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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/SpiritOfDearborn on 2025-08-19 12:26:46+00:00.
As a counterpoint to the other thread recently posted (“Teams we forgot used to be really bad”), what are some teams from back in the day that used to be consistently excellent and then fell off a cliff?
I think the classic example is Minnesota. They were the last college football dynasty in FBS to threepeat as champs, were arguably at one point a blue blood in a very narrow pool of schools competing for that title, and following the 1960s, they just sort of slowly disappeared.