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Best team to get left out of the title game?

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All this talk about soft schedules has me thinking: who's the best team in history to get left out of playing for the national title game?
Tell me your pick and why.
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most recently 2003 USC
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off top of my head:
au 04
usc 03
texas 08
best games we never saw:
94 psu/neb
97 neb/mich
both times both were undefeated.
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1993 ND team that dominated NC FSU. FSU scored 2 TD's late after we went to the dreaded prevent D.
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theharbinater said...
97 neb/mich

would have been a bigger blowout than Nebraska/Tennessee was.
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Hskr4Life23 said...
would have been a bigger blowout than Nebraska/Tennessee was.

maybe. neb was ridiculously good from 94-97.
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99-11 boise st
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AU 04. Beat 6 top 15 teams that year. When's the last time anybody did that?
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AU 04. Beat 6 top 15 teams that year. When's the last time anybody did that?

This. As much as a hate to say it and all, AU was the best team in the country that year.
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theharbinater said...
off top of my head:
au 04 usc 03 texas 08
best games we never saw:
94 psu/neb 97 neb/mich
both times both were undefeated.

Did Penn State still have Kijana Carter in 94? I know he sucked in the pro's but he was impressive in college to say the least.
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RATT said...
This. As much as a hate to say it and all, AU was the best team in the country that year.

Whaaaa? SC would have wiped the floor with that team.
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No love for 2001 Oregon? Mad.
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Whaaaa? SC would have wiped the floor with that team.

I disagree personally. It would have been an awesome matchup either way though. It would have sure as hell been a better game than USC/OU.

This post was edited by RATT on 9/26/2012 at 4:33 PM
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AuburnInOrlando said...
AU 04. Beat 6 top 15 teams that year. When's the last time anybody did that?

#7 Georgia (10-2)
#10 Virginia Tech (10-3)
#13 Tennessee (10-3)
Who are the other 3?

This post was edited by Tom Riddle on 9/26/2012 at 4:34 PM
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I disagree personally. It would have been an awesome matchup either way though. It would have sure as hell been a better game than USC/OU.

Why? I honestly don't think I've ever seen a USC team play better than that night. They were making circus catches and pinpoint throws all night.

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Orange Bowl - USC vs Oklahoma

Highlights from the 2005 Orange Bowl. This was USC's second sraight national title.
http://www.youtube.com/v/aw4_4H83Pok
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RATT said...
This. As much as a hate to say it and all, AU was the best team in the country that year.

Maybe... would have liked to seen them play USC in the big game that year, then we would know for sure.
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For Oregon it's 2001 hands down. Colarado beats Nebraska in the CCG (if my memory serves right). Nebraska still jumps us for #2. We get matched in the fiesta bowl with the CU team that beat NU and we demolish them.
Oh well, no ones beating Miami that year anyway.
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RATT said...
I disagree personally. It would have been an awesome matchup either way though. It would have sure as hell been a better game than USC/OU.

Agreed it probably would have been a better game. But IMO no one was beating SC that night.
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Alonzo Harris said...
Why? I honestly don't think I've ever seen a USC team play better than that night. They were making circus catches and pinpoint throws all night.

Not only that but SC's O line was absolutely devastating. They tore OKie to shreds.
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For Oregon it's 2001 hands down. Colarado beats Nebraska in the CCG (if my memory serves right). Nebraska still jumps us for #2. We get matched in the fiesta bowl with the CU team that beat NU and we demolish them.
Oh well, no ones beating Miami that year anyway.

yea we definitely didn't deserve that title game. But, you got to enjoy a win. Miami would have crushed anyone.
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#7 Georgia (10-2) #10 Virginia Tech (10-3) #13 Tennessee (10-3)
Who are the other 3?

#5 lsu, tennessee twice, idk who the other one would be
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#5 lsu, tennessee twice, idk who the other one would be

LSU didn't finish in the top 15.
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LSU didn't finish in the top 15.

when we played them they were number 5.
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#5 lsu, tennessee twice, idk who the other one would be

according to wikipedia #10/15 tennessee twice, #5 lsu, #8 georgia, and #9 Va Tech in the bowl game are their ranked opponents.
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94 PSU is up there
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