[personal] Re: [Husker] ESPN: 1995 Huskers Still the Greatest

[Dick Karre]

Duane Feldman wrote:
I agree totally about the margin of victory and strength of schedule 
comments favoring the '95 Huskers.  You can make similar comments about 
the '71 Huskers in that we beat the eventual #2 (OU), #3 (CU) and #4 
(beat then #2 Bama 38-0) with only the OU game being close.

Part of the problem with the way the "experts" view this thing, is that 
when they compare teams from the distant past to more-recent teams, they 
want to put them head-to-head as they were. Thus a comment (from May, I 
think) that '45 Army would have no chance against a recent team because 
of the size difference. (Great grasp of the obvious, no?) You could 
pretty much say the same thing about the '71 Huskers: Larry Jacobson was 
huge at about 255. That's a good sized linebacker today.

The only valid way to do this, IMHO, is to measure how a team performed 
against the competition of its day, and by that measure the '71 Huskers 
stack up very well, though I would have voted for the '95 team. Four 
top-ten opponents, average margin of victory over those opponents just 
over 30 points. I don't think any team ever dominated a good schedule 
the way that team did.
-- 
Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net