Scout: Greatest CFB Team of the Last 25 Years

Mavric

Mavric

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1) Nebraska (1995)

The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers were simply overpowering offensively behind their vaunted run game and option attack triggered by quarterback Tommie Frazier and backs Ahman Green and Lawrence Phillips.

There offense was overwhelming. They averaged 52 points a game against conference opponents. Nebraska’s non-conference schedule included games against Michigan State, Arizona State, Washington State and Florida in the title game. Against this group the Cornhuskers averaged 56 a game including 62 in a Fiesta Bowl massacre win over a really good Gator squad. Tom Osborne’s troops just dismantled the unbeaten SEC champs 62-24. I have never seen a game of that magnitude, where one team imposed their will in such a fierce and forceful way like this Cornhusker squad.

This team was so talented, so athletic and so fast. The defense was just as dynamic and so to where Osborne’s special teams. The Cornhuskers trailed only once all season. They scored 51 rushing touchdowns and the defense only gave up six. This team’s average margin of victory of 38 was the greatest by any team over the last fifty years. The Cornhuskers title teams of 1994 and 1995 went back to back and undefeated at 25-0.

Nebraska was loaded, as 27 players went on into the NFL. Green, Phillips, Michael Booker, Kris Brown, Doug Colman, Chris Dishman, Jay Foreman, Scott Frost, Aaron Graham, Jon Hesse, Sheldon Jackson, Vershon Jackson, Chad Kelsay, Joel Makovicka, Mike Minter, Christian Peter, Jason Peter, Mike Rucker, Eric Stokes, Jared Tomich, Adam Treu, Tony Veland, Eric Warfield, Jamal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jason Wiltz, and Grant Wistrom all played on Sundays in the NFL from this roster.

I find it hard to believe that some of the elite teams from earlier eras could beat this Nebraska team. This squad was simply too big, too fast and too overpowering.
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Moiraine said:
We trailed once. Was that 10-7 against Florida?
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6-10 end of q1 (blocked xp). I was at the game and the sideline radio guy came on when standing by the O line. Reported that the O line was just telling the coaches that they owned the opposition so just call the game for smash mouth. This made me smile and relax because I knew (sort of) what was coming. NU scored soon after on a long LP run.

 
Nebraska was loaded, as 27 players went on into the NFL. Green, Phillips, Michael Booker, Kris Brown, Doug Colman, Chris Dishman, Jay Foreman, Scott Frost, Aaron Graham, Jon Hesse, Sheldon Jackson, Vershon Jackson, Chad Kelsay, Joel Makovicka, Mike Minter, Christian Peter, Jason Peter, Mike Rucker, Eric Stokes, Jared Tomich, Adam Treu, Tony Veland, Eric Warfield, Jamal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jason Wiltz, and Grant Wistrom all played on Sundays in the NFL from this roster.
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I wonder if Frost got a '95 ring? He wasn't eligible in 1995. The only game he played in was the spring game.
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Mavric said:
1) Nebraska (1995)

The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers were simply overpowering offensively behind their vaunted run game and option attack triggered by quarterback Tommie Frazier and backs Ahman Green and Lawrence Phillips.

There offense was overwhelming. They averaged 52 points a game against conference opponents. Nebraska’s non-conference schedule included games against Michigan State, Arizona State, Washington State and Florida in the title game. Against this group the Cornhuskers averaged 56 a game including 62 in a Fiesta Bowl massacre win over a really good Gator squad. Tom Osborne’s troops just dismantled the unbeaten SEC champs 62-24. I have never seen a game of that magnitude, where one team imposed their will in such a fierce and forceful way like this Cornhusker squad.

This team was so talented, so athletic and so fast. The defense was just as dynamic and so to where Osborne’s special teams. The Cornhuskers trailed only once all season. They scored 51 rushing touchdowns and the defense only gave up six. This team’s average margin of victory of 38 was the greatest by any team over the last fifty years. The Cornhuskers title teams of 1994 and 1995 went back to back and undefeated at 25-0.

Nebraska was loaded, as 27 players went on into the NFL. Green, Phillips, Michael Booker, Kris Brown, Doug Colman, Chris Dishman, Jay Foreman, Scott Frost, Aaron Graham, Jon Hesse, Sheldon Jackson, Vershon Jackson, Chad Kelsay, Joel Makovicka, Mike Minter, Christian Peter, Jason Peter, Mike Rucker, Eric Stokes, Jared Tomich, Adam Treu, Tony Veland, Eric Warfield, Jamal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jason Wiltz, and Grant Wistrom all played on Sundays in the NFL from this roster.

I find it hard to believe that some of the elite teams from earlier eras could beat this Nebraska team. This squad was simply too big, too fast and too overpowering.
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NUance said:
Nebraska was loaded, as 27 players went on into the NFL. Green, Phillips, Michael Booker, Kris Brown, Doug Colman, Chris Dishman, Jay Foreman, Scott Frost, Aaron Graham, Jon Hesse, Sheldon Jackson, Vershon Jackson, Chad Kelsay, Joel Makovicka, Mike Minter, Christian Peter, Jason Peter, Mike Rucker, Eric Stokes, Jared Tomich, Adam Treu, Tony Veland, Eric Warfield, Jamal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jason Wiltz, and Grant Wistrom all played on Sundays in the NFL from this roster.
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I wonder if Frost got a '95 ring? He wasn't eligible in 1995. The only game he played in was the spring game.
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He got a ring. He was considered a redshirt. All redshirts get rings.

 
Amazing team, and the title game was so fun to watch. To see a team so good destroy another team which happened to win it all the following year tells you just how good that Husker team was. Rightful #1 ranked team to ever play college football

 
The biggest stat that the article didn't mention - the 95 team beat 4 teams, decisively, which FINISHED in the top 10

www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?seasonid=1995#.Vcz1NGdRFhM

Also another trivial fact - No QB sacks all year long. That is unheard of. Yes, we weren't a passing team, but still there were plenty of opportunities for a break down in blocking. Just shows how dominate the pipeline use to be.

I did think the 97 team should have been included in the list of other teams under consideration. If the 99 team had not fumbled against Texas, I think they would have been high on this list as well. They were better than the 2001 team and almost equal or perhaps equal to 97.

 
The '95 Team punted the ball 29 times over the entire season.

I'm gonna guess the first string wasn't involved in several of those.

You don't look at punting stats much, but that's a helluva metric for domination.

 
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