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re: What is the best team get to championship and not repeat
Posted on 2/28/21 at 10:40 pm to sms151t
Posted on 2/28/21 at 10:40 pm to sms151t
It's gotta be the 73-9 Warriors or '02 Miami Hurricanes. Both teams were so dominant in their championship run and followed it up with a dominant season the next year and things just got really unfortunate for both when they got to the final stage. The Warriors had injuries and the Draymond suspension, Miami had the McGahee injury (still one of the more gruesome injuries to see happen, knees shouldn't bend that way) and of course the PI in OT to nix their win after the team was already celebrating.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 10:42 pm to Gatorbait2008
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2009 UF returned 19 of 22 starters from a title team..including a heisman winner.
That should be there for CFB at least. Not sure any title team in the modern era returned that many starters
I thought about this one but they didn't make the NCG so they don't really qualify. But definitely a great team that may go forgotten as time goes by. Still remember the 13-3 game in Tiger Stadium, my sophomore year in college and we were hype as frick for that game. Tebow toughed out recovering a concussion and Florida played vanilla because LSU couldn't move the ball on them. Les cowardly kicked a FG on 4th and goal from the 1 and I knew we weren't winning after that
This post was edited on 2/28/21 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 2/28/21 at 10:48 pm to WaterLink
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'02 Miami Hurricanes
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Miami had the McGahee injury (still one of the more gruesome injuries to see happen, knees shouldn't bend that way) and of course the PI in OT to nix their win after the team was already celebrating.
Miami still hasn't recovered from that loss, TWO lost decades, haven't seriously contended for the natty (I'm applying this liberally) since 2003 before those back-to-back losses after they reached no. 2
Posted on 3/1/21 at 4:51 pm to James11111
1967-68 Cardinals
This post was edited on 3/1/21 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 3/1/21 at 5:11 pm to sms151t
A few examples from major college football in the last 20 years:
2002 Miami
2005 USC (three-peat)
2016 Alabama
And a couple of fairly recent examples from the NFL:
1997 Green Bay Packers
2017 New England Patriots
2020 Kansas City Chiefs
2002 Miami
2005 USC (three-peat)
2016 Alabama
And a couple of fairly recent examples from the NFL:
1997 Green Bay Packers
2017 New England Patriots
2020 Kansas City Chiefs
Posted on 3/1/21 at 5:13 pm to ThePTExperience1969
The much bigger problem at Miami is that their administration no longer cares about football.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 5:13 pm to sms151t
2016 BAMA. One of the best defenses ever.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 6:41 pm to WaterLink
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I thought about this one but they didn't make the NCG so they don't really qualify. But definitely a great team that may go forgotten as time goes by.
2009 was the best defense in Florida history, one of the best in modern SEC History.
One more year with Mullen and I think they repeat, even after losing Harvin.
Urban was too conservative and he hired his BIL to be the OC/Yes Man. OL regressed, QB regressed, they ignored the best/second best WR on the team (David Nelson), trade to ride the inside run game with 160 lb Jeff Demps, etc. Just a complete shitshow. If Mullen had just rode it out another year waiting for a better gig than MSU, they probably win a 3rd together, Urban doesn't get talked out of retiring by Foley, Mullen takes us to 10-2 or whatever as interim and probably gets the head gig.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 7:47 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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2004 was a serious team on a mission, leave no doubt after the controversy of the split title in 2003.
2005 went all Hollywood and you can see it in the doc Trojan War. Same with Miami against Penn State in the 1987 Fiesta, they thought they'd just roll them and they only scored 10 points. Same with Miami in 2002, thought it would probably be a cakewalk against a Buckeye team that struggled against some really crappy Big10 teams.
05 was Carroll’s worst defense (outside his first and last year with the school).
They didn’t lose because they lost focused, they just had a shitty defense.
The offense averaged 50ppg and they lost to one of the better national champions, led by the single greatest performance ever.
USC’s failure to repeat had nothing to do with “going Hollywood”. They lost almost everyone from the 04 defense.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 7:51 pm to 632627
Well I mentioned that but you just cut and pasted half my post.
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Their defense was suspect and got exposed by ND and Fresno State. Surprised they actually held Texas to 41 points (Fresno State scored 42 against USC) as Texas was AVERAGING over 50 a game.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 4:31 am to sms151t
UNLV 1991
Won tournament in 1990.
Lost by 2 in finals in 1991.
Team was loaded.
Won tournament in 1990.
Lost by 2 in finals in 1991.
Team was loaded.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 4:59 am to makersmark1
2016 GSW
2015 Ohio State Fb
2015 Ohio State Fb
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:13 am to makersmark1
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UNLV 1991
Not only should they have easily repeated but many people think that final was fixed as the team was seen hottubing with known Vegas fixers...the game curiously came down to the final possession which looked like a purposefully flub.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 11:26 am to makersmark1
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UNLV 1991
Won tournament in 1990.
Lost by 2 in finals in 1991.
They lost to Duke in the semis not the finals
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:25 pm to sms151t
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They lost to Duke in the semis not the finals
I’m like SLO Joe.
I misremembered.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 2:14 pm to RLDSC FAN
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answer is 73-9 Golden State Warriors and not close.
Probably
Although the 1983 Sixers were incredibly dominant and have been largely forgotten. Even that nearly called shot of sweeping every team they faced.
Despite sweeping the Lakers in 83, the rise of the Bird Celtics put an end to their hopes of a repeat championship in 84.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:35 pm to LSUTigKyl
2002 Miami should have repeated but got cheated by the refs.
Even with that, 2016 GSW.
Even with that, 2016 GSW.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:53 am to sms151t
This is actually before all of our times (for the most part), but I was looking up old Ohio State basketball rosters (exciting, I know.) The Buckeyes have one national championship in basketball. 1960. John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas were only Sophomores that year. Larry Siegfried, who also played in the NBA and was drafted number 3, was a Junior. Bobby Knight was a reserve.
They all came back in 1960-1961, going undefeated and ranked number one all year until losing the championship game to Cincinnati. They did have a couple of close-calls before the championship game, though.
They all came back in 1960-1961, going undefeated and ranked number one all year until losing the championship game to Cincinnati. They did have a couple of close-calls before the championship game, though.
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