That Florida line about "they are gonna have to make a documentary on the players we have on the team during these years" was even more perfect when you realize that in addition to the players they named, Florida had Aaron Hernandez on that team.
It’s the Urban Meyer recruiting strategy. Did it in Utah and Ohio too, find dangerous dudes in the system and talk sweet to local judges to get them out and onto teams
That hilarious upset was the day I officially fell in love with college football. I got to trash talk a coworker who was a Michigan fan the following Monday. Good effing times!
I have a nephew that was visiting us from Detroit, was bragging about the Michigan Wolverines before that season started. Have not heard him mentioning Michigan around my presence since after the Appalachian State game.😂
The great thing about that upset is that it happened opening weekend. Ever since that time, the App State "Cinderella" storyline works its way into EVERY "College GameDay" opening weekend show with the rhetorical question, "Who will be this season's App State?" Every opening weekend, they show that kick and Michigan gets their nose rubbed in it again and again and again. 😂
I'm surprised they didn't dunk on "so now y'all are going to do a national search for a Jackie Sherrill-level hire...?" "Nah, we'll hire a second-rate NFL coordinator who sleeps during evals b/c one of our alums likes him."
As a Vandy fan, 2007 was a brutal year. Yes, they beat a top 10 South Carolina team on the road, but they had a 10 point lead over #24 Georgia at the half and lost on a last second field goal. They lost to #25 Kentucky on a TD in the last 2 minutes. And the worst loss of all was to #19 UT in Knoxville. Vandy had a 24-9 lead in the 4th quarter, fell behind 25-24, and the 49 yard field goal at the end just barely missed. It was Vandy's 25th year in a row without going to a bowl, all because they couldn't win one more game. Thankfully, they got over the hump in 2008 and went to a bowl. :)
I was sitting behind the goal post at Neyland and the kick looked good right until the end. They lost the next week to Wake Forest to not go to a bowl. Vandy has got to stop playing Wake Forest.
I'm a Sooner fan. Great to watch my sooner head to the title game while I was in Baghdad...only the come home and watch the demolition they received from LSU. I'm concerned about the SEC move.
@@craigw6557 The SEC will mean tougher games but we will have DRAMATICALLY different rosters. We have been losing out on players for years, to B tier SEC programs, because kids just want to play in the SEC.
@@Tijuanabill I get that but man 14-14 at half, 30 minutes from National title game. That one stings. Beating #1 OU in 2010 was pretty nice, but that 2007 big 12 title loss is the only one that really sticks
As a UGA fan, that bowl game was so satisfying. We were subjected to a month of ESPN saying uga wouldn’t know what hit them. They’d never played an offense like this before. Don’t underestimate Hawaii. This is going to be close. After that game and the bcs game, everyone suddenly agreed that uga should have gone to the bcs.
We were the best team but we didn’t deserve to make it to the natty we lost 2 games and didn’t even win our division similar the 2012 yeah we were one of the 2 best teams but we didn’t deserve to be in the natty game but in terms of how good our team was we definitely should’ve been there ❤️🖤🐶
This is the most that Mizzou has ever been featured in an SEC Short. It was my freshman year at MU and what a time to be alive. Chase Daniel still rocking that NFL career!
Love these! They should consider doing a pre-season version where Hope is on an episode of "House Hunters" trying to figure out where she'll reside this year! 😅😂
I was 15, living in SEC Country (AR), and I had NO CLUE about that song until about 10 yrs later. Maybe if I got Facebook 6 months earlier than I did (September 2007 instead of March 2008), I would've heard about it.
@jiveassturkey8849 he's not my senator, but yeah that guy. And seriously who was he running against that the state of Alabama embraced him so enthusiastically?
This is great, especially the Bama, Auburn, and Mizzou parts. Glad yall came back to one of the most chaotic seasons ever. Edit: that Florida one too 🤣
Rest assured BAMA fans were not ready to trade Nick for Rich Rod after 2007. We gave Dubose, Fanchione, and Shula multiple seasons, so no serious fan was ready to oust Saban after one year.
Ironic considering those little cinderella teams DESTROYED #3 Alabama the next season..... And that was the 5th Top 25 team that little cinderella beat..... In fact Hawaii getting destroyed was more of a sigh of relief than the status quo. The previous year WAC Champ #6 Boise State beat Oklahoma, the year before that #9 TCU somehow missed a bowl game yet still beat #7 Oklahoma in Norman, and the year before that #4 MWC Utah annihilated ACC Champ Pitt by 28. But following 2007, led to the golden era of the G5, and created an absolute monster. 2008-2011 the MWC Champ went 53-1 and the G5 featured 2 Top 7 teams three straight seasons in a row. The G5 would go onto a 8-1 streak in major bowls until 2016.
@@Tijuanabill When was the last time a Big 12 team won a NC (we've won 5 of the last 6), so don't start about REAL gauntlet. That being said when OU and UT join it'll be a BRUTAL gauntlet, in all sports.
@@janejones7638 Playing a team one time since they joined over a decade ago, isn't a gauntlet. It just isn't. Having a really good top team every year, isn't a gauntlet either. A gauntlet is when every week is tough, and that isn't true of any conference in football in 2023, or ever. But when SEC team actually have to square off against each other, at minimum every two years, THAT is something you can call a gauntlet.
@@janejones7638OU had a tougher schedule than 11 SEC teams last year. And OU has a better record against sec teams than anyone but bama. And a winning record against bama. And more games in the sec than Missouri and Texas A&M who’ve been there for a decade already. OU is near the top of the sec and with better recruiting and money, it should get better for OU. Y’all forget OU wins the 2nd best conference top to bottom more often than most teams win individual games. The sec is the best conference but on the field there isn’t much difference from the big 12 to the sec. The only difference on the field is the top 2 teams in the sec are usually the 2 best teams in the country instead of 5th best. Us OU fans are excited because we’re playing teams with cooler stadiums, bigger fan bases, schools with more tradition, and in a place with a culture like ours. Much of the big 12 isn’t very southern and doesn’t have a ton of fans or tradition. Oklahoma is southern and has a lot of fans and tradition.
@@danielchai6145 I like your post but calling the Big 12 the second best conference makes all Sooner fans look stupid. Nobody believes that. The Big 10 is very clearly 2nd.
‘The Great Writers’ are back… Love this video… So close to football meeting so close the weekly videos so excited for this season so excited for what you guys do for me on a weekly basis. Thank you so much. See you soon.
For years I'd say to the children, "You want me to give you something to cry about??? Aaron Murray had led the Dawgs back on top of Auburn with 3 touchdowns in the fourth quarter. 25 seconds left in the game. Auburn's ball, and the defense had pushed them to 4th and 18...on their own 27. The Deep South's oldest rivalry is about to go to Georgia..." I can't finish the rest. 😭
The fact that the 07 college football season was wild pretty much shows you how 2007 was in general and as a LSU fan I cherished every moment of it moment
2007 was absolute madness. As a Georgia fan, I still have nightmares about how that year ended. Kentucky-Tennessee in OT. All Kentucky needs is a FG, and the Dawgs are in the SECCG. Final week of the season, #1 LSU loses to Arkansas AND #2 West Virginia loses to Pitt (both losses at home). Georgia still gets left out of the BCS Title Game, because "You have to play for your conference title..." Until that rule doesnt apply to Bama a couple years later.
That LSU game will be a memory me and other Hog fans will never let go of! That was the last time we knocked off the top team in the country in football.
Clemson 2007 alumni here. Those were my thoughts exactly upon leaving. "Clemsoning" was still a real thing. But the very next year Dabo started as head coach and the fates changed. Man, I wish I was there during that rise.
I was there 2005-2010, and it was cool. Camping out for tickets outside the stadium and dabo had the players bring us all pizza before his first game against SC. Moved back to the upstate in 2014, 20 minutes away and have only missed one home game since. Lucky to have seen it all.
Ahhhh 2007! The year of crazy upsets! I laughed so much at the teams talking about their season whether it was good or bad! What makes it even more hilarious is them foreshadowing their own teams in the near future (here’s looking at you Georgia annihilating TCU in the natty by 58 points!)😂
Unfortunately TCU has never been able to replicate their success or skill that they had in the MWC. Youd think its because the B12 is tougher, but id argue that wasnt really the case. They just had better players, better coaches, and were always considered an underdog so they gave everyone they played the smoke.
@@finchborat That was awesome, no doubt, but seeing the news that Nutt was gone was such a relief. Finally, no more, draw up the middle, draw up the middle, PA for an incomplete, punt.
@@finchborat DMAC was a better player than Tebow without a doubt. The Heisman is easily more about the politics of college football than actual ability and performance.
Talk about a blast from the past!! At that point in time my first child was a little over a year old and my Tigers were National Champs! Can we go back to 2007 please? GEAUX TIGERS 💜💛
The Sugar Bowl against Hawaii was my first ever college football game. It was one of the best memories of my childhood. I met Uga VI before the game and then saw Hawaii get crushed by us. Not making it to the Natty that year was devastating as a kid but it has all come together now. The beat downs of Cinderella teams will continue. Go dawgs.
It warms my Sooner heart, to know that the best team in the history of Missouri, got routed by a completely pedestrian, rebuild year Oklahoma. It just feels....right.
This was comedic gold, if you followed SEC football then and now. My only suggestion was to add that Tim Tebow was the first underclassman to win the Heisman. I was so afraid they've keep it from him like they did Rex Grossman.
As an auburn fan cam newton winning the national title in 2010 after leaving florida and blinn coll, the most unexpected season ever , I trash talked how bad I thought he was back then , , I was hoping for a winning season but crazy stuff happens.
Was raised a Georgia fan but watching Moreno that ‘07 year as a 6 year old is what truly made me a fan, one of many who shoulda got a natty but fell short, seeing all that talent just to fall short, hurt just as bad as 2012 and 2017
@@hoppy5359 I wouldn’t say “it hurt”. We got our second loss in October so it was going to be a long shot to get in the National Championship game anyway. Lots of fun wins against Auburn, Bama, Florida and finishing the season in New Orleans is always good.
1:26 - 1:27 And now, the "turf licker" has officially called it a career at Bama. It's crazy he was the last SEC HC from 2007 (and the 2000s) still coaching in the SEC.
@@Gators7557 Basketball and Football titles in the same year, back-to-back basketball titles, and two football natties in 3 years, yeah I'd say we did pretty good.
I didn't go to the game, but I remember hearing about the Vandy win over USC on the radio. I literally stopped what I was doing and had to sit down. My brain...couldn't comprehend it.
I know Saturdays are going to get a little better soon now that SEC Shorts is showing on my feed! Never change. Threw some truth daggers in for good measure. Franchione was gold too.
I'm a Bama fan and I haven't. I'll never forget wearing FM radio headphones and pacing the yard listening to the 4th quarter of that stupid Louisiana-Monroe game. Everybody LOVES the 2007 season, I don't lol
@@NDiddy I was at the game. Stone Cold Sober and have seemingly blocked it from my memory of even being there. Also, scared my friends and wife when I stood up some time in the second half and said to my wife in a loud voice "we are leaving." I never leave games before they are over, have sat thru real stinkers in the Shula and Dubose eras, that one apparently was different.
@@perryhubbard3741 I remember about 4 years before that finding out that we lost to Northern Illinois about 2 or 3 hours after it had already happened. Most people remember the Monroe game, but I bet very few recall the NIU loss. I try to always remember those few terrible years before I get mad about us only going 10-2
Fat Phill, the Great Pumpkin, being treated dirty? You don't say? I doubt it had anything to do with karma from Majors? All those years Alabama was down, and TN was beating them, when it was Florida they should have been focused on at the time. The secret witness scandal? I mean, what coach has time to go undercover an ride around with a sports journalist and meeting with NCAA officials making secret witness testimonies to undermine another school? No, Fat Phill was a pill of dirty. This new coach you have with running the score up with seconds ticking down to zero and already up by gazzillion points... Run it up the middle? No lets fake it and grab another 6 points! This new coach and TN fits very well together.
@@stanleymyrick4068 I agree that Phill wasn't the greatest guy. I'm not sure it was that Fulmer wasn't concentrated enough on FL or that he had problems winning the early games in the season. He almost lost in 1998 and I truly believe the only reason he won in 2001 game was played at the end of the year. But UT still had problems with UF after Fulmer left. As a UF fan, I can't criticize Heupel for running up the score.
@@uhtredsonifuhtred5664 Yeah only watched it since around 1980 when I was 8. Probably before then, but that was when I went to my first Bear Bryant game, so at least then. I have never, ever, seen a game run up the score like this new TN head coach. I heard about the 72-0 score, but I didn't watch it. Some games just get out of hand and every time a RB touches a ball the sea of defenders just fall down and open wide. I have no idea if that was the case there or not. But I watched TN purposefully, in every game he could and I watched several of TN's games, put up meaningless scores as time was running out, with no possible reasonable reason for it. -- The closest I've seen Saban ever do it was against Auburn early in his career when they were ahead trying to get a first down to keep running out the clock, game well in hand. The defender bunched up on the receiver and the receiver left him in the dirt and they threw a 50 yard TD. Asked about it after the game Saban said if he didn't want to get beat long he would have played off. That's the only time I can recall. TN got one that TN fits with. Low class.
@@uhtredsonifuhtred5664 I mean when your calling time outs to stop the clock to get another play so you can score again, that's TN's new coach in a nutshell.
Had that game on my DVR for a long time and rewatched it many times as a kid. Back then Florida felt insurmountable. Now they are a shell of their former selves.
As a Michigan fan the Nick Saban joke was pretty funny also as a Bills fan the Florida Gators Aaron Hernandez joke was pretty funny too I'm just saying
Me being a West Virginia fan (and alum) watching this: That *one game* affected so many teams, and affected our fate in what conference we’d be in. Hopefully one day, even as a guest, we’ll see WVU appear in an SEC Short. Let’s Go Mountaineers!
2007 ... LSU is king. Florida is not far off. Georgia, solid but will never get to much less win the big one. Alabama, dust in the wind. Auburn, owns the state of Alabama. Tennessee, Phil Fulmer is emperor for life. Missouri / Texas AM, weird foreigners (well some things don't change).
Ah.... Nick Saban's first year at Alabama. I admit I was an Alabama fan who did not like Saban back then. Especially after that Miami press conference when he said "I'm going to have to say it, I'm not going to be the Alabama coach." And then... he was. Of course the 2008 season made me love the man.... and what he's done since.... let's just go ahead and rename the stadium Saban-Bryant-Denny.
I didn't like him because to me, he was a 'gun for hire' type coach and wanted to use Alabama to go somewhere else in 3 years. Yeah, I was wrong. While I didn't doubt he would succeed at some level, (Alabama is Alabama after all, and even Shula, Dubose, Franchione, Perkins, Curry, won 10+ games there. The only coachs that haven't eclipsed 10+ win seasons since Bryant was Joe Kines who coached 1 game and Mike Price who coached zero games), I did not think he would stay.
@@the_bottle_imp that is exactly what I thought for a while. But for what Saban has done... it doesn't seem enough. He should be honored just as much as the Bear.
Aggies beat the longhorns in 2007 so it was a very successful year. That was the first game I ever made a wager on AND IT WAS GLORIOUS (I made my longhorn friend wear an aggie shirt.)
