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re: Biggest fraud to ever see the NCG or playoffs in football?
Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:36 am to GeauxTigerNation
Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:36 am to GeauxTigerNation
2004 Chokelahoma. They played absolutely nobody that year. The media wanted to push for a Heisman vs Heisman NC game though. Then that same media wanted to cry and say Auburn should have been there instead, after they were championing for Chokelahoma all year.
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Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:38 am to skrayper
quote:Notre Dame basically plays 3-4 teams on their schedule that generally are 8-win caliber. That's going to be Michigan State (and/or Michigan), USC, Stanford, and then somebody random (like Oklahoma 2012).
No one has gotten more of a "benefit of the doubt" thanks to a lot of close wins than Notre Dame. They play some good teams (like in 2012, Stanford and Oklahoma were on up there)
If those teams are down and Notre Dame is good-not-great, they make the playoffs by virtue of name.
SEC play is more telling, because beyond just Alabama (for now), you just have too many good programs for all to be down at once.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:47 am to RollTide1987
quote:They got yards, but LSU's defense gummed up those offenses and made turnovers (hidden yards).quote:
LSU would not have had to throw a single pass to win, or did you forget that they absolutely shut down Oregon and West Virginia that year?
Oregon outgained LSU 335-273 while West Virginia outgained LSU 533-366. There was no absolute shutdown of either team.
Meanwhile LSU ran the ball on everyone not wearing Crimson. Remember they even ground down Georgia in the SEC championship, and eventually started moving against mighty Alabama in the regular season game.
There was one team capable of beating LSU that year, that was Alabama, and LSU went 1-1 against them. It is what it is, hats off to Bama getting it done the second time around. The final score (21-0) isn't indicative of a blowout, it was a ton of FGs and a late TD. LSU's defense bent, while Alabama's didn't.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:49 am to DawgsLife
2012 Notre Dame
Everyone know the NC was the SEC championship between Georgia and Alabama.
Everyone know the NC was the SEC championship between Georgia and Alabama.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 10:54 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My vote goes to ND 2012.
Concur wholeheartedly. UGA would have beat the brakes off ND had they won the SEC, too. Had that happened, though....Richt would still be at UGA.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 11:05 am to Simplemaaan
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I remember Tommy Frazier and Nebraska running through a Florida team like water through a faucet.
More like shite thru a goose.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 12:08 pm to GeauxTigerNation
Michigan State in 2015 was plain awful.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 12:11 pm to GeauxTigerNation
Agreed on ND but Oregon was damn good
Posted on 7/1/19 at 12:11 pm to McGregor
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Eddie Lacy busted through the line for 12 yards on the second play of the game. Nobody touched him for ten yards. Game was over right there.
I remember that game. Manti Teo got eaten alive that night. I haven’t seen such a lop sided NCG since USC smoked Oklahoma in ‘05.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 3:44 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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-Beat the eventual national champions in Tuscaloosa (13-1, top 5)
-Beat the Big East/Orange Bowl champs by 26 in Morgantown (10-3, dropped 70 in a BCS bowl)
- Beat the PAC 12/Rose Bowl champs by 13(12-2, top 5)
- Beat Arkansas by 24 (11-2, top 5, only losses were to LSU and Bama)
-Beat Georgia by 32 in the SECCG (10-4)
-Beat Florida and Auburn by 30+.
Had LSU won the rematch vs Bama, it’s without a doubt the single most impressive season in the modern era.
Calling LSU a fraud because of this would be like calling Bama a fraud because of Clemson.
Both had bad games to end the season. But both most certainly deserved to be there. LSU had such an impressive list of wins to get there.
This post was edited on 7/1/19 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 7/1/19 at 6:13 pm to LSU615
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1998 Tennessee Vols, hands down.
I dunno about UT, but Ohio State was better than FSU that year, if not the best in the country. A&M played both to start and end the season, and K-State may have been better than FSU as well.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 6:22 pm to cramps
Weinke hurt his neck near the end of the regular season so that pretty much screwed FSU.
Posted on 7/2/19 at 7:43 am to GeauxTigerNation
OU vs USC has to be the worst NCG loss, but OU was the only team that had a shot at them, they were just that good.
Posted on 7/2/19 at 10:30 am to Korin
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Weinke hurt his neck near the end of the regular season so that pretty much screwed FSU.
Truth. I think the back-up was a Veer or Wishbone QB in high school, too. That had disaster written all over it.
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