My now annual thread on some noteworthy #CollegeFootball trends heading into a new season, 55 days from today.
After losing 4 games in a season only once between 1969 and 2001, Nebraska has lost at least 4 games for 16 straight seasons.
Jim Harbaugh is the first coach in Michigan history to start 0-6 against Ohio State.
The Miami Hurricanes haven't posted double-figures in wins in consecutive seasons in 16 years. And since they only won 6 games last year, that streak will continue.
8 of the last 11 Heisman Trophy winners were 20/1 odds or worse to win it in the preseason.
Texas hasn't had consecutive double-digit win seasons in a decade.
Texas A&M only has 1 double-digit win season so far this century, and that was Johnny Manziel's Heisman Trophy season of 2012.
Oklahoma and Clemson are each vying to become the first six consecutive undisputed conference champions since Bud Wilkinson's legendary Sooner teams of the 1950s.
Kansas State is the first team in at least three years to return no offensive line starts.
After winning 11 games or more 5 out of 6 seasons from 2010-15, Stanford has lost 3 or more games 4 of the last 5 years.
Gary Patterson has won 7 or fewer games at TCU in 3 of the last 4 seasons.
Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and Iowa State enter the season with the longest championship droughts in major college football.
2019 snapped a 4-year streak with a team outside the top 12 of the preseason AP Poll making the College Football Playoff.
Since losing 5 games total from 2004-06, Auburn has lost 4 games or more 11 of the last 13 years. Six of those years the Tigers lost 5 games or more.
James Franklin will attempt to do something in 2020 not even Joe Paterno accomplished at Penn State -- reach 11 wins in 4 out of 5 seasons.
Since 2007, if you just blindly bet on Temple in every game you would've won 62% of the time against the point spread. That's the best mark in the FBS.
Rutgers enters this season with the longest conference losing streak in the country (21).
Over the last 15 years, if you just blindly bet favorites of 7 points or more on the money line, you would've won 63% of the time.
Since we started No. 1 vs. No. 2 championship games with the BCS in 1998, only 32 of the 88 teams in the preseason AP top 4 finished there at the end of the regular season (36%).
