Best College Football Team of all Time: 2019 LSU vs 1995 Nebraska vs 2001 Miami - By The Numbers
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- We (just Daniel this time) take a numbers driven approach to determine who the best team in College Football history is. Does 95 Nebraska's unstoppable attacke with Tommie Frazier and Lawrence Phillips take the crown? What about the ultra talented 01 Miami Hurricanes? How does Joe Burrow and the 2019 LSU Tiger team stack up?
*Team rankings are final rankings, not "when they played" rankings 
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The most impressive stat that rarely gets mentioned on the 1995 Huskers: 855 offensive snaps - ZERO holding penalties.
That is extraordinary discipline that has never been close to duplicated at that snap volume.
that was a great team but theres no debating lsu '19
I don't believe they allowed a sack either!
that is pretty impressive.. honestly i think that team has a much better arguement than the 01 hurricanes. go look at that teams schedule. they were in danger of losing multiple times. no one ever came close to LSU aside from Alabama and that's alabama. not a mediocre V-tech team. i have to remind people we arent talking about which team had the most nfl talent were talking about college football here.
Best team ever
Ohio State has gone for two years without being called for holding. Big 10 refs protect them.
The most impressive thing of the 95 Husker was that everyone KNEW they were going to run. A one-dimensional team. Stop the run and you win. Yet Nebraska STILL came to town and jammed it down your throat.
6 games were played without an easy Heisman winner at tailback (Lawrence Phillips) had he not been a thug. His replacement was a true freshman. Those scores would have been even more lopsided had Phillips played (see Florida game).
Nebraska had 0 (ZERO) sacks allowed FOR THE SEASON.
All time best!
Guarantee you LSU beats them head to head. 90s athletes can't fuck with these modern athletes. Plus modern schemes are far superior to fhe ones in the 90s. That's why I believe modern teams are way better than older teams when compared to each other
"You can stop an option offense with the right defensive make-up." Yep, ran the ball to the tune of 399 yards/game. Everyone knew Nebraska was going to run the ball and they still could not slow them down. Lose our best RB and still put up historic rushing numbers.
@@astrothunder3580 these so called modern athletes are millenial pussies
@@astrothunder3580 That's why this video has teams compared to other teams in their own era. You dumb shit, a mediocre boxer could now beat up professional boxers in previous eras too. No fucking duh athletes have gotten better, technology and information has gotten better.
@@astrothunder3580 That's not how you compare teams of different era's. Good grief, figure it out.
Clemson fan here, no doubt 95 Nebraska was the best team that I've ever seen...super dominant.
That team was unreal. The dismantling of Florida is still the most ridiculous game I've ever seen. 3rd stringers were in there and Florida still couldn't stop them.
phiilp henderson no 01 Miami would smack both teams
@@mattbarnesisthegoat5890 nah Miami got lucky to beat BC and should've lost to VT...Best teams ever don't have close games to schools like that.. lol
Unless you think that Nebraska team could have scored 56-60 points against LSU, that's what they would have needed to score to win, because I don't see that Nebraska defense holding Burrow to below 50 points. But that was a great team.
@@mattbarnesisthegoat5890 Only if they could score 50+ against LSU, which I don't see that happening. It's almost like we're talking two eras, and LSU's offense has now "evolutionized" college football to where every other program in the country is going to move towards what Brady did with LSU.
One thing people forget and is very hard to measure was just how PHYSICALLY dominant Nebraska was. They intimidated you into losing before the opening kickoff. They were like Pre-Buster Douglas Mike Tyson.
@bokprop420 that was very rare and only in blowouts
Grease said it best about the 95 huskers when they were playing Colorado at Colorado first play of the game they knew it was coming and you still couldn't stop it!!!
@@pauledwards5607 Every game was a blowout so how could they do it when it wasn't a blowout?
How physically dominant Neb was?
Day 1 of 95, Osborne's schedule looked like this.
5 - 1st yr coaches
4 - losing coaches (at the school they were currently coaching)
2 - winning coaches by 7 games (2+5)
Did the coaches above come close to knowing how to win against quality opponents?
And then you have the FL *"NO SHOW."* Neb fans know what a *"NO SHOW"* is. Fast forward 2 games.
#17 ASU 19, #1 Neb 0. Neb scored 55 the week before and 65 the week after.
10 unranked teams scored against ASU (42, 35, 34, 27, 19, 14, 14, 7, 7, 7) but Neb couldn't score anything.
LOL. Mike Tyson beat NOBODY of consequence and lost to everybody of consequence.
@robjohnson8861 that was 96. Are you retarded?
GO BIG RED!
Big Red < Geaux Tigers
Go big red!
Go big red
Go huskers
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What most do not realize, is that the Huskers accomplished their all time domination with everyone knowing they were going to run. There were often 8-9 defenders stacked in the box. Tru smash mouth football.
Yes they just hand it off and u couid not stop them
And Mike they (we) did it without the best running back in the country suspended for 7 of the 12 games....one of the many "extra" points confirming the '95 Huskers greatest of all times place on the mantle!
@@davecolorado8194 You mean next to the empty hole where the Heisman wasn't.
Remember the Heisman voters were looking at Frazier's body of work and who he faced and George's body of work and who he faced. On that Dec day in 95, OSU had a more impressive schedule.
Muscling for three yards at time doesn't make you the goat.
2001 Hurricanes had 38 players go to the league,17 first round draft picks 6 gold jackets with Willis Mcgahee and S.Taylor coming off the bench.
Can your teams say half of this????
@@rhyno8644 where did you get this 3-4 yards stuff? NU was ripping 500 yards a game just on the ground. My whole point was, we did it even though everyone knew we were gonna do it.
So i was at the 1995 Nebraska vs. Florida National Championship game. I know it was a blow out but it was even more of a blow out than the scores showed or what you could see on tv. I have watched it again on RUclips but nothing beats the eye test. I honestly thought Florida was going to win that game going into it but what I saw on the field was insane. It was like Nebraska was a college team and Florida was a high school team. The pure physical nature and size at that time of that 95 team Nebraska team on offense and defense was clearly a factor. Just go look at the size and speed of those Nebraska kids back then. I know college football has changed a ton since then but I can definitely say that 95 team would put a hurt on teams today and I think that is why it is still considered the greatest team by a lot of analyst.
Well said
Would like to add to the debate that LSU also beat the AP Preseason top 4 teams (Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma) by an average of 21 points, which I believe is the first time that has ever happened in the AP poll era. They also finished the season having beaten 5 teams in the top 8 of the AP Postseason poll. The 2019 LSU team to me are the most battle-tested team in College Football history considering the competition they beat and the accolades they achieved.
I do think their season accomplishments are the best of this bunch for sure, I just don't love the 3 close games - especially when considering that Texas was good but not great.
LSU also beat seven teams that were in the top ten at the time of kickoff. Nobody talks about it, but it's massively impressive considering the previous best was a three-way tie for 5 I think? That's seven games that would define any other team's season. And all were W's
But also consider that Nebraska won the 94’ championship as well.
Pre season.
@@shogunjobu all 4 were in the top 4 when we played them too.
Enjoyed the hell out of this video! Props to all the work you and your team put into this. That being said. GO BIG RED!
Huskers
All three teams are awesome and those actually on the gridiron - along with coaches and staff should stand proud with the organization, effort and commitment demonstrated! Go Big Red!
95 huskers were most dominant to me because of the 38 point win deficit average without heir star rb, which green was no slouch. They weren't fancy just physically dominated everyone end of a different Era. Miami had the most talent, like 17 nfl players or something like that. Lsu had two of the best wr currently in the nfl and burrow is already a legend. Funny thing is burrow wanted to play for nebraska his whole childhood, lucky he didn't because he wouldn't be as successful in my opinion. Also that husker team lost 3 games in a 5 year stretch and a lot if people think should have won 4 championships and lost only 2 games if not for poor officiating in 93 but every team has been screwon calls, just sucks when it's in a championship.
Awesome vid!
I miss the Huskers dominating.
Jamal Ginsburg ya when we blew fl state every time we played them; but now we suck
Ya same
@@Siebert6 Very funny; 1993 National Championship Game reminds me differently. Also remember, the Florida schools are the reason Nebraska unfortunately was kicked to the curb after Osbourn.
Respect from NE to FLA
@@kymurdoch I live in Buffalo, NY. FSU is my alma mater.
Now here are some rather unnoticed statistics, Nebraska had 27 4th down attempts, and 15 were successfully made. 47 whole penalties called against Nebraska, which in this day and age is really good, especially for a running team.
And how many fumbles did Nebraska lose in total?
Nine. Nine whole turnovers from the ground. And to think Nebraska had the best offensive line is an understatement. FOUR of their starters were new.
Fullbacks. Nebraska utilized them so well in their offense, and nowadays you hardly ever see them.
Had Phillip's not get suspended for the majority of the season Nebraska's rushing totals would be a lot higher, and a better chance for a Heisman win for the Cornhuskers.
I'm not sure what LSU can use to compare those statistics with but they must have good statistics somewhere.
Where did you get your stats? Neb played so many atrocious teams, it is nearly impossible to find stats on their games.
@@robjohnson8861 Nebraska demolished four teams that finished in the Top 10 - that's a pretty good sample size of the best competition.
@Travis Gouge You all just love to refer to that stat.
95 was the flukiest of fluke years.
Final Top 10
* KSU first time ever
* VT first time ever
* Nwest first time in 32 yrs
* only time in AP history that at least 2 of the 3 CO KSU, KS appeared in final top 10. That includes the yrs since 95. But all 3 did in 95. What's up with that.
Final Top 20
* only 2 SEC teams finished in the top 20. Fewest of the 90s.
1/2 of the Big Easy Conf were 1st yr coaches including Neuheisel. I'm pretty sure the 4 you refer to faced 5, 1st yr coaches when the non conf coaches are included.
Neb beat 1 ranked team that faced a ranked team in their bowl. That was CO and CO played a 1st yr coach in their bowl. LSU 2019 beat 5 ranked teams that played ranked teams in their bowls. Oregon's coached did good for a 1st yr coach, but it had been 7 yrs since he head coached...lol...at Chico State. He did well bec like Neb, CO, KSU, KS, OR had a poor sch (#43).
Speaking of strength of schedules, Neb 95 had the 5th strongest schedule of all the NC teams of the 90s. And Neb's NCs in the 90s came against their 1st, 2nd and 4th weakest schedules.
in 25 yrs of bowls, Osborne only beat 2 coaches that had a winning bowl record when he played them. 95 WAS NOT one of them. Spurrier had a losing bowl record thru 94. Fulmer was the only coach during the RUN, I mean SKIP ALONG that had a winning bowl record when Osborne played them.
I can go on and on. 95 was an absolute joke.
@@robjohnson8861 It was a strange year, but if you look at that Top 25, who else was going to beat them? Tennessee? It would have been interesting to see because Manning was on the team, but Florida put up like 60 points against Tennessee.
The only other team in history with a solid claim for most dominant is '45 Army. Other than Nebraska, they're the only team team who wasn't even threatened, let alone defeated.
95 Huskers greatest team of all time
71 Huskers second greatest team of all time.
GBR
You could say 83 Nebraska I’d they never would’ve lost
No
2018 clemson
That Nebraska team had 18 different ball carriers that year and 9 dudes with at least 185 yards rushing. To put things into perspective, Ahman Green ran for 1086 yards that year in just 12 games and only had 22.4% of the teams carries! 627 total rushes for 4,398 yards equaled a whopping 399.8 yards rushing per game. 51 total rushing TD's combined by 10 different revolving-door RB's. Nebraska's run defense was astounding also (341 attempts for 862 yards allowed, just 2.5 yds/rush) during the 95' season. For a team that made other teams throw the ball early and often, they still only allowed just under 50% completion-% and an allowed 103.00 QB rating (college rating). Ridiculous numbers won't happen again, even in college football. To top that all off, Nebraska special teams kickoff team allowed just 16.1 yds/ret. (65 returns for 1,059 yds.)
Being a husker fan, it is way more entertaining reading these comments than watching our past couple seasons
Agreed.
This is literally me lmaooo
95 Nebraska was a machine, best team ever in my opinion. some of the games that year really could have been more lopsided and in the national championship game against Florida, they really could have put up 80 and they likely could have broken 80+ a few times that season, Osborne took starters out and limited the offense in the 2nd half of a few games to keep the scores as low as they were. I wish the current Nebraska teams were 1/4th of what that team was
Excellent video, and I approve of your analysis! LOL
I bet you do! 😉
GBR
Can we all agree though that 2019 LSU is one of the only teams that is even IN THE ROOM with the '95 Huskers? Both squads would probably beat 2001 Miami and were simply unstoppable.
@@thunderbird1921 We most certainly can agree on that! Ironic thing is the Nebraska ties to Joe Burrow and his family members that played for Nebraska. Nebraska should have and could have had Joe THREE TIMES..
@@statman29neb ya they kinda screwed that one up for themselves. why didn’t they want him? he was a four star
Good breakdown of information! GBR🏈
Great video! Love you guys especially when you're given props to my team... But all things considered this LSU team that we just saw was absolutely stunning!
not as good as the 95 huskers
Would have beat the breaks off them huskers. Burrow would have 590 passing yards and 8 td passes. Stingley and delpit would each have a pick 6. It would be a very ugly game. No fans left by halftime.
@@corysonnier3248 nah bro, can't imagine they woulda had that many INTs with the 95 Huskers running that option 3 yard and a cloud of dust bullshit, that ultimately got ran out of Offensive Schemes nationwide because it was becoming too easy and predictable to stop if you recruited the right kind of players on defense to shut an option attack down. I hear those dudes were monsters tho for Nebraska. But you can't tell me that these athletes arent bigger stronger and faster nowadays. It would be interesting to be able to see these two play. But I personally think the Tiguhs beat the brakes off the 95' Nebraska team
@@corysonnier3248 I do agree Burrow throws for close to 500 yards tho
@@MrKirk94 yeah I was just talking smack. If they played each other today lsu would crush them. Cant say as much if they went back and played in 95. Mainly with rule changes and style of defense is much different now. Athletes today are faster and stronger than they were in 95, fitness and nutrition are more advanced now with 2 decades of more studys.
Its an argument that nobody can ever win but we all have fun trying. Now LSU has a team in the argument and that can never be taken away.
1995 Nebraska is the most dominant CFB team ever. I'm not a Nebraska fan. Just an objective sports guy who is never wrong.
😂😂😂😂
dude
come on.
lsu19 is so much farther head and shoulders above everyone.
i was 8 i remember that husker team but no one will ever touch what lsu did.
i honest think that you could pick any alabama team from 2011 to 2018 and bama would win
its not close dude
let it go.
Also that Mike Rozier and Irvin Fryar team had some monsters
@user-ry7xl6fb4x if you think a one dimensional huskers offense would run it down the throat of any top 4 or 5 sec team in the bcs era 2000 on and into the playoffs.
modern day clemson.
honestly if you think they would stand a chance against 01 miami then youre out both your chalupa and your cobb salad.
domt get me wrong fella i respect nebraska as a legendary program and they were very very dominant but first of all you need to go look at these grown men ass athletes of today that straight up would be unbelievable just in raw tangibles back in the 90s not to mention how so many have the unteachable freakish intangibles.
you got grown men 6'4 to 6'6 running at you even from the middle with 4.55 to 4.75 40 times and 6'8 tight ends and bro listen..
there is no one that can cover justin jefferson.
10 years from now when hes mentioned in the same sentence the same breath the same hof legend as jerry rice and tim brown and shit i want you to remember this comment.
LSU beat 8 to 10 ranked opponents. 4 of the 5 top ranked preseason.
they weren't far off either. no one really came particularly close that alabama game wasnt as close as the score indicates.
that 19 team would outscore nebraska 95 by double digits.
they just did not have the depth to stand up to the depth and elite rooms and dbs AND lbs AND lbs AND dls AND wideouts and Joe Burrow is quite simply the best cfb QB to lace up and put pads on on saturday nights.
he is also one of the best players in the NFL and came out swinging in his rookie year and a lot of QBs do that now and not even Montana brady or brees or marino or peyton manning did that back 20 years ago and on top of that how would nebraska shut down the most unstoppable passing game ever?
youre legitamely crazy my dude.
go study the stats my boi.
no offense but youre grasping straws.
however they are top 3.
let it go.
bless.
yall are delusional man.
living in the past. like doomer boomers.
that nebraska team does not stand up neither does miami they barely got out of blacksburg alive and save last moment heroics they would have lost to a pretty mediocre vtech team considering the quality of that program in that era.
yall wanna talk about hall of famers? lets see how many lsu produces.
ken dorsey literally throw 2 or 3 pics in that game vs 19 lsu.
i really love ed reed but he can't cover 3 elite receivers. 😂😂
let it go.
Why is this thread suddenly being flooded with retards that don't know ball?
Great Video. Geaux Tigahs!
Thanks!
Great video
Thank you Frank!
I'll say this having no dog in the fight, I'm old enough where I watched all 3 teams. I agree that 1995 Nebraska was by far the best team I've ever seen. A few more things he didn't touch on, RUclips or do research on the 1995 Florida Gators team, the sent a lot of that team to the NFL, and the 1996 Gators won the national championship. But they were picked to beat Nebraska by many experts, even though Nebraska was a 3 point favorite. Any football player will tell you the worst way to lose a football game is when a team lines it up and physically dominates you. Nebraska average around 400 yards rushing a game, that's just dumb. They we're so physical that if they didn't rank either team when Nebraska played Florida#2, Colorado #3, Kansas State# 8 and I believe Nick Sabans Michigan State team was #10, but you would have thought all of those were non top 25 teams playing Nebraska. Ed Reed or Sean Taylor took a pick 6 back against a terrible Boston college and barely won like 18-7 and Miami came a drop 2 point conversion from at least going to ot at Virginia tech a team they should have beaten by 20. The Alabama LSU game was good, not sure LSU wins vs a healthy Tua. And Clemson looked like they could win until late 3rd quarter. The last thing I'll say is, when teams knew Nebraska was gonna run, they still ran, and ran for chunks. I've heard people say the right defense can stop an option attack, that was no ordinary option attack. That was an option attack with a top 10 defense backing them up, a top 3 all-time coach, and a bunch of athletes that ran 4.3's in the 40. They were so scary that Nick Saban himself considered retiring until Tom Osborne told him "you're a great coach and you're gonna win championships, we just have a lot of really good players this year. They were scary good, go ask SEC #2 ranked, undefeated Florida..... Nebraska beat them 62-24 in the National championship game, and ran for like 550 something yards, really? Again that's so good it's dumb.
Well said my friend.
Holy shit you wrote a lot
@Jamal Greasy for sure
Manuel Shaul you obviously don't know what you're talking about, k-state was top 10, Kansas was #10, Colorado was #7, and they blew out Nick Sabans msu team at msu. And they blew out the SEC champion undefeated #2 Gators 62-24, lsu almost got beat by Texas, Auburn, and Alabama without Tua Tagoviloa. They had a great game against Clemson but even that game wasn't in doubt until late 3rd qtr. So get your facts straight instead of looking like a bafoon, did you watch this video?
In terms of competition, I'll go with the 1971 Huskers. In the final polls Nebraska had beaten number two Oklahoma, number three Colorado and number four Alabama. The closest thing to a playoff before the BCS era. Go Big Red!!
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Great argument. 95 Skers and 01 Canes both insane teams. We'll never see anything like them again
Certainly each were generation GOAT teams
The 1995 Nebraska football team was the most dominant team my eyes ever saw in the sport...
WORD!!!
It was like putting Madden on rookie then using cheat codes and using a team of create a players.
Yea the option is fun to watch....im lying, that team was so boring to watch.
@@scott2864 Scored 54 points a game and they were boring? GET REAL!!!
@@scott2864 you don't like football if you don't enjoy a well coached option team. Army taking #5 Oklahoma to OT was easily one of the best games of 2018. Army taking #7 Michigan to 2OT was easily one of the best games of 2019.
I'm not even an Army fan and those games were absolutely awesome.
1995 Nebraska put up 63 points on ASU in the 1st half with a back up RB that year. That team could have easily put up a 100 on several teams if TO wasn't consistently calling off the dogs. 1995 Nebraska was the most dominant team of all time. End of discussion.
Asu was barely bowl eligible that year LSU put up almost 50 in the first half against a playoff team
@Geaux Tigers and we beat UGA, OU, and Clemson by an average of 47-21. against UGA and Clemson we could’ve put up 50+ if not for dropped TD passes and kneeling on the goalline to end the game.
Nick Wanamaker man your a joke. Seriously. Records get broken! LSU broke them all. Better luck next time.
Man, you guys are whiney and defensive. It's not my fault your team had three close games. Take it up with them.
