[washingtonismoney]

Actually, I think Florida State and Alabama both have 14-0 talent. 

I would take the radical position that no team, ever has 14-0 talent. Teams have, like, 13-1 or 12-2 (or whatever) talent and end up getting lucky on the path to being undefeated.

Take for instance Nick Saban, Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer. Indisputably great coaches (if oft-questionably ethically.) They've got a grand total of... three undefeated seasons in AQ conferences. Yet some of these teams were absurdly talented. As a matter of math, it's absurdly difficult to go undefeated. Expecting, ever, to go undefeated is an act of insanity.

(It's especially insane when you play against a top-10, top-5 schedule, as the computers say Stanford did.)

[washingtonismoney]

Actually, I think Florida State and Alabama both have 14-0 talent. 

I would take the radical position that no team, ever has 14-0 talent. Teams have, like, 13-1 or 12-2 (or whatever) talent and end up getting lucky on the path to being undefeated.

Take for instance Nick Saban, Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer. Indisputably great coaches (if oft-questionably ethically.) They've got a grand total of... three undefeated seasons in AQ conferences. Yet some of these teams were absurdly talented. As a matter of math, it's absurdly difficult to go undefeated. Expecting, ever, to go undefeated is an act of insanity.

(It's especially insane when you play against a top-10, top-5 schedule, as the computers say Stanford did.)