re: How would the best football teams from decades ago do today?

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Our 2022 team could compete with anyone…

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Same rules as the earlier years? 2015 or 2017 Bama would wreck them. 1995 Nebraska or 2001 Miami would frick them. Hard. No reach around. Leave them crumpled in the corner. Like Deliverance crumpled.

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Same rules as the earlier years? 2015 or 2017 Bama would wreck them. 1995 Nebraska or 2001 Miami would frick them. Hard. No reach around. Leave them crumpled in the corner. Like Deliverance crumpled.

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2017 Bama was a QB switch away from getting skull fricked… STFU Gump

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He is 232 at 5 11'... Rocket Sanders is 10 pounds heavier. He wouldnt be special.

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Having seen both in college I’d vehemently disagree with you. Not even close.

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They say speed kills but Nebraska would billy club you to death.

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Tom Osborne was the head coach at Nebraska for 25 years, and his 1995 team faced some of the most favorable competition of his tenure.

Osborne was 5-12 against Barry Switzer from 1973-1988 because OU had elite guys like the Selmon bros., Tony Casillas, Brian Bosworth, and many others who could stuff the running game.

By 1995 OU was at one of its lowest points in program history.

Osborne had a 7 game bowl losing streak (damn near 8) from 1987-1993 primarily because they couldn’t run all over the FSU and Miami studs coached by defensive guys like Mickey Andrews and Jimmy Johnson.

The 1995 team played a Florida team with nothing higher than a 3rd round pick on D over the next three years and a program that was based on finesse, the passing game, and had no experience against the Nebraska offensive scheme. NFL ready players on D was Nebraska’s kryptonite, and Florida didn’t have any. No one Nebraska played that year had NFL firepower on either side of the ball.

The talent in college football was also a lot more spread out in the mid ‘90s than it was in, say, the prime SEC. 1995 Nebraska and its opponents produced only 2 first round draft picks the following spring. 2019 LSU and its opponents produced 18 first round draft picks.

Facing today’s teams, 1995 Nebraska’s OL averaged about 290 lbs. Light by today’s standards. I don’t think any of their WR’s, TE’s, or QB’s even set foot on an NFL practice field. They certainly weren’t drafted. Lawrence Phillips was the only one and he was a colossal bust.

Nebraska had a good scheme, but there’s nothing magical about the belly or speed option. The midline and triple schemes that Paul Johnson at GT and the service academies have historically run out of double slot looks are a hell of a lot tougher to deal with schematically.

I don’t know how 1995 Nebraska would do against some of today’s bottom-dwellers, but they would get smashed against a defense like 2021 UGA with 5 first round draft picks on D and Kirby Smart coaching them.

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Globetrotter747

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You're argument does nothing but strengthen 1995 Nebraska's case.

They didn't have blue chips and first round talent all over the field like some of the teams Nick Saban had while at Alabama. The teams they played were of a similar stock and yet Nebraska ran through them like a knife through butter. They did it playing old-fashioned, team-oriented football. They were a well-coached and disciplined squad that rarely (if ever) made mistakes and executed game plans to near perfection. Nebraska's offensive line didn't give up a single sack that year in 228 pass attempts and they weren't called for holding even once.