What Year Was SUPPOSED To Be Your Team's Year?

[gob]

2015 for sure. Probably in the top 3 among most talented teams all-time that didn't win the NC. The amount of not only future NFL players, but future NFL studs, on that team makes me sad. Fucking Tim Beck.

Also putting 1998 in here. Came off a major Rose Bowl win in 1997 then #1 all year in 1998 until the late season upset loss to Michigan State.

This for "modern day". '69 added to it for all time.

 

[bocomo007]

I was at that LSU game. Was my first experience with an SEC fan base. They were so arrogant. They said we were in for some big boy football. I vividly remember some of their fans singing “over the hills and through the fields to “Lame” Stadium we go. It was just a slap in the face. But when that game started they got a heavy dose of Bud Foster and Beamer Ball and got their ass beat 26-8. That was pretty gratifying.

shame you had to deal with those dickheads

at least you got to watch them eat crow

 

[Olyduck]

2001 and 2007

 

[Hang_On_Sloopy08]

shame you had to deal with those dickheads

at least you got to watch them eat crow

I got to party with cool LSU fans prior to the 2007 BCSNCG, made up a lot how I felt about you guys. Had a blast that week even though we lost.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Hey, though you didn't get that title, the first LSU-Bama game is still an all-time classic.

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[DeafOranguntan]

2008 is up there, but that team still had major flaws. Spence was not a good OC and the OL was horrible.

There is absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have went undefeated in 1990 except for the fact that the "offensive genius" Ken Hatfield had to go and screw up a unit that was pretty damn good the year before and change everything about it. Even an average offense allows us to go undefeated that year.

That's a good one. I think two recent teams have an argument there too.

2014 Clemson had no excuse for losing three games. They had either the best or second best defense in the country behind Vic Beasley, Jarrett, Williams, Tankersley, and Mackenzie Alexander. But the offense was absolute garbage. They were absolutely loaded, with DJ Howard, Wayne Gallman, Mike Williams, Adam Humphries, Artavis Scott, Jordan Leggett, and a really good, experienced offensive line. However, Dabo was loyal to Cole Stoudt for far too long in the first half of the season, and while tied with Georgia in the third, Stoudt choked away the game and let them win it in the fourth. Similarly, Clemson should have beaten #1 Florida State, but Deshaun wasn't used to working with the first team at that point and so Clemson lost to them in overtime (and Stoudt wasted the first quarter and a half unable to move the ball). Then, Deshaun had an injury leading to Clemson's most disappointing game I can remember. He went down in the first quarter, and Cole Stoudt completed 3 of 11 passes for 19 yards and 3 interceptions, and Clemson lost 28-6 to a Georgia Tech they should have easily beaten. That Clemson team was really not any different from the team that went to the championship in 2015 and arguably outplayed Alabama in that classic matchup. We saw a bit of their potential against Oklahoma in the bowl season, where they won 40-6. But that easily could have been a championship team had Deshaun been the starter (and not been injured) from game 1. They would have almost certainly been 12-1 and would have made it to the playoffs (I don't know that they would have beaten Ohio State, but I would have liked their chances over Oregon given that roster).

I'm also still sore about 2017 too. Everyone could see that Kelly Bryant posed no threat in the passing game, and that he would be useless against Alabama. But Dabo felt Bryant had earned his shot for sticking it out behind Deshaun. Yeah, they were undefeated until the playoffs, because the rest of the team was so amazing. But sure enough, that Bama game was perfectly even when Kelly Bryant threw a pick six and another pick giving them the ball in the red zone. Take away those two touchdowns and Clemson was only down 10-6. I'm convinced that had Dabo used the season to develop Chase Brice, Hunter Johnson, or maybe even Zerrick Cooper, they would have been better able to exploit Bama's weakened secondary and would have won the game. But instead they mauled Bryant because they could sell out to stop the run knowing he posed no passing threat.

 

[WABLTY]

1996 ASU was around a minute and a half from winning the National Championship. Done in by PI's and a blown coverage. A whole bunch of NFL players.

Adding on since I think I missed the tone of the thread, and not counting 12-1 teams, 2013 ASU probably should have been better than it's 10 win record. They returned:

-Will Sutton, who at the time was considered as good or better than Aaron Donald and was a 3-tech coming off a ridiculous 12 sack, 23.5 TFL season.
-Carl Bradford at LB/rush end coming off a 11.5 sack, 21.5 TFL season
-Jaxon Hood at Nose, coming off a 3 sack, Freshman All American season
-Junior Onyeali, former Pac 12 Freshman DPOY off a 6 sack season at DE, but he wound up not even really playing
-Davon Coleman at DL off a 5 sack, 11 TFL year.

Their main 5 defensive line guys coming back had combined for 37.5 sacks and 68 TFL's. That's not including other returners like Chris Young and Stephon Martin LB, who had another 20+ TFL's the previous season. The front 7 was going to be one of the most disruptive units the Pac 12 had seen in a long time. And they were pretty good, but not what was expected.