@@nickwanamaker2089 any of the top ten teams now would do better (stat wise) than the huskers did with the same schedule edit hell I will even say using the same scheme both offensively and defensively, playing by the same rules
This is an awesome change of pace. Sweet video. The 2015 Buckeyes team was pretty dangerous.
95 Huskers imo are the best team to ever step on the field.
Lsu would of beat them...
Frater Sol U dumb bro
Manuel Shaul U can’t just win with offense they got no defense at all dumb shit
Manuel Shaul And what is LSUs defense gonna do?
95 Nebraska averaged 53 ppg. They beat the #2 best defensive team by 38!
2019 LSUs defense wasn’t even ranked in the Top 30
@Manuel Shaul Do you realize that LSU defense is trash as fuck. Horrible Vanderbilt put up 38 points on LSU and there is no chance of LSU having a close game against Nebraska
95 Huskers led their conference in touchdown passes. Fun fact for everyone who thinks all they did was run.
Florida was ranked to bro. I saw you didnt have that one listed
It got left off the graphic but they were#6 in our calculations
The 08 Gators should be in it!
@@colesansom9419 they literally lost a game lmao
@@colesansom9419 they lost to Ole Miss.
I hope we can get to that level again. I hesitated to watch this but glad the Big Red came out on top again!
Great breakdown. I would like to add that some of the close games with LSU weren’t necessarily as close as they appear. For the auburn, Bama, and Texas games, those teams were all down two scores at the end of the games and scored to bring it to within one score. While they were still somewhat close, they were all games the LSU was mostly in control of. LSU defense though wasn’t as great as it should’ve been.
Your number crunching was SO GOOD! I want to go with LSU because the modern age just straight up has better recruiting, and they faced better teams, but it was pretty clear you made the right call after all the numbers came in.
Thanks for watching!
This man don’t know football especially saying the 2019 lsu tigers would beat the 85 bears he is really high on crack or something.
I was in Osborns office summer of 94.
My brother got to be a Nebraska Guest Coach a couple weeks after Larry the Cable Guy. I think sell out game #302?
I got to meet a bunch of the teams for like 7 years.
I bet you would have preferred Bowden or Switzer visits.
Cool
All that can be said is each team played in its era stunning the competition of the time. Opinions , and data from those placed on a computer program, are great but this is an endless debate.
Sure did enjoy LSU’s run this year and remember the past years for Nebraska and Miami... but... now is the only thing that matters.
Looking forward to next season.
To many comments to scroll through but I really do believe all 3 of these teams were over the top great. Yes Nebraska won this metric as they always do when this discussion comes up, Were they the best ever? IDK all we have are opinions. I would just like to add, this was actually their 26th win in a row. This metric didn't take past or future successes into consideration. But since a lot of the comments decided to disregard some of the criteria of the video, I thought I would throw that in.
I do love your video's, thanks for making them
nebraska didnt allow a sack that whole year, which is insane
And trailed for 7 minutes
That's one of my favorite Tommie Frazier stats. The fact he didn't get sacked an entire season just shows you how incredible he was!
Shows you how strong the pipeline was.
@@OvaltineJenkanz no respect to the guys in the trenches. Tommy Frazier wouldn't be half as good with out that oline
@@MILFDESTRYR you obviously didn't see him play.
The weird common stat for me is that they all had 4 blowouts of ranked teams. That seems like one of those obscure stats that an ESPN analyst would pull out lol. It does make me wonder if there is some type of correlation with a threshold of ranked opponent blowouts and winning a national championship.
You guys went full nerd on this one with the stats and graphics....and I love it. I don't think I have a favorite best team ever to be honest
I honestly didn't realize they all had 4 until I was recording the talking head segment about LSU. It is interesting, but if you look at percentage of opportunities for blowouts, Nebraska was 4/4, LSU 4/6, Miami 4/6. But Neb and Miami only played 12 games. LSU only had 3 ranked opponents in their first 12 games.
@@CollegeFootballNerds I see. LSU had half of their ranked opponents come in the postseason (which makes sense). It would seem then that Nebraska and Miami had at least a fourth of their regular season schedule as ranked opponents assuming that the 12th game was also a ranked opponent). If all 4 came in the regular season that would be a little over 35% of the regular season schedule that was ranked opponents in the regular season for them. LSU with a 15 game schedule also had about 40% of the schedule was ranked opponents but only 3 of those games were in the regular season (1/4). I don't know where I was going with this 😂 but it is interesting to see that even adjusting for LSU's extra ranked games in the postseason, they played about the same percentage of ranked teams in their schedule.
Great video…thanks for putting this to bed…
Some other stats if I'm reading them right...
The Huskers averaged 7 yards per carry rushing, with 11 players averaging over 5 yards per carry. LSU averaged 7.9 yards per PLAY (including passing).
8 Huskers averaged over 10 yards per reception, from that option offense.
LSU passed for a lot more yards (402 per game vs 142), but the Huskers didn't have to pass, they just marched down the field with 7 yards per rush.
The Huskers didn't allow a single QB sack the entire season LSU... sacked 35 times for 221 yards. ( or was that their opponents? It's worse if I grabbed the wrong LSU stat)
The Blackshirts had 20 interceptions, or 1.7 per game. LSU had 17 or 1.13 per game.
The Blackshirts allowed five punt returns for 12 yards over the entire season, or about 1 yard per game. LSU allowed 9 returns for 117 yards, or about 7.8 yards per game.
The Huskers averaged about 2.3 punts per game. LSU... 3.4 punts per game.
The Huskers never had a procedure penalty the entire season. LSU had 24 total penalties. I couldn't find enough stats for a better comparison.
I couldn't find some stats for the Huskers like tackles, sacks, and tackles for a loss, but LSU should compare well with the Huskers here.
Thank you for these
Sorry but you have to take these with a grain of salt, the parity was even worse back then than it is now. Take any top 15 team from now and they would do that to the huskers schedule, I'd gaurentee it. Well I take that back I'd gaurentee that the top tens would do that and probably with better stats
@@derrickmeade4891 you didmt get the point of the video did you? Literally stated how ots unfair to compare to todays standards because of different schemes and all that
Not sure I'd call in unfair.
If both teams played in the same season, they are going to have game footage on whatever scheme the other offense/defense is using.
CFB has changed tremendously since then. At the time Nebraskas stats were seen as unbeatable
One thing to consider is that there was less parity in the 90's. Even many of the ranked teams back then were not very good. LSU beat the pre-season #1,#2,#3 teams by an avg. Of 21pts. Also most of the points scored and yards against LSU came in garbage time.
Alabama has how many titles the last 12 or so years? Parity?
On the flip side, can you imagine the numbers Nebraska could have put up if the starters played a full 4 quarters every game offensively & defensively? They were up by at least 21 points at the end of the 3rd quarter in EVERY game. Your last statement is not true. Florida scored 7 points in the 2nd half total , Texas & Clemson only scored 7 points each in GT, not a whole lot of GT against Auburn & Alabama. More points were scored against Nebraska in GT than LSU.
