Which college has the best all-decade team (2000-2009)?

AngryHusker88

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Despite not winning a national championship & only playing for 2 conference titles & losing both from 2000-2009, I would rank Nebraska's all-decade team in the top 5. An Eric Crouch led offense, backed by an Ndamukong Suh led defense. USC, Miami, Oklahoma, Florida, & Texas would all have nasty teams

 
Personally, Miami had the best decade team. Had a ton of good players during that stretch. As did USC. Not sure the Huskers are in the top 5 though.

 
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I am not saying Nebraska is top 5 in terms of being successful...I am saying if you take all our best players at all the positions throughout the decade, our talent would be top 5 IMO. Nebraska would possibly have the best DLine in the country with Kyle Vanden Bosch, Adam Carricker, Ndamukong Suh & Jared Crick. LBers would be solid with Carlos Polk, Demorrio Williams, Barrett Ruud. Keyuo Craver & Josh Bullocks give us 2 All-Americans in the secondary so the defense looks solid top to bottom; with arguably the best DLine in the country.

Then add an offense led by Heisman trophy winner Eric Crouch & 3 All-Americans on the OLine (Russ Hochstein, Dominic Raiola, Tonui Fonoti).

IMO our defense would be straight up nasty & that alone makes us a top 10 team. A top 10-15 offense led by a game changer like Eric Crouch (say what you want about Crouch but the dude won games by himself) makes us a top 5 team IMO, or at least real close.

 
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Oklahoma may actually have the best all-decade team from the 2000s....3 Heisman trophy winning QBs, Adrian Peterson at RB & a defense that would be about nasty as ours.

 
AngryHusker88 said:
Oklahoma may actually have the best all-decade team from the 2000s....3 Heisman trophy winning QBs, Adrian Peterson at RB & a defense that would be about nasty as ours.
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Oklahoma had 2 Heisman winners. Jason White and Sam Bradford.

USC had 3 winners: Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush(vacated).

 
I will also add that on my Nebraska All-Decade 2000s team, I would have Bo Pelini as the head coach & defensive coordinator & Frank Solich would be the offensive coordinator. Nebraska would run the option.

 
StPaulHusker - you are correct, I was thinking Josh Heupel won the Heisman when I typed that (he finished 2nd in the voting in 2000)

 
AngryHusker88 said:
I am not saying Nebraska is top 5 in terms of being successful...I am saying if you take all our best players at all the positions throughout the decade, our talent would be top 5 IMO. Nebraska would possibly have the best DLine in the country with Kyle Vanden Bosch, Adam Carricker, Ndamukong Suh & Jared Crick. LBers would be solid with Carlos Polk, Demorrio Williams, Barrett Ruud. Keyuo Craver & Josh Bullocks give us 2 All-Americans in the secondary so the defense looks solid top to bottom; with arguably the best DLine in the country.

Then add an offense led by Heisman trophy winner Eric Crouch & 3 All-Americans on the OLine (Russ Hochstein, Dominic Raiola, Tonui Fonoti).

IMO our defense would be straight up nasty & that alone makes us a top 10 team. A top 10-15 offense led by a game changer like Eric Crouch (say what you want about Crouch but the dude won games by himself) makes us a top 5 team IMO, or at least real close.
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Now if you could add L David to that LB group
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- but he'll anchor the next decade defense. We've had a few good RB in that time period also. But you are correct, the D would be the strength when we can pick and choose the players.

 
In my opinion, Oklahoma hands down.

2000, 13-0 BCS National Champs, Conference Champs, Finished #1

2001, 11-2 Cotton Bowl Champs, Big 12 South Champs, Finsihed #6

2002, 12-2 Rose Bowl Champs, Conference Champs, Finsihed #5

2003, 12-2 Big 12 South Champs, Loss in Sugar Bowl, Jason White Heisman Winner, Finished #3

2004, 12-1 Big 12 Champs, Orange Bowl Championship loss, Finished #3

2005, 8-4, Finished #22

2006, 11-3, Big 12 Champs, Loss in Fiesta Bowl, Finished #11

2007, 11-3, Big 12 Champs, Loss in Fiesta Bowl, Finished #8

2008, 12-2, Big 12 Champs, Loss in BCS Championship Game, Sam Bradford Heisman winner, Finished #5

2009, 8-5, Finished unranked.

Oklahoma appeared in 8 BCS games in a 10 year span, winning 3 of them, 1 of them being BCS Championship. IMO, remarkable 10 years, especially with it beginning in Stoop's 2nd year.

 
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Miami, you would strip the turn of the century.

USC would strip the middle of the decade.

Texas has an awful lot scattered throughout.

Oklahoma has a lot scattered throughout.

Florida has some at the end, but I am not surehow much.

tOSU had a lot of teams, but I don't know about a team full of all star players.

Don't know if our offense would stack up. We have a lot of good backs, but not amazing to really help the offense. Decent core of recievers as well.

I think our offense would leave too much to be desired.

 
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Nebraska's all-decade team would get ran off the field. We've got a few that match up, but across the board we wouldn't last or have depth to compete.

It's hard to argue against USC.

 
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