00:00When this came in, Bill, diversity among teams, what was it like at the top?
00:06It obviously looks like it's a little more weighted toward modern day.
00:11Kind of your thoughts about it.
00:12Well, we had 20 panelists.
00:15Locally, I had you and Tim May.
00:18I could have asked five more Ohio State writers,
00:21but I didn't want to slant it too much that way
00:23and be accused of bias or anything like that.
00:25But no, I mean, we had some of the best football minds, college football writers and broadcasters.
00:30I know, you know, Tim Brando, Dennis Dodd, Ivan Mizell.
00:35He was really, I mean, the ESPN 150 thing a few years ago that Ivan was all over that.
00:40So I thought the most interesting part was the, you know, the ballots.
00:45Like I said, there was 73 different schools that got at least one vote, 73 different teams.
00:51But that number one team on there, 1995 Nebraska,
00:54they were the only one that appeared on every single ballot,
00:56which I found very interesting.
00:58You know, there were ballots that didn't have a one Miami.
01:01And one thing I'll say from the Ohio State side,
01:03I believe they had, I believe, seven different Ohio State teams got at least one vote.
01:10And I think that hurt in some ways because, you know, how do you pick the best team?
01:14And Bobby, I'm going to be honest, I'm surprised you didn't vote for that
01:18national championship Ohio State team.
01:20And, you know, three of two or three there.
01:22I was like, why is he not voting for them?
01:25He was on the team.
01:26Come on.
01:26I would have 100% voted if I was on that team.
01:30I might have put them number one.
01:31But they were right there, like just outside the top 25.
01:34Well, what's interesting with that, Bill, is, I mean, I tell people,
01:38that was probably the third best team I was on, even on Ohio State.
01:42And so I look at some of these schools and teams that didn't win national championships.
01:45And you look at that Nebraska team in 95.
01:49They won a national championship.
01:51They were undefeated.
01:52Penn State also undefeated that year.
01:55You know, doesn't get a sniff.
01:56You look at the guys, Kerry Collins, Kajana Carter, Kyle Brady, like rolled over a bunch
02:01of squads.
02:01And I went through this, and I was amazed that Penn State didn't have it.
02:06They only had two national champions, didn't get on.
02:08But I think that 95 team, just like I honestly think that 95 Ohio State team was probably one
02:14of the best two or three teams ever assembled in Ohio State history.
02:18And just you look at the talent on some of those squads and how they used to do it.
02:23Like that playoff would have been remarkable to watch something like that go back and forth.
02:29And I'm assuming every team on here, Bill, I didn't research it just at a quick glance.
02:33It looked like they all won national championships.
02:37What percentage of you think teams that came in were non-national champions on people's ballots?
02:43Yeah, that almost would have been a better list in some ways.
02:45Because we know these are all national championship teams.
02:48And it wasn't until you had 95 Ohio State on your ballot.
02:52And I got to thinking about it.
02:53I was like, yeah, 95 Nebraska is the number one team on here.
02:57But I would have paid to see them play that Ohio State team for sure.
03:01And that Penn State team you mentioned in the 90s that had Kajana and Kerry Collins, Kyle Brady,
03:08absolutely loaded.
03:09Ingram was one of their better receivers, an early Big Ten Penn State team.
03:12Wonder what they would have done against those Nebraska teams.
03:15But that was the consensus that that Nebraska team in particular, you go back and look in their numbers,
03:20averaging 50 points per game, had seven running backs that had at least 300 rushing yards.
03:25If you include Tommy Frazier, who was an absolute unicorn in the sport for anybody that remembers watching him play.
03:32I mean, unbelievable quarterback, not great passing yards, but just that run against Florida.
03:37I replay it all the time.
03:39So, again, it was an interesting methodology.
03:43It does, this pull does lean towards modern teams, which is the hard part.
03:49When you're talking about football since 1886 and you try to compare eras,
03:53we only have one team that was before 1950 on the top 20, that Army 1944 team,
04:00which, by the way, averaged 56 points per game and had two Heisman Trophy runners in the football.
04:05Yeah, not a bad team there.
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