Because it's June 3 and not much else is going on and this forum needs to move some more. 89 is always the first team that pops in my mind. What say ye?
That is an odd selection. Pretty sure the kid who runs out to get the tee on kickoffs went down to injury that year.
If you follow them closely, you don't really overrate/underrate much. At the time, I remember thinking teams like 1992, 1994, and 2000 were down years. Now I'd kill for some down years like those.
The 2006 team was a few plays away from being really special. The Jamarcus Russell fumble they missed and the "roughing the passer" (by the way the rule is written, the call was correct, but it's a shit rule; a player's hand grazed the helmet of Leak on a Marvin Mitchell pick six) call against Florida were two that stick out. The 2007 team made it to Atlanta, but that 2006 team was better.
Yep. We took the mid-late '90's for granted. Drunken on (short-lived) success I chose '85 because though talented no one expected that level of success defeating Miami, ending a 13 yr hiatus of the Top 10 or braking a 16 yr drought to become SEC champs
The 85 Sugar Bowl win was the first game I watched the whole game with my dad. My dad told me with 100% confidence that we were going to beat the dog crap out of the Canes. I thought he was the smartest person in the world, until I became the smartest at about 15 years old.
The '99 squad was almost just as talented as the '98 one and we somehow managed to lose to a sub-par Florida team and Arkansas that year. Both of those games should have been wins, although to be fair, Arkansas was running off of extra motivation from what went down in Knoxville a year prior. We could have easily been back in the national title game had a couple of breaks gone our way.
Defense left a lot to be desired but still way more capable of winning more than only 5 games. It's ridiculous we lost 7 games with how potent of an offense we had that year. Putting up 40 points plus against Georgia and Missouri and still not winning was a travesty.
If the '03 team hadn't shit the bed against Clemson, they would have finished the season ranked in the top 4. I know the way they lost to Georgia probably takes some shine off the season.
It depends on the context you're using the term "underrated." '02 was loaded and played below their ability all season long. '03 was super talented too and deserved a lot better than a Peach Bowl berth. '05 had no business losing more than a couple games, let alone 6. And '06 was literally, as Groves pointed out, a couple of plays away from having a really spectacular season.