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Most overrated team of all time? (college football)

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by Rocket Fan, Nov 19, 2005.

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  1. Rocket Fan

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    When is the last time a team started ranked in the top 5, and didn't make a bowl game?

    Tennessee just missed a chance at bowl game today and will have a losing record.. after starting top 5
     
    #1 Rocket Fan, Nov 19, 2005
  2. KingCheetah

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    Year to year Notre Dame is without a doubt the most overrated team.
     
    #2 KingCheetah, Nov 19, 2005
  3. geeimsobored

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    I'd say this year Notre Dame is fairly decent and definitely not as overrated as Tennessee was this year. Half of ESPN figured they'd be in the national championship instead of Texas.
     
    #3 geeimsobored, Nov 19, 2005
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    Not this season, it was a pleasant suprise to see ND have some success after years of crap. I don't anyone thought ND would have the season they have had so far, the only knock on the season was that loss to Michigan St. Some would say USC but they've been the closest to beating the Trojans since Cal did it 2 years ago.
     
    #4 gucci888, Nov 19, 2005
  5. Manny Ramirez

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    Rocket Fan,

    I agree completely 100%. I am so happy for you and Vandy; I just wished that would have been the win to get them bowl eligible. Nonetheless, it is still a great feeling to see them beat those obnoxious hillbillies. I truly thought I would never see a Vandy win over Tennessee again in my lifetime. :eek: :eek: :eek:
     
    #5 Manny Ramirez, Nov 19, 2005
  6. updawg

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    countdown to Bigtexx taking a shot at Texas 3, 2,...
     
    #6 updawg, Nov 19, 2005
  7. tierre_brown

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    Weren't Iowa and Michigan preseason top 10 too?

    And how is no one talking about that fantastic OSU-UM game?!
     
    #7 tierre_brown, Nov 19, 2005
  8. Manny Ramirez

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    Maybe because this board is predominantly Big 12, i.e. Texas fans? :p ;)
     
    #8 Manny Ramirez, Nov 19, 2005
  9. Rocket Fan

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    Manny.. I'm excited

    I just wish KWANE DOSTER was alive to see it.. it has been an emotional year for for the players to see their teammate and classmate murdered..


    ..it is tough to swallow not going to a bowl for my senior year, but I see progress. We went from being a team that gets blown out badly, to losing but closer games, to winning some now.

    Despite blowing some games we should have won, if an official doesn't decide to take the game into his own hands vs Florida with the excessive celebration call we may be bowling right now.

    It is sweet to have been able to knock UTenn from bowl eligibility though, and even if they win next week.. we'll both be 5-6 with the head to head going to us so .. I can say we are best in state.

    As for next year, losing Cutler will be tough... BUT

    Earl Bennett is the real deal as WR.. Record number of receptions by an SEC freshman.... and we do have a lot of young talent..

    I believe we can be respectable in the SEC if we do things just the right way... we have in place administration (Gordon Gee) who care about athletics...which I was told wasn't always the case in the past pre-gee...

    Firing a coach every 5 years didn't work in the past.. it appears we are going to give Bobby Johnson the time he needs to try and get somthing done.. Gee realizes turning things around isn't a 4 year job.. but more like 8 years..

    I'd take 5 or 6 wins on a regular basis with some bowl games thrown in considering the academic constraints we have in place compared to the rest of the SEC...




    Has a team ever started top 5 and not made a bowl??? like utenn
     
    #9 Rocket Fan, Nov 19, 2005
  10. Rocket Fan

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    manny.. I like how you call them hillbillies! insert joke about jumping off the roof at random trailer park in knoxville..

    I was going to break out the "I would have gone to Ut, but I could already read" button from the basketball game last year.... but I'm already in Texas for thanksgiving...
     
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    I"m not saying everyone who lives in a trailer park is a redneck.. just the ones who root for tennessee
     
    #11 Rocket Fan, Nov 19, 2005
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    I root for Tennesee, but I don't care to align myself with most of their fans. If only my dad had gone to a different school...
     
    #12 Bullard4Life, Nov 19, 2005
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    I vote Notre Dame as well. How many "Return to Glory" or "Ron Powlus - 4 Heismans" can they sell? Christ, they've lost 4 in a row to that hockey school in Boston.
     
    #13 mleahy999, Nov 19, 2005
  14. Rocket Fan

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    bullard.. I always knew there had to be at least one good tennessee fan..

    since you are a bullard fan.. i'll excuse your like of that team:)



    but man I'm loving their melt down. players throwing helmets.. spitting at their own jumbotron guy etc...

    the team is out of control.. constant player arrests etc..
     
    #14 Rocket Fan, Nov 19, 2005
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    ml.. .. yeah i can understand the votes for notre dame..

    that team gets shoved down your throat even when they are bad because they are on tv so much
     
    #15 Rocket Fan, Nov 20, 2005
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    Arizona went 12-1 in 1998, only losing to a rampaging UCLA team that would only be stopped by Edgerrin James late in the season. They returned an enormous number of starters, and were ranked in the top three for the following season - but it didn't last long.

    The first game of 1999 was a 41-7 massacre by Penn State and they ended up the year 6-6, with no bowl.
     
    #16 Puedlfor, Nov 20, 2005
  17. Major

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    Don't forget Texas in 1997. After going 7-5 (?) in 1996 and getting massacred in the Fiesta Bowl by Penn State, Texas somehow ended up #6 in the nation in 1997. We proceeded to go 4-7 losing at home by 60+ points to an 0-2 UCLA team as well as losing to Baylor.
     
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  18. Puedlfor

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    We went 8-5, I forgot we got that highly ranked. That was pretty ridiculous.

    The 1996 team would've been considered dissapointing if we hadn't won the Big XII title game. 10-2 the previous year, with more major contributors returning - we had a great backfield - but James Brown's meltdown in Virginia, and the defense winning the Heisman trophy for Rashaan Salaam kept the team mediocre.
     
    #18 Puedlfor, Nov 20, 2005
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