re: This is some real damn football...

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Didn't Nebraska have 21-22 year old's before covid?

Seems they would stockpile big corn fed linemen that sat the bench, practiced hard until they grew into the linemen you want.

I'm a bit older than some but Nebraska had players on scholarship for baseball and basketball just waiting to play on the line of scrimmage for the football team. I may be wrong?

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Everything was about football at Nebraska. They didn’t win a tournament game in basketball until the 2010s

They had quite the system

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Cup cake schedule.

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They played four teams that finished in the AP Top 10 that season and beat them by an average score of 49-18. Not only that they played OOC games that consisted of Michigan State, Arizona State, and Washington State. Arizona State almost won the national title the very next season and Michigan State was coached by a young Nick Saban.

SEC hype and bias is the only reason lsu has more ranked wins

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This is a short highlight reel of the greatest team ever, the 1995 Nebraska Huskers.

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Careful, you'll upset the LSU contingent here.

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They played four teams that finished in the AP Top 10 that season and beat them by an average score of 49-18.

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Three of those teams were Kansas, Kansas State, and Colorado.

In 25 years, Osborne was 25-0 against Kansas with average margin of 47-8.

In 25 years, Osborne was 25-0 against KSU with an average margin of 43-12.

In 25 years, Osborne was 21-3-1 against Colorado with an average margin of 32-14. If you take out Bill McCartney, who was not at Colorado in 1995, then it’s 12-0 with a margin of 38-14.

Nebraska blew out the old Big 8 lightweights by comparable scores … every… single… year.

As for Florida, obviously Nebraska didn’t play them every year. And while they were a great team, they were not great defensively. Previous Nebraska teams had to contend with NFL Hall of Famers like Cortez Kennedy, Deion Sanders, LeRoy Butler, Derrick Brooks, Ray Lewis, and Warren Sapp - as well as a couple of Butkus Award winners like Paul McGowan and Marvin Jones from FSU. These defenses also had coaches like Jimmy Johnson and Mickey Andrews who (unlike Florida’s coaches) had years of experience against the Nebraska scheme.

Florida’s defense didn’t have anyone above a third rounder on D for the next three drafts, much less an award winner or NFL Hall of Famer.

The defenses Nebraska faced in bowl games from 1987-1994 when they were 1-7, shutout twice, and barely won the game they did win were a hell of a lot better than the 1995 Florida defense.

Even Florida’s playmakers on offense were young. They all returned in 1996, and in spite of that still needed the stars to align to win the national title.

But the main thing (from a regular season perspective) is that 1995 Nebraska didn’t have to deal with peak OU under Barry Switzer, who was 12-5 against Osborne and had a lot of badass defensive players who could handle his running game.

Once Switzer and McCartney were out of the picture, Nebraska had no challenges in the Big 8.

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Not only that they played OOC games that consisted of Michigan State, Arizona State, and Washington State.

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None of these teams won more than six games in 1995. Previous Nebraska teams played teams OOC games like 1977-78 Alabama, 1982-1983 Penn State, 1991-1992 Washington, 1987-88 UCLA with Aikman,

1995 Nebraska didn’t have to face Switzer or McCartney, no one OOC, and no great FSU or Miami front in a bowl game. All of their usual bullies and challenges were out of the way.

1995 Nebraska was a great team. I’m not saying they weren’t. But if the goal is to beat the shite out of every opponent on the schedule, then the 1995 team had a lot easier road to do it than other Nebraska teams.

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I remember thinking it looked like a pro team running thru a HS team. and UF wasn't a bad ream.

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Like shite through a goose.

Saban mentions one of his early teams playing against Tom Osbourne's. He mentioned to Osbourne that my team has a LOT of work to do and Tom told him, your team is actually really good. Osbourne wasn't a dick about it but he knew his teams around that window were tGOATs at that time. No question about it.

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Nicole Auerbach

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Nice looking gal. She should be a stay at home wife though.

I despise the nubs.

They cheated their asses off, had a team of retards and thugs, and used massive amounts of steroids, but everyone was cheating back then and they just did it better.

That teams was the most dominant I've ever seen.

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Dave Duerson, Junior Seau, Andre Waters, Aaron Hernandez, Phillip Adams, and Adrian Robinson Jr. all disagree with you

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Society can't lower itself for the weak.

I miss the old days. Ronnie Lott days. That was football.