ThePancakeMan

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I think the bottom line here, at least regarding the 1995 team, is that no other team really even deserved to be on the other side of the ball. The 1995 team not only beat everyone, there was not even anyone left in the discussion as a capable opponent, that year, or ANY previous year for that matter. The opponents were left destroyed, and humiliated. Not only that but I remember opposing coaches stating that it took them weeks to recover from the physical beating that their team took. (Remember Jaquez Green getting carted off the field in the Fiesta Bowl?). The players all lived through the LP debacle, and everyone calling Tom Osborne the face of what is wrong with major college sports...They used that to fuel their devistation, and it really paid off. Not only did they have the talent to beat the other teams, they had the singular focus and desire to have the other team running back to their mommies, crying, as if to get revenge for the awful way that the media was portraying their program, and TO in particular. (wow, rant over...) These Florida teams are not finishing all their games early. Huskers of 95 didn't play their #1's all through the games because they were over early. Gators are keeping their guys in to finish the games. Case in point, Tim Tebow getting a concussion late in a game. Scratch that...the coach was insane to have left him in and did it probably only to pad his Heisman stats.

I recall a statement by someone recalling The Florida team in 95 and the great strategy they will surely come up with to defend against the Huskers' offensive weapons. One astute fan said, "I could come up with a great strategy to contain the Huskers offense too, but you can't tackle the ball carrier when you are lying on your back." That pretty much summed it all up nicely. The OL was so utterly dominant, that the DL would just have giant gaping holes in it, and the LBs were too slow to catch our offensive backfield. By the way, the same was true in reverse...Our DL was in the backfield on every play almost. -ThePancakeMan