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The last time the Gophers received as many as one vote in the AP poll? September 13, 2009. The next time the Gophers receive as many as one vote in the AP poll....?
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How the mighty have fallen. :-(
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Couple of things:
The very first AP poll was actually released on November 15, 1934. http://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/research/1934-11-15_poll.cfm Minnesota was #1 in that one, too. The poll didn't become weekly and regular until 1936.
The anniversary of the first weekly AP poll was yesterday, not today. http://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=1 In the first year, Minnesota was #1 each of the first two weeks, until they lost to #3 Northwestern 6-0 in Evanston. Northwestern took over at #1 as Minnesota dropped to #2. It stayed this way until the last week of the season, when Northwestern lost on the road to #11 Notre Dame 26-6. They dropped all the way to #7, while Minnesota rose back to #1 after pounding unranked Wisconsin 24-0.
Interestingly, while Minnesota won their third straight national title in 1936, Northwestern was the Big Ten champion. In fact, 1936 was the only year in a 6-year stretch (1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1938) in which Minnesota didn't win the Big Ten. They went 25-2-4 in the Big Ten during this period, and after a one-year hiccup (3-4-1, 2-3-1) in 1939, won two more national titles in 1940 and 1941 with perfect (8-0, 5-0) records each year. In other words, between 1933 and 1941, a period of nine seasons, Minnesota won 5 national titles and 7 Big Ten titles.
The very first AP poll was actually released on November 15, 1934. http://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/research/1934-11-15_poll.cfm Minnesota was #1 in that one, too. The poll didn't become weekly and regular until 1936.
The anniversary of the first weekly AP poll was yesterday, not today. http://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=1 In the first year, Minnesota was #1 each of the first two weeks, until they lost to #3 Northwestern 6-0 in Evanston. Northwestern took over at #1 as Minnesota dropped to #2. It stayed this way until the last week of the season, when Northwestern lost on the road to #11 Notre Dame 26-6. They dropped all the way to #7, while Minnesota rose back to #1 after pounding unranked Wisconsin 24-0.
Interestingly, while Minnesota won their third straight national title in 1936, Northwestern was the Big Ten champion. In fact, 1936 was the only year in a 6-year stretch (1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1938) in which Minnesota didn't win the Big Ten. They went 25-2-4 in the Big Ten during this period, and after a one-year hiccup (3-4-1, 2-3-1) in 1939, won two more national titles in 1940 and 1941 with perfect (8-0, 5-0) records each year. In other words, between 1933 and 1941, a period of nine seasons, Minnesota won 5 national titles and 7 Big Ten titles.
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I wish and hope that we can get back to that level again someday!!! ^^^
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this is why bernie bierman is THE greatest coach in U of M sports history......and one of the greatest in big ten sports history.
sorry, but what is herb brooks doing on the big ten network representing minnesota for their big ten coaching icons show? don't get me wrong, herb brooks was a great coach and a great man. but he does not compare to bernie bierman in my book. bernie was a legend during his time....not just in minnesota.....but also nationally.
apparently only michigan and ohio state get to have football coaches shown on this series. can't take any of the shine of that whole stupid schembechler vs. hayes mystique now can we big ten office? me shaking my head.
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Those were the days...
1980 Olympics trumps anything Bierman did. Not to mention having actual video of the coach makes for better TV. Plus the show is "icons"....not greatest coaches. Who outside of Minnesota has heard of Bernie Bierman
The last time I checked the 1980 Olympic hockey team didn't win any Big Ten or National championships. This series was supposed to be for Big Ten achievements, not Olympic. If that were the case Jesse Owen's track coach at tOSU should have been honored. Like a lot of things the Icons series is just a bunch of time filling fluff. Unfortunately in 1950 the all-knowing Gopher administration and boosters felt Wes Fesler was a better football coach than Bernie Bierman, thus setting in motion the coarse of futility of the last 44 years. My apologies to Murray Warmath, who managed to slow the complete advance of this futility until after the 1967 championship year. The administration and boosters was ready to run him out of town as well following the 1959 season.