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Love or hate the BCS, it's dead and done with. We now move into the creatively named College Football Playoff era.
As with most changes in life, there comes a time to reset expectations and this holds true here.
At the very minimum, the gold standard for most programs in the BCS era was to qualify for a BCS bowl game. One could safely assume that the new standard would to be to qualify for the College Football Playoff every few years or so.
What should we expect from our program moving forward?
Thanks to a comment by Corn Nation member masne09, I think I came up with a quick way to come up with a starting baseline to begin all talks of expectations. Don't get me wrong, this is a VERY high level approach to determining what we should expect from the Huskers in the new post-season format, but it's a start.
Let's play a game. Take a look at the list of schools below and determine which schools you think Nebraska is "better" than. Use your own criteria for "better".
- Alabama
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- FSU
- USC
- LSU
- Texas
- Miami
- Oregon
- Auburn
- Florida
- Virginia Tech
- Michigan
- TCU
- Stanford
- Tennessee
- Kansas State
- Washington
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Penn State
- Cincinnati
- Oklahoma State
- Notre Dame
- Michigan State
- Alabama: 6
- Ohio State: 5
- Oklahoma: 5
- FSU: 4
- USC: 4
- LSU: 4
- Texas: 4
- Miami: 3
- Oregon: 3
- Auburn: 3
- Florida: 3
- Virginia Tech: 2
- Nebraska: 2
- Michigan: 2
- TCU: 2
- Stanford: 2
- Tennessee: 1
- Kansas State: 1
- Washington: 1
- Colorado: 1
- Georgia: 1
- Penn State: 1
- Cincinnati: 1
- Oklahoma State: 1
- Notre Dame: 1
- Michigan State: 1