re: Three candidates for greatest team ever

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I do wonder why the 2020 Alabama team gets completely overlooked when looking at great all time teams though

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It’s a good question, because it was a great team. But that year was not a normal year for so many reasons, none of which were Bama’s fault.

- There were no true road games.
- Many of the best teams had their best players sitting out for the season
- many teams didn’t play a full season to develop

There are other reasons that killed this season, but for these reasons, most people don’t consider anything that happened that year to be exceptional.

It’s not Bama’s fault. That was a great team, but so hard to mention it with the all time greats because of the points listed above.

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5. Was the 1995 Florida team a great one? Yes, BUT were they as well equipped to defend Osborne’s offense as the FSU and Miami teams that handed him seven straight bowl losses from 1987-1993 and damn near did so in 1994? No. That UF team was young and there was not a single elite defender on the squad. No one drafted higher than the 3rd round over the next three years. Certainly no Cortez Kennedy, Michael Barrow, Jesse Armstead, Derrick Brooks, Ray Lewis, or Warren Sapp. Those teams and coaches also saw Nebraska on the regular and were more familiar with their schemes.

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No offense if you have to type out this much stuff to make a number seem better it isn’t much of a number .

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I think the U has enough power on both sides to take down LSU.

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Burrow would have torched all comers. Including Ed Reed and company.

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Oh by the way the only time in history two Heisman winners lined up on a team

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In 1979 #1 USC came to Tiger Stadium to play #20 LSU. In the backfield was 1979 Heisman winner Charles White. His backup? 1981 Heisman winner Marcus Allen.

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From that USC team, 36 Trojans reached the NFL, and 12 were first-round draft picks. Two were Heisman winners – Charles White (1979) and Marcus Allen (1981). Offensive guard Brad Budde was that season’s Lombardi Award winner. Four reached the Pro Football Hall of Fame – Ronnie Lott (2000), Anthony Munoz (1998), Bruce Matthews (2007), and Allen (2003). One player would go on to be a solidly successful NFL coach, Jeff Fisher, while another, TE Hoby Brenner, would end up with an excellent 13-year career with the New Orleans Saints. Don Mosebar was also a star OL with the Raiders, starting 159 games at OT, OG and OC. Mosebar eventually lost an eye due to a practice injury.

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USC threw a TD pass with 32 seconds left in the game to win 17-12. The lone TD for the Tigers was a pass from Steve Ensminger to LeRoid Jones.

In Focus: USC vs. LSU 30 Years Later

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1995 Nebraska had it easy.

Put an I formation offense with no NFL arm, receivers who were not even drafted, a colossal bust and head case at TB, and no one special in the OL up against a defense like 2021 UGA and they would get stuffed

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Dude, quit wasting your time. The bottom line is that 95 Nebraska beat 4 final top 10 teams by an average of 30 points with their crowning achievement being the 62-24 obliteration of one of the best teams I had ever seen at that point in Spurrier's undefeated Gator team in the NC.

That Nebraska team was a machine that ran the option to perfection and their D was tough too. Now they may have had the most thugs ever on a team and were seriously roided up, but no one could stop their execution of that option.

In my opinion

2020 Alabama
2012 Alabama
2009 Alabama

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Dude, quit wasting your time. The bottom line is that 95 Nebraska beat 4 final top 10 teams by an average of 30 points with their crowning achievement being the 62-24 obliteration of one of the best teams I had ever seen at that point in Spurrier's undefeated Gator team in the NC.

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You mean Top 10 Kansas and Kansas State? Osborne was literally 50-0 against those two programs in 25 years at Nebraska. Most of the teams he coached would have waxed that Big 8 slate in 1995.

It wasn’t the Big 8 cupcakes from the mighty basketball state of Kansas that gave Osborne fits and held him back from winning national titles all throughout the ‘70s, ‘80s, and early’90s. It was elite defensive fronts with NFL ready talent.

Miami also had Oklahoma’s number, handing them their only loss each season from 1985-87. Miami dominated the Nebraska and Oklahoma option teams.

1995 Nebraska’s schedule fit like a glove. Beat the same teams you have always thumped in the Big 8 with the coaches who gave you the most trouble gone, nothing out of conference, and a bowl opponent with no interest in defense.

Osborne’s 1987 team, for example, was 10-0 before facing one Oklahoma’s best teams. And if they had won, they would have had to play one of Miami’s best teams in the Orange Bowl.

1995 Nebraska dealt with no such animals.

1995 Nebraska is the greatest team ever. Their average margin of victory was 38 ppg. They played four teams that finished in the top 10 and the average score of those games was 49-18. 2001 Miami and 2019 LSU were great but they didn't dominate teams like that.

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Another 2019 LSU dickriding thread this is exactly what we needed

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Yet here you are licking the dick by responding in a dicklicking thread.