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re: Best Team in your school's history to not win a National Championship?

Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:23 pm to
Posted by Roses of Crimson
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:23 pm to
1983-Auburn-Best team ever at AU

1982- UGA-Most physical D I ever saw

2011- LSU (although 1987 might have been the best OVERALL LSU team ever but Tommy H couldn't stay healthy)

1989-UT-Most under rated team in SEC history

2009-UF- If not for Bama UF creates a dynasty. Texas wasn't in Florida's league. We won the NC when we beat Florida.
The Horns were a formality.
Posted by dawgfan24348
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:25 pm to
2012
Posted by PAGator
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:33 pm to
1994. Everyone was doing a Tom Osborne circle jerk so we got put aside (again). The 94 team tore through every opponent other than at #5 Michigan which we won by a touchdown. Next week we beat #23 Ohio State 63-14. Indiana was a hangover game and we didn't do well, but it's entirely the Big Tens fault for making us go to the Rose Bowl and not playing Nebraska

Honorable mention: 1973 and 1969
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:35 pm to
Our '89 baseball team. F U LSU.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:36 pm to
well, this is easy...
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:36 pm to
SRS list for Penn State

1. 1994
2. 1981
3. 1973
4. 1977
5. 1978
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:36 pm to
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1995 basketball
Those Kentucky v Arkansas games that season are still the best basketball games this conference has ever seen.
This post was edited on 2/29/16 at 1:37 pm
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:36 pm to
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although 1987 might have been the best OVERALL LSU team ever but Tommy H couldn't stay healthy


87 and 69 LSU are both good calls but I think 2011 has to be it considering how badly we beat up on everyone not named Alabama.
Posted by Tigerpaul1969
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:42 pm to
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If not for Bama UF creates a dynasty. Texas wasn't in Florida's league. We won the NC when we beat Florida.
The Horns were a formality.


I hear this a lot about Texas that year, but y'all built a pretty substantial lead after UT was shellshocked by the McCoy injury, having to play FR Garrett Gilbert, and yet, they came all the way back to 3 down late in the 4th quarter before finally pulling away with two very quick TDs. I'm not saying UT would have won if McCoy hadn't been injured, but you have to believe that would have been an epic finish in that game had he not. I don't think UT gets enough credit for 2009, and believe me, I am not a UT fan. I have no reason to believe they wouldn't have given Florida a similar fight.
Posted by AlabamaAlum07
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:44 pm to
What about our 1945 team? 10-0 Rose Bowl champs and comfortably beat everyone.

@ LSU 26-7
South Carolina 55-0
Tennessee 25-7
Georgia 28-14
@ Kentucky 60-19
@ Vanderbilt 71-0
Mississippi State 55-13
vs USC (Rose Bowl) 34-14

The AP went with Army even though they didn't have a damn thing to do with World War 2 and declined to play in a bowl.
This post was edited on 2/29/16 at 1:45 pm
Posted by PAGator
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:46 pm to
Those were all very good teams. I approached it as most deserving of a NC however. 1978 was a heartbreaker but Alabama was a monster at the time
Posted by AlabamaAlum07
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:47 pm to
Also, 1939 for Tennessee. They didn't allow a single point all season until they lost in the Rose Bowl.
Posted by AlabamaAlum07
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:48 pm to
quote:

87 and 69 LSU are both good calls but I think 2011 has to be it considering how badly we beat up on everyone not named Alabama.

The 06 team was so talented on both sides of the ball, plus Jimbo Fisher as OC.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:49 pm to
1917 - FB

We didn't allow a single point all year long
Posted by AlabamaAlum07
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:49 pm to
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Those were all very good teams. I approached it as most deserving of a NC however. 1978 was a heartbreaker but Alabama was a monster at the time

It's ridiculous that 94 Penn State didn't get a share of the title.
Posted by PAGator
Member since Jul 2015
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:52 pm to
I agree,, but it isn't the first time it happened to us. We have to be the most screwed over in the polls in history
Posted by woodhog14
Fayetteville, AR
Member since Jul 2011
898 posts
Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:56 pm to
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Those Kentucky v Arkansas games that season are still the best basketball games this conference has ever seen.


Yep.
Posted by AlabamaAlum07
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:56 pm to
Since I started watching in the early 90s:

Alabama: 1994
Arkansas: 2011
Auburn: 2004
Florida: 2001
Georgia: 2012
Kentucky: 2007
LSU: 2006
Mississippi State: 2014
Missouri: 2007
Ole Miss: 2008
South Carolina: 2013
Tennessee: 2001
Texas A&M: 2012
Vanderbilt: 2013

I might even say 2010 for us. There's no way we should've lost 3 games that year.
This post was edited on 2/29/16 at 1:58 pm
Posted by CGSC Lobotomy
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 1:58 pm to
A&M Baseball 1989.

A&M Football 1992 and 1993. (2012 was out of the title picture in October)
This post was edited on 2/29/16 at 2:00 pm
Posted by MNW
Starkville, MS
Member since Mar 2015
1830 posts
Posted on 2/29/16 at 2:00 pm to
2004 Mississippi State Basketball
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