FOX SPORTS RANKS THE GREATEST SEASONS

1994 Nittany Lions at 45?

My guess without looking is that their schedule sucked.

fucking bullshit, 1992 Alabama at 27

6 quality wins…suck my dick foxsports

Ok… Their definition of quality win is a bit different than mine. Here is Texas’: Quality Wins: 9. UL Lafayette, at Ohio State, at Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas Tech, Kansas, Colorado, USC.

Any quality win that includes UL Lafayette is obviously flawed.

I did notice the Lafayette thing sticking out a bit too. To me more accurate they’d have to take each team out to its opponents as well and have a sliding scale quality win.

Other factors not considered:
-sideline celebrity quotient
-uniform gauche/collectivist design style points
-sleazy yet demure dance/cheer team (texas pom!)
-coaches sobriety scale
-mascot intimidation factor
-player to handgun ratio (starters only)
-old boy alumni network

If I were injecting my subjective opinion into this, I’d say the 1995 Huskers were the best of the bunch, but Texas would be up there. Both Texas and the Huskers beat great teams in the championship game…. but the Huskers dismantled the Gators in that one.

Shh…rule one of fight club: don’t talk about the ’95 Huskers.

“Quality” win is a win over a team with a winning record (Lafayette went 6-5 this year).

“elite” win is a win over a team that finished with 2 or fewer losses (or a bowl win over a team that ended up with 3 losses including that bowl loss).

That Penn State ‘94 team didn’t have an elite win, according to their numbers.

I think it’s funny how the ’80 UGA team is their worst rated National Champion.

But hey, at least it’s objective. I prefer that to “UR teh suxors” rankings.

Also, 1990 Colorado (5th down) is ranked ahead of 1990 Georgia Tech (pussed out at UNC while undefeated). Gains a little chuckle from me.

(1) My undying admiration to Matt for the articulate manner in which he expressed the sentiments of our camp. Wish I had said that….

(2) Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but this is just another example of the deperate lengths we will go to to continue the college football discussion after the season is over. That being said, this BS does beat most any other sports topic one can find till spring ball starts.

(3) I am reminded of that famous observation about statistics – there are lies, there are damn lies…and then there are statistics. Clearly, there are simply WAY too many variables for such a listing to have any true meaning. Unless, of course, they come up with one that has Bama ranked three times in the top ten.

Statistics Don’t Lie:
Fully 80% of the Top 10 (and 64% overall) Best Seasons were won by schools that begin with consonants. If you are one of those unfortunate souls who attended (or attends) a vowel, chances are you won’t have a great season.

insert “school beginning with” somewhere

Bitterhorn seems to make a good point, until you consider that 81% of letters are consonants. Therefore, if only 64% of the Best Seasons were won by schools that begin with consonants, that’s actually below the expected percentage. Of course, someone would now have to go through all 117 schools in D-1A and total up how many schools begin with vowels, consonants, etc. But it won’t be me because I’m going to go back to my liberal arts world in which I can ignore math and torture students by making them translate sentences like “1996 Florida pwn3d FSU in the Sugar Bowl” into Italian…

Also interesting, especially considering the thin skin at HP and CFR the last couple of days about the LSU “One-Pete” billboard:

According to this list…

2003: LSU 18th, USC 36th
2004: Auburn 22nd, USC 26th
2005 (obviously): Texas 1st, USC 11th

So according to this objective list (which I don’t think is necessarily accurate or even proves anything, but it is objective), the USC “dynasty” is three straight years when the Trojans weren’t even the best team. Anyone want to compare them to the Dan Reeves Broncos or the early 90’s Buffalo Bills (I’d add the Braves, but they did have one year when they were Champions without dispute)?

As a Husker fan, it’s nice to see the ’95 Gators get some love. CFN had ’em at 23 on the list. Prior to the Fiesta bowl, informed opinion thought that Danny W., Doering and SOS would light up the Huskers. We forget how big the build-up for the ’96 Fiesta was.

Not to mention that Florida team came back the next year and won the national title. So it’s not like the Huskers trounced a bunch of scrubs the year before.

Interesting that in their top 10, five were in the last decade. Has the last decade REALLY produced five of the “Best All-Time” teams or is this a case of myopia when looking back into the past?

This is almost as much a waste of time as the ASU abomination…

“…until you consider that 81% of letters are consonants.”

Damn! Should have known better than to try sneaking that through.

The table also tends towards the bell curve, alphabetically speaking.

You bastards can whine and moan about your team being NOT VOTED as the greatest team that ever sucked sports writers smallish, diseased 2" cocks because it doesn’t matter until you actually have a system(playoff, perhaps?) that produces an on the field champ. Until then, SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Stop whining.

I think a big flaw in the system has been touched on: “quality win” being defined as anyone with a record of .500 or better. Texas rang up an assload of “quality wins” this year, because according to the criteria every BXII team ended up being “quality” because just about all of them hovered around 6-5. Well, how many of those teams finished with winning records because they fattened up in the non-conference slate? Five or so of those “quality wins” are over teams that wouldn’t crack the top half of the SEC or Big Ten…

All it claims is objectivity, not accuracy. It is a shallow analysis to say the least, but it provides an intersting result and food for thought. I for one, think Nebraska 95 was better than Texas… of course we can never know this. I also think the 2004 Trojans were better than the 2005 trojans even if they had beaten Texas. Not to mention the fact that the 96 Gators were way better than the 98 Vols…. But it is good to see the 93 Noles ranked higher than the 99 Noles and to see the 95 Gators get some love. Usually in subjective rankings you do not see this.

I call shenanigans. Where’s the 8-0 1923 Illinois team? What bunk. And it doesn’t matter that USC lost to tejas, they still win 2 out of 3 vs the Mt. Olympus all-stars.

Also, this is not from Fox. This is from CFN, from which Fox has borrowed it. In other words, it’s some stuff from two guys in a basement in Chicago.

As opposed to what, Atlanta?

Two guys in a Chicago basement on the payroll, HP.

1909 Yale only ranked at 641 WTF

okay – I really have to get back to work but….

Div 1A teams – 76% consonants, 24% vowels – this is going by the schools’ “common” name – such as USC is a vowel but the University of Michigan is a consonant.

k?

1992 Alabama team that beat the crap out of Miami, beat MSU in Starkville, UT in Knoxville, Ole Miss(who was good that year), and a few others is compared to Yale from 1909 and Michigan from 1901????

You can’t compare any of these teams.

STOP THIS RANKING SHIT!

If I see one more “countdown”(besides CTSD)I’m gonna shoot the people who made the “list”.

I think ULaLa is listed as a quality win for Texas because of their final record as well as the thumping Texas put on them. It looks like they’re factoring in margin of victory, and rightly so.

The ’92 Bama team, as well, while the offense was heinous, the defense was the best damn thing ever. Just about every starter went on to a solid career in the NFL, including people like George Teague, Antonio Langham and Sam Shade, not to mention Mssrs. Copeland and Curry that languished in obscurity with shitty teams.

1899 Sewanee anybody?

2001 ’Canes best ever…..hands down(and they rarely played hard)!!;
with a ton of close seconds.

forget the whole ‘quality wins’ thang. they are pretty much all overrated anyways. ‘05 texas wouldnt last 2qts vs. most teams on the list; esp. championship teams from ’95-04….then again, they’d beat any usc team(uscSUKS&noDefense)

chew on dat for a moment, my lil kiddies

DaFrankster,
You are out of your mind. Texas had a top 10 defense, top 10 special teams, tons of kick blocks, and the best offense in the country.

This was an absolutely complete team in every phase of the game.