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re: This year marks 30 years since the most dominant college football team of all-time...
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:07 am to Big EZ Tiger
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:07 am to Big EZ Tiger
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They also never gave up a sack or a holding penalty on offense for the year.
They barely ever threw the ball. How many holding penalties are there on running plays? They were always moving forward. I just don't think this is as impressive of a stat as you think it is..
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Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:08 am to RollTide1987
vs. #2 Florida (W) 62-24 [1996 Fiesta Bowl]
Was absolutely impressive to watch. And looking back now at how impressive the Florida team was that they blew out the water like that.
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Florida's passing game averaged 9.5 yards per attempt, with 48 TDs vs 12 INTs, over the 12 game regular season, during a period where you could still play pass defense without flags flying all over the damn field.
Was absolutely impressive to watch. And looking back now at how impressive the Florida team was that they blew out the water like that.
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Florida's passing game averaged 9.5 yards per attempt, with 48 TDs vs 12 INTs, over the 12 game regular season, during a period where you could still play pass defense without flags flying all over the damn field.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:11 am to brmark70816
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They barely ever threw the ball.
They still dropped back and threw the ball 228 times that season. Alabama had 291 drop backs that same season and LSU had 317 drop backs.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:03 am to Madking
Nebraska was at the forefront of the steroid invasion
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:13 am to RollTide1987
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Note that I did not say the "greatest," but the most dominant. And I think when you see how they performed on the scoreboard and the stat sheet, you will agree.
I don’t because I take into consideration the number of games played and the quality of opponents.
The 1971 Nebraska team won every game by 24 pts. except against an OU team that was orders of magnitude better than anyone the 1995 team faced in the regular season. The 1971 OU team (aside from Nebraska) won all of the rest of their games by at least 13 pts. They had wishbone legends like Jack Mildren and Greg Pruitt in the backfield and still hold the NCAA record for highest per game rushing average at 472.4 yards. 1971 OU was arguably the greatest of all the wishbone offenses - and that’s saying something.
Nebraska also beat an undefeated Bear Bryant team 38-6 in the Orange Bowl while OU took care of 9-1 Auburn with Pat Sullivan and Terry Beasley by the score of 40-22.
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And they weren't a gimmicky offense either. They ran the option out of the I-formation. They just overpowered and out-physicaled people at the point of attack.
Osborne ran essentially the same offense for the entirety of his tenure.
Osborne had two great struggles in his 25 years at Nebraska: 1) Barry Switzer and 2) bowl games.
The reason he struggled is because these teams frequently had great defensive personnel that could match Nebraska’s physicality. Switzer went 12-5 against Osborne with studs like the Selmon brothers, Brian Bosworth, and Tony Casillas. Osborne went 1-7 in bowl games (nearly 0-8) from 1987-1994 because of defensive players like Deion Sanders, Cortez Kennedy, Jesse Armstead, Michael Barrow, Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, and Ray Lewis. They also had coaches like Switzer, Jimmy Johnson, and Mickey Andrews who were very familiar with the Nebraska scheme.
The 1995 offense faced no such beasts.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 10:15 am
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:14 am to brmark70816
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They also never gave up a sack or a holding penalty on offense for the year.
They barely ever threw the ball. How many holding penalties are there on running plays? They were always moving forward. I just don't think this is as impressive of a stat as you think it is..
Their starting QB still threw for over 1300 yards and 17 TDs. So they threw it more than people realized with them being so dominant running the ball. It's a crazy stat regardless.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:24 am to Globetrotter747
Dude...nobody cares. Okay. Nobody cares. 1985 has nothing to do with 1995. And Tom Osborne was Bob Devaney's offensive coordinator in 1971.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:26 am to Big EZ Tiger
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So they threw it more than people realized
Doing the math they averaged just over 20 passes per game.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:31 am to RollTide1987
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Dude...nobody cares. Okay. Nobody cares. 1985 has nothing to do with 1995. And Tom Osborne was Bob Devaney's offensive coordinator in 1971.
Yeah, no longer having to play prime OU and Miami had nothing to do with 1995 Nebraska dominating the schedule.
Nothing at all.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:40 am to VermilionTiger
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Steroids?
