What Makes The Vols A Great Dynasty???

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hatvol96 said:
Then Alabama in the 70s must have been one of the great dynasties of all time. They won a handful of conference titles and multiple National championships. Come to think of it, they did the same thing in the '60s.
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yep...
 
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hatvol96 said:
Then Alabama in the 70s must have been one of the great dynasties of all time. They won a handful of conference titles and multiple National championships. Come to think of it, they did the same thing in the '60s.
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I hate bammer with a passion and I don't think that surprises many on this site. But you would have to say that they did have a dynasty.

Now if you will excuse me I have to go throw up a very good breakfast.
 
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VolBeef88 said:
I hate bammer with a passion and I don't think that surprises many on this site. But you would have to say that they did have a dynasty.

Now if you will excuse me I have to go throw up a very good breakfast.
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I would say Alabama had an SEC dynasty from 1971-79, not a national dynasty though.
 
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vader said:
Come on, I bleed orange, too (the avatar is my left calf), but Dynasty?!?
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Vols have won more games in the last 80 years than any other college football team. Second or third(can't remember)in bowls played in.But I wouldn't call it a Dynasty. Powerhouse fits well though, both recently and historically. NC's if you think about it don't really mean as much as in football as in other sports. Lot of it is popularity contest. For example, LSU wins so called NC game but has to share with USC. When the same thing happens again, Auburn is left holding the bag. If Florida, USC and Ohio State all go undefeated, Florida will be left out.
 
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And if the NCAA has anything to do with it we may never see a true Dynasty again.
 
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jessiej86 said:
Vols have won more games in the last 80 years than any other college football team. Second or third(can't remember)in bowls played in.But I wouldn't call it a Dynasty. Powerhouse fits well though, both recently and historically. NC's if you think about it don't really mean as much as in football as in other sports. Lot of it is popularity contest. For example, LSU wins so called NC game but has to share with USC. When the same thing happens again, Auburn is left holding the bag. If Florida, USC and Ohio State all go undefeated, Florida will be left out.
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Wrong. USC would be left out. If Florida goes undefeated this season, they will play for the national title.
 
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milohimself said:
Wrong. USC would be left out. If Florida goes undefeated this season, they will play for the national title.
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Regardless, it still makes a joke out of the championship, but it's better than the old system, they just need to take the next step to make it legit.
 
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milohimself said:
Wrong. USC would be left out. If Florida goes undefeated this season, they will play for the national title.
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I dont know. Usc might get a bigger boost from beating ND (which the voters love) then Florida from beating whatever team makes it out of the west. Remember '04.
 
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Not a chance. Florida winning out implies that they have wins at Tennessee, at Auburn, at Florida State and vs. Bama, LSU, Georgia then beat Auburn again in the SECCG. No sane person would leave a team like that out of the national title game.

Ohio State will also get a definite nod for going undefeated, for a blowout win over Texas and another over a possible 11-0 Michigan squad. Assuming Michigan goes into that game 11-0 and wins, however, I believe USC would go in over them, as long as SC has at least a solid victory over Notre Dame.
 
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vader said:
It is hard to see if you don't take off the orange colored glasses occasionally.
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I can't see a thing without 'em.
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2 things would help tremendously in determining a true national champion, determining the best team...

1. Release 1 poll at end of regular season

2. postseason playoff involving major conference champions and mid-major wildcards.
 
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TravisHenryCBlockedMe said:
I dont know. Usc might get a bigger boost from beating ND (which the voters love) then Florida from beating whatever team makes it out of the west. Remember '04.
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I hate people bringing this up... They only had three games that could even be described as tough. LSU and Georgia both tough, but at home. Yeah, they beat us down, but I think in '04 we were just a team decent for the talent that happened to stumble into the SECCG. Then look at their non-conference. Louisiana-Monroe, The Citadel and Louisiana Tech. Bottom of the Sun Belt, bottom of the WAC and bottom of D-IAA. Non-conference schedules don't get much more pitiful than that.

USC, on the other hand, sported a pretty good non-conference schedule with Virginia Tech and Notre Dame. Oklahoma exhibited an almost unprecedented dominance of the Big XII during the '04 regular season, when five out of the 6 teams in the Big XII South were ranked simeltaneously.

Don't give me that junk about USC and Oklahoma getting to play for the title because they were ranked higher. Tell it to Cal and Oregon who have both been arbitrarily dropped in rankings, causing them to miss out on a BCS bowl in consecutive years. The voters believed Auburn was not as worthy as USC or Oklahoma. And in nearly two years, I have failed to hear any legitimate argument supporting Auburn. Yes, a +1 would be nice. But things happened the way they did, and an SEC team finished undefeated without a national championship. Cry me a river, I don't see anybody aside from Notre Dame who gets special treatment, I don't see why SEC teams should. Put up or shut up.
 
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