re: 2011 Bama or 95 Nebraksa

Not much man, just getting by

And yeah, I want to look up how many pass attempts they had all year long. Even more fun is how many passes went more than five yards past the LOS. Can't have been more than a handful a game.

Quick glance at some stats show that Nebraska had three times as many rushing attempts as passing attempts and was rocking 400 yards/game on the ground to only 150 through the air.

Best rushing attack of all time, honestly.

Your 2011 team is the best bet out of the three national title winning squads.

2009 and 2012 were kind of ho-hum national title teams (if that can exist?). Maybe ho-hum isn't the right word, but they weren't all-time great teams.

2011 was one of the elite teams of college football history.

hey man, i'm headed to sleep. but i'll check out whatever responses you make in this thread in the morning. let me know if you dig up anything else cool from the nebraska team or comparative type stuff.

g'night.

'95 Nebraska was a far more dominant team. A big part of that was all year you had 2 teams that stood above the rest in Florida and Nebraska. They were both dominant teams and Florida was in the midst of all their SEC Titles under Spurrier and won the NC the following year. Florida was undefeated with 3 wins over Top 10 Teams and had barely been challenged all season.

Thus you had a true #1 vs #2 matchup for the NC game. No one was arguing that any other teams would beat either of them. Then Nebraska proceeded to absolutely crush Florida in that game 62-24. Nebraska flat out made Florida quit, highlighted by this play: Tommy Frazier's 75 yard TD run

With all the references to the DynAsty I got interested in NE myself and did some research before the big game.

As others, I just assumed "Big Eight = weak schedule." There's some truth to the assumption. But those Nebraska teams were just so dominant--especially the 95 team. The way they destroyed Florida was truly spectacular.

However, I still contend that in 94 & 97, NE would have lost a game or two if facing the rigors of a SEC type schedule. For example, in 94, they only beat Wyoming by 10 (then a 1-aa school) and Miami by a TD.

The only "tough stretch" that 94 team had was the last 2 games of the season: OK and Miami. OK stunk at the time, and Miami wasn't until more than a month later.

95 team demolished everybody. They would have killed the SEC that year. And that hurts to admit cause I remember hating them for all the attention they got in back to back seasons. But after they finished raping Florida, there was just no denying they were best in the nation, including anything the SEC had to offer.

97 was second year in Big 12. They were fairly dominant, stronger as year went on, but only beat CO by 3 pts. They killed TN in the orange bowl (42-17), but it would have been nice to have seen them playing MIch. for all the marbles.

TL, DR:
95 would have beaten anybody anywhere. 94 & 97 would not have stood up to the rigors of a modern SEC schedule, plus SECCG, plus BCSCG and be undefeated.

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HOWEVER... I still maintain that I believe their schedules to have been less difficult than ours. I think southern football has proven itself over a long period of time to have churned out a more dominant product. I think that back in the 90's it was only truly becoming a fully understood thing.

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you mean the 4 teams they played that ended up being ranked in the top 10 in the final polls? or the florida team they obliterated in their bowl?

Take a look at their rosters. Bama is MUCH bigger and stronger than that team was.