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Topic: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 1996 vs. 1997
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ELA · « **on:** July 09, 2020, 02:58:22 PM »

1996		1997
Florida	NATIONAL CHAMPION	Michigan/Nebraska
ROSE: #4 Ohio State 20, #2 Arizona State 17 SUGAR: #3 Florida 52, #1 Florida State 20	"NATIONAL TITLE GAME"	ROSE: #1 Michigan 21, #8 Washington State 16 ORANGE: #2 Nebraska 42, #3 Tennessee 17
Ohio State/Northwestern	BIG TEN CHAMPION	Michigan
#4 Ohio State 20, #2 Arizona State 17	ROSE BOWL	#1 Michigan 21, #8 Washington State 16
Danny Wuerffel	HEISMAN WINNER	Charles Woodson

#1 PROGRESSION
1996

Preseason: Nebraska
September 21: #17 Arizona State 19, #1 Nebraska 0 (#4 Florida jumped to #1)
November 30: #2 Florida State 24, #1 Florida 21 (#2 Florida State jumped to #1)
January 2: #3 Florida 52, #2 Florida State 20 (#2 Alabama jumped to #1)

1997

Preseason: Penn State
September 20: #3 Florida 33, #4 Tennessee 20 (#3 Florida jumped to #1)
October 11: #14 LSU 28, #1 Florida 21 (#2 Penn State jumped to #1)
October 18: #2 Nebraska 29, Texas Tech 0 (#2 Nebraska jumped to #1)
November 8: #4 Michigan 34, #2 Penn State 8 (#4 Michigan jumped to #1)

OTHER NOTES
1996

OT added for all games
Roughing the snapper was added
Big XII and Conference USA began play
Boise State, Central Florida, UAB and Idaho moved up to Division 1-A
Arizona State beat Nebraska to end the 2nd longest winning streak since 1980, 6 shy of the longest major winning streak since Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma
Dre Bly had 11 interceptions, for North Carolina's nation leading defense
#5 BYU was omitted from the Bowl Alliance
Florida was the only non-undefeated national champion between 1993 Florida State and 2003 USC

1997

November 8 featured two matchups of Top 5 teams, as #4 Michigan beat #2 Penn State and #3 Florida State beat #5 North Carolina, however, the story of the day was Nebraska needing a kicked ball to avoid an upset loss to Missouri
Fred Taylor ran for 162 yards and 4 touchdowns against the nation's top run defense to knock Florida State out of the national title discussion
Marshall won the MAC Championship in their first season in Division 1-A, thanks to Randy Moss and Chad Pennington
Charles Woodson became the only primarily defensive player to win the Heisman
Charles Woo

ELA · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2020, 03:01:40 PM »

Easy. Both season have faults. 1997s has unique things we'll never see again (defensive Heisman, split national title), while 1996 just had a QB put up monster numbers in an offense designed to put up monster numbers, who backed into a national title thanks two two upsets, and then beating a team they already lost to.

This post is what I call Gator Bait

OrangeAfroMan · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2020, 04:21:15 PM »

Well first of all, you could correct 1996 ending with Alabama moving to #1. That didn't happen.

1996 was great - no split NC, an all-timer of a RB, and the best team on top. I don't see much of a choice, here.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2020, 04:25:09 PM »

no brainer

97

I like splits if the Big Ten is going to hide in the Rose

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Topic: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 1996 vs. 1997

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