re: 1995 Nebraska’s offensive line ran 855 snaps that season…

Lsu finished behind Bama and Ohio state in 2019 in multiple computer metrics. Colored me unimpressed

We were talking about the # of games they were ahead by double digits at halftime, remember? You said LSU had 12 that season, which is 83%. Keep up.

There were multiple times during LSU's 2019 season when heading into the 4Q, the game was still close enough for the other team to win.

That never happened in 1995, ever. Every game was over by half.

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A team that doesn’t have any real nfl star talent likely can’t keep up out scheming people for 15 games.

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You do realize they went undefeated in back-to-back seasons, right? That's 25 wins in a row.

Last time I checked, 25>15. Try again.

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A team that doesn’t have any real nfl star talent likely can’t keep up out scheming people for 15 games

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Nebraska went 34 seasons in a row with 9 wins or more using that "scheme"

Nebraska could've played 15, 20, 30 games that year. They would've won every game by double digits. Who could've given them a game? They blew out the 4 Top 10 teams they played by an average of 31 points.

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They blew out the 4 Top 10 teams they played by an average of 31 points.

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Lsu blew out the FIVE top ten teams they played by 20 points

I ready told you, that team had 27 players end up on NFL rosters. I'd call that elite.

Frazier was MVP of the national championship game 3 YEARS in a row.

Again, NFL success has nothing to do with CFB success. There are plenty of guys on pro bowl/all-pro rosters who had zero success on their college teams.

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Lsu blew out the FIVE top ten teams they played by 20 points

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31 vs. 20.... hmmm.... last time I checked, 31 was more impressive

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Look man, it is what it is

People look at college success to see how a team played as a unit, and pro success of said players to see how their talent truly was to compete across all eras

95 Nebraska was elite in college success

01 Miami was elite in pro success

2019 LSU is they hybrid child. It’s just the way the world works. Anywhere besides an anti LSU message board doesn’t even have this talk after the success of LSU in the pros recently

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Well that's dumb considering they smashed 4 teams who finished in the top 10.

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And three “top ten” teams in the regular season were Kansas, Kansas State, and Colorado. Collectively, Osborne was 71-3-1 against those three programs. Never lost to Kansas or Kansas State in 25 years.

But!

Osborne was 5-12 against Oklahoma when Switzer was there, so maybe Nebraska making the championship without much trouble had a lot more to do with no Switzer than beating the same teams they had always beaten.

Maybe….?

And then there’s the bowl game. In 1995 Spurrier was an offense-first guy who had never even seen Nebraska. Meanwhile, Jimmy Johnson saw them up close at OSU, Bowden saw Oklahoma 2-3 times in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s and had some option exposure, and they both had great defensive personnel - and they dominated Nebraska.

You can throw out all kinds of numbers out about how 1995 Nebraska did this, that, and the other, but at the end of the day they did not face the same caliber of coaching and (more than that) elite defensive personnel that gave them fits for years. They simply didn’t.

And I’m not necessarily even arguing that 1995 Nebraska isn’t the GOAT. But people have this perception that they were untouchable when in reality they did not have to deal with the Selmon brothers, Bosworth, Dante Jones, Casillas, Cortez Kennedy, Jessie Armstead, Derrick Brooks, Sapp, Ray Lewis, Vince Wilfork, Jonathan Vilma, and others. And no Orange Bowl stadium.

I would agree that 1995 was probably Osborne’s best team, but I also think they unquestionably had an easier path than did his teams in the ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s.