In case you forgot how amazing 2005 was...

[Honeysucklerose 957]

Good grief that team was sick. Sometimes you just forget how unreal those guys were and how awesome it was to watch it every week. Here's a little nostalgia for ya

 

[JoseMedinaDeJesus 207]

That was a great football team.   I don't know if there is another team from any year, that could beat them in a best of 7.

[BurntOrangeCrush 1004]

Thanks for posting. Like many of us, I remember all the well known highlights of VY, Jamaal, Pittman, Thomas, Sweed, etc... but I liked being reminded about  how much of a bad ass Ramonce Taylor was. 

[Sejjr 3246]

Side note, I am pretty sure they also covered every game that year except aggy. And the money line in the Rose Bowl was the bet of the decade. Betting on Vince Young always paid. 

[immortal13 4059]

The sandwich hit at the end of the A&M highlights was awesomeness

[Your Mom 4796]

That defense was salty. 

[GotThatFire 166]

Speeeeed

[Bigpoppapump 529]

I'm here to see Rhett Bomar cry on the ground.

[Quagmire 2146]

Damn we blocked a lot of punts that year

[Quagmire 2146]

Who’s still in the nfl from that rose bowl game?

 

I can think of Charles , Robinson , M Griffin

 

[joeycovers 380]

4 hours ago, Sejjr said:

Side note, I am pretty sure they also covered every game that year except aggy. And the money line in the Rose Bowl was the bet of the decade. Betting on Vince Young always paid. 

They also did not cover vs Okie st.  I believe those were the only 2. 

Random memory most never talk about... KU game was supposed to be revenge game for KU because what happened in 04. If i recall correctly the game before it ran over so the UT game was shown "in progress". I was in LV so maybe it was different for us West Coasters. Anyway game was 21-0 in like the first 10 minutes. By the time the game was "on" it was already well in hand. That is the type of firepower that team was capable of.  

[joeycovers 380]

Just now, Quagmire said:

Who’s still in the nfl from that rose bowl game?

I can think of Charles and Robinson

Robison i believe retired this year.. Mccoy and Orakpo are the first that come to mind

[NowThis 931]

Jamaal is not in the league, Robinson was cut.

That D was carried by 5 NFL DBs, one of the greatest secondaries in CFB history, maybe 2nd best to Miami's.  The LBs could have been better had UT retained Garnet Smith and Michael Williams a  DE/LB with freakish ability. 

[texifornia 56512]

2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

Jamaal is not in the league, Robinson was cut.

That D was carried by 5 NFL DBs, one of the greatest secondaries in CFB history, maybe 2nd best to Miami's.  The LBs could have been better had UT retained Garnet Smith and Michael Williams a  DE/LB with freakish ability. 

Jamaal's back. Jags picked him up.

 

[taybo20 2815]

@NowThis Charles played against the cowboys on Sunday 

[HOOK'EMHOOAH 1606]

That offensive line was stacked as well. I think everyone of the starters went into the league, possibly the entire two deep. I may be mistaken though.

[Hornius Emeritus 12419]

I think Charles made the best play that entire season against Ohio State, when he fell down, got up, hurtled some Ohio State player, and tackled A.J. Hawk before Hawk could score a TD.  That turned out to be huge.

[Get ln My Van 927]

I watched every snap from every game that season and it was pure ecstasy. Greatest team in college football history.

[Get ln My Van 927]

My favorite part of that video is looking at the scores...

53-3 in the 3rd quarter

51-3 in the 3rd quarter

55-0 start of the 4th, etc.

[NorthLoop 14089]

8 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I think Charles made the best play that entire season against Ohio State, when he fell down, got up, hurtled some Ohio State player, and tackled A.J. Hawk before Hawk could score a TD.  That turned out to be huge.

Pretty sure that was Ramonce

[HOOK'EMHOOAH 1606]

Just now, NorthLoop said:

Pretty sure that was Ramonce

it was jamaal.

[BabaYaga 15210]

Office a little dusty this AM.  I remember every game.  I was at most of them.  I remember USC...my pregnant wife screaming and jumping up and down on the bed.  Me, having my ENTIRE bottom lip lined with Copenhagen.  Like a civil war infantry soldier with a flint/breech loader, engulfed with the fog of war, who mistakenly who loads cartridge on top of cartridge on top of cartridge out of habit and fear.....I kept packing my bottom lip until I looked like I had been attacked by bees!

 

“‘Fourth down, for the national title. Young, going for the corner ... he’s got it.’”

[Valmy77 13094]

It was amazing how that team was generally considered trash compared to USC for that entire year until the final seconds of the final game. I am glad justice was finally served.

[linux 1659]

I saw some ESPN YouTube video where machines put that team as the greatest of the BCS era, all I have to say is that re: Miami 2001 is that they are #2 and that has nothing to do with their NFL talent. 

Edited October 16, 2018 by linux
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[Valmy77 13094]

3 minutes ago, linux said:

I saw some ESPN YouTube video where machines put that team as the greatest of the BCS era, all I have to say is that re: Miami 2001 is that they are #2 and that has nothing to do with their NFL talent. 

