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That's not even relevant to what we're talking about. You brought up rankings so I answered with rankings. The whole "SEC is overrated in the preseason" argument is kind of silly anyhow considering how late Alabama started playing their SEC schedule in the year, the fact that the SEC still dominates end of the season rankings and that other SEC teams were winning National Championships other than Bama...something NU cannot say with the Big 12. Add to that the fact that Nebraska was also playing two of the top three overrated teams in CFB history (OU & UT) and I think your original point is weak if not completely baseless.That's all nice and good but while we're throwing out arbitrary stats and useless data, Nebraska has the most wins of any program in the modern era of CFB.That's all nice and good but the "overrated" argument is a double edged sword. NU is the 5th most overrated team since '89 finishing a combined 80.5 spots below their preseason rankings so they too benefited from preseason inflation.The SEC starts out with 5+ teams in the top ten for the last 5 years, and frontloaded ranking boost.Alabama played a much tougher schedule than Nebraska. 35 ranked teams vs. 24.
In that same time period Alabama is the 12 most underrated team finishing a combined 30.5 spots above their preseason rankings.
Anyhow I'm not going to argue this endlessly. Just wanted to throw out what I feel to be a valid argument in favor of Alabama. That argument being what it is I still think Nebraska's run was better than Alabama's.
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