re: Best team ever

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Nebraska defense was light years better than LSU and their offense was close to LSU

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horseshite.

1995 Nebraska’s receivers were Reggie Baul and Clester Johnson. Neither had a cup of coffee in the NFL. Anyone want them over Chase/Jefferson or Smith/Waddle?

Tommie Frazier accounted for 2,270 yards his senior year. Burrow had 6,000+ and Jones 4,500+. They had way more upside.

Lawrence Phillips was a major headcase who ran over a Florida defense that didn’t have anything higher than a 3rd rounder in the next three drafts and HC who didn’t know or care much about D at the time. Once he got to the NFL and wasn’t playing Kansas anymore, he couldn’t handle it. Meanwhile, Najee Harris is entering his third year as starting RB for the Steelers.

2020 Alabama OL had two first round draft picks and a second. No one on 1995 Nebraska’s OL went higher than the 3rd round.

The I formation is not some magical fricking scheme that allows you to compensate for talent deficiencies. In fact, it’s one of the last things you want to run if the opponent is better than you. There’s a reason Nebraska scored 50 on Kansas every year but struggled against strong defenses.

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Also please stop posting other teams records a lot of you guys have no clue how good those teams were back then

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I do.

What a lot of people don’t consider regarding Nebraska’s I formation days is that they always struggled against elite defenses. Prime OU, Miami, and FSU owned them with players like the Selmon Bros., Bosworth, Casillas, Cortez Kennedy, Michael Barrow, Ray Lewis, Derrick Brooks, and Jonathan Vilma. They didn’t score 62 pts. on those motherfrickers. In 1995, OU was rock bottom and Florida’s defense was tissue soft. The road was easier for Nebraska than it had perhaps ever been.

I’m not saying 1995 Nebraska sucked, but they did NOT have to beat an elite team in the regular season and played a bowl opponent far less suited to defending their style of offense than the teams that handed them 7 straight bowl losses from 1987-1993 and damn near 8 in 1994.