re: Modern College National Champion vs. Past Super Bowl Champions

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but it won't overcome physics. A 320 lb man running 15 mph will destroy a 250 lb man running 12 mph every time

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Those Denver Broncos teams of the mid/late 90's would disagree. Their OLs were smaller and quicker than the guys they were blocking yet they paved the way for Rushing champions, a 2K runner and Championships

I love when ppl use the term "Modern" in comparing todays offenses and defenses. Oh how quick we forget how the Patriots were straight up embarrassed by the heavy underdog Dolphins who went back to the early 1900's and whipped out the Ol Pop Warner Single Wing Offense on em. Todays dumbass media calls it "The Wildcat"
Even Urban Myer says his offense is nothing but Spread Single Wing.
Bill Walsh, yeah that guy. The guy who pretty much ruled the 80's with his "west coast offense" even said he would've loved to have ran the single wing when he had Steve Young. He even stated how the single wing blocking would "chew up" todays defenses.

"One thing I have found very interesting in my conversation with (Bill) Walsh is that he regretted he never tried the single-wing formation with the 49ers. He felt that Steve Young could have run the formation to perfection, and that the league's defenses would have had a difficult time stopping the old formation."

The roots of the Tampa 2 system actually come from the Pittsburgh Steelers and their Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s. "My philosophy is really out of the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers playbook," said Dungy (who played for the Steelers early in his career) during media interviews while at Super Bowl XLI.

The gap isn't what ppl think