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Can Minnesota win another national championship title?
Can PJ Fleck transform Minnesota Football and win a national title?
It is quite possible.
But, the odds are enormous, and I would not bet the farm on it until I see how far he can take this team. Maybe we will have answers in 2021. The focus is to first win consistently. Then, win the B1G West title followed by the B1G championship title. Maybe then... who knows????
Let's look at the historical perspective:
With the shifting sands of historical events - birth of the sport, WWII, desegregation, technological revolution, innovations in the game like the introduction of the forward pass, scholarship limits, NCAA minimum eligibility requirements, etc... all influenced and shape the game. Population increase and changing demographics with population shifts to the midwest, south and west all influenced where football champions were crowned - wherever talent were or wherever it can be accessed.
Bill Connelly SB Nation (Feb. 29, 2016) has a very good article on the history of college football by every decade: Ranking the 10 best college football programs of each decade.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...ahoma-michigan
Football championship history began with dominance of Ivy League schools in the game's inception in the 1800s. Then, soon followed by the rise of the Rust Belt, and WWI & WWII. Football dynasties come and go - Princeton, Yale, Minnesota, Notre Dame, etc,... Then come the rise of the power schools in the modern era - Penn State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, LSU, Florida, Florida State, Alabama. That is 148 years of football history.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/
These two charts summarize the teams with the most football champions all time (1869-2015), and in the Poll Era (1936-2015):
Today, the super football schools like Alabama dominate. But, history proves that there are schools that came out of nowhere and win singular championships in spite of the dominant powers: Chicago 1905, Penn 1908, California 1920, Stanford 1926, TCU 1938, Texas A&M 1939, Maryland 1953, Iowa 1958, Syracuse 1959, Ole Miss 1960, Arkansas 1964, Georgia 1980 (with Herschel Walker), BYU 1984, Colorado 1990, and Washington 1991. It is quite possible that a school out of the blue can win a national championship again.
Back to our question: Can PJ Fleck resurrect the national championship aspirations in Minnesota?
PJ Fleck has to be a master magician to pull off a stunt for the ages. He has to have the horses to do it. The sands of time again and again, and the shifting of the tides will etch out new chapters in college football history. Maybe Minnesota will be another new shiny pebble.
Don't bet the farm on another championship for Minnesota YET. Let's see some body of work first.
Can PJ Fleck transform Minnesota Football and win a national title?
It is quite possible.
But, the odds are enormous, and I would not bet the farm on it until I see how far he can take this team. Maybe we will have answers in 2021. The focus is to first win consistently. Then, win the B1G West title followed by the B1G championship title. Maybe then... who knows????
Let's look at the historical perspective:
With the shifting sands of historical events - birth of the sport, WWII, desegregation, technological revolution, innovations in the game like the introduction of the forward pass, scholarship limits, NCAA minimum eligibility requirements, etc... all influenced and shape the game. Population increase and changing demographics with population shifts to the midwest, south and west all influenced where football champions were crowned - wherever talent were or wherever it can be accessed.
Bill Connelly SB Nation (Feb. 29, 2016) has a very good article on the history of college football by every decade: Ranking the 10 best college football programs of each decade.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...ahoma-michigan
Football championship history began with dominance of Ivy League schools in the game's inception in the 1800s. Then, soon followed by the rise of the Rust Belt, and WWI & WWII. Football dynasties come and go - Princeton, Yale, Minnesota, Notre Dame, etc,... Then come the rise of the power schools in the modern era - Penn State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, LSU, Florida, Florida State, Alabama. That is 148 years of football history.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/
These two charts summarize the teams with the most football champions all time (1869-2015), and in the Poll Era (1936-2015):
Today, the super football schools like Alabama dominate. But, history proves that there are schools that came out of nowhere and win singular championships in spite of the dominant powers: Chicago 1905, Penn 1908, California 1920, Stanford 1926, TCU 1938, Texas A&M 1939, Maryland 1953, Iowa 1958, Syracuse 1959, Ole Miss 1960, Arkansas 1964, Georgia 1980 (with Herschel Walker), BYU 1984, Colorado 1990, and Washington 1991. It is quite possible that a school out of the blue can win a national championship again.
Back to our question: Can PJ Fleck resurrect the national championship aspirations in Minnesota?
PJ Fleck has to be a master magician to pull off a stunt for the ages. He has to have the horses to do it. The sands of time again and again, and the shifting of the tides will etch out new chapters in college football history. Maybe Minnesota will be another new shiny pebble.
Don't bet the farm on another championship for Minnesota YET. Let's see some body of work first.