Top 10 Finishes

[AksarbenHusker]

I can't speak for the majority of Husker fans, but I know I would be thrilled if the Huskers would just get the occasional Top 10 season. The consensus around the CFB community seems to be that the Husker fan base is one of the most delusional, but far from thinking we should win a national championship every year, I'd just like to reach the Top 10 within the next 4 years.

And that really shouldn't be that hard. During Bo's tenure, 32 different teams finished in the Top 10. A full quarter of FBS schools had Top 10 finishes. Nearly half of the Power 5 had a Top 10 finish. Nearly half of the B1G has had a Top 10 finish. So why can't the Huskers reach this bar from time to time?

Here's the list of all 32 teams that reached the AP Top 10 since 2008. B1G teams in bold.

Alabama

Arkansas

Auburn

Baylor

Boise State

Cincinnati

Clemson

Florida

Florida State

Georgia

Georgia Tech

Iowa

LSU

Michigan

Michigan State

Missouri

Notre Dame

Ohio State

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Oregon

Penn State

South Carolina

Stanford

TCU

Texas

Texas A&M

UCLA

USC

Utah

Virginia Tech

Wisconsin

 

[NUance]

Iowa? Really?? I guess I just can't remember when they didn't suck. At least in the past decade or so, that is.

 

[papersun87]

That's what I always wondered . . . how are all these teams having a breakthrough year, even if it's just for a short while, and Nebraska is stuck in four-loss purgatory?

If Nebraska can finish in the top ten in the first four years of the Riley tenure I'll be ecstatic. A successful season is so hard to define for a variety of reasons, but at least teams that finish in the top ten can say they played at an elite level that season, and the closest NU has been was in 09. (And no one who watched that offense would have called that team elite.)

 

[junior4949]

In 08' and 09', we finished the season as a better team than when the season started. You cannot say the same about any other team during Bo's tenure. This is why we never finished the season in the top 10. We imploded in November.