re: 1995 Nebraska > 2019 LSU

I have Two degrees from LSU! That’s two more than you

With two kids about to graduate this year from LSU as well!

How many top10 teams did the huskers beat?

To be honest Nebraska is a much slower team and it's defensive back field could not keep up with LSU wr's.

Nebraska offense is not as good in the light of the offenses of today and the counters on defense used today.

Florida (Nebraska's best win) was mainly a one trick offense very vanilla compared to what you see today.

Miami is a better match of the two vs. LSU and would be a closer game.

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The Top 10 teams from 1995 that you're talking about are Kansas, Kansas State and Colorado.

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Colorado had been national champions in 1990 and had had a Heisman Trophy winner in 1994. Kansas crushed UCLA in their bowl game 51-30 that year and Colorado crushed #12 Oregon 38-6 in theirs. Kansas State had the nation's #1 defense that year and were also the last team to post three consecutive shutouts. Kansas State would also be in serious contention for the national championship in both 1998 and 1999.

Also...to call the Big 8 a joke is to be fairly ignorant of history. It was always a strong conference. I believe they remain the only conference to have three teams finish in the Top 3.

1971 Final AP Poll:

#1 Nebraska
#2 Oklahoma
#3 Colorado

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Mississippi St is the goat, cancer man.

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Not hardly.

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It would be a VERY close game but in a shootout I think I'd give it to LSU... I was a swamp kitten fan but after O's post game speech,"we own them and we're gonna own their arse in recruiting", I began to despise then as much as Hilary Clinton...

With that said, the 2019 LSU certainly had the best season of all time and went through a murderous schedule in the process. My head says hats off to them but my heart says, frick em with a cactus w/out lube then leave em passed out in a hotel Andrew Gillum style....

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Unlike most Bama fans, you are honest. Your worst day as a Bama fan was the day LSU fired Miles. Saban is the best ever, but coach O is much improved over Miles.

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You can't score if you don't have the ball.But those days are over.

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LSU would have run blitz the shite out of Nebraska and dared them to throw the ball. 8-9 men in the box. Fulton and Stingley takes away the WHOLE passing game of Nebraska. Delpit and Jacoby Stevens in the box. Nebraska is TOAST.

Jefferson, Marshall, Chase, Moss would eat Nebraska's back end alive and God forbid Nebraska tries to cover Clyde out of the backfield with those slow arse LB's. So those saying Nebraska would control the clock, I don't think so. Hell, Tyler Shelvin would demand a double team, freeing up LB's.Game, Set, Match LSU.

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He’s using the Ole Miss game as his logic behind saying Nebraska would be no match for us, completely ignoring the fact that we then went on to shut every team down and make life miserable for Mond, Fromm, Hurts and Lawrence, the last two of which were hyped to be able to make our life difficult in the ground game. Oklahoma averaged 250 yards a game rushing and managed 97 yards. Clemson averaged 240 a game and was held to 160 while only managing 87 yards total the rest of the game after going up 17-7. We turned on the jets after the Ole Miss game and we didn’t look back.

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Also consider, LSU would not be scared of 95 Neb passing game. Making it easy to load the box and make them look a lot like Oklahoma. So the biggest question mark is what could 95 NEB defense do vs the LSU passing game. My theory is if every team LSU faced after Fla decided the only chance they had was to play 6 or 7 DB's and try to slow down the passing game and NOT 1 did. Why would NEB be any different? I believe if 95 Neb played LSU in a base defense without extra DB's Burrow would throw for over 500 yards and score 50+. 95 Neb loses either way.

See...this a dumb argument and not what anyone who argues 1995 Nebraska > 2019 LSU are saying. If 2019 Alabama were to line up against 1995 Nebraska today, 2019 Alabama wins by 7-10 points. The game is just different now and players are both stronger and faster. Many of last year's top teams would have likely defeated '95 Nebraska due to this reason alone.

That's why when you compare teams from different eras, you have to look at how they played relative to their competition. 2019 LSU had an impressive run. Their resume is unmatched in college football. That being said, they had some squeakers. Texas, Alabama, Auburn, and to a certain extent Florida gave them everything they asked for and came close to beating LSU.

No one came close to beating Nebraska that year. No one. They absolutely drilled their competition and averaged over 53 points per game running the power option. Every single one of their running backs averaged over 7 yards per carry. Their offense was just as explosive on the ground as 2019 LSU's was through the air.