re: If osu wins the rest of their games in 10+ except maybe 1 close one

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he best thing 1995 Nebraska had going for them was they didn’t have to play Switzer’s OU, FSU, or Miami - elite teams that recruited to beat them (and could stop their running game) because they played them virtually every year for the Big 8 title or Orange Bowl.

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Nebraska beat Miami in 1994. 1995 Nebraska was a stronger team and humiliated Florida.

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The key word there being KSU.

Anyone like the Selmon bros., Tony Casillas, Brian Bosworth, Cortez Kennedy, Derrick Brooks, Ray Lewis, and Warren Sapp on those defenses?

That would be no.

Or anyone like Vince Wilfork, Jonathan Vilma, D.J. Williams, and Ed Reed like 2001 Nebraska faced?

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Yes KSU number 1 ranked Defense had all Americans(3 to be exact) just like those guys were in college

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None of those players were as good as the ones mentioned in my previous post.

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Mason and Muhammad are literally top 40 all time in the NFL receiving yards.

Tony Banks played a decade in the NFL

Nick Saban is a 7x champion coach

By your logic that's a super amazing win for Nebraska lolllololol

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VerlanderBEAST

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Honest question...how did you really feel when Michigan lost to Appalachian State?

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Honest question...how did you really feel when Michigan lost to Appalachian State?

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Disappointed because I thought UM had a chance to have a top 5 team but I knew App St was really fricking good and I would have said before the season that they were a top 4 or 5 toughest team on the schedule

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Nebraska beat Miami in 1994. 1995 Nebraska was a stronger team and humiliated Florida.

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Not sure offhand about the others, but you have to know that Nebraska beat the Warren Sapp/Ray Lewis Miami in 1994.

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*Sigh*

Does it occur to anyone that maybe one key reason why 1995 Nebraska was more dominant than than 1994 Nebraska was because the 1994 version had to play Ray Lewis and Warren Sapp in the dreaded Orange Bowl while the 1995 version played a Florida defense with nothing higher than a third round pick for the next three years?

Nebraska had a lot of great teams from 1973-1993 before Osborne finally broke through. Three things kept him from winning national titles in those years:

1. Switzer’s OU

2. Miami and FSU defensive talent and familiarity with the Nebraska scheme

3. Strong OOC opponents like’77-‘78 Bama, ‘82-‘83 Penn State, ‘91-‘92 Washington. That’s at least three national champions of the top of my head.

1995 Nebraska faced none of that.

They beat Big 8 rivals they were 71-3-1 against in the Osborne era, mediocre OOC competition (including a team that folded the program after the season), and a bowl opponent that (while good) was a mismatch for the Nebraska style due to their youth and overemphasis on the passing game.

During Nebraska’s 1-7 bowl stretch (very nearly 0-8) from 1987-1994, they played defenses with future NFL Hall of Fame talent (Cortez Kennedy, Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis) in the defensive front and coaches like Jimmy Johnson and Mickey Andrews who were highly familiar with their scheme. They also played several of those games in one of the toughest venues in CFB history: the old Orange Bowl.

This board thinks going from facing NFL Hall of Famers in the defensive front to nothing better than a third rounder makes no difference in how easily you can run the football.

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still waiting to here you tout how awesome Nebraska D was because they spanked 6-5-1 MSU had Saban Banks Mason Muhammad lolllllolll

It's also hilarious that you continue to avoid talking about KSU who did exactly what you claim these 1st rd pick and HOFers would have done and it didn't matter because Frazier threw 4 tds and Nebraska scored on D and on Special Teams and blew them out.

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2025 LSU legitimately might be undefeated against OSUs schedule

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LSU would probably lose to Illinois, Washington, Penn St, and the cheaters. The middle of the Big Ten is always underrated and not ranked when they should be. The bowls then prove that out like last year and will this year too.

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According to you record doesn't matter, future NFL production is what actually counts

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Everything matters.

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All Americans are by definition the elite players... KSU had 3 of them and were extremely familiar having to play them every single season.

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No one on 1995 KSU was even in the ballpark of the players I have mentioned on this thread.

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And what you keep avoiding is the fact that KSU did exactly what you claim Miami or OU or FSU would have done which is contain Nebraska's run Nebraska still dominated with Frazier throwing 4tds + scored on D & Special Teams

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I’m not avoiding it at all. I just think a little bit more highly of prime OU, Miami, and FSU defenses than 1995 Kansas State.

The Miami defenses of the U days were designed to stop Oklahoma and Nebraska. Jimmy Johnson spent five years at Okie Stare defending both teams every year and damn near beat them both the year before bolting to Miami.

Once in Miami, he recruited a hell of a lot better players (and inherited a lot of great ones from Schnellenberger) and was 4-0 against OU and Nebraska, including a shutout of the Huskers in 1988.

Miami reclaimed that identity under Butch Davis (a former assistant to Johnson) and that was the basis for the great 2001 team that overwhelmed Nebraska in the Rose Bowl with. Heisman winner at QB.

2001 Miami isn’t necessarily my choice for the GOAT, but they would be a tough matchup for 1995 Nebraska based on style and personnel.

Guys like Wilfork, Vilma, and Williams in the defensive front with Ed Reed (probably the best free safety in the history of football) running the alley and playing centerfield. A first round CB (Phillip Buchanon) to lock down any of Nebraska’s receivers who never saw an NFL practice field. I don’t believe 1995 KSU had guys like that.

Offensively, Miami had superior personnel everywhere. They would score.

I like Nebraska and old school option football. Love the I, the Wishbone, the Flexbone that Paul Johnson and the service academies have ran a lot. I ran a lot of I, Veer, and Wing-T in my coaching days.

All that to say… the I is tough to run against personnel that’s better than you. Les Miles’ LSU teams struggled to move the ball on Saban’s Bama teams because they were running right into the teeth of some of the most physical defenses of all time.

Similarly, Osborne always had problems scoring against teams that had legendary personnel on D that they couldn’t push around.

The defenses that Nebraska faced in prime OU, FSU, and Miami were a hell of a lot better than anything they saw in 1995. Those defenses were also complimented by good offenses for the most part.

You can line up in the I and move the ball on 1995 KSU and Florida without an NFL arm or receivers, but that isn’t going to work against 2001 Miami or 2016 Bama or 2021 UGA just like it didn’t work against the Selmon Bros., Bosworth, Cortez Kennedy, etc. Multiple guys in the NFL and College HOF - where you won’t find guys from 1995 KSU.

How long have you lived with your mom? You are the definition of an asshat. Every post of yours is a troll no matter the board. Get a life and a hobby.

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Just to be clear no LSU fan considers 2020 Bama as the best team ever.

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