2007 : College football as 2020 : The World

Oh yeah, Les Miles wins a Natty despite losing to _____ and ______.

can'tucky and ain'tkansas

If I were an Oregon fan 2007 would be my saddest memory. They were far and away the best team in the nation that year but then their QB got injured.

you are absolutely correct and it is my biggest 'what if' moment in my decades of Oregon fandom. 2011 vs Auburn in the natty is a close second.

college football at that moment in time had no idea how to defend against #2 Chip's offense and they had the horses to execute it...until they didn't.

The sick part is that 07 Michigan team wasn't fraudulent at all. That team was loaded offensively and had a pretty good defense too. If Henne doesn't get injured Michigan doesn't lose to Wisconsin or Ohio State, meaing that team probably goes 11-2. The one time Michigan was fully healthy was in the bowl game vs a very good Florida team, and Michigan dominated them. The final score is an illusion as Michigan was very close to blowing Florida out if it wasn't for the fact that Mike Hart--who never fumbles--kept fumbling the football to keep Florida in the game.

So yeah, App St beat a legit top 5 team, a team that would've finished 11-2 if not for terrible injury luck. I don't really know how to explain that other than I wasn't that surprised by the result. I knew they were probably the best lower division team of all time, and I knew they ran an offense Michigan had no clue how to stop. I literally had nightmares about that game in the summer time. It was absolutely a matchup I worried about and after the first quarter it was clear that all my fears were real. I never felt the shock of that loss like others apparently did. It was more like, "goddamnit ****ing figures".

There really is no comparison between that Michigan team and this UNC team. I think everyone knew North Carolina was fraudulent before the FSU outcome. I mean come on. They're a ****ing basketball school for christ's sake.

Let me tell you, as a West Virginia fan it hurts pretty bad too

Our best team in history, absolutely beating the doors off of everybody and on the cusp of facing either lol Mizzou or the slowest, worst Ohio State team ever to contend for a title that ended up getting run off the field by a random 2-loss LSU, and then somehow we just choke it away to a 4-7 Pitt team in one of the most inexplicable losses I've ever seen. We lost like 350 fumbles, Pat White got hurt and missed most of the game (although we should still have been huge favorites with Jarrett Brown), and missed 2 FGs and just like everything conceivable went wrong.

And then we somehow still bounce back and slaughter OU by 20 in the Fiesta Bowl, like there is no doubt in my mind that we beat Ohio State by 25+ in the natty if not for that nightmare

it would be amazing to be a non-partisan fan and go back and re-live that 2007 season.

No doubt in my mind either. That was one of the fakest Ohio State teams of all time. They played nobody. The only reason they made it to the national title game was their schedule. Michigan was the only good team on their slate and they got super lucky to play us when we had to play a totally green and clueless true freshmen QB Ryan Mallet.

People talk about the shocker of app st beating Michigan, but the top two WTF games of that year was that shitty Stanford team somehow beating USC and WVU somehow losing to that horrible Pitt team. The craziest year of all time.

I still feel no shame getting blown out by that Oregon team. As good as that Michigan team actually was, you could run that game back 10 times and they would get blown out all ten.

what a time to be alive

November 2007 opened with the Matt Ryan BC team at #2 and controlling their own destiny. It made the Boston Globe, on page 13-E.

That Stanford team had the greatest 4-8 season in history - doubt it will ever be topped.

They were 1-11 the previous year, so it was a 300% improvement on wins. They beat USC as a 41 point underdog in what is to this day the biggest upset in the history of the sport - it wasn't a fluke ranking either, USC ended the season ranked #2.

Then, they end the season by beating us at home as a 14 point underdog - driving the nail into the coffin of a crushing season where we opened by smashing Tennessee at home, going 5-0 and being ranked #1 for about an hour for as far as I know the first and only time in Cal history (we were #2 and the #1 team lost and we started chanting "we're #1!" from the stands as we were playing Oregon State, then we lost at home on Kevin Riley's ill advised scramble as he went for the win), which sparked a 1-6 slide to end the season.

I remember so vividly being at the Old Pro in Palo Alto across the stadium watching WV lose to Pitt, then running across the street to watch the end of the Big Game and then watching us lose to Stanford in my last football game as an undergrad.

I actually cried on the busride home

*I forgot Cam Newman's little brother beating UNLV as like a 45 point underdog, although somehow that feels less crazy

2007 Notre Dame was largely absent from the chaos, with an 0-5 start that ended in 3-9 (but still going 2-1 against the PAC ). Records were broken.

In 2007 Alabama lost to Louisiana Monroe the week before the Iron Bowl. And then first year coach Nick Saban compares Tide loss to 9/11. Not the best time to be living in NY as an Alabama fan...”Look he was wrong, that was terrible, it’s a disgusting thing to say and I absolutely condemn it. But...I mean, you gotta’ understand...it was Louisiana Monroe ffs!”

Ah, little did we suspect the bleak future he would bring to all.

2007 is batshit insane

There will never ever ever ever again be a 7-5 UK that beats the #1 team in the country, who even after that goes on to win the title.

Need this weeks thread. First week for B1G games.

Things might be getting ugly before they even start here.

I'ma start now unless someone else is already working on it.

We;a need a better system unless you&GB really like doing them.