Unlike 2005 Texas, Miami never really got tested. I think 2005 Texas would have made just of short work out of 2001 Virginia Tech and 2001 Nebraska.  Would 2001 Miami have beaten a team like 2005 Ohio State or 2005 USC? We don't know since they never played a team like that, they just beat up on a bunch of mediocrities.

[IDIOTsavant 8440]

9 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Unlike 2005 Texas, Miami never really got tested. I think 2005 Texas would have made just of short work out of 2001 Virginia Tech and 2001 Nebraska.  Would 2001 Miami have beaten a team like 2005 Ohio State or 2005 USC? We don't know since they never played a team like that, they just beat up on a bunch of mediocrities.

Pretty sure they need a miraculous Ed Reed strip and return of his own teammate in order to escape a very mediocre Boston College team that year.

[IDIOTsavant 8440]

Just looked it up. The Reed play iced the game 19-7, but BC was in the red zone down 12-7 with 30 seconds left. I'd argue Miami was definitely tested that day.

[Huckleberry 32699]

Vince Young versus Ken Dorsey.

Case closed.

[capnamerca 571]

Joel Klatt just got a headache again, from us watching this video.

[Dnaguy 11772]

11 minutes ago, capnamerca said:

Joel Klatt just got a headache again, from us watching this video.

Klatt's a bitch.

His newfound Stockholm Syndrome is suprising.

Has there ever been a more lopsided conference championship game ever? B1G has had some lopsided contests, but damn. 70-3? I mean, we could have scored 100+ that game.

 

[RollLeft 5040]

Damnit, I loved that team.  

[gsoda3 3236]

that was a good time.

[NowThis 931]

in your estimation, name the top 2 defenses VY faced 2003-2005.

Edited October 16, 2018 by NowThis

[bigcigar 1161]

7 hours ago, Sejjr said:

Side note, I am pretty sure they also covered every game that year except aggy. And the money line in the Rose Bowl was the bet of the decade. Betting on Vince Young always paid. 

I wonder if aggy treated that like the Clemson / Bama covers this year

[Huckleberry 32699]

12 minutes ago, NowThis said:

in your estimation, name the top 2 defenses VY faced 2003-2005.

2005 Ohio State

Huge gap

2003 Oklahoma

[joeycovers 380]

25 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

 

Has there ever been a more lopsided conference championship game ever? B1G has had some lopsided contests, but damn. 70-3? I mean, we could have scored 100+ that game.

 

No, I believe it's the largest margin of victory in postseason history

[pacman 7328]

Always talk about best team ever, getting even more macro, I am hard pressed to think of a better season from a special teams unit.

[Jkwellborn 6653]

That team was so fast. They made fast people look not fast. I was at the Kansas game. Texas was bound and determined to show everyone that Vince could pass downfield to start the game. It got ugly quick, but would have been a lot worse if they wouldn’t have done that.

[dcbc 14404]

So much speed. 

[deadshank 24651]

3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Pretty sure that was Ramonce

Wrong.  It was Jamaal

[housious 468]

1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

Klatt's a bitch.

His newfound Stockholm Syndrome is suprising.

Has there ever been a more lopsided conference championship game ever? B1G has had some lopsided contests, but damn. 70-3? I mean, we could have scored 100+ that game.

 

Texas stopped playing in the second half. 100 plus points would have been easy.

[deadshank 24651]

Outside of athletic ability and being great football players, that team had guts, a very wide nasty streak and more desire than pretty much any Texas team before or after.  

[wood 11131]

10 hours ago, JoseMedinaDeJesus said:

That was a great football team.   I don't know if there is another team from any year, that could beat them in a best of 7.

Best team I've ever seen. Just freakishly good everywhere you look.

[JimmyJames 12271]

4 hours ago, HOOK'EMHOOAH said:

That offensive line was stacked as well. I think everyone of the starters went into the league, possibly the entire two deep. I may be mistaken though.

Not sure about Will Allen. The rest of them did though. 

[Huckleberry 32699]

I think Allen was in camp but quit football before the season.

[Xcalibur 546]

Living through 2005 and watching this team in real time was an absolute joy.  I remember telling my bud, "We will never be this good again.  This won't be our last championship, but we will never be this good again."

[Vic Mackey 46935]

1 hour ago, NowThis said:

in your estimation, name the top 2 defenses VY faced 2003-2005.

Number 1 is easily 2005 Ohio St. That team was damn good., That game was one of my favorite games ever. 

[irishtexan 11445]

We were fucking spoiled and had no idea. Jesus Christ on a cracker. That team was fucking LOADED

[Eugene11 375]

5:15 mark is just pure joy

[Dennis Taylor 18706]

one thing that always boggles my mind is that if you start with the final play of the 1st half of the OK State game through the Baylor game til halftime of the KU game, Texas scored 152 unanswered points (38, 62, 52).    Not to mention another 56 unanswered  point run against Colorado in a 19 minute stretch of the 2nd and 3rd quarters...Texas had 70 with over half of the 3rd quarter remaining 

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2018 by Dennis Taylor