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The longest consecutive shutout streaks in CFB since 1953
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:40 am
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:40 am
Author used 1953 due to clear records availability.
1. Oklahoma 7 (1955-1956)
2. Alabama 6 (1961-1962)
3. 5 games
Ole Miss (1958-1959)
Yale (1959)
Buffalo (1962-1963)
Arkansas (1964)
Georgia Tech (1956-1957)
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1. Oklahoma 7 (1955-1956)
2. Alabama 6 (1961-1962)
3. 5 games
Ole Miss (1958-1959)
Yale (1959)
Buffalo (1962-1963)
Arkansas (1964)
Georgia Tech (1956-1957)
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Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:43 am to OU Guy
Much easier to have shut-outs playing one platoon football and QBs who just learned about the forward pass.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:50 am to HempHead
^^ We’ll never see these records broken imo
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:52 am to OU Guy
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:54 am to OU Guy
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since 1953
Leaves out the GOAT, and one of the greatest stories in college football.
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Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South.
The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and lost none, outscored opponents 322–10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title. Several writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest football teams ever to play.
With just 18 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-consecutive-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss.
This trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."
1899 Sewanee Tigers (Wikipedia)
As a side note, that Auburn team (the only one that scored points against) was coached by John Heisman.
Sewanee eventually became a co-founding member of the SEC in 1932, never won a conference game, and left in 1940, which helped usher in the creation of DIII sports.
"A small liberal arts college simply can not compete in football with large universities," the school president wrote at the time.
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Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:06 am to HempHead
Yeah, any football records that include Yale are fairly insignificant.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:23 am to SRV
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SRV
Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:37 am to OU Guy
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We’ll never see these records broken imo
And we'll never see OU's 47 game win streak broken.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:40 am to paperwasp
According to this image, they actually won 10 in a row with shutouts. The five before and one after.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:42 am to paperwasp
quote:Sewanee in football reminds me of D1 baseball...
1899 Sewanee Tigers (Wikipedia)
As a side note, that Auburn team (the only one that scored points against) was coached by John Heisman.
Sewanee eventually became a co-founding member of the SEC in 1932, never won a conference game, and left in 1940, which helped usher in the creation of DIII sports.
"A small liberal arts college simply can not compete in football with large universities," the school president wrote at the time.
when Skip first came to LSU, college baseball had a lot of smaller schools winning, because they chose to put more into it.
You did see some warm-weather big schools (particularly the Pac 10 South, hence USC's run, Arizona State, etc), but Wichita State, Cal State Fullerton and others were able to compete at the top.
Miss State was the best in the SEC, but couldn't win in Omaha.
That's changed, the SEC and other P5 conferences now take it seriously. And look at the polls=
5 SEC teams in the top 6;
the top 13 in D1 poll is 6 SEC, 5 ACC, 1 Pac 12, 1 AAC.
Tennessee is 16, with a losing record in SEC play.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 10:54 am to paperwasp
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paperwasp
What can I say….I like to shred
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:22 am to OU Guy
The late, great Bud Wilkinson of OU had some of college football's greatest teams ever.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:33 am to Smokin Joe Dumas
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they actually won 10 in a row with shutouts
Yep, and almost went unscored-against for the entire 12-game season, if Auburn hadn't (presumably) cheated.
Obviously we're talking about a totally different period of college "football" with only a few parallels to today, but regardless, this single season was remarkable in terms of the era in which it was played.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:34 am to Scoob
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Sewanee in football reminds me of D1 baseball
Interesting and apt comparison.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:42 am to OU Guy
Tennessee had a pretty damn solid streak as well.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:44 am to paperwasp
Boys, let's get to a more modern era than the 1800s, okay?
In 1938, the Duke Blue Devils posted 9 straight shutouts for their entire regular season....then lost, 7-3, in the Rose Bowl to the USC Trojans.
In 1939, the Tennessee Volunteers posted 10 straight shutouts for their entire regular season....then lost, 14-0, in the Rose Bowl to the -- yes, you guessed it! -- USC Trojans.
Lesson learned: if your team has a shutout streak going and you want it to keep going, don't play USC. Hello. :)
In 1938, the Duke Blue Devils posted 9 straight shutouts for their entire regular season....then lost, 7-3, in the Rose Bowl to the USC Trojans.
In 1939, the Tennessee Volunteers posted 10 straight shutouts for their entire regular season....then lost, 14-0, in the Rose Bowl to the -- yes, you guessed it! -- USC Trojans.
Lesson learned: if your team has a shutout streak going and you want it to keep going, don't play USC. Hello. :)
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Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:12 pm to JetDawg
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Boys, let's get to a more modern era than the 1800s, okay?
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:17 pm to paperwasp
At least Tennessee was better than Southwest Presbyterian and Cumberland 
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:32 pm to paperwasp
In your case, honesty isn't a pretty picture!
Posted on 4/11/23 at 3:47 pm to SRV
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Yeah, any football records that include Yale are fairly insignificant.
Its why 1936 is when you should really start talking about records. Its when the AP poll started
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