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How Accurate Are College Football Preseason Polls?
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How Accurate Are College Football Preseason Polls?

Nebraska Cornhuskers On SI·Dan McGlynn·21 days ago
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May and June are the months in which the college preseason magazines begin to appear on bookshelves across the nation. Their arrival means one thing to fans: the college football season is nearing. As we all know, the Indiana Hoosiers went 16-0 last year to capture the first football national championship in school history. Curt Cignetti’s team won the trophy in just his second year as the Hoosiers’ head coach. Even more amazing is that Indiana lost only two games in those two years. That’s a 27-2 record. To give Husker fans some perspective, in 1994 and 1995 , Nebraska went 25-0 and won two national championships. During the 1970 and ’71 seasons, the Huskers went 24-0-1 and nabbed another two national crowns . For longtime Husker fans, Indiana’s 27-2 record and one national championship, while impressive, doesn’t equal Nebraska’s. What is impressive is that Indiana’s amazing success was achieved in just the first two years of Cignetti’s tenure at Indiana.…

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