re: Finding the Best College Football Team - Bama not in top 5, 3 LSU teams in top 5, UF #1

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Just reminding the dawgs of their actual place… You’d have to win 4 straight to tie the series & LSU is 3-2 over the last 5.

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Excuse me sir but it's basketball season, I'll pretend I didn't read that

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The 2011 co-national champions split the season series. LSU won at Bama, Bama won at a neutral site. LSU had a much better body of work on the year. It’s perfectly reasonable to say LSU was the better team.

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21-0 in your backyard tell me differently

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Except, you know, the neutral site was down the road from LSU's campus. And LSU lost 21-0. So no, it's not reasonable to say that

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Season series was 1-1, one road win and one neutral site win, that’s a fact. It’s reasonable to say Alabama was the better team by point differential, but also reasonable to say LSU was better by the body of work. It’s the reason that both teams are recognized as national champions by different, reputable systems.

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Strength of Schedule

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Even this requires some context.

The final 1995 AP Top Ten consisted of only three players who were drafted in the first round the following spring. Only two of those teams had a first round selection. The final 2019 AP Top Ten consisted of twenty players who were drafted in the first round. Eight teams had at least one selection.

The top teams hoarded all the talent like never before in the years leading up NIL and the portal. A lot more asskickers to deal with at the top of the mountain. And with an expanded regular season, conference championships, and playoffs, you also had to deal with more of these players.

That’s why 2019 LSU had/faced 18 first round draft picks and 1995 Nebraska just two.

Stop before I show your mom your post. She will think you are a retard and see you cussing. Then I will tell your boyfriend , you know how jealous he gets when you talk to other guys.

1995 Nebraska is the best team I have ever seen in CFB

Sure talent wise
01 Miami
19 LSU
05 USC

as should be top 3

but put any of these teams verse each other(taking into account the massive improvment of diets now.(you would an amazing game between them all

1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers
2001 Miami Hurricanes
2005 USC Trojans
2008 Florida Gators
2019 LSU Tigers
2022 Georgia Bulldogs
2009 Alabama Crimson Tide

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it launched 2011 LSU into the top 4, over 2011 Bama down there at 18 because of their SOS

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Damn yankees writing about college football again. Let’s just rate this team ahead of the team that beat them by three touchdowns. Also obvious clickbait.

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Yep 95 Nebraska is the goat and it’s not close. These youngsters and their recency bias have no clue how dominant that team was.

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I copied and pasted this from an earlier post of mine about Nebraska’s “dominance” in the Osborne era.

Here’s a breakdown of the number of times Nebraska scored at least 50 points from 1980-1993:

50-59: 25 times.
60-69: 12 times.
70-79: 4 times.
80-89: 1 time.

That’s 42 50+ point games in the 14 years leading up to the 1994-1997 dynasty.

Meanwhile. Miami won four national titles (and 3-0 against Nebraska with two shutouts) from 1980-1993 with the following breakdown:

50-59: 11 times.
60-69: 2 times.
70-79: 0 times.
80-89: 0 times.

That’s 13 50+ point games.

Maybe it’s accurate to say that Osborne always had a tendency to run the score up on a bunch of shitty defenses. Even when he could barely score against the great Switzer, Miami, and FSU defenses, he still put up video game scores on most other teams. Nebraska only faced the Switzer, Miami, and FSU triumvirate once from 1994-1997 and just barely won. And that was Miami on the decline.