Best Teams of the 90s

My homeboy Bill C.'s numbers say that the best Tennessee of the 90s was the 1993 team, and the 1998 team wasn't even one of the 50 best teams of the decade. But they do say that Tennessee was the 4th best team overall for the decade as a whole.

Discuss.

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...1990s-rankings-florida-state-nebraska-florida

 

Your homeboy gives teams too much credit for beating Vanderbilt by 70.

 

But we were definitely fourth best in the 90s and I don't even have to read the article to know who we finished behind.

 

Pretty sure all games are weighted equally.

 

NFL sees the 98 team a little more favorably.

 

But not as favorably as the '99 team. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/university-of-miami-hurricanes-college-football/

 

Should've been right back in the BCS title game.

 

99' had better talent but didnt have Al Wilson.

 

I'm sure they are, but I feel like teams in the Shuler (and Manning to an extent) era were good at taking a slight advantage over an opponent and running up the score with it. We could beat the 20th ranked team by 30 back then but as soon as we were equally matched we struggled mightily. 98 team didn't have that problem

 

The '93 team couldn't beat a busted up Alabama team and got trucked by Penn State. Nothing terribly impressive about them.

 

Had Jamal bounced outside in Gainesville on 4th down, he'd still be running.

 

That '99 team should have gone back to back.

 

The busted up defending national champions?

 

But those DLinemen were gone along with MLB and secondary.

 

The '98 team is the one that I have the fondest memories of, and it isn't even a close call. But that team got really lucky and struggled mightily in many instances.

I think the results from something like this are interesting in that it causes one to consider whether the best performing teams were the best teams. Stated differently: how many wins one way or the other can luck swing a season?

 

I don't have any knowledge on the specifics, but the talent level of great teams is always a slow dropoff. I can't imagine the '93 Bama team didn't have plenty of horses.

 

Not that defense. It had NFLers all over it and they were gone, along with the SR QB.

 

The 1997 team was better than the 1998 team, but Al Wilson taking over and pretty much telling everyone losing is unacceptable was the difference

 

Also the "stand around and watch Peyton" party was disbanded.

 

That got promptly hammered at home by a bad LSU the week after they played Tennessee? Yeah, that one.