[stupac2]

Just to re-state the obvious, it is very hard to compare teams that are 10 years apart, let alone 30 or more. The game has changed so much. The rules have changed. Pass defense in particular is a whole different animal. So, while it is nice that Shaw's teams scored so many points per game, it is not clear to me what that says about their relation to a team of 2000, let alone a team of 1971.

The way to do this is with Z-scores (which normalize things to number of standard deviations away from the mean) by year, but compiling that data with college stats would probably be a royal pain. With cfbstats it would be easy, but of course that only goes back to 2008.

[stupac2]

Just to re-state the obvious, it is very hard to compare teams that are 10 years apart, let alone 30 or more. The game has changed so much. The rules have changed. Pass defense in particular is a whole different animal. So, while it is nice that Shaw's teams scored so many points per game, it is not clear to me what that says about their relation to a team of 2000, let alone a team of 1971.

The way to do this is with Z-scores (which normalize things to number of standard deviations away from the mean) by year, but compiling that data with college stats would probably be a royal pain. With cfbstats it would be easy, but of course that only goes back to 2008.