re: Greatest Of All Time?

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Miami in 01 would have a case, but Nebraska was too one dimensional on offense to be considered the best ever.

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A few counterpoints:

1) When discussing GOAT teams, it ruins the conversation to compare eras. If a team of yesteryear ran an archaic offense or had smaller players or whatever, it doesn’t really matter because we can only analyze how that team competed and performed in the context of their era. Nebraska’s offense might have been innovative or perfect for the mid 90s sort of how what Bama is doing on offense is unique for 2018.

2) Nebraska might have been one dimensional based on eye test, but they ran the triple option with NFL athletes. That’s still a very difficult offense to defend and no one with elite players runs it nowadays. 2013 Auburn came close to running an option-like offense and they had plenty of success against some great defenses that year.