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re: How mediocre was Tennessee's 1998 NC? Everyone else sucked that year
Posted on 5/24/21 at 11:22 pm to magildachunks
Posted on 5/24/21 at 11:22 pm to magildachunks
Undefeated is hardly mediocre. Sorry your team sucked that year.
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Posted on 5/24/21 at 11:58 pm to GentleJackJones
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What happened to Nebraska that year?
Their nineteen-game winning streak was snapped in College Station, and conference champ A&M, who played four Top 3-ranked teams that season, got payback for the previous year's Big 12 title game loss. The Huskers ended up losing a few games that season, so they had taken a step back in Solich's first year but quickly rebounded the following one.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 12:28 am to anc
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UCLA was the best team in the nation.
Ohio State
Posted on 5/25/21 at 4:53 am to tarzana
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Tulane would have creamed them in a fair championship game that year.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 5:28 am to cramps
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The only other team that should even be mentioned as a possibility is Ohio State, but they were upset by Saban's Spartans late that season
Tennessee had beaten them two years before when they had Heisman winner Eddie George at TB. I don't think Tennessee would have backed down at all, and were much better defensively, and arguably more balanced offensively in 1998.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 5:42 am to ptclaus98
The Alabama dynasty has terribly skewed people's perceptions of what champion teams used to be. Tennessee was and is a perfectly valid champion in the annals of history. Tennessee fans may overrate how good Tennessee was on a national scale back in the 90's but they were still nationally relevant for a good portion of 15 years which meant something in those days as outside of Alabama, Auburn and Florida no one else was really sustaining that level in the SEC at that time. We have nothing to be ashamed of from that 85-01 period.
It's also awful quiet in here about how Tennessee shut down Peter Warrick but hey
It's also awful quiet in here about how Tennessee shut down Peter Warrick but hey
Posted on 5/25/21 at 6:28 am to MrMojoRisin
Also game winning field goal against Florida at home.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 8:31 am to magildachunks
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No. 5 Florida 10 – 2
Florida lost to Tennessee (NC) by 3 in OT, and runner-up FSU by 11 in Tallahassee.
The SEC had the most teams (7) in the final AP top 25 (the Big 10 and Big 12 each had 5) of any conference. The SEC has only had that many finish in the top 25 3 times since then. As far as I can see, that is the most teams the SEC has ever had finish in the final AP top 25 poll.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 8:36 am to madmaxvol
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The SEC had the most teams (7) in the final AP top 25
I'm seeing four:
#1 Tennesse
#5 Florida
#14 Georgia
#16 Arkansas
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