LOTS of discussion about OSU football, Gundy's legacy, "expectations", OU's "dominance" of the Big 12 conference, comparisons to other teams and conferences. Here are is some data about conference championships from P5 football conferences over the last 10 years:
- One thing jumps out: every conference tends to have a dominant team and a very few other contenders. OU is only slightly better than the average of the other dominant conference teams for both number of championships and streak of championships. It's not just the Big 12. The PAC 12 appears the most competitive across the board within their conference.
- Nearly three fourths (72%) of P5 conference teams did not win a single championship in the ten year span.
- Five Big 12 teams have won at least a share of a championship, which is actually one better than the average of 4 across all the P5 conferences.
- On average only 28% of P5 schools (19 of them) have one even one shared or outright championship in ten years. OSU is with the "haves", albeit just barely with a win in 2011.
- Had I expanded to first and second place finishs OSU would look even better because we have been consistently in the top 3. Had we won the second title we would be among only 10 teams, or the top 15%, of all the P5 conference teams to have one more than one Championship in the last ten years; it is very, very difficult to reload and knock off the dominant team to win multiple conference championships in a ten year period, and that is true in every P5 conference.
- Think about the big-name programs that do not appear once in the table above: Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, Tennessee, UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Miami, or the teams like us which have only one championship: Penn State, Auburn, USC, and Nebraska. We are there with some pretty high powered names.
- Keep in mind that is generally conference champions that get in to the 4 - team playoff.
- One thing jumps out: every conference tends to have a dominant team and a very few other contenders. OU is only slightly better than the average of the other dominant conference teams for both number of championships and streak of championships. It's not just the Big 12. The PAC 12 appears the most competitive across the board within their conference.
- Nearly three fourths (72%) of P5 conference teams did not win a single championship in the ten year span.
- Five Big 12 teams have won at least a share of a championship, which is actually one better than the average of 4 across all the P5 conferences.
- On average only 28% of P5 schools (19 of them) have one even one shared or outright championship in ten years. OSU is with the "haves", albeit just barely with a win in 2011.
- Had I expanded to first and second place finishs OSU would look even better because we have been consistently in the top 3. Had we won the second title we would be among only 10 teams, or the top 15%, of all the P5 conference teams to have one more than one Championship in the last ten years; it is very, very difficult to reload and knock off the dominant team to win multiple conference championships in a ten year period, and that is true in every P5 conference.
- Think about the big-name programs that do not appear once in the table above: Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, Tennessee, UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Miami, or the teams like us which have only one championship: Penn State, Auburn, USC, and Nebraska. We are there with some pretty high powered names.
- Keep in mind that is generally conference champions that get in to the 4 - team playoff.
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