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re: Best SEC 90's teams?

Posted on 5/13/24 at 10:56 am to
Posted by WG_Dawg
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Posted on 5/13/24 at 10:56 am to
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You framed it, intentionally, as them playing a less than good team close.


I framed it as, quite literally, " a 1 point victory over a 4-loss syracuse". That is a black and white fact.

-As for being on the road, let's not pretend Syracuse is known as some difficult place to play.
-As for having Donavan McNabb at QB..sure he's good. It's kind like Ant Edwards playing for UGA though...you can have a stud on the field and that not necessarily mean your TEAM is great .
-You mention some of the wins they had (which several aren't even very impressive) so to provide more "context" let's look a little deeper.

-No issues with celebrating the UM win. That was a solid feather in the cap.
-They lost to a 5-loss NCSt that finished unranked
-Lost to a 4-loss WV that finished unranked.
-They beat VT as you menitoned, who finished ranked 23rd.
-They beat UM as you menitoned, who was unranked with 2 weeks to go and finished ranked 20th.
-Lost by 3 TDs to florida

So their overall resume consists of:
-1 really good solid win
-2 wins that don't completely suck over teams barely finishing ranked
-4 losses, of which only 1 would be a "good loss".

You seemed to think I was saying Syracuse was some scrub (which I wasn't), but you seem to be going the other direction and propping them up to be some kind of huge resume boosting win, which they decidedly were not.
Posted by lsufball19
Franklin, TN
Member since Sep 2008
65116 posts
Posted on 5/13/24 at 11:05 am to
So Tennessee beat a ranked team on the road in game 1 of the 1998 season, and that was your evidence how how their season was a fluke. Ok

They also torched #12 UGA in Athens, beat #6 Florida in Gainesville, and lucky play or not beat #16 Arkansas. Undefeated is undefeated. No one is saying they were the best team of the decade. They were one of 3 teams to win a national title in the SEC in the 90s. To say they weren't a top 5 team of the 90s is simply bias because you don't like UT
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