To add to that, they also had:

-Alden Darby at DB had 3 picks and 5.5 TFLs
-They were adding future 1st rounder Damarious Randall
-Osahon Irabor was a 4th year starter at CB and was always in or around the all conference teams
-Taylor Kelly at QB, who is probably the best QB ASU has had since Plummer
-Jaelen Strong at WR
-Chris Coyle at TE coming off a 57 catch, nearly 700 yard season
-D.J. Foster at RB/WR coming off a freshman year where he had 1,000 yards from scrimmage. He had nearly 5,000 yards from scrimmage in his career.
-Marion Grice at RB coming off a really nice finish and giving them a feature back after he beat out Cam Marshall for the job late in the season.
-A decent OL. I forget who was around but they were decentish.

The problem was Stanford when it was humming. They lost to them in Palo Alto and then in the CCG badly back when they had a bunch of their original turn around crew still playing. Also lost by a field goal to Notre Dame and then basically skipped the Holiday Bowl in typical ASU fashion.

10-4 with a defense that was nice, but not the monstrous group of gap-jumping killers in front of a talented, experienced secondary that we'd expected to see. Jaxon Hood and Junior Onyeali basically stopped playing. That was 2 Freshmen All Americans in their sophomore and senior seasons on the DL that just sort of disappeared. Not that they played bad- They just weren't around. Because Hood and the previous main NT were gone, the coaches convinced Sutton to add 25 pounds of chub, which didn't help when he was double or triple teamed every play. Basically ruined his NFL career since he's not tall enough to play effectively at more than like 280ish. The 3 guys on the DL that stayed all got NFL chances for a few years though I don't think any lasted more than like 4 years. All of a sudden really light on DL depth, ASU couldn't do shit against the Stanford OL and got run over.

On the flipside, that's the Lane Kiffin tarmac team and the first 10 win season ASU had had in 6 years so it was still a pretty cool season. And the Sutton Bradford combo was insane when working. Apologies for the music-

 

[Deathroll]

that auburn-florida game in '94 was one of the best games i've ever seen

Terry Dean committed FIVE unforced turnovers in the first half. Then Spurrier trotted him back out there and he committed another early in the 3td quarter. I was screaming for Wuerffel in the first quarter. Had SOS put him in then, we win easily. We had no business losing that game.

 

[ralphiewvu]

2007

FUCK YOU RICHIE ROD dick

 

[OrangeAfroMan]

1994 & 2001.
Preseason #1 in '94, we start the year with two 70-point games. Then midway through the year, our Heisman-hopeful QB Terry Dean, throws 17 interceptions vs Auburn and we lose in the Swamp. By the end of the year, we're okay, back up to 3rd in the polls and up 31-3 at FSU. Then it becomes the Choke at Doak - and we "lose" a 31-31 tie. Go on to lose the bowl. Ugh.

2001 - Preseason #1, Rex Grossman is putting up video game numbers (robbed of the Heisman, btw). Again, inexplicably lose to Auburn. That's fine, we're back up to #2 by the end of the year - playing Tennessee in the 9/11 makeup game. We own them, right? Boom, we suddenly can't tackle and they run for 200+ yards up the gut and we lose. I would have liked to have seen Grossman & Co. face that stacked Miami team. It wouldn't have been 34-0 at halftime vs those Gators.

 

[thunderc]

Too many to mention going back to the 70’s

 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Too many undefeated seasons, no natty, smh:
1911,1912,1920,1921,1947,1968,1969,1973, & 1994

Then the 1 loss seasons:
1906,1919,1939,1940,1942,1948,1971,1977,1978,1985, & 2005

Now the 2 loss seasons:
1910,1915,1916,1918,1923,1927,1941,1946,1952,1954,1956,1959,1962,1967,1972,1974,1980,1981,1991,1993,1996,2008,2009, & 2017

And yet we still only have 2 titles

After 68, 69, and 73, wouldn't it have made sense to join a conference? That was a lot of evidence that PSU wasn't going to be treated as a big-boy program, wasn't it? I mean, do SOMETHING, right?

 

[We Are Decent]

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Sorry. Classfied. Can't have the Turks knocking at my doorsteps.

 

[We Are Decent]

After 68, 69, and 73, wouldn't it have made sense to join a conference? That was a lot of evidence that PSU wasn't going to be treated as a big-boy program, wasn't it? I mean, do SOMETHING, right?

We Are Very Arrogant.

 

[Montalban]

1990 and the three-peat

 

[Tin Man]

Every year since 1998. You see how well that's turned out...

 

[HuskerOC]

Sadly, there seriously hasn't been any "this is our year" since Osborne retired after the 1997 season.

While there have been some decent teams wearing the 'N', none of them were ever even remotely complete to think about National Title caliber. Hell, not even Conference Championship caliber outside of the '09 defense with Suh that was certainly good enough, but that awful offense couldn't score on a decent high school team.

I guess I have to go back to 1983.

Still my favorite Husker team. It was the first real high octane offense that TO had that could score on just about anybody from anywhere on the field. The 1/1/84 Orange Bowl was one of the very few times TO was outcoached. He was out-athleted a number of times, but very very rarely outcoached.