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re: NFL.com's Top 10 College Football Teams of the 2000s
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:13 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:13 am to RollTide1987
Our 06 team has no business on that list. 
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Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:20 am to RollTide1987
Mine would be this (in no particular order):
01 Florida
01 Miami
02 Miami
04 Auburn
04 USC
05 Texas
06 LSU
08 Florida
08 USC
09 Alabama
01 Florida
01 Miami
02 Miami
04 Auburn
04 USC
05 Texas
06 LSU
08 Florida
08 USC
09 Alabama
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:21 am to auyushu
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Bama 2011
Held 8 opponents to a touchdown or less. Shut out 3.
Didn't give up more than 14 points to an SEC school all year.
Allowed 21 points only once.
Largely considered one of the top 5 defenses to ever play the game.
Average margin of victory of 27 points.
Of the 22 starters, 11 went on to become first round draft picks.
Meh.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:24 am to Tuscaloosa
The list is 00 through 09 though.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:43 am to Tuscaloosa
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Largely considered one of the top 5 defenses to ever play the game.
And those numbers are all clearly skewed by the crappy competition you faced that year, am I right?
Bama faced a whopping 2 offenses that were inside the top 70 in scoring offense in 2011, and one of those was LSU. Your defense didn't face anyone that year that could be considered a really good offense outside of Arkie, and you got them early before Tyler Wilson had even settled in as a starter.
Auburn at least faced 5 top 50 offenses in 2004, which is more than I can say for 2011 Bama. And we held all of those offenses but Arkie under 14 points (and Tenn in a rematch after we let off the gas).
Trying to use schedules as a reason to discount a team is dumb as hell period, but doing so when your own championship teams have had crazy easy schedules is just beyond silly.
1995 Nebraska had a crazy easy schedule, doesn't stop them from being one of the best teams of all time.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 12:49 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:58 am to auyushu
Boom
Posted on 7/3/14 at 1:38 am to auyushu
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And we held all of those offenses but Arkie under 14 points (and Tenn in a rematch after we let off the gas).
Auburn only led Tennessee by a touchdown at the start of the 4th quarter. It's pretty stupid to let off the gas when you're only up by 14 at halftime.
There's a reason why Auburn didn't get into the BCS National Championship Game in 2004. It's because the SEC was perceived as weak. Auburn was a great team in 2004 but, like the SEC in 1992, the league only consisted of one great team and a couple of good ones.
Alabama was able to maintain its lead over FSU and Texas A&M in the polls that season due to its name.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 1:42 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 1:43 am to Tuscaloosa
No 2011 LSU? lol
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 1:45 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 1:50 am to redgreen
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No 2011 LSU? lol
2011 LSU is at least top-4
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 1:51 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 2:14 am to RollTide1987
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Auburn only led Tennessee by a touchdown at the start of the 4th quarter. It's pretty stupid to let off the gas when you're only up by 14 at halftime.
Agreed, but we had completely dominated them at the half. Outgained them 300+ yards to like 30something. Their only score came after a botched punt snap gave them the ball on our 2 (and only an interception in the end zone kept us from being up 28 or 24 to 7 at half). The players got cocky and let off the gas and then a fumble deep in our territory and a long 80 yard run got them back in the game 21-21 and our team had to wake the hell up.
But letting off the gas early was a consistent problem with Tubervile anyway, one of his biggest weaknesses as a head coach was his tendency to go into the Tubershell slowdown offense when he got a lead, he did it against Virginia Tech as well that year.
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There's a reason why Auburn didn't get into the BCS National Championship Game in 2004. It's because the SEC was perceived as weak. Auburn was a great team in 2004 but, like the SEC in 1992, the league only consisted of one great team and a couple of good ones.
While I would agree that 2004 was somewhat similar to 1992 with the teams inside the SEC, how the SEC was perceived had nothing to do with us not getting into the championship game. If #1 and #2 don't lose, it doesn't matter how the people behind them are perceived. We weren't going to jump Okie unless we were just beating everyone we played by 30+, and even then it would have been iffy.
1992 isn't really a comparison there because FSU had a loss and Bama was ahead of A&M from early in the season (and A&M played one ranked team the entire year, their first game). And neither team started at #2. It's a completely different ball game when #1 and #2 from the beginning of the year don't lose.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 2:20 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 3:43 am to bamasgot13
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This is wonderfully entertaining. If you're supposed to be one of the best teams in school history, you don't let anybody - much less the "2nd best team in the nation" embarrass your arse on the biggest stage imaginable. I don't care if 2011 LSU played 2011 Bama 14 times in the same season. Bama wasn't getting beat by 21 that year.
It's hard to beat any team twice in a season in college football. It's even harder when that team could be considered a top 5 team in the last 20 years and looking for revenge after you beat them at their house. That 21-0 was a fluke win, and any other year the pollsters wouldn't dare put Bama in that game.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 4:06 am to auyushu
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And those numbers are all clearly skewed by the crappy competition you faced that year, am I right?
Bama faced a whopping 2 offenses that were inside the top 70 in scoring offense in 2011, and one of those was LSU. Your defense didn't face anyone that year that could be considered a really good offense outside of Arkie, and you got them early before Tyler Wilson had even settled in as a starter.
Auburn at least faced 5 top 50 offenses in 2004, which is more than I can say for 2011 Bama. And we held all of those offenses but Arkie under 14 points (and Tenn in a rematch after we let off the gas).
Trying to use schedules as a reason to discount a team is dumb as hell period, but doing so when your own championship teams have had crazy easy schedules is just beyond silly.
1995 Nebraska had a crazy easy schedule, doesn't stop them from being one of the best teams of all time.
They played (and destroyed) 4 teams that finished in the top 10.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 4:07 am to Datbayoubengal
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It's hard to beat any team twice in a season in college football. It's even harder when that team could be considered a top 5 team in the last 20 years and looking for revenge after you beat them at their house. That 21-0 was a fluke win, and any other year the pollsters wouldn't dare put Bama in that game.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 6:41 am to RollTide1987
2011 Bama and 2011 LSU should be in the top three with 01 Miami.
ETA: Actually, after I really looked at it, this list doesn't go to 2011. Makes sense.
ETA: Actually, after I really looked at it, this list doesn't go to 2011. Makes sense.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 6:43 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 7:18 am to RollTide1987
02 Georgia was better than a few of those.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 7:34 am to Tuscaloosa
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Bama 2011
Lost.
At home.
To Jordan Jefferson.
Without scoring a Touchdown.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:15 am to diddydirtyAubie
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The 2004 Auburn team was better than most of those teams.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 9:45 am to RandySavage
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Without scoring a Touchdown.
Against the 2nd best defense to ever play the game.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 9:49 am to Tuscaloosa
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2011 Bama
is not a part of
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College Football Teams of the 2000s
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:15 am to RollTide1987
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NFL.com's
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College Football Teams
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