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re: Billingsley Top 200 CFB teams of All-Time

Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:10 pm to
Posted by Gatorbait2008
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Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:10 pm to
Penn State is definetly overrated. They are still considered good despite doing nothing recently.
Posted by GeauxTigers1410
Member since Sep 2020
1898 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:13 pm to
Dumb list bc of where 2001 Miami and 1995 Nebraska are ranked.
Posted by Gatorbait2008
Member since Aug 2015
26517 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:17 pm to
Agreed
Posted by cmayes56
Alabama
Member since Oct 2015
3032 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:51 pm to
The 2011 Alabama and LSU teams are too low. Those were the 2 best defensive teams I've ever seen in 55 years of watching college football.

Their offense's were pretty damn good too, until they played each other.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
50475 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 4:09 pm to
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Yea that is beyond insane. 29th for a team with players like Ed Reed and Ray Lewis...

Ray Lewis wasn’t on the 2001 Miami team. He was drafted by the Ravens in 1996 and was on the 2000 Ravens team that won the Super Bowl (he was Super Bowl MVP).
Posted by Globetrotter747
Member since Sep 2017
5220 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 5:27 pm to
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Dumb list bc of where 2001 Miami and 1995 Nebraska are ranked.

1971 and 1994 Nebraska are on there. IMO, people overlook them (compared to 1995) due to tougher opponents.

1971 Nebraska smoked everyone except Oklahoma, which is one of the best teams to not win a national title. In the mid ‘90s Oklahoma was terrible.

1994 Nebraska beat Colorado with Kordell Stewart, Rashaan Salaam, and Bill McCartney. They then played Ray Lewis and Warren Sapp in the Orange Bowl, where Miami had only lost like once in ten years. The Cowboys wouldn’t have scored 62 pts. on them like the 1995 team did on Florida.

1995 Nebraska did not play anyone in the regular season who was a national title contender. They did not play anyone in the bowl game with great defensive personnel (Nebraska’s kryptonite) and coaches wise to their scheme like the FSU and Miami teams that gave a seven game bowl loss from 1987-1993. Nearly eight games.

The 1995 team’s road couldn’t have been more favorable. No OOC opponent with more than six wins, a rock bottom Oklahoma, a bowl opponent that had never played them and didn’t care about defense, and no NFL ready firepower anywhere.

Here’s a stat: 1995 Nebraska and all of its opponents combined put 2 guys in the first round in 1996 - and both were busts. 2019 LSU and its opponents put 18 players in the first round - and several are among the best in the league now.

1995 Nebraska did not have (or play against) much top shelf talent. Line up in the I and try running downhill against 2011 Bama or 2021 UGA with no NFL arm or WR’s in the lineup and a colossal head case at TB who folded when he went to the NFL and wasn’t playing Kansas anymore and see what that gets you.
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 7/24/25 at 8:50 pm to
This list is kind of bizarre, I’m not saying they are the GOAT, but 05 Texas would literally hang with any team in the history of football, prolly beat the majority of them except a few.

VY was Cam before Cam, that mfer was unstoppable. Throw in all the talent he had with him on offense and defense. #28 is retarded for that team
Posted by Solo Cam
Member since Sep 2015
34629 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 8:59 pm to
2020* Alabama is the most overrated team of all time
Posted by TexasWranglers
Member since Sep 2024
1188 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 9:11 pm to
01 Miami and 05 Texas outside the top 25? List is absolute dog shite
Posted by skrayper
21-0 Asterisk Drive
Member since Nov 2012
34065 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 9:28 pm to
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6. Alabama, 2009- 378.29


I love this team, but it is not the second best Alabama team ever under Saban.
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
12422 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 9:31 pm to
clemson 2016 should be nowhere near the top 10.
Posted by GBJs
Northwest Mississippi
Member since Dec 2012
5627 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 9:38 pm to
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LSU didn't make it in 2007 or 2003 as national champs.


Your 11 team was MUCH better than 03, especially better than 07... there was a metric shite ton of talent on the field for those two games.
Posted by whowasbert
Member since Apr 2020
314 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 3:03 am to
20. 1995 Nebraska
28. 2005 Texas
29. 2001 Miami
39. 2004 USC

Posted by Easye921
Mobile
Member since Jan 2013
2876 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 6:23 am to
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Our 2020 team is not the best Bama team of all time. Our Tua to Smith over Georgia team or 2009 was better than them.


No they weren't. That 2020 team was so damned good.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
87586 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 6:59 am to
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That list is invalidated due to the fact that 1995 Nebraska isn’t even in the Top 10.


yeah i can maaaaaybe see not having them #1, that’s where id have them, but not even in the top 10?
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
26475 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 7:14 am to
Alabama, 2009 >>>> Bama 2020

Every team had players opting out of the season. Except for Bama where they stayed to win a title. Every competitor was replacing coaches who couldn’t meet with their team because of scamdemic. Bama team was already together and ready to roll. Most of Saban’s own teams would have beaten 2020.

2020 had next to no competition and a shortened season.
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 8:36 am
Posted by Summer of Jimbo
Amateur Statistician
Member since Oct 2022
3225 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 7:14 am to
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guess who has ZERO of the top 10


Because it’s not hard to cruise through your conference unchallenged and uninjured and then manage to get up for 1 or 2 games .
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
12422 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 1:19 pm to
The Clemson 2016 team at no. 10:

beat Troy 30-24
beat 7-6 NC St. team in overtime
lost to an 8-5 Pitt team


Sports is like this sometimes, but the 2015 Clemson team was overall a better team than the 2015 Alabama team.

The 2016 Bama team was better than the 2016 Clemson team.

Sometimes the best team doesn't always win.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6321 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 1:42 pm to
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I would possibly go with 1992 the team that beat the outlaws of Miami.

That was a very fine team and a bowl game I enjoyed immensely.
Coach Stallings stalking the sidelines growling at the officials…
If I recall he came unglued when an official called an unsportsmanlike conduct on the Alabama running back when he spun the football on its nose after scoring. It was all downhill for Miami after that.
Posted by dat yat
Chef Pass
Member since Jun 2011
4867 posts
Posted on 7/25/25 at 6:15 pm to
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Your 11 team was MUCH better than 03, especially better than 07


I understand that and agree that the 11 team deserved their spot on that list.

I was comparing those two championship teams to some 2 loss teams in the back half of that list that were NOT better than 07 0r 03 LSU championship teams; 2022 TCU with 2 losses, 2020 Clemson with 2 losses, 2020 Notre Dame with 2 losses, 2015 Michigan State with 2 losses, 2014 Oregon with 2 losses and a ton of other 1 loss teams that didn't win a championship. Those LSU teams were tough and had big wins along the way to their championship.
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