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Jackie Sherrill spoiled us
I was thinking about the ESPN stat that they keep throwing up about Dan going 2-15 against AP top 25 teams or whatever it is. And I decided to look at some things to try to see what our baseline for beating those teams should be. So, I started when MSU football started to beat such teams with 1991. Jackie won EIGHT games against teams that finished in the AP top 25 in his career at MSU. Even more remarkable he did that in his first 10 years. So he won on average one AP top 25 win four out of every five years.
1992- Florida
1994- Tennessee
1996- Alabama
1997- Auburn
1998- Arkansas
1999- Ole Miss (Pass, pick, and kick and best Egg Bowl ever!)
2000- Florida
2000- Auburn
Croom managed one in 2007 over Auburn.
Dan has two- 2009 against Ole Miss and 2014 against Auburn.
I'm going to guess that Jackie's win total was maybe a little higher than what we should expect- but Dan's is probably a little lower than what we should expect. Realistically we should be expecting somewhere between 2-4 AP top 25 wins every five years. Dan looks like he is going to average one out of every five years at his current rate.
Another interesting thing to note- of the 11 AP top 25 wins we have had since 1991, 9 have come in Starkville.
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