Boise
State
has moved into the top 15 of all-time for the best 75-game home record in
college football history. They now have the fourth best home record of the modern era.
The
Broncos are 72-3 from the
Weber
State
game of 1998 (their third year in Division I-A football) through last Friday.
They are tied with
Alabama
, which achieved their record from 1910 through 1933.
Boise
State
just passed
Florida
, which achieved their record from 1989 through 2001, Miami of Florida
(1984-1996) and
Alabama
(1903-1927).
Boise
State
is one of just nine schools since 1930 that have lost 10 or less home games out
of 75.
Alabama
tops modern schools with a 74-1 record from 1957-1982.
Nebraska
’s best home record was 73-2; the Cornhuskers achieved that from 1991-2002.
Florida
State
is next of the modern schools with a mark of 72-2-1 (1987-1999).
Texas
is sixth among teams from 1930-2009 with each sporting 70-5 records.
Army (68-6-1) from 1936-1950 and
Oklahoma
(66-7-2) from 1943-1959 are the other modern schools.
Princeton
, which put together an amazing streak of 75 straight wins from 1887-1900 is the
all-time leader.
Michigan
(1894-1904) and
Princeton
(1869-1893) are tied for second with sparkling 74-0-1 records.
Michigan
was also 73-0-2 from 1893-1904 and from 1897-1907 and Yale is the other
unbeaten team for 75 games with the same 73-0-2 record from 1886-1898.
Obviously,
during a tremendous run of winning home games, a school would be listed multiple
times from one point in the streak to another with the same record.
This list shows only multiple entries that overlap no more than five
years. Further, in deciding when a
school’s streak begins when multiple records are attained, it is when the home
record first started; the earliest date in which they compiled their record.
If
the Broncos are fortunate enough to keep winning, they could move up the ladder
with three consecutive home wins. That
would remove another loss from the early Division I-A years and give the Broncos
a 73-2 mark, an achievement that would tie them with
Nebraska
for the second best home mark of the modern era.
The next step is a ways away.
Boise
State
would have to win 15 straight home games to tie
Alabama
at 74-1 for the best modern record in college football.
That would take the Broncos into 2012.
One
might look at the list and wonder why USC, with one of the best records this
decade, does not appear. The Trojans
have over 10 losses in any 75-game period, with a current 53-10 mark from the
Arizona
State
game of 1999 through the UCLA win yesterday which is 12 wins shy of making the
list.
Florida
is another team that has been tremendously successful this decade.
But the Gators are 64-11 from the
Auburn
game of 1998 through this year.
Florida
needs five more wins to remove a loss from its home-game 75-game record to
achieve a mark of 65-10.
It
should be noted that legendary
Carlisle
did not make this list because they didn’t play 75 home games in their
history. The school which featured
all-time athlete Jim Thorpe had a record of 65-3-3 from 1896-1917.
Bold
type indicates teams who compiled their streaks from 1930 to the present.
The list only includes streaks in which no more than five years overlap.
1.
Princeton
75-0-0 (1887-Syracuse game of 1900)
2.
Michigan
74-0-1 (Albion game of 1894-1904)
2.
Princeton
74-0-1 (1869-Lafayette game of 1893)
4.
Yale 73-0 2 (M.I.T. game of 1886-Chicago A.C. game of 1898)
5.
Alabama
74-1 (Southern Mississippi game of
1957-Cincinnati game of 1982)
5.
Yale 74-1 (Bates game of 1900-Massachusetts game of 1908)
5.
Pennsylvania
74-1 (Rutgers game of 1889-Virginia game of 1897)
5.
Harvard 74-1 (Wesleyan game of 1887-Michigan game of 1895)
9.
Nebraska
73-2 (Washington game of 1991-Missouri
game of 2002)
10.
Notre Dame 72-1-2 (1902-DePauw game of 1921)
11.
Florida
State
72-2-1 (Louisville game of 1987-1999)
11.
Army 72-2-1 (Bates game of 1922-Harvard game of 1935)
13.
Michigan
71-2-2 (Beloit game of 1898-Case game of 1910)
14.
Alabama
72-3 (1910-Mississippi State game of 1933)
14.
Boise
State
72-3 (Weber State game of 1998-Nevada
game of 2009)
16.
Notre Dame 70-2-3 (1899-1914)
16.
Michigan
70-3-2 (Cornell game of 1892-Ohio Northern game of 1904)
18.
Florida
71-4 (Louisiana Tech game of
1989-Florida State game of 2001)
18.
Miami
of
Florida
71-4 (Pittsburgh game of 1984-Pittsburgh
game of 1996)
18.
Alabama
71-4 (1903-
Rhodes
game of 1927)
21.
Colgate 69-3-3 (Rochester game of 1912-Rutgers game of 1933)
22.
Alabama
70-5 (Houston game of 1963-LSU game of
1988)
22.
Texas
70-5 (Oklahoma State game of 1968-Utah
game of 1982)
24.
Florida
State
69-5-1 (Georgia Tech game of
1993-Maryland game of 2005)
24.
Princeton
69-5-1 1897-1906)
26.
Oklahoma
69-6 (Texas A & M game of 1997-2009)
27.
Tennessee
67-5-3 (Maryville game of 1925-Virginia Tech game of 1937)
27.
Princeton
67-5-3 (Lafayette game of 1898-Syracuse game of 1908)
29.
Army 68-6-1 (Colgate game of 1936-1950)
30.
Colgate 66-5-4 (Brown game of 1919-Akron game of 1940)
31.
Tennessee
67-6-2 (Georgia game of 1925-Sewanee game of 1937)
32.
Florida
68-7 (1991-Tennessee game of 2003)
33.
Oklahoma
66-7-2 (Iowa State game of 1943-1959)
34.
Yale 63-6-6 (Army game of 1905-Washington & Jefferson game of 1914)
35.
Texas
67-8 (Colorado game of 1997-2009)
36.
Army 66-8-1 (1931-Brown game of 1943)
37.
Michigan
65-8-2 (Ohio Northern game of 1905-Michigan State game of 1919)