Nebraska spent less than 8 minutes losing a game all season, and that was 7-0 against WSU after fumbling at the WSU 10 yard line on the opening drive. They allowed zero sacks all year, averaged 52+ a game, and allowed 5 punt returns (for 12 yards). They averaged 400 yards rushing a game, allowing only 78, and only gave up 6 rushing TDs all year. Nebraska broke the D1 record for yards per rush with 7 per. Nebraskas average margin of victory was 38 points (still a post WWII record) despite starters almost never playing after halftime. Nebraska averaged 29.8 points....per half. Nebraska beat 4 teams who finished in the top 10.
In the championship game, Nebraska held Florida to -28 rushing yards, 7 sacks, a safety, 3 INTs including a pick 6, set the championship game record for 524 rushing yards, set the Fiesta Bowl record for points in a quarter (29), and held Florida to less than half their season average of yards (only 269).
95 Nebraska was beyond unreasonably dominant. There really isn't any comparison.
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But NU beat #2, #5, #7, #9 teams ranked at the END of the year (by 30 pts avg). Florida was considered possibly one of the all-time greats before that game (their closest game was 11 pts) so much that they were still pegged at #2 to end the year.
As a florida fan that 95 nebraska team hurt my feelings
“Imagine if LSU would have beaten Clemson that bad” LSU had #4 UGA down 34-3 in the 4th and took their foot of the gas. LSU beat Oklahoma by 40 whatever and took a knee instead of beating cleamson by 24
The point was, imagine if LSU did to Clemson what they did to a pretender in Oklahoma. Certainly you can see the difference between the LSU/Clemson game and the LSU/OU game. But 95 Nebraska did exactly that to Florida.
My major problem with your logic is you start the video by saying that the teams can’t be compared era to era because the offenses are so much more lethal now but you use the raw stats to justify Nebraska as the greatest team ever. Also I love how you call Oklahoma a pretender because they got smoked but Florida was a great team even though they got smoked. Lastly your reasoning that LSU had close games against ranked Texas and Alabama on the road so that’s a bad thing comparatively to Nebraska beating the hell out of nobodies. There’s just to many flaws in your pitch. If you put them on the field who wins? Who has the best resume ever? I’m not interested in eye test. I’m interested in actual results. Just my opinion
And Nebraska rarely had starters (or even 2nd stringers) playing in the 4th. If that's not "taking your foot off the gas", I don't know what is.
@@danielgreer3580 Nebraska played nobodies? They beat 4 ten win teams including 4 top 10 teams. Florida was 12-1 and won the national title the next year. 2019 Oklahoma lost to Kansas freaking State.
Keep in mind 95 Nebraska's final play against Florida was a kneel down at the one-yard line. If Sims would have scored the play before the final score would have been 45.
Nebraska 1995 was the greatest college football team ever. You make a lot of excellent points to support this, and I agree with your conclusion. I do not agree with your argument that LSU 2019 had a better offense, however. Nebraska put up 63 in one half against Arizona St. And look at what the Husker offense did to Florida in the championship game. It's hard for teams to prepare for the option, when they are not seeing it during the course of the season. That is why teams like Oklahoma and Michigan struggle with Army. Also, Nebraska's power attack was just way too much for opposing defenses. But, all in all, great work in making your points. Can you tell I'm a Nebraska fan--ha, ha?
If you want to talk about who was the most dominant, 1995 Nebraska's top 10 rushers that year had a combined rushing avg. of 7.2 yards a carry. Mic drop.
All that means is they had a great O-Line.
My current Top 5 teams all time (based on schedule strength, dominance and talent) is currently this:
1. 1995 Nebraska
2. 2019 LSU
3. 1971 Nebraska
4. 2018 Clemson
5. 2001 Miami
3-5 were VERY difficult to rank, but I feel the 71 Huskers were just SLIGHTLY stronger than Clemson in 2018 (schedule and dominance). 2001 Miami was IMMENSELY talented and very dominant, but they only played 1 Top 10 team (Nebraska in the championship). 2013 Florida State might be just outside my top 5 at #6. The 95 Huskers and 2019 LSU would rout half the national champions of the last 25 years though.
Thunderbird 1 Look at 2013 FSU and rerank them. They blew out every opponent they played and the only reason why the natty was close against Auburn is because auburn had a former FSU assistant and auburn knew all of FSU’s plays. Jimbo started hiding the signals in the second half
Big RED, was just tough from all points of the game! Like someone said, you knew they were gonna run and still was productive!
I understand you were taking out metrics of the system they run, but would it change anything about the possesions the opponents had during games, maybe not but just wondering your thoughts
That intro was nice
Considering the number of awards by this LSU team, the number of top ten teams at the time they played, not the end of season, the number of records set, all reasons I think it's the best team. Then again I am a huge LSU fan. So I'm biased.
Nicholas Roddy same lol
Ranking at the time they played them is important. Tua don't get hurt and Bama likely plays in the playoffs. Then LSU plays UGA 4, OU 7, and Clemson 2 in consecutive weeks at a neutral field.
Jason Cassard Clemson wasn’t really neutral lmao
I’m an Arkansas fan and as much as it hurts me...you guys had the best team in CF history...easily...
Nebraska fan here. I like Mr. Roddy's honesty and humility. LSU was so amazing this last year. Fun to watch. Way to go Tigers!
I am a husker fan, and after this season I told everyone that LSU has the closest argument to greatest team ever with the 95 Huskers. The level of domination by both teams are on par with each other. People also forget that Nebraska did what they did with their 2nd string QB playing a significant role. I think if Burrows is not in those games LSU wins but not as convincingly. It is very difficult to compare still because this is the playoff era, and I do think the 2 should be separated. The pre-playoff era its Nebraska by far; post playoff era LSU by far. Nebraska if the playoff were in force would have also played the top competition for the title including I believe the undefeated PSU team which I do believe would have been the best match up for the Husker team. Both teams were smash football teams and played downhill. I really wish we would have seen that game! Stupid bowl game politics impeding what would have been great games back then.
All I can say is for all the hype that surrounded Florida that year with their 5 wide WAC attack. Even Spurrier should know better than to go no backfield from the 1. So much for the supposed "offensive genius". He was put in his place that day by a far more experienced coaching staff.
No way does LSU win some of those games with Myles Brennan as QB. No way.
I believe you are mixing up the 1994 and 1995 teams/seasons. The PSU mention was the giveaway.
You're confusing the 94 and 95 teams. Brook started much of the 94 season, but Tommie started every game of the 95 season. With that said, I still believe the 95 team would've been just as dominant with Brook or Tommie.
@Nemer WasHere..I think your memory is slightly swiss cheesed..Frasier and Berringer split time at QB in the '94 season (due to TF blood clots)..Penn State was also trying to share our title in '94...Usually, I think of '95 Huskers as the GOAT, but a lot of fans think '71 Nebraska would beat them...That year's ''Game of the Century'' with Oklahoma was the first game I remember watching.
I think you have to remember that 4 of the ranked teams LSU defeated were ranked higher when they played, Texas-9, Auburn-9, Alabama-4,
Oklahoma-4.
