I think the 2007 season has to go down as one of, if not the best season of all time. It started with Appalachain State beating #5 Michigan in maybe the greatest upset ever, Stanford was like a 40 point underdog when they went into the Coliseum and beat USC by 1...

By November 10th a total of 9 teams that had been ranked in the Top 5 had lost to unranked team

Can't forget about the #2 curse either...
#2 USC gets beat by Stanford...the next week #2 Cal loses to Oregon State...next week #2 USF loses to Rutgers...next week #2 Boston College loses to Florida State...#2 Oregon loses to Arizona...#2 Kansas loses to #3 Missouri...#2 West Virginia loses to Pitt and it all ends with #1 Missouri getting thrashed by 21 in the Big 12 title.

Ohio State had a great season and finished runner up for the 2nd year in a row

Tim Tebow put together one insane year...29 Passing TD's and 22 Rushing TD's and Darren McFadden ripped apart the SEC on the ground with 1829 yards and 16 TD's

I just don't ever remember a season where I was so glued to the TV every weekend

That was a wild year. The curse of the #2 was unreal. Those final two weekends were incredible.

I'd take 2005 over it. 2007 was a year of a bunch of incomplete teams duking it out messily.

And crowned the worst national champion since like 1990 (would've been that way regardless of who had won). A lot of mediocrity that season.

enigmaax;639237 wrote:And crowned the worst national champion since like 1990 (would've been that way regardless of who had won). A lot of mediocrity that season.

Whatever.^^




And if you dont mention LSU's season or close games for 2007.......then you didnt watch football in 2007

cats gone wild;639264 wrote:Whatever.^^




And if you dont mention LSU's season or close games for 2007.......then you didnt watch football in 2007

You mean the lol-worthy (yet sad enough- true) les miles quote of "Technically.... We are undefeated in regulation!"

2005 was a better season.

cats gone wild;639264 wrote:Whatever.^^
And if you dont mention LSU's season or close games for 2007.......then you didnt watch football in 2007

Yeah, they had some close games...and lost twice. Not like they lost to great teams either. They just weren't a great team and don't stack up, performance wise to any championship team from the previous 15+ years. They were definitely the best that season and deserved the title, but still mediocre as a champion historically.

It was a fun year from the standpoint that there were all the upsets and everything, but overall it was a pretty down year for college football. Take Ohio State for example, I think that team wasn't even in the top 5 of Tressel's best teams but they were still right there at the top at the end of the regular season.

enigmaax;640132 wrote:Yeah, they had some close games...and lost twice. Not like they lost to great teams either. They just weren't a great team and don't stack up, performance wise to any championship team from the previous 15+ years. They were definitely the best that season and deserved the title, but still mediocre as a champion historically.

When LSU was healthy (title game and Virginia Tech game)......they could of beaten anybody and probably alot of past title teams. They stomped VT into the ground, beat OSU pretty easily, and when injured they still beat a handful of ranked teams. Yeah, they lost to UK and Ark in triple O.T.'s when they had injuries.....but dont most title teams have close games? Auburn, cough....cough.
And with your 2 UF title teams, do you think the 06 team was dominant?

burt07;640230 wrote:It was a fun year from the standpoint that there were all the upsets and everything, but overall it was a pretty down year for college football. Take Ohio State for example, I think that team wasn't even in the top 5 of Tressel's best teams but they were still right there at the top at the end of the regular season.

I agree with this. Lots of great games, but the weakest NC game...talent wise

cats gone wild;640261 wrote:When LSU was healthy (title game and Virginia Tech game)......they could of beaten anybody and probably alot of past title teams. They stomped VT into the ground, beat OSU pretty easily, and when injured they still beat a handful of ranked teams. Yeah, they lost to UK and Ark in triple O.T.'s when they had injuries.....but dont most title teams have close games? Auburn, cough....cough.
And with your 2 UF title teams, do you think the 06 team was dominant?

Sure, title teams have close games. And no title teams in 40+ years lost TWO of those close games. Now let's say that one, just one of those other teams hadn't lost. Would we be talking about how that season's OSU team...or Missouri or West Virginia...was one of the best champions? We'd be saying the same thing - how poorly that champion compares to others. And nobody would be saying LSU was the best team to ever miss a title game, either. There just weren't any great teams that season, that's all.

