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Topic: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?

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OrangeAfroMan

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If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« on: July 19, 2019, 10:08:39 PM »
I know we've had plenty of "who do you think would win" polls, but not this specific type.  These are just the split NCs of the past and who you think would win if they could have played. 


Easy, fun stuff.
There are others going back further, but this is enough.
Just list your winners:




1978:  Alabama (AP) vs USC (UPI)
1990:  Colorado (AP) vs Georgia Tech (UPI)
1991:  Miami (AP) vs Washington (Coaches)
1994:  Nebraska (AP/Coaches) vs Penn State (0-loss big-boy team)
1997:  Michigan (AP) vs Nebraska (Coaches)
2003:  LSU (BCS) vs USC (AP)
2004:  USC (BCS/AP) vs Auburn (0-loss big-boy team)
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2019, 11:14:36 PM »
Nebraska would have won the 1997 game. 
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2019, 11:24:35 PM »
I’ll answer the ones I witnessed and remember.

1990- Colorado.  I probably feel more confident about this one than any other.
1991- Miami.  Back then my head said Miami but man my heart didn’t.
1994- Nebraska.  This is the toughie in my opinion.  This was the year that made me really start resenting the bowl tie ins.   I wanted to see this game.
1997-Nebraska.  I guess I was really all in on Osborne’s teams in the mid to late 90’s.
2003- USC.  They were really rolling at the end of that season.
2004- USC.  The dismantling of what I thought was a really good Oklahoma team cemented this hypothetical matchup in my mind.  I don’t remember the details now but I also remember feeling like Auburn was a little fortunate to beat VT in the Sugar Bowl that season.
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2019, 08:38:37 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 19, 2019, 11:14:36 PM
Nebraska would have won the 1997 game.
It wouldn't have been Michigan
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2019, 08:46:30 AM »
I'll take Michigan in all of those.
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2019, 08:47:27 AM »

1978:  Alabama (AP) vs USC (UPI)
1990:  Colorado (AP) vs Georgia Tech (UPI)
1991:  Miami (AP) vs Washington (Coaches)
1994:  Nebraska (AP/Coaches) vs Penn State (0-loss big-boy team)
1997:  Michigan (AP) vs Nebraska (Coaches)
2003:  LSU (BCS) vs USC (AP)
2004:  USC (BCS/AP) vs Auburn (0-loss big-boy team)

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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2019, 08:49:41 AM »
I'm more confident of the Huskers over Michigan in 97 than I am of PSU in 94, but I think the Skers win both
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2019, 09:54:37 AM »
I'll go with the Huskies in 1991. 
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2019, 01:06:56 PM »
I think USC would have beaten Auburn in 2004.  I think I'm able to put aside my personal feelings (USC did beat OU 55-19 in the Orange Bowl NC game), and say that.
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2019, 01:51:30 PM »
1978:  Alabama (AP) vs USC (UPI)
1990:  Colorado (AP) vs Georgia Tech (UPI)
1991:  Miami (AP) vs Washington (Coaches)
1994:  Nebraska (AP/Coaches) vs Penn State (0-loss big-boy team)
1997:  Michigan (AP) vs Nebraska (Coaches)
2003:  LSU (BCS) vs USC (AP)
2004:  USC (BCS/AP) vs Auburn (0-loss big-boy team)
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2019, 03:45:12 PM »
Nebraska was NASTY in 97.  It may be the best team of the 90's.  Except for their 95 selves.... They were even nastier with Frazier.  Phillips, though, what a waste. 
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2019, 05:03:53 PM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on July 20, 2019, 03:45:12 PM
Nebraska was NASTY in 97.  It may be the best team of the 90's.  
First time I've ever heard this.  It couldn't have anything to do with their bowl victim that year, could it?  

Many consider their win over Mizzou not a real win, as it required an illegal kick-assist for a last-second TD.  And Mizzou wasn't good that year.  





Overall, I think people are really overlooking '91 Washington.
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2019, 05:08:49 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 20, 2019, 01:51:30 PM

1990:  Colorado (AP) vs Georgia Tech (UPI)
1991:  Miami (AP) vs Washington (Coaches)
1994:  Nebraska (AP/Coaches) vs Penn State (0-loss big-boy team)
1997:  Michigan (AP) vs Nebraska (Coaches)
2003:  LSU (BCS) vs USC (AP)
2004:  USC (BCS/AP) vs Auburn (0-loss big-boy team)

I agree with all of these.  
The toughest call for me is 1994.  Penn State's defense is a problem, BUT that Miami team that Nebraska outlasted was led by a very ordinary QB, Frank Costa.  15 TD, 15 INT.  The PSU passing game would have put up big numbers on the Huskers, along with Nebraska scoring more themselves.
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Re: If the split NCs played, who'd have won?
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2019, 05:13:39 PM »
busted.  


however, i don't know that i'd write them off because of Mizzou.  It isn't that Mizzou was good or bad then, it's that is the name of the game... Vandy took ND to the wire last season... UT beat Auburn... Purdue ripped flesh off of tOSU in one of the worst arsewhoopin's i can recall... none were supposed to happen.  Nebraska pulled it off, but i couldn't hold it against them that Mizzou was in the game late. 

same with MichSt beating tOSU in '98.  that tOSU team would have destroyed UT and it was fortunate they assisted FSU having that honor for the first BCS Championship.  Could they do it twice? twice in as many as 10?- (yeah, they could have in 10, but likely not 5).  

the landscape is littered with these inexplicable losses, and i don't have to mention it to someone like you as you've a better grip on the history than i do.  However, in my humble opinion the 97 huskers were the last of the true blackshirts.... Frost ran the O efficiently both with his feet and arms... he was no Frazier, but he was good enough.   
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