…in 1994….

Don’t get me wrong, I feel a lot better with the Ginger Avenger under center than I ever did with Jay Barker running the show, and I think Greg is very underrated. But the downfield passing game isn’t this team’s fame either, you know?

Here’s an interesting Wikipedia scrape: “Jay Barker managed only 18 yards passing in the Sugar Bowl and threw two interceptions, but the Tide running game punished Miami for 267 yards, including 135 rushing yards by Derrick Lassic.”

I swear I’ve read this story before…

that was his first year as an assistant. that was frank thomas’ team and what part of it wasn’t would be chalked up to hank crisp. bryant had a lot to learn at that point and he did so on one of the greatest coaching crews ever put together in the college game. frank thomas might just be the most criminally underrated coach in the sport – and that’s partially due to the fact he so massively overshadowed by his protege.

…and who knows what jipped teams will be on the list.

61 Bama and the 95 Huskers played 2 different types of football. In 61 we played single platoon football and we did not have any black athletes (or black students for that matter) at Bama. Consequently some of the fastest guys on our team were actually linemen, but by today’s standards at 190 lbs these linemen wouldn’t even be running backs.

I think the way you determine who was best is by looking at who did the best against the people of their day. Nebraska was awesome and did score a lot of points against some schools in the Big 12 with no defense. The UF games was very disappointing to SEC fans and probably the worst job Spurrier ever did in preparing his team.

The 61 team featured guys that were just plan tough. Guys like Trammel, Neighbors, Jordan, Williamson, Wilson, Holt, and Battle were as hard nosed football players as ever played the game. Coach Bryant said they thought it was a sin to give up a point. In 11 games they only gave up 25 total points. They had 6 shut outs. Their average margin of victory was 25 points. Considering the day in which they played and the points that most teams scored I would say that margin of victory was the equivalent to 45 points on today’s scale.

So, who would have won if they played? Well, if you made the Neb. boys get down to the Alabama boys size and weight and then made them play single platoon, Alabama would have killed them. If you made Alabama play them being out weighed 100 lbs per man, then Neb. would have won, but not by as much as you might think. (Spurrier did not think it was a sin to give up a point thus Neb. got their 62.)
 
And, if the 61 team could have drafted the best black athletes in the state of Alabama at that time and added them to our already tough squad they may have beat Neb. straight up inspite of the size difference. We definitely had the best coach.

Who was better? Well, without sounding too much like a homer, I’d still say the 61 Bama team was a better team and yes even more dominating than the 95 Huskers. I mean only ONE team scored as much as 7 points on them, we only allowed 3 TD’s ALL YEAR and we gave up only 132 total yards PER GAME.

when the ESPN hype monster was rambling on and on about the 2005 USC Trojans, I realized that their attention span rivaled a guppy. There were some other very, very talented teams (2001 Miami, 2008 Florida, 1993 FSU, 86 Sooners, just to name a few), but none top that 95 Nebraska team in terms of talent on both sides of the ball, and the absolute ass-kicking they handed out to everyone.

The closest game they had was a two TD beating of Washington State…and they scored 44+ points ten times…including 50+ six times