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Originally posted by Betarulz!
5) Finally, I'm really glad USC lost to end all this talk about the greatest team ever...when you have no defense there's no way you can be one of the best teams in the history of the game. What adds to it even more is that ESPN has to eat so much crow for making USC such a media frenzy. While others may disagree, I really think that the whole "finding their place in history" think SportsCenter did was ridiculous and this USC team would have lost to the top 6 teams, including getting destroyed by the top 2 ('01 Miami and '95 Nebraska) by more than 35 points. Heck even last year's USC team would have beaten this year's team by 14 or more points.
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Thats what got me was the 'greatest of all time' bs. Comparing USC to the amazing teams of the past, but slate.com's Jonathan Chait had a thing on NPR last week and I found it online
here.
A brief excrept I found funny:
"The ESPNers also entertained the thought of this year's Trojans facing off against great powers from a generation ago. May noted that the 1969 Texas Longhorns ("the size of the players ... forget it, they're gonna roll over them") and the 1955 Oklahoma Sooners ("Not even close, and I look at the size of the players … their starting center was 5-8, a sophomore, and 158 pounds") would both be overwhelmed by today's Trojans. Which is probably true, though one could use this method to prove that the 2005 Temple Owls were the greatest team of all time. Fielding H. Yost's 1901 Michigan team trampled opponents by a cumulative score of 550-0. But, hey, the forward pass wasn't legal then, and those guys didn't even wear helmets. The concussions alone would make this a huge Temple blowout."