The Josh Innes Show - Unbreakable College Football Records

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

I saw a story about 10 unbreakable college football records. Generally speaking, I don't want to engage in dumb discussions about this type of stuff. But, I'm intrigued and feel like arguing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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some that are just never like there's a lot of baseball records that are never going to come close to being broken consecutive games played streaks are never going to be broken. The hits record is never going to be broken. I don't think that you're you may at some point get what 73 home runs or whatever the number is now you might. I don't think you will but you might. I mean, he came pretty close there in Judge, but like in a lot of sports, there are records that get broken now pretty frequently. Passing yardage records get broken.

Receiving yardage records get broken, stuff like that. But I'm curious when you read a list of the 10 most unbreakable records. Let me see this first off, let's play a couple commercials and we will get into it. The NBA Finals are finally here and after spending the playoffs all over the Pick6 app from DraftKings, well, we're ready for the championship round and this is your last shot to win some real cash before the season ends. The simplest way to get in on the action is downloading the Pick6 app from DraftKings and it's super simple. Just pick more or less on the stats for two or more of your favorite players and boom

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to you, please contact Connects Ontario 1866-56531 to 600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. Alright, college football's 10 most unbreakable records. This is by Chris low at ESPN. Let's see what he says. Number one is Oklahoma's 47 game winning streak. Tell me the truth. Oklahoma's 47 game winning streak. Tell me the truth. Did any of you know that the longest winning streak in the history of college football was 47 games? I did not. When surveying the most dominant college football machines in history, the conversation begins and ends with the Bud Wilkinson led Oklahoma teams in the 1950s. The Sooners bulldozed their way to 47 consecutive wins, a streak that began in 1953 and lasted almost five seasons, producing back to back national championships in 55 and 56. Oklahoma held its opponents to single digits and 35 of the 47 wins and recorded 22 shutouts.

shutouts. Let's see. Nearly 70 years later, nobody has come close to that streak. Toledo won 35 straight from 1969 to 1971. The 2000 to 2002 Miami Hurricanes and the 2003 to 2005 USC Trojans each won 34 in a row. You know, that's funny, like even teams like Alabama under Nick Saban or any of these teams are not close. That's the kind of stuff you're not going to see because now there's just too much parity, right? Like you're never going to see a world where there's that dominant of a college football team because you're not going to see dominant college football teams.

You're going to see good college football teams. You're going to see teams who in a particular season may be spectacular, but nobody's going to run roughshod over it because there's too much balance as it relates to NIL and teams being able to have $20 million payrolls in college athletics now. You're not going to be able to line up against enough cupcakes for 70 something games in a row, sorry, 47 games in a row and do

that. It's just impossible to do that in this era. Oklahoma in the 1950s could probably line up against a bunch of jemokes and just bulldoze those cats. Now instead of you know 10, 15, 20 teams being teams that can beat you on a given day, 100 teams could beat you on a given day. Doesn't mean they can win the title, doesn't mean they can beat you 9 out of 10 games, but they can beat you on a given day doesn't mean they can win the title doesn't mean they can beat you nine out of 10 games, but they can beat you on a given day because every team that has any sort of money can have some level of talent or some

quarterback can beat even the Alabama's the LSU's the Ohio States on any given day. I would agree with that. There will not be a team to win 48 consecutive games. Barry Sanders magical season is number two. Let's see Barry Sanders numbers his single season NCAA record of 2628 rushing yards was challenged last season by Ashton Genti who had 2600. Yeah, that's not there's no point even getting into that. That's not going to happen because teams don't run the ball enough anymore. You got five wide receiving records can

be and will be broken and passing records can be and will be broken rushing records like the Gentie thing was an anomaly because you just had a team that had this dude and they were basically trying to run him to the Heisman. So that will never happen. There's no point getting into a debate. Florida State's top five finishes his Florida State teams finished in the top five every final AP poll from 1987 to 2000. That could happen only because in theory, it could be rigged.

