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14, 2011  College coaches are quick to copy formulas for
success.  Knute Rockne is credited with popularizing the forward
pass in the 1920s. Soon afterward, everybody was throwing
downfield.  Darrell Royal's Texas Longhorns unveiled the
wishbone in 1968 and eventually posted 30 consecutive victories.
The next thing you know the wishbone was the most successful
offense during the '70s.  Olin Buchanan is the senior college
football writer for Rivals.com. Click here to send Olin a
question for a future mailbag, and you can click here to follow
him on Twitter. Portland State's Mouse Davis devised something
called the "run-and-shoot" in the '70s. That wide-open system
led to the spread, and Rich Rodriguez is credited with
developing the run-oriented spread option.  When Steve Spurrier
went to Florida in 1990, the SEC was a better-weather version of
the Big Ten, with teams generally relying on