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Here's a good one from the first team I liked.

2004 Cal.

Top 10 in scoring offense and defense. Second in the country in yards per play. Had a 2,000-yard back, and the backup was MarShawn Lynch, who averaged 8.8 a carry. At QB, Aaron Rodgers, who was fire the first half of the year, but tailed off (his receivers were college good). Defense was excellent until the bowl.

The schedule was more balanced than good at the top. Still, No. 15 by college football reference. They held national champion USC to 4.1 yards per play, but three fumbles led to a 23-17 loss, the only one of the regular season.

They were competing with Texas for the last BCS bowl spot (Rose Bowl), but Mack Brown politics the 'Horns in (their schedule was slightly worse). Cal was No. 4 in both the final two polls, but the computers hurt Cal and the votes are just close enough Bears sleepwalk into the bowl. They go up 14-7, allow 24 points in a row and can never get back in it. Sonny Cumbie threw for 520 yards in that game, which contributes to dropping Cal's yards per play defense from what would've been fourth nationally to 42nd.

So they miss a conference title and a BCS slot and slip from No. 4 in the final polls with the bowl loss.

(Two years later, Cal goes 9-3, gets Jeff Tedford's only conference title, one it shares with USC when the Trojans blow a national title game spot on the last game of the season. Cal is not all that good and lost 23-9 to USC, a game that was 9-9 at the end of the third quarter and probably still not all that competitive).

Arrington was the starter, Lynch was the backup.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned 2012 OSU here. 

Yeah Musberger did like to really emphasize the A.J. in "A.J. Hawk"

We did an NCAA 05 dynasty in my college house, and rolled a dice to determine which conference.  We rolled Pac 10, and agreed nobody could be USC.  I got Cal and DESTROYED everyone.  I think JJ Arrington was the backup RB.  I barely used Aaron.

The Musberger drinking game lives on!

Not sure what you could do with current announcers.  Drink every time they go off script?  You'd never drink

For a team that could have won a national championship if Gene Smith hadn't stupidly wanted to go to a bowl game the year before, they weren't actually all that good.