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re: Greatest College football team of all time…
Posted on 10/11/24 at 6:48 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 10/11/24 at 6:48 pm to RollTide1987
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1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers
That option game was unreal to watch. Just a machine
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Posted on 10/11/24 at 6:50 pm to Milk
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Not exactly murders row. They only played 6 teams with a winning record.
They played 4 top 10 teams, basically as good as any team in history in terms of the % of their schedule.
Not just time of game top10, final AP top10 teams.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 6:53 pm to North Dallas Tiger
There's only one real answer if you're serious and that's 2019 LSU Tigers. Put them against anybody else you want and they'd find a way to beat them.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 6:55 pm to Milk
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LSU playing the Nebraska 1995 Schedule
#2 Clemson
#5 Oregon
#7 Oklahoma
#9 Penn St
Mississippi St would be the next best team
LSU playing the Miami 2001 Schedule
#8 Alabama
#14 Auburn
#15 Iowa
#18 Michigan
#19 Appalachian St
#21 Cincinnati
Texas A&M would be the next best team
Miami playing the LSU 2019 Schedule
#2 Orgeon
#4 Tennessee
#6 Oklahoma
#7 LSU
#8 Nebraska (this is the best team they played)
#14 Syracuse
#25 BYU
Next would be an 8-5 ATM type team
Nebraska playing the LSU 2019 Schedule
#2 Florida (played in the championship and demolished)
#4 Florida St
#6 Ohio St
#7 Kansas St (beat them regular season)
#8 Northwestern
#14 Texas
#25 Iowa
Next would be an 8-5 ATM type team which would have been their 4th best on the year.
Wtf are you talking about here?
LSU faced a few more top10 teams because of the playoffs, but overall the schedules were pretty close.
LSU had MOV of 3, 5 and 7 against their opponents. The closest anyone ever got to Nebraska was 14 points, compared to 15 of LSU's closest 3.
You didn't dominate teams, you had a great offense and an average defense. If you want to call yourself the GOAT then you better be great on both sides of the ball and 2019 LSU was not.
This post was edited on 10/11/24 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 10/11/24 at 7:03 pm to 49 to nada
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That "greatest team ever" was a dropped TD pass (RB transferred to USC the following year) away from losing to a very average 2019 Texas team, and you know it.
None of the arguments one way or the other, for this team or that team, in this thread matter anyway.
Before this year, the nutrition, workout regimens, dedication to the sport, and skill-set of the players was atrocious.
Just look at the speed of players playing this year compared to the speed of players playing last year and years before. There is no comparison.
Players are smarter now than they used to be too. Also, the size of the players this year dwarfs the size of players last year and all preceding years.
In most any measurable way that can be verified, the sport of college football began this season when players started getting paid.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 7:05 pm to Milk
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#7 Kansas St 10-2
#5 Colorado 10-2
#9 Kansas 10-2
These were also teams that never gave Nebraska problems historically. Tom Osborne (in his 25 years) was a combined 71-3-1 against these programs. 50-0 against Kansas and Kansas State.
Look at just about any of Osborne's teams and take away prime Oklahoma (Switzer years), prime Colorado (Bill McCartney years), take anyone worth a shite outside the Big 8 (no Bear Bryant Alabama, no 1991-1992 Washington, no 1982 Penn State, no 1988 UCLA, etc.), take away the Orange Bowl (house of Horrors for the Big 8 champ), take away a conference championship game, and give them a soft bowl opponent who's never played them and they would run the table.
The teams that troubled Nebraska had strong defensive fronts and great familiarity with their scheme. That was their kryptonite. That is why Oklahoma, Miami, and FSU beat them year after year and gave up very few points to them.
Here's a stat for you: In the 1996 draft, Nebraska and its competition had a combined 8 players drafted in the first three rounds. Two of them were in the first round. In the 2020 draft, LSU and its competition had a combined 43 players (give or take) drafted in the first three rounds. Eighteen were first round draft picks.The discrepancy would be even greater if you included subsequent drafts.
2019 LSU had and competed against a hell of a lot better players than 1995 Nebraska.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 8:00 pm to BigDickRick16
Off season topic by a UTk fan in October. The world is right.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 8:25 pm to BigDickRick16
Sounds like the makings of a book deal and a future movie.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 8:38 pm to PoundTheRock
Believe it! That team, commandeered by Joe Burrow, Joe Brady, Dave Aranda, The Thinking Man's QB, The Old Guru John Robinson, and Coach Oeaux was the best team in the history of college football... And their record proves it!
Posted on 10/11/24 at 8:47 pm to FireDanMullen
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Yes, the team that played away games where capacity was at 1/8th of regular crowds should be called the greatest team of all time. Lmao what a joke
Didn't 2019 lsu beat a slightly over .500 texas team by a last second miracle td?
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:19 pm to Themicah86
That “miracle td” made it a two score game before they scored a very late TD just like bama did to make it a 1 score game.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:36 pm to RollTide1987
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They defeated #2 Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl by the score of 62-24 to win the national championship. Florida had likewise been dominant that year, with their closest games being 11 point victories over #7 Auburn and #6 Florida State.
And Nebraska took a knee at the Goal Line at the end of the game or it would have been 69.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:55 pm to BigDickRick16
Even acknowledging that comparisons of teams in the modern era are questionable, Sewanee's feat in1899 was incredible, transcending time. They truly deserve the mantra as "The Greatest College Football Team of All Time." Thanks for bringing attention to this phenomenal piece of history.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:58 pm to Norway
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And Nebraska took a knee at the Goal Line at the end of the game or it would have been 69.
Plus, Florida should have only had 18 points. If replay had existed in 1995, their third quarter touchdown would have been taken off the board.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:02 pm to Themicah86
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Didn't 2019 lsu beat a slightly over .500 texas team by a last second miracle td?
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:02 pm to Globetrotter747
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2019 LSU had and competed against a hell of a lot better players than 1995 Nebraska.
But they weren't as dominant. Which is what we are discussing here.
Maybe 1995 was a down year for college football, but it's doubtful there was a single team in college football that year that could have stayed within two touchdowns of Nebraska.
This post was edited on 10/11/24 at 10:04 pm
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:04 pm to 49 to nada
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That "greatest team ever" was a dropped TD pass (RB transferred to USC the following year) away from losing to a very average 2019 Texas team, and you know it.
In the first quarter?
LSU scored at will that night. A dropped TD pass in the first quarter didn’t mean shite. Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:07 pm to RollTide1987
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But they weren't as dominant. Which is what we are discussing here
The ‘95 Nebraska team was dominant. I have no problem saying they might have been better than ‘19 LSU. Different eras of college football.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:14 pm to 3down10
That Miami team didn’t just have draft picks. That team had 16 all pros, even after they slipped into mediocrity that team single-handedly kept Miami at the top of nfl the nfl in roster players
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