Over 170,000 votes, % that view the program as a "Blue Blood"

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Nebraska thug days are still pretty strong. Since they had to clean up the program a bit, raise their academic standards a bit, they haven't done well. Reputations are hard to shake, so in a sense they are considered a Blue Blood. I don't care if we are never considered a Blue Blood, just win baby.
 



Ski U Master said:
What's the list?
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The ones above the line in the tweet. From reddit, a more stat-based representation:

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btowngopher said:
Blue blood is not an official term, so how is it not subjective?
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True it's not official, but CFB historians widely recognize 8 blue bloods who stand above the rest from a historical picture. This article lays it out pretty well.

www.espn.com

Who are college football's blue-blood programs?

It's a fun-but-complicated question: Who are college football's blue-blood programs? Our writers ranked all 128 and pinpointed the eight schools the sport wouldn't be the same without.
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Gophers1992 said:
OSU, Alabama, Michigan, Texas, OU, Notre Dame, Nebraska, USC.

Blue blood is a historical determination, not a who's good now list.
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It does make for an interesting debate though. There is no doubt that Nebraska was a blue blood and the football program was a dominant force. But they are also the only team on that list who over the past 20 years has not finished a season ranked in the AP top 10.

On top that, the likelihood of them returning to that dominant status seems pretty remote. They are living on their past accomplishments, but there is little to nothing from the past 20 years that says they deserve to be thought of as one of the top programs still.
 

MNVCGUY said:
It does make for an interesting debate though. There is no doubt that Nebraska was a blue blood and the football program was a dominant force. But they are also the only team on that list who over the past 20 years has not finished a season ranked in the AP top 10.

On top that, the likelihood of them returning to that dominant status seems pretty remote. They are living on their past accomplishments, but there is little to nothing from the past 20 years that says they deserve to be thought of as one of the top programs still.
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Yeah I don't really think the classification is relevant, i.e. nobody really cares that you are a blue blood if you suck now, just saying these are who the blue bloods are.
 

Gophers1992 said:
Blue bloods are not subjective. There are 8 blue bloods, and that's it. Like it or not Nebraska is one of them.
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This makes it even more fun and surprising that the Big Ten West has completely shut down Nebraska's football tradition, when wisconsin can't even draw a vote.
 

Gophers1992 said:
True it's not official, but CFB historians widely recognize 8 blue bloods who stand above the rest from a historical picture. This article lays it out pretty well.

www.espn.com

Who are college football's blue-blood programs?

It's a fun-but-complicated question: Who are college football's blue-blood programs? Our writers ranked all 128 and pinpointed the eight schools the sport wouldn't be the same without.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Yeah but that article itself is subjective

Did you read the methodology? LOL
 



"Not subjective" was a bad term for me to use. But the blue bloods are widely agreed upon by those who have really put bias aside and studied it.
 

Gophers1992 said:
"Not subjective" was a bad term for me to use. But the blue bloods are widely agreed upon by those who have really put bias aside and studied it.
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I don’t think they’ve done a very good job. It’s pretty arbitrary.

they ignore some pretty big blue bloods from the pre poll era of college football. That’s ancient history. But I would argue so are the 70s and 80s and maybe even 90s.

Any list is going to be biased based on when you decide is the beginning of relevant history.
 





gopherphil said:
i’m hardly a nebby hater and i don’t consider them a blue blood.
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I don’t care for Nebby and they are a blue blood.
Again people are struggling to differentiate between the historical blue blood classification, and current success. Blue blood is an old money group.
 


Interesting that there are 3 B1G teams, 1 from the SEC and 3 from the old Big12.

And with PSU at 9th that is 4 of the top 9 programs in the history of football are in the B1G.
 


MNVCGUY said:
It does make for an interesting debate though. There is no doubt that Nebraska was a blue blood and the football program was a dominant force. But they are also the only team on that list who over the past 20 years has not finished a season ranked in the AP top 10.

On top that, the likelihood of them returning to that dominant status seems pretty remote. They are living on their past accomplishments, but there is little to nothing from the past 20 years that says they deserve to be thought of as one of the top programs still.
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My only quibble with that is the fact that our University leadership completely bailed on football in the 70s and early 80s. Made a try with Sweet Lou and then bailed again until Mase. Nebraska wants to be good at football. I think they will get it eventually. Their culture includes football. I will qualify that with I don't know if Nebraska can become "Alabama" like they were for awhile but I think they could get back to a really good team.
 

A completely meaningless term that means nothing in the real world of today.
NE's glory days were about 25 years ago and have no influence at all in getting recruits that actually win.
Frost has taken so many candidates from the transfer portal because he has to.
Plugging a couple of vacant spots is one thing but building almost an entire team shows poor recruiting.
 

The article states that Nebtraska qualifies because they have won 5 national titles and have been "truly dominant across multiple decades".

Not to get all balled up in facts, but Minnesota has won 7 national titles and has won those 7 in multiple decades. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure Minnesota is the only program to have won three consecutive national titles.

Yet: no 'blue blood' status.
 

RememberMurray said:
The article states that Nebtraska qualifies because they have won 5 national titles and have been "truly dominant across multiple decades".

Not to get all balled up in facts, but Minnesota has won 7 national titles and has won those 7 in multiple decades. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure Minnesota is the only program to have won three consecutive national titles.

Yet: no 'blue blood' status.
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7 National Titles and possibly more, right? Wasn't there a thread years ago that discussed the fact we may have more, depending upon your interpretation of what a national title was years ago? I thought we had assigned a top-secret, doughnut-eating task force to look in to this. What were their findings?
 

RememberMurray said:
The article states that Nebtraska qualifies because they have won 5 national titles and have been "truly dominant across multiple decades".

Not to get all balled up in facts, but Minnesota has won 7 national titles and has won those 7 in multiple decades. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure Minnesota is the only program to have won three consecutive national titles.

Yet: no 'blue blood' status.
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Based on the chart looks like the main things holding us back are that most of our glory years pre-date the AP and we haven't done much in the BCS/CFP era.

We definitely are not a blue blood program so not surprising we are not up near the top of this list.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Based on the chart looks like the main things holding us back are that most of our glory years pre-date the AP and we haven't done much in the BCS/CFP era.

We definitely are not a blue blood program so not surprising we are not up near the top of this list.
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Nebraska's five titles were won in 1971, 1972, 1993, 1994 and 1997.

The BCS began in 1999 and ended in 2014.

(Correct me if I'm wrong on these).

So Nebraska never won a national title in the BCS era, if my dates are accurate.

All of this still leaves me mystified as to why Nebraska is a so-called "blue blood" or "helmet school", and Minnesota is not.

The whole thing seems to be highly subjective.
 

RememberMurray said:
Nebraska's five titles were won in 1971, 1972, 1993, 1994 and 1997.

The BCS began in 1999 and ended in 2014.

(Correct me if I'm wrong on these).

So Nebraska never won a national title in the BCS era, if my dates are accurate.

All of this still leaves me mystified as to why Nebraska is a so-called "blue blood" or "helmet school", and Minnesota is not.

The whole thing seems to be highly subjective.
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From 1963 - 2001 they finished ranked in the top 25 in all but 2 years and in like 23 of those seasons they were in the top 10. Nebraska was absolutely football royalty during that time period which is why they are considered a blue blood program.

Minnesota had a ton of success leading up to the early 60's and then fell off the face of the Earth for a good 50+ years.

I don't think there is any debate that says Minnesota should be considered a helmet school or a blue blood. There can be debate on whether Nebraska should still be considered one, but they definitely were one.
 

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