, etc..

However, people dismissing UT have likely not spent much time in Austin. Like LSU fans saying "why would Maneiri ever leave LSU for UT--he be stupid to make a lateral move." But Austin is a much nicer place to live than Baton Rouge. Better schools and many more things to do. Getting a house on Lake Travis or Lake Austin is much cooler than one on Highland Road. So much more live music. Park at Auditorium Shores and run around Town Lake with the city skyline in the background. Zilker Park. Festivals every weekend.

I love LSU, so I'm happy to be in Baton Rouge. But objectively, Austin provides a much higher quality of life. That's why I would never dismiss any rumor involving any coach going there at anytime. That being said, it's not so great that UT can just snap their fingers and get Saban, entrenched in Alabam pa creating a legacy as likely the best coach in the history of college football. Because they're Texas, everyone should--and will--listen. But the timing has to be right. And it almost never is for any upper echelon program trying to poach a great coach from another upper echelon one. Just look at the last several football searches for UT, Bama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Florida, USC, etc...

That being said, I think UT is at a disadvantage with playing at Disch-Falk. I'm sure they've made some improvements since I last attended games there(Huston Streets' last year), but it's stil not on campus, it's still on the East side of 35, the parking is still shite, and I'm not sure if they've replaced the turf with natural grass yet, but that place would get hot as balls in May. It's just not a great home field.

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And it almost never is for any upper echelon program trying to poach a great coach from another upper echelon one. Just look at the last several football searches for UT, Bama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Florida, USC, etc..

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This in so many ways. It just so happened to work out that Meyer came around when Tressel left

I think those rankings are post the 4 guys switching

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I love the (w) here as if anyone would ever think you were talking about South Carolina in a blue bloods convo.

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The four S.Carolina fans on the internet are going to come at you bro.

I mean, if you consider the sheer amount of years it will take to catch up to them and actually displace them, it's not going to be an easy task. Sure, Nebraska hasn't been good in a while, but winning 8 games a year means teams are only catching up to them by maybe two games a year. They also have a bunch of titles. That's also very difficult to catch up to.

I also think you're forgetting that this is from a historical perspective, not a current one. Texas, USC, and Nebraska are currently mediocre to bad, but their history as blue bloods is indisputable.

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Texas is only considered a blue blood because they keep telling us they are. Over the last 40 years they have as many NCs as Climpson, Ga Tech and BYU. Not exactly blue blood material.

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You can say the same for Michigan.

Yup. Agree. Michigan is even worse because the coach they idolize was 0fer his first 8 Rose Bowls.

The first link includes Minnesota inside the Top-20, and they're weighted almost entirely by six national championships before WWII ended. Minnesota hasn't been to a major bowl game in over a half-century.

Back then, when Minnesota was claiming national titles, seasons ended by December and a Final Poll was taken.

Personally, I don't see how you can draw too many conclusions about quality of a conference.