That's an AP poll. That's the Associated Press poll, right? So, in theory, if the media people all wanted to get together and be like, hey, this team's flirting with the top. Again, it's not going to happen. That's what 14 consecutive seasons of finishing in the top five? No. But what if you finish in the top seven for 10 consecutive years? Like what did Bama do? Like I'd like to know how Bama finished their season. Like I want to see how many seasons Alabama came close to that. Let's

see. Let's go to Nick Saban. Let's go to Nick Saban head coaching record. How many seasons? Let's see at...so Nick Saban's teams, this is remarkable by the way, if you take out 2007 which was his first year back, and in the Associated Press they finished in the top 10 every one of those years. So you had how many years in a row would that have been? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 consecutive seasons in the top 10. Let's see, and that number 10 was in 2010, so if you go after that, the highest number got up to eight. So then that means they would have had like 14 consecutive seasons in the top eight. Like is there a really big difference between top five and top eight? And when you look at it, how many of those seasons did they end the season in the Associated Press number one spot? One,

two, three, four, five, six of those were number one finishes. Number two finishes there were three. Number three finishes zero. Number four finishes one. Number five finishes two. And we had a number seven, a number eight, and a number ten in, and we had a number seven, a number eight, and a number ten in there. Oh, and a number six. I'm sorry, there's also a number six wedged in there too. So, like, I get the idea that, like, wow, that's cool that this team had 13 or 14 consecutive, and that probably won't happen. But those are the kind of things I look at and say are two spots

really that big of a difference, right? Like if Nick Saban would have had two or three years in there where they finished like number 30 or something, that's one thing. I mean Saban's consistently, if you look at where his average finish spot is in the last 16 years of his career, it was probably what, like number two and a half, number three, number whatever. So yeah, like that's great. That's not going to be broken, but I don't find that to be all that impressive. Oklahoma's Wishbone onslaught is number four. In an offense rushing for more than 250 yards per game, that's considered a punishing running attack. In 1971 with Barry Switzer on offense as the coordinator, Oklahoma averaged 472 rushing yards per game. No, that will not be that will not

be topped. There's no point in debating it. Like I'd be curious to know. But I'm sure this story tells us. Let's see like someone the most recent team to come close. Yeah, like there's not a chance there. I'd be curious if anybody's come close. Let's see no team in the past 30 years has reached even 400 yards, even triple option teams like Army. Army was first nationally in rushing last season with 300 yards. That means they would have to rush for 200 more yards per game. And it's not like we're 175. And it's not like Army threw for 150 in most of those games. They just ran and ran and ran. but yeah, that's not going to happen.

That's obvious. So basically a lot of this is just rushing records are not going to be broken in college athletics, which isn't difficult to grasp, according to this story. Throwing to the wrong team is number five. Florida quarterback John Reeves threw an NCAA record nine interceptions on 66 passing attempts in a 38-12 loss to Auburn in 1969. I would agree that you are not going to have a quarterback throw for nine interceptions because no team will allow a quarterback to stay in a game to throw for nine interceptions and this is not going to happen. You're not going to have nine interceptable balls in

most games. When Reeves left Florida in 1971, he was college football's all-time leading passer with 75, 49 yards, 7,549 yards, and he was selected in the first round of the draft. He threw a lot of interceptions. He had nine interceptions. So imagine, dude, think about this. If somebody threw nine interceptions in the era of social media, I don't know that there would be a scenario where that gentleman would be the number one pick in the draft solely based on throwing nine

interceptions in a game because of social media, because of the heat that the teams are going to take. That dude, now granted, he threw for 7500 yards in his career at Florida back when people weren't throwing for a ton of yards. So that was obviously circling and back then teams didn't really care like they didn't pay attention to interceptions as much like there are guys like Joe Namath threw interceptions. I mean a lot of people threw interception like

Dan Pasterini would go out and throw a bunch of interceptions. That's just what they did back then. But there'd be no way in hell no way in hell that a guy would go number one if he had one game in which he threw nine interceptions. There's no way that would happen. Just on aesthetics alone that would not let that happen. Now here's one. The Derek Thomas sack parade. As you guys know, Derek Thomas is my favorite football player of all time. I cried when he died in 2000. Let's see. As a senior linebacker at Alabama in 1988, Thomas gobbled up opposing quarterbacks, finishing with 27 sacks and 39 tackles for loss.

