2011 LSU Tigers, greatest defense ever assembled on a college football field, and beat 3 BCS Bowl winners. Beat the only team that beat them, at that team's stadium, also beat a highly ranked Arkansas, Oregon, West Virginia, and Georgia team. 2011 will always be a year that stings especially because we were the ones who gave a team we beat in their own house a free piggy back ride into the national championship game. Has a team that ever did less make it into the BCSNCG? Doubt it. If LSU plays its backups and loses the SECCG, we play Okie Lite and Bama isn't even in that game.
Sometimes the eyeball test is better than anything else. That Miami team was crazy good, regardless of conference. But I'll move on to 1972 USC. We started the season ranked at #8. Our first game was a win AT #4 Arkansas, 31-10. We followed with wins AT #15 Stanford, #18 Washington, Oregon and Dan Fouts 18-0, AT Top 20 Oregon St, #14 ucla who had upset pre-season #1 Nebraska, a 45-23 ass whipping of #10 Notre Dame, and a 42-17 drubbing against #3 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. 13 All Americans and 33 NFL players. Players like Sam Bam Cunningham, Anthony Davis, Lynn Swann, Marvin Powell, Batman Wood. Keith Jackson has seen a ton of football and he's called them one of the greatest ever. I can only imagine they didn't make this list because at that time, teams were playing 12 games instead of 13.
2011 was the greatest regular season ever. Not sure how it can be on a list of greatest seasons when I would take any other season where the team wins the MNC. That's the only thing that should matter on a ranking like this.
I do believe the 1972 USC Trojans should be in the argument as the greatest team of all time: September 9.......at #4 Arkansas............ W 31–10 September 16.....Oregon State............... W 51–6 September 23.....at Illinois...................... W 55–20 September 30.....Michigan State............. W 51–6 October 7.......... at #15 Stanford.......... W 30–21 October 14........ California..................... W 42–14 October 21........ #18 Washington......... W 34–7 October 28........ Oregon........................ W 18–0 November 4....... vs. Washington State... W 44–3 November 18..... at #14 UCLA............... W 24–7 December 2....... #10 Notre Dame......... W 45–23 January 1........... vs. #3 Ohio State........ W 42–17 http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/dominant-1972-usc-trojans-look-back-40-years-later They demolished every single team on their schedule. The Stanford score was only close because they scored a meaningless TD in the last minute of the game. I am sure that's a TD that stuck in the craw of that defense.
If you want to talk all-time, then the conversation is not complete without mentioning Sewanee aka The University of the South. In 1899 they went 12-0, which include wins against Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane, LSU and Ole Miss with a combined score of 101-0, in a six day span on the road (railroad).
That's not a nugget, he just dug up some prehistoric bones. This may have been the team he is referring to: Or maybe this one:
