i have been watching canes football since 76, and the 86 team had the best college defense of all time, the dline with jerome browm, derwin jones, moss, stubbs, jimmie jones, sileo was sickening. jimmie jones did not even start on our dline and was drafted by cowboys in late first round. with blades, bain, fullington, . the linebackers were very good on 86, but they were not as talented as 01, but overall the defense was suffocating and significantly better than 01 team. the 86 offense was very good, but was not the overall efficiency of 01 team. Given the 15 year gap and player size and development i would think the 01 team would beat 86 team head on, but I believe the 86 team is better if you consider the time warp. Also, people underrate that penn state team was joe paternos most talented defense ever- they had like 7 guys go the nfl and there team was all seniors and had dj dozier a great running back and experienced qb. they had only one good drive for a touchdown the whole game. the other drive started at our 5 yard line. We were clearly the better team, but the vinnie and motor scooter cost us that championship the nebraska team we beat in 01 was good, but not and elite nebraska team. they had just lost to an average Colorodo team.
