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This really belongs in the Random Games You Remember thread, but around 1999 Arizona and PSU played. Arizona was highly ranked, like Top 10 or maybe 5, and PSU stomped them hard. I can’t remember the Arizona coach, but he was well known at the time and had been around. Anyways, they fired him at the end of the season and I don’t think Arizona has ever really been very good ever sense.

For a long time I remember when a highly ranked team got trampled early in the Season we called it getting ‘Zona’d.

that would also include highly touted Top 5 Univ of Houston with John Jenkins and his bullhorn, getting run admist the smoke at the OB by the Canes.  I think it was 51-10.

I think this comes down to a bit more than losing twice.

That Oklahoma offense wasn't novel for Oklahoma or for that season. The previous Sooners team had been almost as good, with a Heisman winner. They also weren't the big story among offenses, as Alabama and Ohio State both ascended to "big boys running hyper-modern offense" status. Shoot, Will Grier WVU was even sucking up oxygen.

OU was never a team who was in the top 4 until the end, they were just a solid top-10 team so they weren't a story of the season. They also didn't have any memorable games. They lost a shootout to Texas, won one against WVU and those were their only ranked games (Iowa State was ranked at the end of the regular season, but they played when ISU was 0-1 in Week 3, and Army was 10-2 at the end of the regular season). The Sooners wandered into the playoff because the vibes around OSU were so rancid, creating the biggest missed controversy in CFP history, and fell behind 28-0 to Alabama in 17 minutes.

They scored a million points and had a million yards and we were basically just bored of it until they did something else, which they didn't. With LSU, it was just wild to watch them lay waste to really good teams. Made it look easy against squads we thought had top talent (Underrated offense was that Bama squad that had Tua and then Mac Jones. Harris was really the only notable back, with an NFL backup who had a fine year, but receiver room was DaVonta Smith, Jerry Judy, Henry Ruggs, Jaylen Waddle)

But not even in the moment, even looking back, no one mentions that 18 OU offense.  And sorry, no, nothing was like it before or since.
53 yards shy of FIVE different 1,000-yard skill players AND the Heisman-winner/!?!?  Are you joking?!?  Hell, I bet you can count the other teams with 4 one-thousand yard guys in history on one hand.  And this team almost had five. 

To poo-poo it now is bizarre.  In the moment, sure, they're muddled with a ton of other teams and whatever.  But now, with it laid out in front of you, how are you not amazed?!?

People care about 83 Nebraska about 9,000% more than they care about 18 Oklahoma, lol.
I think you're arguing just to argue.