Great video! I like how you break down each team based on schedule, quality of opponents, margin of victory, and time they played in. The DELTA makes it really easy to see which team is better and I'm sure you could break it down even further with more stat lines. As a Nebraska Fan it is hard to say that the 1995 Huskers were the best team of all time without sounding biased. But they truly were dominant and I completely agree with your analysis! Go check my Top 5 College Football teams of all time - ruclips.net/video/DMu211v_GTQ/видео.html
As an Iowa fan, I agree, you guys are still #1 with the '95 Huskers. But I WILL say this: 2019 LSU has a STRONG argument for being second only to that squad. Both teams will be remembered as being simply unstoppable. They would absolutely rout half the champions of the last 25 years.
I'm glad you brought up the BCS information about Nebraska and how they undeservingly made it to the big dance and I couldn't agree more. I'll be a Husker fan well into the afterlife. True Husker fans will tell you we had no busines playing in that game.
This just in, Colorado just ran in for another 80 yard touchdown run......worst defensive performance in Blackshirt history to that point.....then the house of cards fell, sat in Memorial Stadium and watched Joe Daly throw five picks in a home loss to Southern Miss.....
@@scottlosey4978 ever since Franck was let go the program has gone downhill. Sure it stabilized for a while with Bo but the program will never be the same as yesteryear.
LOL same. I remember my jaw dropping when I heard the Huskers were playing in that game against Miami. We just got embarrassed by CU, and now they're thinking we're the best choice to play against Miami? that year was dumb. GBR
1995 Nebraska is without a doubt the GREATEST TEAM OF ALL TIME. They were so dominant on both sides of the both it was insane. Frazier wasn't sacked the entire season! The 1993-1997 span at Nebraska is also one of the greatest 5 year stretches in history, 4 Title games, winning 3 along with an insane 60-3 record over that time. They were the epitome of the word 'Untouchable'.
Interesting concept, I love it! I would have thought ‘04 USC might be in this but looking at their schedule it definitely wasn’t as dominant as any of these 3. Sadly none of my Buckeye teams measure up using this criteria.
But what about ‘18 Clemson vs. ‘19 LSU? U know we just saw something close to this, but that Clemson D line was insane. In fact, what would your model predict?
Clemson had cupcake schedules both this year and last year so it's hard to tell, but I think their postseason performances were outliers both times. In 2018 they overperformed, but underperformed in 2019.
If bama had won that game in 2018, we'd be talking about two potentially GOAT champions in back to back years, and that's absolutely insane. Especially considering they're in the same division.
Michael Kirshner, except you have no data to say that you can dismiss Clemson last year. And in fact (BTW I HATE ALABAMA AND CLEMSON) Clemson absolutely embarrassed Bama last year. To the point that Bama tapped out in the 3rd quarter. Who says Clemson last year wasn’t the GOAT?
I knew this comment was coming...
@@edchun1 you're way too defensive about this and I don't know why but I'm gonna leave it alone.
Michael Kirshner, yeah, OK. Whatever.
@@michaelkirshner3099 idk if he's being defensive. there is no data to say that clemson was not the better team. they had one close game that year and that was when their backup qb had to come in. i think no one would have thought that they would blow out alabama, so over performed may be justified. but to say if alabama won that game we could call them goat, but not mention that clemson team that DESTROYED them in the conversation would be hypocritical.
One thing that din't get mentioned in that in the national championship, 95 Nebraska DOMINATED a DOMINANT Gators team by 38 points. Prior to the national championship the 95 Gators closest margin of victory was by 11 points in two games, both times they took leads of 21 (against a Florida State team that finished top 5) and 23 against an Auburn team that finished ranked before taking their foot off the gas. The Gators handed Tennessee their only loss of the season by 25, and even taking into account their 38 point loss to Nebraska, they still outscored all their opponents on the year by slightly under 23 points per game
Let’s also consider that LSU is playing in the toughest division in the toughest conference in recent years. Also consider that Joe Burrow sat out almost every 4th quarter and in several games we didn’t see him after halftime.
LSU could have put up a TON more points than they did and you already admitted that they gave up a lot of those points in garbage time.
Obviously I’m an LSU fan but I just don’t think you can put either 95’ Nebraska or 01 Miami against the schedule LSU played this year and come up with a more impressive result than LSU put out.
Computers are good but they can’t judge the way people can. Sure, numbers don’t lie but in this case, they may be confused 🤷🏼♂️
LSU is the greatest of the 3 teams mentioned. I've been watching and follows college football since 1992.
You realize in almost every game Nebraska starters were done by the 4th quarter even in the national championship the back ups played at the end and even took a knee to not run up score.
I agree... A lot of things LSU went through are overlooked... to match the difficulty of their schedule you’d have to add 3 Top 5 teams onto Miami and Nebraska’s schedule... There’s a huge difference in caliber between the. schedules... The deltas also show how much better LSU’s competition really was.... People also question LSU’s Defense not realizing the injuries they had to go through throughout the season and also having backups in in most 4th quarters... If you want a good measure of LSU’s Defense at full health compare the numbers in their last 4 games (Texas A&M through Clemson)...
@BroskiliciousTV yeah when our defense got healthy, we were winning by an average of 48-18 ppg.
Averaging 30+ points on your opponents while playing 3 top 5 teams on the biggest stages.
LOL. Let's consider that in 2019 5 SEC teams in a 14 team conference finished ranked and that's with the SEC's standard schedule of 1-2 FCS teams. Thie Big East in 2001 had half the teams ranked finish ranked and the Big 8 in 1995 had half the teams in their conference finish in the top 10. Must be really hard playing against Vandy and Ole Miss and Arkansas and insert name of token FCS team here
#95SkersGOAT
You are absolutely spot on in this evaluation. The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers are the greatest team since Rutgers and Princeton first played this game in 1869!! When evaluating a great team, you must evaluate all the criteria. Offense, defense, starting talent, and depth. It is that last component that separated the Cornhuskers from all their rivals. NO TEAM COULD GO AS DEEP INTO THEIR LIMITLESS BENCH AS NEBRASKA. In the Fiesta Bowl, announcer Jim Nantz mentioned that during one series, Nebraska had plays made by players normally on the third team depth chart!! More good players, especially in the trenches, than any other team. In this game, Nebraska also had entire units of backup offensive linemen playing as well. Nobody could tell the difference!! Not one or two spots. The entire line!! Power, speed, and most of all, unlimited depth. They are the greatest college team ever assembled. In the most important category of all. Quality in numbers.
Great video! Since my favorite team was the 95 Huskers I don't have another suggestion for you. I would say the partial qualifier thing was probably blown a bit out of proportion. The reason that Nebraska fell from dominance was the retirement of Dr. Tom Osborne.
whoa dude, LSU had 7 top 10 wins! all 3 "close" games were top 10 teams. when you play that many top 10 teams, you're going to have some closer ones. Playing that many good teams in a season also takes a toll on the team. None of those teams played an SEC schedule. Thorpe, Joe Moor,Balitnikoff, Maxwell, Heisman, Broyles, and Coach of the Year. Clearly 2019 LSU is the best ever!
