Comes down to great vs mediocre qb play. Burrow over Dorsey by eons Miami on paper lsu on the field. They stop dorsey and beat them as bad as we beat Clemson.
Think that was the team that blew out previously undefeated #2 Florida by about 40 points in the Fiesta. Not sure anyone got closer than 3 touchdowns all season.
Beat 3 top 10 teams, won every game by a large margin without any close ones, beat Florida 62-24 in natty game. Tom Osbourne retired.
I think then we have a good case to make, if that's the standard. Of the final top 10, 6 of them have a loss to us. We had a few close-ish games. We didn't completely obliterate Clemson, but we did beat them by two scores.