re: Will Texas football ever reach the Alabama like stature they were once on?

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Except they aren't.

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The NCAA thinks they are

How many teams make the tournament?

Will Alabama football ever reach the Texas like statue they were once on?

Im still waiting for someone to tell me this SO-CALLED RUN Texas was ever on........ I see A 1969 NC and one in 2005.. A bunch od decent seasons inbetween................

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The NCAA thinks they are

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They were pretty good during some of Daryl Royal's years.

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A&M being in the SEC will hurt them for now as far as getting all the top players in TX.

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This is incorrect.

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But does that mean they ruled the 70s though? I mean you're contending against a program with McKay/Robinson that was cream of the crop early-70s and was still that in the late-70s with Charles White, Marcus Allen, Ronnie Lott, Anthony Munoz, Paul McDonald, Brad Budde, Dennis Smith, Don Mosebar, Bruce Matthews, Roy Foster, Hoby Brenner, Joey Browner, Jeff Fisher and Keith Van Horne I mean that's basically a literal NFL team right there that team defined the decade it was very obvious

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Let's look and see:

Alabama
1970: 6-5-1
1971: 11-1
1972: 10-2
1973: 11-1 (UPI national champions)
1974: 11-1
1975: 11-1
1976: 9-3
1977: 11-1
1978: 11-1 (AP national champions)
1979: 12-0 (AP & UPI national champions)

USC
1970: 6-4-1
1971: 6-4-1
1972: 12-0 (AP & UPI national champions)
1973: 9-2-1
1974: 10-1-1 (UPI national champions)
1975: 8-4
1976: 11-1
1977: 8-4
1978: 12-1 (UPI national champions)
1979: 11-0-1

What's better....having the better record or having the more famous athletes?

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What's better....having the better record or having the more famous athletes?

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Not sure what more I could/should have said to make my point more clear, best cumulative record of a decade doesn't equate to defining a decade/era of college football they're mutually exclusive in this case. Outside of biased Alabama fans, the general public remembers 70s Bama losing the Sam Cunningham game, losing the 1972 Auburn Field Goal game, losing to Notre Dame in the 1974 Sugar Bowl and the Goal-Line Stand against Penn State. Relative to 70s SC, there's the dominance of the 1972 Trojans that arse-raped basically the entire season, the 1974 Trojans with the Anthony Davis game and the late 70s Trojans with Charles White, Ronnie Lott, Marcus Allen, Dennis Smith, Anthony Munoz, Paul McDonald, Bruce Matthews, etc. When you have the iconic teams, wins, and players of a decade, you basically satisfy every element of the argument, can't forget the late great Ricky Bell and Gary Jeter stellar Trojans.