It’s a shame that the passage of time dims our memories, because nobody should forget how utterly chaotic the 2007 college football season really was.
And don’t forget that West Virginia was this close to playing in the national title game until it crapped the bed in the Backyard Brawl and left RichRod in tears.
2007 as the best college football season ever is a hill I’m absolutely prepared to die on.
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That Pitt/WVU game was the crookedest game I ever watched.
The refs were doing everything they could to get a Big East rep in the natty.
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Until the Championship in 2017?
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UGA – bama title game 2017 says, ” hold my beer”….
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The background noise of the Pitt players yelling during Rich’s presser is awesome
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Most fun season? Absolutely.
Best? No way. LSU getting a title shot was absurd.
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Which team should have been in the title game instead?
Every team that season had warts on its resume.
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Us. We were the best team.
Not the most deserving, but the best.
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I had a different take at the time.
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Speaking of 07…how long have you been at this blog business?
It’s been enjoyable to read for sure.
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I started after the 2006 Tech game.
As I’ve said before, Reggie Ball is my blogging muse. 🙂
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https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/not-ready-for-prime-time-or-any-time
This was the first GTP post I ever read. A work buddy turned me on to the Dawgbone while I was making fun of Mark May, I stumbled on to the Blog here and have been hooked ever since.
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“It’s only a game, Dawg!”
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In my mind the best two teams were us and USC, and I don’t think even they could’ve beaten us the way we were playing at the end of that season.
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I agree, Derek. We were sitting at #4. Numbers 1 and 2 lost, and the ESPN created the Herbie doctrine to leave us out. Of course, this was later ignored for other teams when convenient. We were definitely the best team at the end of the season.
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LSU never lost in regulation, UGA was blown out by Tennessee
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It was indeed a memorable season, also was the first one in which our guys had wins over both Florida and Auburn since 1982, I think. That in itself was almost enough to help me forget the disastrous shit-the-bed that they turned in up in Knoxville.
As terrific as the 2007 season was nationally, I’ve wondered at times whether the tremendous interest that it generated across the general public played any role in escalating the money flowing into the sport via TV contracts etc which led to the horrid Conference re-alignments of 4-5 years later.
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I knew that South Carolina had gotten punked by Vandy that year, but I’d forgotten that they’d made it all the way up to #6 in the nation when they did so. If memory serves, they didn’t win a game the rest of the season and stayed home for bowl season.
I remember Steve Spurrier acting super smarmy after the ‘Cocks beat us in week 2 of that season. Hope that helped him sleep at night while his team completely tanked down the stretch.
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SB Nation did a story on the WVU Pitt game back before the 2017 season. Let’s just say those nerves are still a little raw.
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… and yet incredibly the two teams don’t even play anymore. As it will be with Pitt/PedSt. after this season. The Pitt money grab for ACC $ cost its only real rivalries. As if UGa entered a new conference and dumped Tech and Auburn.
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I know, it’s trash. WVU/Pitt is the sort of unadulterated hatred that this sport was built upon.
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I would buy the entire 2007 season on blu ray and watch it every Summer front to back.
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“Stafford missing Moreno on that wheel route in the South Carolina game would come back to haunt this team. If Georgia had beaten the Gamecocks, we wouldn’t be going through this exercise right now…”
How true
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That is a man who is in excruciating pain. I almost felt sorry for him. Then they ran over our asses in the Sugar Bowl.
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That was ’05. Dawgs ran over Hawaii in 2007.
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