Steroids and Proposition 48 kids. By the mid-90, schools were limiting how many prop 48 kids they could sign. Some conferences did not allow any. The Big 8 had no such restrictions. The 1995 Huskers had 12 prop 48 kids, 5 of them starters.
They also Lawerence Phillips, who only sat out six games after breaking into an apartment, dragging his girlfriend down three flights of stairs and smashed her head into a mailbox. They also had Chrisitan Peter, who was arrested eight times, convicted four times and accused of assaulting four women. Great group of lads, that '95 Husker team was.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 10:47 am
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:44 am to Globetrotter747
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Yeah, no longer having to play prime OU and Miami had nothing to do with 1995 Nebraska dominating the schedule.
Programs rise and fall all the time. Oklahoma may have been in a slump but Nebraska defeated a 10-1 and Top 3 ranked Miami team, in the Orange Bowl, to win the national title just the year before. You are also ignoring the fact that Tom Osborne changed his recruiting methodology in the early-90s to be able to compete with the Florida States and Miamis of the college football world. His teams in the mid-90s were faster than those he fielded in the 80s as a result. They only went 60-3 in his final five seasons at Nebraska in consequence.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 10:47 am
Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:26 am to ragincajun03
That game plan by Spurrier might be the worst coached game I've ever seen in my life. Nebraska kept bringing heat and Spurrier refused to leave a RB in to help protect. Wuerffel got annihilated.
UF was not going to win by any stretch of the imagination. But, that game plan was damned near criminal.
UF was not going to win by any stretch of the imagination. But, that game plan was damned near criminal.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:32 am to ragincajun03
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vs. #2 Florida (W) 62-24 [1996 Fiesta Bowl]
Was absolutely impressive to watch. And looking back now at how impressive the Florida team was that they blew out the water like that.
prior to the urban era, MANY gators would tell you 1995 was their best team ever, even better than the 96 team that would end up winning it all.
That 95 UF team was scary. Put up 62 on a top 10 tennessee team, beat a ranked LSU by 3 TDs, beat a top 10 AU by double digits, beat a top 10 FSU by double digits, embarrassed arkansas in the SECCG. I mean it looked like hardly anyone could even stay on the field with those guys...then they got utterly pantsed by nebraska. I have to imagine that's how 1/9/12 must've felt.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:43 am to TexasTiger08
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Don’t even care. The Rose Bowl was the last stand for CFB as we knew it. All the folks in here shite on the Rose for wanting it’s traditional game in a traditional slot, but they’ll also complain about the changing landscape of the game and how traditions are being ruined.
frick the rose bowl
Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
I came here to say that they didn't play anyone of note until they played UF. The truth is that College Football was much different in the 90s. Nebraska was definitely legit.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:56 am to brmark70816
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They barely ever threw the ball.
averaged 20 times per game.
not a ton by any stretch, but enough that not getting called for holding is impressive.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 12:07 pm to Globetrotter747
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Yeah, no longer having to play prime OU and Miami had nothing to do with 1995 Nebraska dominating the schedule.
Nothing at all.
Nebraska beat Miami in the Orange Bowl the season before.
by '95, Nebraska was dominating OU.
they were right in the middle of 7 in a row and 9 out of 10 against the Sooners.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 12:16 pm to Madking
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Penn State was a machine in 1994
It’s a shame this truthful comment has so many downvotes. Maybe the perception of their dominance has withered somewhat w the passage of time,
I saw them in person beat Ohio State 63-14. It was unreal. Penn State was stacked w pros and their offense ran at peak efficiency.
One of the top 5 most dominant teams I’ve seen in my lifetime.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 8/26/25 at 12:32 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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That game plan by Spurrier might be the worst coached game I've ever seen in my life. Nebraska kept bringing heat and Spurrier refused to leave a RB in to help protect. Wuerffel got annihilated. UF was not going to win by any stretch of the imagination. But, that game plan was damned near criminal.
Seriously, he had Wuerffel dropping back with empty backfield on their own 1 yard line. Which of course, big shocker, resulted in a safety
Posted on 8/26/25 at 12:47 pm to RollTide1987
95 Nebraska is arguably the best team ever. They had over 53 points per game and only threw about 20 passes per game. That is beyond impressive. They were beasts and just ran people over.
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