No, UF wasn't dominant in 06...and wouldn't stack up against the best champions either, although, the title game win did a lot for their perception since OSU was what it was going into the game.

On the flip side, does anyone else get the feeling that 2010 may wind up being the year that college football jumps the shark?

Reggie Bush / USC situation
Agent scandal in the SEC/ACC area
Texas raping what was left of the Big XII
NCAA tap dance around the Cam Newton situation
NCAA tap dance around the Ohio State - Sugar Bowl situation

I beleive this is the year that the NCAA ceased to pretend that their true mission is anything other than "Pecunia Maximus"

enigmaax;639237 wrote:And crowned the worst national champion since like 2002 (would've been that way regardless of who had won). A lot of mediocrity that season.

I fixed your quote for you.

2007 was pretty sweet. Idk about best ever, but it's definitely up there.

WebFire;640582 wrote:I fixed your quote for you.

Ha ha...thats gonna get some heat.

I think the fact that USF, Kansas, Cal, and Boston College all reached the #2 ranking is way more shocking than the fact that they all consecutively lost as the #2 team.

2007 seemed weak.

2007 was far from the best season in college football. However, it was easily the most entertaining season of college football in my lifetime. Every week there seemed to be multiple major upsets. Not just on big upset, or one upset Saturday. Every Saturday was upset Saturday. You had teams like Southern Florida, Boston College, Kansas, and Missouri get as high as #2 in the polls (Missouri got all the way to #1). I remember having a date at the same time as the LSU/Kentucky game and I made sure I picked a restaurant where I could see a TV to watch the end of the game during dinner without her knowing.

Because of all of the upsets and the unpredictability of the season it was fun to watch, but in the end, no one really deserved to win the National Championship that year. Ohio State lost it's eleventh game of the season at home by two touchdowns and dropped to #7 in the polls. They then won their final game the next week and two weeks after that they were #1 again. It was even worse with LSU, who lost it's regular season finale to Arkansas and dropped to #5 in the polls, then ended up #2 the next week after winning the SEC championship with help from losses by Missouri and WVU, and by leap-frogging 10-2 Georgia who didn't make the SEC title game. No one really earned the national championship that year, so Ohio State and LSU made the title game kind of by default (no one was deserving, but they were the least not-deserving teams).

I do think that the 2007 did spoil us a bit. I think we enjoyed the excitement and unpredictability of it that now when things go they way they're supposed to it seems boring. We respect the upset more than we do a dominant team it seems.

2007 was far from the best season, but certainly one of the most entertaining.

krambman;641324 wrote: I do think that the 2007 did spoil us a bit. I think we enjoyed the excitement and unpredictability of it that now when things go they way they're supposed to it seems boring.

That is funny and true. I remember someone here posting that this past season sucked because we all knew who was going to be in the title game since like early October (something like that - whatever it was, still a lot of football to be played). We didn't know all that time, but the fact that Auburn and Oregon held serve all season twists people's retrospect into making it seem like a foregone conclusion forever.

I thought this season had plenty of interesting matchups, like a lot of seasons...but there just wasn't the Monday morning "damn, did you see (insert upset)" conversations.

enigmaax;641378 wrote:I thought this season had plenty of interesting matchups, like a lot of seasons...but there just wasn't the Monday morning "damn, did you see (insert upset)" conversations.

That is ironic and true. In the middle of the season we had three straight weeks where the number one team in the country got upset, and we had a team ranked #22 in the preseason win the national championship, so if you just read headlines like that, you would think that 2010 was almost as good as 2007. It does seem as if the Boise State/Virginia Tech game the first weekend of the season was the only game all year that people across the country were buzzing about the next day.

Perhaps, as Cat Food mentioned, all of the outside stuff college football dealt with this year (including conference expansion and realignment) overshadowed what actually happened on the field, and the fact that while we had two teams who have been near the top of college football but who aren't traditional powers in the title game made this season seem like less than what it really was.

No.

Yeah maybe I shoulda put most entertaining but man that season got everyone buzzing, just look at how the coverage has exploded in the last few years. Now we have College Football Live, more games on national TV and ESPN covers it almost 24/7 through all of it's networks