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Always seems silly to compare eras. Sure, today's NFL players are bigger, stronger, faster, train smarter, eat better, have the best PEDs, whatever. So what? Fans who are students of the NFL should appreciate the players and athletes of any era. And not just greats like Jim Brown or Johnny...

In the locker room , post-game

2001 12-0 NC Miami Hurricanes vs. 2001 1-15 NFL Carolina Panthers. Play in late January 2002, three weeks after the Rose Bowl and the end of the NFL regular season (January 6th). Carolina was 1-15, but 7 losses were by less than a TD, one of those a 38-32 Week 13 loss at home to NFC Champion St...

I don’t disagree, but a lot would have to fall into place for a dominant college team to beat a bad NFL. A bad NFL team is bad by NFL standards. The Jags, even with Meyer still as HC, beat Buffalo, a legit SB contender. I think NFL coaching and player experience would be extremely difficult...

All good. Fun conversation. I would agree a college powerhouse could be respectable against a bad NFL team, especially if the NFL team didn’t take the game serious and the factors that made them a bad team spilled into the game. The ball bounces funny, too.

Yes, there are college players who enter the NFL and excel out of the gate. Most don’t, even 1st rounders. The OL that DL Walker, Hutchington, and Thibbs start practicing and playing against are better than anyone they’ve ever played against. Even the best rookies often hit a wall. Even the best...

Difficult to compare eras, true. Rules were different as well.

I think it would depend on how serious the NFL team took the game. Last year’s Jags beat UGA, Alabama, easily. UGA and Bama’s two-deep had some players with NFL potential. The Jags were all NFL players.