Nope played 5...check end of yeat... and really 4..Bama wasn't top 10
@@regfrevell6015 7 were top 10 when we beat them. 4 were top 5. In case you were unaware, when you beat a team, they drop in rankings, so when you beat everyone, they'll end up ranked lower. Don't be a hater because your team couldn't get it done.
@@regfrevell6015 Bama can beat most of top 10.
This is coming from an Lsu fan. I can assure you know bias here. And btw 1995 Nebraska would beat 2019 Lsu by 3tds with ease. Take off your rose colored glasses.
@@mistertroll7556 haha! Ok man, keep dreaming. You sound like a bitter teenager who didn't get her way. Maybe next year. 🤭
I'd love to see this kind of breakdown by decade for older seasons. For example - how does 1945 Army stack up to 1949 Notre Dame?
I don’t like the fact that you only look at the end of the season ranking, but other than that, pretty good breakdown
Otherwise you'd value preseason rankings more than end of year, no?
Nebraska fan born in 1994, so to young to see 1995 Huskers. I will say, the 2019 LSU Tigers has the most complete offense I've ever seen.
The offensive line was so good in 95 at times they would let the other team know where they were running it and they still couldn't stop them. They didn't allow a single sack all season on Tommie Frazier and most of the time the running backs wouldn't get touched until 5 yards or more down field. Go Big Red!
Running=dominance!!! They were just overpowering in both lines and Frazier was the king at the option plus they had two NFL first round I-backs and several NFL level FBs.
What I find interesting is how much of the Oline came from Nebraska and surrounding states. I don't buy into "2 star players with a 5 Star heart" idea, Nebraska had some studs...just surprising how many of the big boys came from our own backyard
@@willlewis6622 In 95 all but one O lineman was from Nebraska. Aaron Taylor was from Texas. Corn fed beef! Go Big Red!
Watch the 1996 Fiesta bowl.
Another case for 1995 Nebraska. Defensively, how do you account for them playing walk-ons and fans on defense in the 2nd half? They were up 42-6 on top 10 KSU going into the 4th and the 1928 Bugeaters were subbed in to play defense in the 4th quarter. 49-25 final. 63-21 at half against ASU. They literally only played 45 minute games until the grandparents came in to play in blowout time.
One last thought. Every top 10 Big 8 team NU team beat decisively won their respective bowl games that same year. Fla, as you mentioned, the champ in 1996.
The Top 10 Big 8 teams they beat not only all won their bowl game, but dominated their opponent.
The 95 Husker team when the contest started it was over by halftime example Florida the second best team in the country
I am curious if you guys just missed it or if you guys are actually not considering Florida a ranked team on LSU's Schedule?
We missed it on the schedule graphic but in our calculations they were included as #6 (their final ranking)
I was 15 the year of that Nebraska team, born and raised in Omaha, but living behind enemy lines in Colorado. I wore my Big Red shirts to school as much as possible, got a lot of sh*t talked to me, but in the end my team came out on top. That Tommy Frazier run against Florida stands as my favorite all time football moment. I don't think they'd stand a chance against today's LSU (so I'm glad that wasn't a factor in this decision, ha!), but after watching this I'm more convinced than ever that Osborne was one of the greatest we'll ever see and the '95 Huskers was a special team. GO BIG RED!!!
M. Cohnyerd I’m also from Omaha, what school ? I’m currently at westside
Where is 2013 FSU?
I know I’m late to the video but a stat came out where if you took away every Nebraska second half point they would have lost 1 game that year 21-20 to Washington state 1 loss of 1 point taking away every second half point... now that’s true domination if I’d ever seen it
no one talks about 2013 florida state
I mean it really doesnt get more accurate than this!
This video is a joke. Why use some concocted delta calculation when SOS existed?
Strength of Schedule
LSU2019 #6
Neb95 #24
"You can use a certain defense to stop the option" why didn't anyone stop Nebraska for them back to back national championship
Calyb Grothe 3 out of 4 years
Should be in 3 in a row job by the officials in the Orange Bowl for fsu
By these numbers? Sure Nebraska was most dominant, but numbers don't tell the whole story. Some things numbers don't take into consideration are injuries, conference strength, home vs away. Everyone wants to take away from the Texas win because of the losses and forget all the hype and intensity in that game, not to mention it was early season on the road. I think everyone can agree that injuries ruined Texas' season and were much better than their final ranking, especially with what they did to Utah. LSU had the best single season of all time when you combine wins, post season awards, and all the records they broke. This doesn't diminish anything Nebraska or Miami accomplished. LSU was just on another level and they could still break the record for number of players drafted.
Tim Landry lol really if they do break the record I take back everything I said in my comment
Injuries would make Nebraska dominance even greater. Frazier missed multiple games due to injury. Lawrence Phillips was suspended during season.
95 Huskers were gritty. Best team ever!
@@abdullahsalam305 Every player that is on that team that enter the draft and was a starter is getting drafted.
PK Harold buddy you need to do you homework too smh damn man it’s only 7 entering the draft and only 3 projected to go first round lol man and it sad that the QB may not go in the first the way a lot of people are talking about him cause the word is Burrow can’t play under center he can only play shotgun I don’t know how true it is but in the NFL that’s not good so just like I said before they are good but not great when they had help and they are not breaking any records with only 7 entering the draft Tim Landry I know that’s y’all team and all I’m a Miami fan we been down for years but since y’all know so much how many players did Miami put in the first round for the 2001 draft and then ask yourself out of the three that is projected will all 3 get pick
I respect the formulas you used and I’m biased. I’ve been a huge LSU fan all my life but I am old enough to have seen all 3 teams play. LSU played more top ten teams that year than both the other 2 combined also the number u used were cool but it’s doesn’t tell the whole story. U brought up the 5 point game against Bama but if you’d had watched it LSU was winning by 2 touchdowns until the very end, when LSU coaches tried to audible to Stingley and was looking at the sideline and Smith caught a bomb and the next drive with maybe a minute left, Aranda was still playing man press coverage with no safety help 🤷🏻 so Smith caught 2 bombs in the last 5:00 minutes of the game but I never felt like LSU was actually gonna lose that game and I’ve been thru Alabama ass whippings. The Auburn game was the only game all season I was nervous because they had one of the best D Lines I’ve seen. Cool take but u can just look at the opponents, the strength of schedule is not even close. Texas,Auburn,Florida,Bama,Georgia,Oklahoma,Clemson. Miami is disqualified cause Ken Dorsey & Nebraska as whole even bak then never has been able to recruit the same level of athletes all over the field like Miami or LSU. LSU played Twice the amount of ranked teams at the time they met as Nebraska and LSU played 5 teams that were ranked in the top 5 when they played 1 more than Nebraska played top 25 teams all season. 7 of the trams LSU beat all have atleast 1 National championship in the 20 years leading up to 2020. I don’t go back to 1975 but I’m gonna guess only Oklahoma and Florida were Championship teams on Nebraska schedule. Drop the 🎤.