Thomas was unblockable that season. So 27 sacks. Let's see. At the time, sacks weren't an official NCAA statistic, meaning Arizona State's Terrell Suggs has the official NCAA sack record with 24 in 2002. That is again probably one that you will not see, but I would agree with that. Let's see, hat trick from Antonio Perkins. If a player returns one kick for a touchdown in a game, he's probably not going to get a chance to return another one. So yeah, that's three return touchdowns in a game. You're correct. That will never happen. Marcus Allen's amazing run once again. It's basically rushing and it's rushing and like special team shit that this list is after coming to USC as a defensive back and playing some as full back early in his career. Marcus Allen did things in his 1981 senior year that not even Sanders accomplished in his

record-setting 1988 season. Allen rushed for more than 200 yards and 8 of 11 games and finished with 2342 yards on his way to winning the Heisman. He had five straight 200 yard rushing games. That will also not happen, although you would have thought five consecutive 200 yard rushing games that maybe Ashton Gentile last year would have come close to that because all they did was handed him the ball, but I guess not. Number nine, Patrick Mahomes wizardry. Let's see, playing through a separated throwing shoulder and fractured

left wrist he suffered in the first half. Mahomes set an FBS record with 819 yards of total offense. He completed 52 of 88 passes for 734 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for 85 yards and two touchdowns. Let's see that was Baker Mayfield was on the other side of that game. Let's see Mayfield threw for 545 yards and seven touchdowns. So yes, I guess there will not. You know what? I'm not going to say that I could see a scenario where something like that happens again. Why couldn't somebody

throw for especially if we still had the arrow where it was, you know, like we didn't have the two point conversions in overtime, if games just kept going and again it's like 25 yards each time if you score a touchdown, but like I could see a scenario where somebody throws for, you know, has 819 yards of total offense. If you start, now that's of course the FBS record, but like you can see one of these lower schools or maybe like a situation like when didn't you have a score like 80 on somebody wants like 90. I forgot how many they scored against SMU whenever Dre was the quarterback, but like something like that could happen like that's not like I

disagree at some point with the way the offenses are in the way they're spread out. If you get the right matchup now the the thing going against you is if it's against this, like you also have to have a team going tit for tat with you. Like you have to have a close game and it has to be a game just like that's where you're going to find an unlikely scenario where it's 66 to 59 and the opposing team's quarterback through for almost 600 or almost 550. Like it has to be like that. Like generally

speaking, if you're blowing somebody out, your star player's out in the second half And he's never gonna get there. I'm not gonna write that one off And of all the stuff in here, it's it's a passing thing Like I don't think there's gonna be three kick return touchdowns in the game You might see a team get 20 star player get 27 sacks in a game I don't think you're ever gonna see a guy throw nine interceptions in a game You're certainly not going to see a team average nine interceptions in a game. You're certainly not going to see a team average

472 rushing yards a game. The the top five finishes thing. I just don't give a **** about because there's not a huge difference between top five and number six or number seven, especially when it's the AP poll and we're talking about voters. So who gives a **** about the opinions of people? You're not going to see another Barry Sanders season because teams don't rush enough and you're not going to see a team win 47 games in a row again because there's too much parity but I think there's a realistic possibility to see a guy have over 820 yards of offense. It's just the perfect

day back and forth bang bang type game. It very well could happen and finally no upsetting Nick Saban. Nick Saban won a slew of games against nationally ranked teams during his career, 104 to be exact, but his streak of beating the teams he was supposed to beat during the 17 seasons at Alabama was unmatched. The Crimson Tide won 100 consecutive games against unranked foes under Saban and went 14 years without losing the game to an unranked opponent, a streak that was snapped by a 41-38 loss to a 19-point underdog Texas A&M on October

9th, 2021 with a walk-off 28-yard field goal. It was the longest such streak in the AP poll era and Saban was 123-4 overall at Alabama against unranked teams. That'll probably last forever because you're just not going to see guys stay at places long enough. Right? Like who are the longest tenured head coaches right now? And most of them are not in dominant situations like Nick Saban. Like, you know, I'm trying to think of who would be after him. I mean, Kirby's been at Georgia for a while, obviously, but there's so much movement from the coaches, like that's also never going to happen again. I would agree with that. But I'm intrigued by like I would like a bet to be

available to just last the entirety of life and you know, plus whatever the bet would be to bet on whether or not a player will have over 819 yards of total offense in a college football game. And I think it has a chance of happening. I would not write that one off. To me that is the most realistic thing that could happen out of these but there you go, more to come.