National Champion vs. Worst Team in the NFL

#51
#51
The thing about even these legendary teams, and something that would be any college team's downfall, would be the areas where they had weaknesses, players who couldn't cut it in the NFL. The 2001 Hurricanes' quarterback was Ken Dorsey, who was by all accounts a dreadful NFL player.

Let's take a look at the rest of the team, and just be generous, I'll judge them by their NFL prowess, not how good they were in 2001, and I'll also take their best NFL players for each position.

RB - Clinton Portis/Frank Gore - Though their primes didn't coincide, this is an awesome duo. Najeh Davenport played as well.

WR - Andre Johnson, Daryl Jones, Kevin Beard, Ethenic Sands - AJ is a superstar, but everyone else is worthless. Daryl Jones had 90 career receiving yards, and the rest didn't even make it to the NFL.

TE - Jeremy Shockey - A star in his prime.

OL - Bryant McKinnie, Martin Bibla, Brett Romberg, Joaquin Gonzalez - I'm only listing these two because they're the only four who even made it to the NFL. All started at some point but only McKinnie lasted more than a few years. Huge liability here.

DL - Jerome McDougle, Vince Wilfork, William Joseph, Andrew Williams - Wilfork is a monster, McDougle and Joseph were busts, and Williams lasted two years.

LB - DJ Williams, Jonathan Vilma, Jamaal Green - Vilma's a Pro Bowler, Williams is solid, and Green was a washout in the NFL.

DB - Ed Reed, Mike Rumph, Philip Buchanon - The only three who made it. Reed's a HOF lock, the other two are pretty much busts.

Now, if you want these college teams to play at their actual level that year, you have to remember that even the best players are still in their pre-NFL rookie stage. So yeah, it would be awful.

Lots of awful weaknesses, and the depth is even worse off.
 
#52
#52
If you're judging by their NFL prowess, you should include Sean Taylor, and probably Winslow and McGahee. FWIW, James Lewis made the NFL as a DB, too, and I think Rumph got hurt. One of Miami's starting LB's died before the draft, but I'm not sure how good he was. May have left off other guy, but I don't feel like checking.

Either way, they would have gotten destroyed by an NFL team.
 
#54
#54
No modern super bowl era NFL team would lose to any modern college team. Period. Too many holes and to put the best of the best against amatuerish teams is a ben rothelisburger sized raping waiting to happen. Men vs boys as it were.
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#55
#55
Not saying this because I'm a Panthers fan, but the Panthers, Broncos, Bills and Bengals would all destroy the national champs.
 
#56
#56
tvolsfan said:
If you're judging by their NFL prowess, you should include Sean Taylor, and probably Winslow and McGahee. FWIW, James Lewis made the NFL as a DB, too, and I think Rumph got hurt. One of Miami's starting LB's died before the draft, but I'm not sure how good he was. May have left off other guy, but I don't feel like checking.

Either way, they would have gotten destroyed by an NFL team.
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I just checked College Football Reference. I could tell something was missing, but my main point still stands. They'd get destroyed in the trenches.
 
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tvolsfan said:
The 1994 Nebraska team barely beat the 1994 Miami team. 2001 Canes beat them and the 1995 edition.
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No way. The 2001 Miami team beat 8-4 Virginia Tech by 26-24 and an 8-4 Boston College team 18-7.

The 1995 Huskers would have annihilated teams like that. They annihilated every team they played, not a single close game. They beat the second-best team in the country by 38 in a season where the second-best team was 25 better that the third-best team.

The '01 Canes might have matched up better against an NFL team, in the sense they might have gotten blown out by fewer points. They had more of the type of personnel you need in the pros. But against each other, under college rules, playing college football, Nebraska wins by at least 10.

The best college teams I've ever seen were '95 Nebraska, '91 Washington and then the '01 Canes, then probably the '05 Texas and USC teams. But even as bad as the Panthers suck, none of them could have competed.

This year's Auburn team against the Panthers...it would have been ugly. The Panthers would score on every possession if they didn't turn it over.
 
#58
#58
You think the Huskers win by double digits? Which positions did they have a big advantage over Miami?
 
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#60
jsc1973 said:
No way. The 2001 Miami team beat 8-4 Virginia Tech by 26-24 and an 8-4 Boston College team 18-7.

The 1995 Huskers would have annihilated teams like that. They annihilated every team they played, not a single close game. They beat the second-best team in the country by 38 in a season where the second-best team was 25 better that the third-best team.

The '01 Canes might have matched up better against an NFL team, in the sense they might have gotten blown out by fewer points. They had more of the type of personnel you need in the pros. But against each other, under college rules, playing college football, Nebraska wins by at least 10.

The best college teams I've ever seen were '95 Nebraska, '91 Washington and then the '01 Canes, then probably the '05 Texas and USC teams. But even as bad as the Panthers suck, none of them could have competed.

This year's Auburn team against the Panthers...it would have been ugly. The Panthers would score on every possession if they didn't turn it over.
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Agree. 1995 Nebraska was a wrecking machine.

In modern football, no college team comes close to any NFL team. Auburn would be lucky to get in Panther territory.
 
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