The Best Team I Ever Covered: 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers

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1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers crushed all comers en route to title

The realization came suddenly and with smack-yourself-in-the-forehead clarity, just before halftime of the Fiesta Bowl on the second night of 1996. Defending national champion Nebraska had awakened from an early 10-6 deficit and was in the midst of running off 36 straight points on Florida en route to a 62-24 dismantling of the Gators in the de facto 1995 national championship game. But the Cornhuskers were not just defeating Florida, which had ridden coach Steve Spurrier's Fun 'n Gun offense to its first appearance in the national title game. The Cornhuskers were beating up the Gators in a bullies vs. bookworms schoolyard beatdown, transforming Florida from a rollicking offensive machine, champions of the mighty Southeastern Conference, into a giant quivering lip.

At some point in the middle of this steamrolling, I walked from my seat in the press box at Sun Devil Stadium and wandered down to where Sports Illustrated colleague Scott Price was sitting. I tapped him on the right shoulder, bent over and said, "Nebraska is Miami now.''

Scott whipped his head around and said, immediately, "They are. They're Miami.''

As college football writers, we both understood the code in which we were speaking. For most of the previous decade -- beginning, symbolically, with a 31-30 victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl after the 1983 season -- Miami had been the standard for not just college football excellence, but anarchic, strutting college football intimidation. While winning four national titles from 1983 to 1991 under Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson, the Hurricanes had not just buried opponents with unparalleled, Florida-bred speed and skill, but had also danced on their graves afterward.
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So that everyone knows who was the NC and when:

Below is a list of all of the CFBDW recognized national championships from 1869 to present.

School Championships Seasons

Princeton 26 1869, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1893, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1911, 1920, 1922, 1933, 1935

Yale 18 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1900, 1907, 1909, 1927

Notre Dame 13 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988

Alabama 12 1925, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009

Michigan 11 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1932, 1933, 1947, 1948, 1997

USC 10 1928, 1931, 1932, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003, 2004

Pittsburgh 9 1910, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1929, 1931, 1936, 1937, 1976

Harvard 8 1875, 1890, 1898, 1899, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1919

Ohio State 7 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002

Oklahoma 7 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000

Minnesota 6 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960

Penn 6 1894, 1895, 1897, 1904, 1907, 1908

Army 5 1914, 1916, 1944, 1945, 1946

Miami 5 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001

Nebraska 5 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997

California 4 1920, 1921, 1922, 1937

Georgia Tech 4 1917, 1928, 1952, 1990

Illinois 4 1914, 1919, 1923, 1927

LSU 4 1908, 1958, 2003, 2007

Michigan St 4 1951, 1952, 1965, 1966

Penn State 4 1911, 1912, 1982, 1986

Tennessee 4 1938, 1950, 1951, 1998

Texas 4 1963, 1969, 1970, 2005

Auburn 3 1913, 1957, 2010

Cornell 3 1915, 1921, 1922

Florida 3 1996, 2006, 2008

Lafayette 3 1896, 1921, 1926

FSU 2 1993, 1999

Georgia 2 1942, 1980

Mississippi 2 1960, 1962

Texas A&M 2 1919, 1939

Arkansas 1 1964

Boston College 1 1940

BYU 1 1984

Chicago 1 1905

Clemson 1 1981

Colorado 1 1990

Dartmouth 1 1925

Iowa 1 1958

Maryland 1 1953

SMU 1 1935

Stanford 1 1926

Syracuse 1 1959

TCU 1 1938

UCLA 1 1954

Washington 1 1991

Thank you WIKEPEDIA.

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