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You're right. That actually would have been high level trolling. Missed opportunity.
Lol @ meat chicken celebrating their fake championship
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So, they’re having a halftime celebration for being the #2 team in the nation 25 years ago…? And a distant #2, at that? And needing the refs help to do it?
Michigan gonna Michigan.
Michigan gonna Michigan.
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Chris Webber would like to call a timeout on all this UM hatred.
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The biased coaches gave them #1. The impartial media gave them #2.
And a UCF fan talking about parading around as the #2 is pretty ironic.
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That will cost you at least $100k
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The bias was in the media.
Bob Griese's kid was the QB. Bob Griese commentated a few of his games. "My Boy, My Boy", My Boy"
Michigan hadn't won a NC since 1949 (i.e. 48 years). It was a pathetic sympathy vote.
The AP voters turned in their votes BEFORE the Orange Bowl was even played.
The coaches turned in their votes AFTER both bowl games were played and it was obvious to them who the #1 team in the land was.
Being how the PAC 10 and Big 10 refused to join the Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition (i.e. refused to play the best), they should never have been awarded anything unless they were the only undefeated team standing.
Michigan's NC is akin to BYU's 1984 NC
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Weird. What could have happened between the end of the season (when Michigan held the #1 spot in the coaches poll) and the bowl games?
Oh...THAT's right...I know what happened
"On Dec. 11, 1997, in a Daily Nebraskan article tiled “Osborne announces retirement,” senior reporter David Wilson writes, “emotionally and teary-eyed, Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne announced his retirement after 25 years at the helm of the Cornhusker program.”"
After the season, Michigan #1 in AP and Coaches
Tom Ozborn retires
After bowl games Michigan #1 in the AP but....#2 in the coaches? Huh. Pretty odd. No coincidence spotted at all.
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How were “the coaches” biased?
If anyone benefitted from bias, it was clearly Michigan.
Weren’t they being protected by the B1G and the bowl tie-ins?
Didn’t Michigan need the refs to rescue them by calling the game over with time still on the clock?
Didn’t Michigan have the #1 spot gift-wrapped and handed to them by some of the voters before the NU-UT game had even been played?
Lol @ you.
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Michigan was #1 after the season in both polls. Tom Ozborn retires a few weeks into December before the bowl games. The bowl games happen and then Nebraska jumps Michigan in the...coaches poll...after the (checks notes) colleagues of Tom Ozborn voted his last team #1.
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Drive shouldn't have happened anyway. The bomb that got them to mid field existed by a WR pushing our defender to the ground. See here:
People like to casually leave that part out when they mention the second that ran off the clock. It's also not like they were on the goal line, they were at the 35. That drive was messed up on multiple levels by the refs.
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Any B1G or Pac team involved in a pre BCS split title forfeits their claim for pretending like the Rose Bowl mattered
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No coincidence in..
Michigan.... 21
#8 Wash St 17
(2 seconds left on the clock)
Nebraska........ 42
#3 Tennessee 17
Michigan struggled with the #8 team and needed the refs to run the clock out with Wash St in the Michigan red zone.
No coincidence the AP voters turned in their votes prior to the Orange Bowl being played.
If Nebraska had won that game 300 - 0 it wouldn't have mattered, because the votes were turned in immediately after the Rose Bowl.
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See video above. That Wash St drive shouldn't have even happened. As you put it, they needed the refs to even make it to mid field for those 2 seconds to even matter. Nebraska got a gift by the coaches for a retiring coach. Tennessee lost to the only two good teams they played.
Speaking of miracles, Nebraska needed a miracle foot kick touchdown to even stay undefeated in the regular season.
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There's a billboard here around SE Michigan that reminds me of Nebraska's 97 title. It's for a dentist and in big bold letters it says "Voted #1 dentist in Michigan" and in the smallest font possible, barely legible as you're driving by at highway speeds, it says "by our dental staff".
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What "shouldn't have even happened" is Michigan dodging Nebraska by hiding in the Rose Bowl.
Regardless of that last Wash St drive, Michigan would have still only beaten the #8 team by 5 pts.
Nebraska beat the #3 team by 25 pts.
Michigan got a BYU type NC because they hadn't won one in 48 years.
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Michigan's team was built on defense, Nebraska's was built on offense. So that score differential makes sense.
Also easier to have a team built on offense when you play an easier schedule where the average opponent rank is almost 5 ranks lower:
In fact, ESPN just did "best CFB defenses in history" and that 1997 Michigan team ranked 14th
Ranking the 50 best defenses in college football history
Defense was a key to Georgia's 2021 national championship, but where does the Dawgs' D rank in college football history?
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The argument that any natty pre-BCS isn't legit is a dumb argument. So the championships that Miami, ND, Alabama, or USC are all non-qualifiers? C'mon that is a lazy argument.
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Michigan's 1997 team had the best DB in probably CFB and NFL history AND the best QB in NFL history on the roster but Nebraska fans are like "the coaches liked us". Their best player is currently on path to be fired by the school by the end of the year for sucking. Though now that I think about it, Scott Frost now has a history of making up championships at TWO different schools.
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Total Defense
Michigan #1
Nebraska #5
Total Offense
Nebraska #1
Michigan #44
One of those stats is considerably closer than the other.
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Congrats, you stopped worse teams and lit them up on offense.