He's not on here, so I don't care if he cares....that message was for the Cornbooger fans.Guy just won a national title. You think he cares if people see him eat his boogers? haha
The 3rd quarter century would be 1950-1975, so this doesn't make sense.Chop it up by quarter Centuries, now since we are only in 2020, not 2025, just for this exercise I'll start in 1896. It might look something like this?
Michigan 1901 best of the first quarter century,
Minnesota 1934 best of the 2nd quarter century, UMn 1940 honorable mention(4 wins over Top 10s),
Army 1946 best of the 3rd quarter century,
Nebraska 1995 best of the 4th quarter century,
LSU 2019 best of the 5th quarter century.
The 3rd quarter century would be 1950-1975, so this doesn't make sense.
Also, 1934 Minnesota? Come on man.
Alright thenReading comprehension my friend. The keep it an even 125 years, I started in 1896.
And I'm not declaring my little list as authoritative, it was just an idea, a possible solution. Everyone keeps talking different eras can't be compared, so I'm saying, don't compare them, acknowledge the best team from each era, so basically a 5 way time for 1st. You could start at the beginning of cfb history, as this is the 150th year, so I suppose the best Yale team from back in the day could be a 6th team?
And yes, 1934 Minnesota. 8-0, outscored their opponents 270-38, including 34-0 pummelings of both Michigan and Wisconsin, a 48-12 beat down of Iowa, and they scored 14 unanswered points to come back against the Eastern Champion Pitt team, in front of 65,000 Pitt fans in their home stadium, a Pitt team that blew out Notre Dame, among others.
And remember, All-America teams and All-Conf teams were only made up of 11 players for the most part. Yet UMn got 4 players named 1st team All-America, and SIX players named 1st team All-Big Ten.
Was the competition Nebraska played in 95 as good as the competition LSU played this year? 7 ranked teams including the last 2 national champions. Those stats are great, but it's different eras of football. You can't really compare the two using average statistics, especially when the competition isn't the same. It's like arguing who the best player in the NBA is and saying MJ is better than LeBron or vice versa. Can't properly compare the two because it's different eras of play, with different styles and different plays.
Fun Fact #3: I'm feeling generous. 95 Nebraska averaged 400 yards rushing per game, including over 520 yards rushing against #2 Florida in the National Championship. 2019 LSU gave up 400 yards rushing to a 4-7 Ole Miss team.
Fun Fact #4: See Below...
2019 LSU
48.4 PPG
21.8 PPG allowed
Avg MOV = 26.6 points.
1995 Nebraska
53.2 PPG
14.5 PPG allowed
Avg MOV = 38.7 - despite Nebraska resting its starters in the second halves of most games.
Fun Fact #5: 1995 Nebraska had the #2 total offense and the #13 total defense. #4 scoring defense
2019 LSU had #1 total offense and the #31 total defense. #32 scoring defense.
Both teams were #1 in scoring offense.
Slice and dice statistics all you want, if the 1995 Nebraska team were teleported to now, LSU would beat them.
Now a big factor in that is because the game has changed, but they beat all the modern teams they played too.
This is what I mean by slicing and dicing statistics. You've chosen LSU's worst game against the rush and are holding it up as typical. In the Ole Miss game, the OM quarterback, John Rhys Plumlee, ran for 212 yards. He's phenomenally fast with a 4.3 40. He's also a freshman, so LSU had never seen him before.If a 4-8 Ole Miss team could rush for over 400 yards on that LSU defense... I don't think 95 Nebraska would have a problem.
That "straight liability" defense held Clemson scoreless for the last 25:49 of the second half.Fact is that their defense is a straight liability.
My Ole Miss comment is not a stat, therefore it is also not being sliced and diced. It is an observation. But I like how you completely ignore every actual statistic I posted because they fly in the face of this nonsense.This is what I mean by slicing and dicing statistics. You've chosen LSU's worst game against the rush and are holding it up as typical. In the Ole Miss game, the OM quarterback, John Rhys Plumlee, ran for 212 yards. He's phenomenally fast with a 4.3 40. He's also a freshman, so LSU had never seen him before.
Let's do a more realistic evaluation of the LSU rushing defense. For the whole year, they averaged 120 rushing yards given up per game. That's 21st in the country, which is so-so. However, if you remove the Ole Miss outlier and take an average of the other 14 games, they averaged 100.7 yards a game, which would make them the 8th best rushing defense in the country.
That "straight liability" defense held Clemson scoreless for the last 25:49 of the second half.
LSU is not a perfect team or even a perfectly balanced team. But their offense is so good that they could beat anybody, especially a team playing football as it was played a quarter century ago.