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How far back in time would you send a modern CFB team?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:29 pm
For them to win the NFL Championship/Super Bowl.
Taken at the extremes:
2023 Georgia can’t take on the 2023 Panthers, let alone KC.
However, 2023 Georgia would absolutely manhandle the 1920 Akron Pros for the first NFL Championship. (Akron’s starting center that year was 183 lbs). No amount of eye gouging or d**k grabbing in the pile is offsetting that size/strength difference on the lines.
That means there is some year between 1920 and now where a modern CFB team with a Time Machine would cross paths skill and strength wise with an NFL favorite, so which year is it?
Rules for this thought experiment:
1) Both teams get 1 week of prep and 10 games worth of film
2) The rules/officiating/equipment are per the older team’s standard.
Taken at the extremes:
2023 Georgia can’t take on the 2023 Panthers, let alone KC.
However, 2023 Georgia would absolutely manhandle the 1920 Akron Pros for the first NFL Championship. (Akron’s starting center that year was 183 lbs). No amount of eye gouging or d**k grabbing in the pile is offsetting that size/strength difference on the lines.
That means there is some year between 1920 and now where a modern CFB team with a Time Machine would cross paths skill and strength wise with an NFL favorite, so which year is it?
Rules for this thought experiment:
1) Both teams get 1 week of prep and 10 games worth of film
2) The rules/officiating/equipment are per the older team’s standard.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 3:13 pm
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Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:31 pm to BRIllini07
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:33 pm to BRIllini07
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The rules/officiating/equipment are per the older team’s standard.
This would be a big benefit for teams from the iron man days.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:35 pm to Master of Sinanju
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How far back in time would you send a modern CFB team?
The Iowa defense of today would have wrecked shite in like 1947.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:39 pm to Master of Sinanju
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This would be a big benefit for teams from the iron man days
I think it’s only fair since the modern teams have the film and weight training advantage.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:45 pm to BRIllini07
If we sent 2019 LSU back in time, they might get accused of witchcraft after the first few drives.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:48 pm to BRIllini07
quote:
2023 Georgia would absolutely manhandle the 1920 Akron Pros for the first NFL Championship.
frick YEAH WE WOULD
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:52 pm to BRIllini07
Are we talking one game against a Super Bowl winner...or a college team having to go through the grind of an entire NFL season and then go on to win the Super Bowl?
If its just one game, I'd say early-mid 90's.
If an entire NFL season, probably sometime around the 70's...mainly due to injuries taking their toll through a full season and not having the same caliber of talent all the way down the depth chart that their opponents would have.
If its just one game, I'd say early-mid 90's.
If an entire NFL season, probably sometime around the 70's...mainly due to injuries taking their toll through a full season and not having the same caliber of talent all the way down the depth chart that their opponents would have.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:53 pm to BRIllini07
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A TX/FL/CA state champion high school team would absolutely manhandle the 1920 Akron Pros for the first NFL Championship.
FIFY
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 2:56 pm to DirtyDawg
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If we sent 2019 LSU back in time, they might get accused of witchcraft after the first few drives.
Not saying this isn't necessarily true, but remember they'd be playing under old rules. Modern players, and most especially modern receivers, would not be used to the violence of the sport back in the day.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:07 pm to TheTideMustRoll
One hit from LT on that twerp Georgia had at QB last year and he'd never walk again.
I think you're minimizing how much the current rules favor offense.
I think you're minimizing how much the current rules favor offense.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:08 pm to BRIllini07
RPO’s would seem like wizardry for teams even in the 2000’s. Remember how difficult zone read was for teams to defend in the late 2000’s. Not to mention no huddle offenses when defenses usually huddled as well. I don’t think it’s as far back as we think for a modern CFB team to cause some major problems in a one game sample size
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:11 pm to TheTideMustRoll
Jamar Chase and Marshall would have 4-5 inches and 40lbs on all of those old turds
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:17 pm to BRIllini07
1982 the average weight of the Hogs was 280.
2022 the average weight of Bama's OL was 340.
2022 the average weight of Bama's OL was 340.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:21 pm to BRIllini07
The last Cowboys superbowl
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:38 pm to BRIllini07
Serious answer is the mid '80s. The last team to make a Super Bowl with the majority of their offensive linemen weighing under 270 lbs was the 1987 Broncos. By the late '80s, a majority of the offensive linemen weighed well over 280 lbs with 275 being on the low end. And obviously by the early '90s, you had teams like the Cowboys with massive offensive linemen weighing over 300 lbs. I think the last Super Bowl winning team a college football team from today would have been able to beat would have been the 1987 Skins. Anything after that and I think they would be toast.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:54 pm to Bench McElroy
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Serious answer is the mid '80s. The last team to make a Super Bowl with the majority of their offensive linemen weighing under 270 lbs was the 1987 Broncos. By the late '80s, a majority of the offensive linemen weighed well over 280 lbs with 275 being on the low end. And obviously by the early '90s, you had teams like the Cowboys with massive offensive linemen weighing over 300 lbs. I think the last Super Bowl winning team a college football team from today would have been able to beat would have been the 1987 Skins. Anything after that and I think they would be toast.
This probably the right answer, and the correct reasoning. Yes, modern cbb offenses would move the ball through the air, but they would have to be perfect because there is no way they could stop a decent NFL offense from running the ball.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 3:57 pm to BRIllini07
I would take some of the prime Saban defenses at Bama and LSU against Bradshaw era Steeler teams.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 4:02 pm to Gountiss
quote:let a college slot receiver run an rpo slant against the 2002 ravens defense and he’d get decapitated on the field
RPO’s would seem like wizardry for teams even in the 2000’s.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 4:15 pm
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