My, how the sport of college football has changed. In today's game, injustices are rectified by those saavy enough to manipulate the system in their own favor. So everyone's favorite choice to win the national title doesn't even qualify for its own conference championship game? No worries, we'll keep the school right near the top of the polls, and when the dust settles at the end of the regular season, they're in. Someone finds the slightest inadequacy in the Bowl Championship Series format? We modify the format so it doesn't happen again.
Correct or not, we've come to accept that which is right to win out in the end. But this wasn't the case four decades ago, when a football team from Ann Arbor produced four seasons where their combined win-loss record exceeded 90%, where only one team kept them from perfection.
This blog was created to honor the 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1974 University of Michigan Wolverines. Four of the greatest teams to ever represent the University, teams whose combined record was a breathtakingly impressive 39 wins, three defeats and a single tie. Four teams that finished their seasons with respective records of 9-1, 10-1, 10-0-1 and 10-1--yet still were not allowed to participate in any postseason bowl game. Pictured at right is Wolverine coach Bo Schembechler before the start of the 1970 football season with his two captains.
