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That doesn't work because you are looking at their result before the season finished
You are discounting their Rose Bowl loss and trying to compare them to teams who played an entire season

I could do the same with any team throughout college football history even taking off 3, 5 or maybe 10 games and saying this team in September was the greatest team of all time. They may have finished 5th at the end but at this time in history they were great. Doesn't work out because once you open that door we can pretty much claim any team
as the best runner up

I do not understand why LSU wants their supposed best team ever to not have won a championship
You can ask any OU, UT, ND, Bama, Ohio State or USC fan what was their best team ever and they will always say one of their national champions not some runner up. Difference I see in the blue bloods and everyone else. I have argued with Trojan fans on here and outside of here that their 2005 team was better than 04 and 03 teams and they will deny it every time

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That doesn't work because you are looking at their result before the season finished You are discounting their Rose Bowl loss and trying to compare them to teams who played an entire season

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They did play an entire season... They finished 11-1... They were undefeated before the rose Bowl... The thread is about some of the best teams to NOT win A championship... I just threw the 1971 Michigan team out there... They have plenty of examples....

EVERYONE who is in their 30's or younger ALL say the 2007 PATS... Here is my problem... There are so many young people that think STATS are ALL that matter in ANY sport...

SORRY that's just not the case... There are plenty of factors that effect EVERY TEAM at any time... And YES sometimes the elements and such make A team have A bad day... shite happens.. its sports....

I actually think the 2011 Green Bay Packers was a better team
I am over 30 slightly at 34 but that team was coming off a Super Bowl championship and started 13-0 or something maybe 14-0

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The 2007 Pats get mentioned so much because of the difficulty of what they did. You don't need to resort to stats to show how good they were

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OK.. The 1972 Dolphins won it All and went 17-0... The 1973 Dolphins were A better team and still won it all even with two losses...

AGAIN The Pats lost on the biggest stage to A team they scored 38 points on just 4 weeks before...

Going 17-0 is A huge accomplishment... They were A great team... I have zero problem putting them at the top... Like I said.. There are other examples...

I guess you are just too stupid to understand this.........

The '72 Dolphins is still the GOAT NFL team

FWIW, IMHO, NRN

You've been blabbing on...are you trying to defend the inclusion of 2011 LSU in the OP?

Sometimes a team gets exposed. I always defended that team in that it was b.s. that they had to beat Bama twice...but they won 1, on some missed FGs and turnovers and then got beat down in the rematch.

I believe (as I said earlier) you can still be GOAT and lose...you can lose last second - bad turnover, lose by an inch on 4th down...getting beat on a lucky basketball shot - have better stats than your opponent and still lose...because you fumbled or ruined chances with penalties.

But you can't look completely inept in your final game and ever be considered a great team.


ETA: But I do agree with you about the Dolphins.

You know why the 73 Dolphins team was considered better than 72?

1991 UNLV Runnin' Rebels. Absolutely loaded team that just crushed everybody. Lost - many claim took a dive - to Duke (whom they beat by 30 previous year) in Final Four.

Still rank this as best college bball team I have ever seen, though the game has changed quite a bit and I watch less.

Possibly one the best I have seen in college athletics so far.

You could include 1998 Duke as well
I do not think anyone thought UCONN was going to beat them. Pretty much the total opposite of what happen with Duke UNLV. I would give Duke UNLV the edge cause of the previous year. I have a feeling UNLV would win 9 out of the 10 played. I haven't heard if Coach K motivated that team throughout the season with that game if he did it sounds kinda Bo/Woodish.

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If that BCSCG goes the other way and LSU beats Alabama again, that's an easy top 5 all-time team.

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Or if Oklahoma State could take care of fricking ISU. That LSU team would have crushed them too and added to their already all time great résumé. It's a shame the title game destruction is all any one remembers about that great team and season.