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Hard to say. I think I’d take 2005 Texas over any team simply because of Vince Young. He was the most unstoppable player that I’ve ever seen play college football. 6’5, 235 could run like a deer and throw the ball anywhere on the field. Cam Newton was bigger but didn’t have VY’s top end speed and moves in the open field.

In the biggest games VY always came up big. He played his best on the big stages. And when he was on and in the zone he was literally impossible to stop.

It's too bad we didn't get to see OSU play LSU. Not saying they would have won, but after seeing the teams I think OSU matched up a lot better than Clemson did.  Oh well.

I REALLY wish it had been Ohio State Vs LSU as well. In the first half Clemson played like they’d “been there before” looking more polished and poised. In the 2nd half Clemson played like they’d “been there before” playing almost bored, at least compared to the appreciation and enthusiasm LSU brought. In that emotional sense Ohio State also matched up better with LSU.

As for the best team of all time, in any year where there is an undefeated team, the editorUSC was  shows make a point to sensationalize this point. Last year columnists did it with Clemson. It’s getting caught up in the moment.

Rather than racing to argue the best for the sake of a too subjective case, make it more nuanced.

Whose the most “talented” ever? 2001 Miami? I’ll argue 2002 Miami was even more talented, which bring me to...

Whose the best “sum-greater-than-parts” championship team? 2002 Ohio State?

The showiest champion ever? 2004 USC? Which I’ll argue 2005 USC was even showier.

I’d rather argue more nuanced “bests” then delve into the TV idiots idiots promoting LSU as the greatest team ever even though they admit they don’t watch college football. Looking at you Stephen A. 

The way the call PI and holding has change from the 90's....  and targeting did not exist at all.   I think today's game is called more like a 7v7 scrimmage.   Which rules is very important to the answer.  In the 90's, UNL would win.  I think they'd actually do better than people think with how you were allowed to hit at the safety position and how you could level a QB without being flagged.  Today, I'd say LSU in a shootout.   UNL would be hard pressed to stop that offense.   Just comparing those two... 
 

I voted for UNL thinking of the game being played in the 90's.   Probably a mistake.   Thinking of who would win in any decade, really the team that would be the most competitive regardless of rules would be Miami.  They would be the most flexible team in terms of rules changes of the group.  jmo

Glad to see the posts.  Sad to see the lack of carefully reading the title of the thread...

Of course it's ridiculous, and meaningless.  It's for fun.  And the video game parallel is perfect - pretend it's a video game.  So the DT on '71 Nebraska has a rating of, say, 91.  It doesn't matter if he's 70 lbs lighter than '19 LSU's DT.  How good they each were matters.  
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I don't see the challenge here.

Inner-thread quick trivia:  2019 LSU is the first SEC team to lead the country in scoring since who/when?

Florida 1995?

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