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Would a top 5 college team be able to play competitive football with a bottom 5 NFL team?
Not a chance! The worst NFL team is still made up of some of the best college players. The plays are so much faster than college. I'd bet Alabama couldn't score a TD against Oakland or SF (*the two worst teams). Tagovailoa would be sacked 15 times. Alabama would have 100 yards of offense at best. It would be hard to watch.
It would be worse than Mater Dei vs a poor college team.
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Originally Posted by le roi
none of them, not even close.
I say it would be interesting to match up an entire college team - you know, one that is coherent and operates as a "unit", like a late-season Florida, Texas, Alabama - verses maybe a bunch of random no-name NFL free agents thrown together with no organization. That might be interesting, but that's just my imagination.
Maybe in a weird way like Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs back in the 70s. Totally meaningless didn't prove anything, but damn that was a spectacle to behold. Maybe all the free agents could be carried out in eggs or something.
Last edited by Originalist; 11-24-2018 at 05:17 PM..
2017 Alabama would be lucky to cross midfield once against the 2017 Browns.
As someone mentioned 8 years ago!! back on page 1, take 2017 Alabama against a bunch of 6th & 7th round picks mixed with undrafted rookies and MAYBE you have a competitive game.
The more interesting question is whether a good high school team could beat a bad FBS team?? Take a school in Texas (I think somewhere like Richardson High School in Texas is the #1 team in the country) and put them against UConn (quite possibly one of the worst FBS teams of the last 5 years) and does the high school team win?? I think the High school team wins.
2017 Alabama would be lucky to cross midfield once against the 2017 Browns.
As someone mentioned 8 years ago!! back on page 1, take 2017 Alabama against a bunch of 6th & 7th round picks mixed with undrafted rookies and MAYBE you have a competitive game.
The more interesting question is whether a good high school team could beat a bad FBS team?? Take a school in Texas (I think somewhere like Richardson High School in Texas is the #1 team in the country) and put them against UConn (quite possibly one of the worst FBS teams of the last 5 years) and does the high school team win?? I think the High school team wins.
Not likely at all. Even the best high school team in america isn't going to have its entire roster playing NCAA ball after 12th grade.
I think that's more likely to happen than a college team beating a pro team. The high school in Texas that was #1 in the country has like 6 or 7 players on scholarship going to big time power 5 schools. And nobody outside of Connecticut watched UConn football, but their defense finished as one of the worst of all time!! That Texas high school team would score easy on the Huskies. Granted, UConn is able to score on them too, but they'd at least put up points and make it respectable if not win outright
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