re: Right or wrong, Alabama is the GOAt in college football?

Because it was a reply to an Auburn fan. Sorry if not mentioning anything about Auburn above Alabama gets sand in your vagina and somehow makes anyone "aubsessing".

I don't think there can be a GOAT for the entire length of college football. I think it's easier to name a historical top 10 and then look at various time periods where teams were certainly GOAT.

For example Bama and Tennessee would certainly fall in the top ten overall but GOAT periods would vary. Take Neyland's shutout streak:

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Of his 216 games coached, the Vols shut out their opponents 109 times.

From 1938 to 1940, his teams recorded an amazing 17 consecutive regular season shutouts. In the 1939 regular season, Tennessee outscored its opposition 212-0.

The Vols are the last major college football program to shut out every regular season opponent.

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It's hard to argue that 1938-40 Vols weren't GOAT. Or that Neyland shutting out 109 teams out 212 isn't GOAT like coaching. There's a reason Knute Rockne told the press that everyone thought he was the greatest of all time but Coach Robert Neyland is the greatest.

Now move on to Bama's recent dominance - it's hard to argue you didn't go through a GOAT like era recently.

So maybe we so need to change GOAT to GOTT (Greatest of their time) to be more accurate about it. UF isn't a top 10 historical team yet but they sure as hell had an era of being GOTT. The same is true for others that fall outside the historical category.

GOAT for all of football is too broad - a top ten is about all you can do but it's more about being in the ten historical than settling any debate. No one is the GOAT when you look at how many teams have claims and how long the game has been played. But plenty of teams can claim being the GOTT, although since we're football fans that too would be debated by someone.

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87 Florida St. W 499 L 237 T 17 G 753 Win% 0.674

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That BS

Its not our fault segregation kept us from having a football team (or men) for the longest time.

It's a matter of what claim makes most sense. Everyone declaring their team GOAT is a contradiction created by the term but those same teams declaring x Era to be a time where their team was GOTT is something that can actually be debated and verified to some degree.

Historical 10 stay the same but they didn't all dominate at once plus schools not on that list can claim the times they were GOTT.

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Tennessee is not in the discussion. Great post with lots of facts, but your attempt to make Tennessee relevant in this discussion ultimately fails. You are a Top 10/15 program, but you are not a Top 5/3 program. Not even close to it.

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We're a top 10 and also in the 800 club. Sorry you don't like to share but we're in the discussion. But that's the problem with GOAT I tried to highlight, everyone in that top 10 has a right to claim it at some point and so many measures can be used to make those claims that GOAT is a meaningless designation that cause contradictions because of that. It's homerism at it's finest. You've got a top 10 historically and then GOTT periods for those in and out of the top ten but no single GOAT in such a lengthy history.

If being the GOAT is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

(Apologies to whoever wrote that song.)

GOAT in the SEC, but Notre Dame is the GOAT in the NCAA

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GOAT in the SEC, but Notre Dame is the GOAT in the NCAA

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No, they have the biggest name.

I'm mad that forfeited wins are being included

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Alabama is 7th, USC is 9th.

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In total wins, which is but a fraction of the overall measure of a program. You post something idiotic and then further underscore the lack of a point with those stupid emojis. I guess your stupid arse didn't bother to look at who that website has atop their all time rankings. It is Alabama, obviously.