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Posted on 8/7/19 at 2:21 pm to Pdubntrub
Posted on 8/7/19 at 2:21 pm to Pdubntrub
No doubt about it...the 1972 USC Trojans, often viewed as the best of all time along with Nebraska's '71 & '96 squads and/or the 2004 Trojans (by a slight edge, I'm going with the '72 squad).
USC, coached by John McKay, finished the season 12-0 after blowing out Ohio State 42-17 in the Rose Bowl. In the process, the Trojans became the first team to be named No. 1 on every ballot of both the coaches and media polls. Keith Jackson, who's forgotten more about college football than we'll ever know, said the '72 Trojans were the best ever.
Not only were the '72 Trojans the unanimous No. 1 in both polls, but USC's strength of schedule and the dominance it displayed in plowing through its opponents was astounding, if not unprecedented.
The `72 Trojans beat their 12 opponents by an average of almost 28 points per game. Their schedule included six ranked teams --
#4 Nebraska
#15 Stanford
#18 Washington
#14 UCLA
#10 Notre Dame
#3 Ohio State...all of them which USC beat by an average of 20.2 points per game. And, as ESPN pointed out, the '72 Trojans capped the season with a 25-point victory over the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl.
USC, coached by John McKay, finished the season 12-0 after blowing out Ohio State 42-17 in the Rose Bowl. In the process, the Trojans became the first team to be named No. 1 on every ballot of both the coaches and media polls. Keith Jackson, who's forgotten more about college football than we'll ever know, said the '72 Trojans were the best ever.
Not only were the '72 Trojans the unanimous No. 1 in both polls, but USC's strength of schedule and the dominance it displayed in plowing through its opponents was astounding, if not unprecedented.
The `72 Trojans beat their 12 opponents by an average of almost 28 points per game. Their schedule included six ranked teams --
#4 Nebraska
#15 Stanford
#18 Washington
#14 UCLA
#10 Notre Dame
#3 Ohio State...all of them which USC beat by an average of 20.2 points per game. And, as ESPN pointed out, the '72 Trojans capped the season with a 25-point victory over the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl.
This post was edited on 8/7/19 at 2:23 pm
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Posted on 8/7/19 at 9:21 pm to RatRodDawg
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No doubt about it...the 1972 USC Trojans, often viewed as the best of all time along with Nebraska's '71 & '96 squads and/or the 2004 Trojans (by a slight edge, I'm going with the '72 squad).
a good team but the best team of all time was 1899 Sewanee, check out these guys
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The 1899 Tigers went 12–0, outscoring opponents 322 to 10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title.
With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw."[1] The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."[2][3][n 1]
The 11 extra points against Cumberland by Bart Sims is still a school record. The offense was led by Diddy Seibels; the defense by Ormond Simkins.[n 2] John Heisman's Auburn team was the only one even to score on Sewanee.A 16-team playoff to determine the best team in college football history with winners decided by fan votes was run by the College Football Hall of Fame, called the March of the Gridiron Champions. Sewanee, starting at the lowest seed, won the tournament.Sewanee beat such teams as the 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team and 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team.
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