“OU has simply has the best modern college football record. Period.”
Typical Sooner rubbish that one starts keeping score at halftime.
Putting “modern” before football is same as putting “African” before American. Useless.
I'm no Sooner.
College football has gone through major changes since the game began. We no longer sew handles on the uniforms of ball carriers so that teammates can help drag them down the field. We have the forward pass. Flying wedges are illegal. The SEC admits black athletes.
I don't consider Yale as a college football power. Yet, if we consider the entire history of college football, Yale has seventeen national championships. Princeton has fourteen. From 1869 to 1922, the Ivy League dominated college football.
Times change.
Sometimes it's appropriate to take an institution and recognize different periods within the institution.
Would you recognize the steroid era in baseball, or the ancient dead ball era? Some mark 1945 as the start of college football's modern era.