re: Connelly/ESPN ranks the best teams of the decade...

By reading the explanation, he goes by where all the teams ranked each year of the time span. And the ranking for the team is reached by adding the offence rankings and the defense rankings for each year.

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Five best teams: 2020 Alabama (99.7), 2022 Georgia (99.4), 2021 Georgia (99.3), 2022 Michigan (98.9), 2022 Alabama (98.9)

Five best offenses: 2020 Alabama (99.9), 2020 Ohio State (99.2), 2021 Ohio State (98.8), 2021 Alabama (98.7), 2020 Florida (98.7)

Five best defenses: 2021 Georgia (99.0), 2022 Iowa (98.9), 2022 Georgia (98.5), 2020 Iowa (98.4), 2022 Illinois (98.4)

Alabama's 2020 perfection (and Georgia's 2020 flaws) give the Tide a narrow overall advantage despite Georgia's back-to-back titles. We'll see if that remains the case moving forward.

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