I want to Junior college at Coffeyville Kansas back in the mid-late 80's, which was a power house juco back then. In classes SO many of the football players when introducing themselves would tell you I'm from Ohio State or I'm from Boston College, I'm from Miami FL...etc. A lot of really good Cornhuskers went to CCC. I had diner with Nebraska Heisman trophy winner Mike Rozier, who spent a year at Coffeyville when a friend of mine was being recruited to go there.
I wish we would get some videos about great players who went the Junior College route and why (grades 95% of the time imo). I think a lot of people might be surprised at who want to JUCO.
LSU fan here. I'm biased...I know...BUT, when did LSU play these teams and what rank were the teams that they played at the time of the football contest? That 2019 LSU offense could score on anyone at anytime. I do, however fear that Miami Hurricane defense...LORD.....that defense was crazy. The Cornhuskers were amazing and killed everybody that year (the physicality was crazy), but I feel that they are third place between the three teams...just my opinion. 2001 Miami has a great argument to be #1 too. Chase and Jefferson would have some problems with that secondary (Ed fricken Reed? Sean Taylor?!!!) However, the evolution of the offensive scheme would favor LSU, which isn't fair and was discussed in the video. Honestly, I watched all three teams, and each team do have a valid argument.
his own logic nebraska scored more per game than lsu. lsu loses if that bama games goes into ot
I have to go with LSU
One of the most overlooked parts of the 95 Nebraska team is the fact that they could absolutely throw the ball they just didn’t need to. One of the better pro style draft prospects in the country as their back up. Brook Berringer was being compared to Joe Montana and was absolutely gonna be drafted if his life wasn’t tragically cut short shortly before the 1996 NFL draft. Granted it wasn’t a great draft for qbs but that’s beside my main point that Nebraska’s lack of a passing attack had nothing to do with ability.
Loved the glory days
GO BIG RED
Crazy how much talent was in that 01 Miami team
Definitely got this one right. 1995 Nebraska is still the *only* team in college football history to win every single game by double digits even against elite competition all capped off with the largest national championship blowout in CFB history over a Florida team who also won every single game by double digits. It's rare enough that one team gets to the national championships winning every game by double digits but for Nebraska to then blow a Florida team away by that kind of margin over the only other team ever to win every game by double digits is just unbelievable of a feet. There hasn't been a team since then that's even got to a natty winning every single game by double digit blowouts.
That 95 Nebraska team would be middle of the pack if they were a member of the modern SEC West.
@@ericwaguespack5886 Funny you say that because they squashed the very best SEC team that year for the largest national championship blowout in college football history. So try again.
@@nebraskafan472 that was then and this is now bro. sec west is the best conferance in the ncaa period. lsu 19 would tear 95 nebraska appart if they played. 19 lsu was a special team and we might never see one again. Nebraska and miami were good but 19 lsu were exceptional
@@NathanDean79 Too bad the very video you're on right now concludes 95 Nebraska was better than 19 LSU. Your opinions don't mean anything when you compare the actual numbers. And according to the numbers 95 Nebraska was clearly better than 19 LSU. 19 LSU couldn't even beat 95 Florida which was the only other team in CFB history next to 95 Nebraska to win every single game by double digits leading up to the national championship. Let alone could 19 LSU even compete in the slightest with 95 Nebraska.
@@nebraskafan472 yea the video is wrong. Those numbers dont take into account fge quality of the teams being played. Big 12 teams get slapped around by sec powerhouse teams like bama and lsu. I like nebraska too but no way in tbis case.
@College Football Nerds, would it be possible to add 1945 Army into the mix in a short addendum to this video?
We're going to do one that looks at more historical teams as well. The sport was so different generationally, but those teams deserve their due.
Was at Wazzu in '95 and while we struggled that year remember feeling that losing to Nebraska 35-21 was respectable. Gave the most dominate team ever their closest game.... Go Cougs!
Nope. I have been following college football like a hawk for several decades now, and i'm pretty objective about these things, but LSU 19 is the most impressive i have seen of any team so far. My main reason is their schedule for the year. They played Bama, Auburn, Texas, Clemson, Georgia, Florida, etc - all ranked very high in the polls. LSU also played 15 games. Nebraska and Miami and USC and all Bama teams played a much weaker schedule and usually topping out at 12 games per season.
clifton beary plus they were fun to watch!
LSU won 2 games by single digits??
If they played by 1995 rules Nebraska wins it against 2019 LSU. It would be 15-1 baby. And if they played twice it would be 15-2. NU would've ave. about 12 ypc. against these guys. Nobody run blocks anymore like that.
@@davidcarr9807 Nope
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1971 Nebraska also has an argument for they were literally picked by ESPN last year to be the greatest team ever. So it's either 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers or the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers that was the greatest team ever.
www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/CFB150teams/the-150-greatest-teams-college-football-150-year-history
@Ryan Randone Not a bad choice.
Nobody I’ve ever seen beats the 2019 LSU team.
100 % agree with this
The 2013 Seminoles could definitely compete with them
Top 10 Sports I agree
Haha
lol no. they’re top 7 maybe even top 5 but no they couldn’t
How can you not include the strength of schedule.
Because their entire argument goes out the window
they did...compared schedules and margin of victories and all that.
Are we really saying Kansas is was a good ranked win and a top 10 win?! I’m not old enough to remember Kansas ever being a team who could ever be mentioned as a quality win in any discussion.
That was the delta part at the end
T Hill They went 10-2 in 1995 only losing to #1 Nebraska and #4 Kansas State (although they lost by 38 and 34 respectively)
- Averaged 28.75ppg
- Allowed 20.9 ppg
- Beat 2 Top 15 teams: #6 Colorado, #15 Texas A&M by 40-24 and 38-17 respectively
2018 Clemson? Biggest National Championship win in history and first team to go 15-0. They destroyed almost every team they played
They played no one good the entire year and I’m pretty sure LSU just beat the almost similar team besides the Defense line
@@whywhyerson9910 they played notre dame, bama, Syracuse, and a&m. And they destroyed every team
@@Legend-pb7eq Syracuse wasn’t that good, and they won by 4 and beat a&m by 2 and Notre dame was just overrated as usual, there only good win was Alabama
@@whywhyerson9910 Syracuse finished #12 wdym
@@Legend-pb7eq they finished 20 and Clemson still almost lost to them, acc is never good besides Clemson. A&M was an actual top 25 team but they still almost lost to then
Miami all day, better at every single position
GBR!
Did you watch the LSU ole miss game? It was 31-7 at halftime. Yes it got a little closer than they probably would have liked but the game was never in question.
William Kelly Nebraska beat Florida in the National Championship 62-24
what about Auburn?
I agree.
I would like to see how the 71 Nebraska team would stack up, number wise. They did beat the #2, 3 and 4 ranked teams.
I do agree with the 95 huskers as the best. Just to put it in perspective, I don't know the other teams stats on this, but the offensive line gave up 0 sacks in 95. Go Big Red!
That team was OVERPOWERED on both lines with two 1st round level I-backs. Running is dominance and they did it with 8-9 in the box every game and against top talent.
*plays Neck for LSU*
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FINALLY! It took so long for someone to notice that Easter egg. I'm happy now