Was the 1995 Tommie Frazier-led team the most dominant CFB team of all time?
Tommie Frazier Led A Season That Seemed Like a Video Game
The 1995 Huskers didn’t merely go 12-0; they did it dominantly. They scored an average of a jaw-dropping 52.4 points per game and surrendered just 14.5. That’s a 38-point average winning margin.
Letβs simply put it: Nebraska didn’t play opponents; they destroyed them. No team came within 14 points. They even went against ranked teams like No. 10 Kansas State, No. 8 Kansas, and No. 2 Florida in the Fiesta Bowl. And itβs safe to say that Nebraska never flinched.
Florida entered the 1996 Fiesta Bowl unbeaten and arrogant. Then Nebraska. Final count? 62β24. And it wasn’t much closer than that.Tommie Frazier put on an all-time performance, including a run so mythical it should be a movie. Breaking seven tackles minimum on a 75-yard TD, Frazier looked like a man escaping a cloud of bees, not defenders. Florida’s “fun and gun” offense was powerless. Nebraska had 524 rushing yards. Well, itβs a national championship game record. No team had ever made another blue-blood program look so thoroughly overpowered.Before Georgia built a dynasty, Alabama terrorized Saturdays under Nick Saban, or Michigan found its swagger in 2023, there was one team that just destroyed. And we are talking about the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers. The team was led by the electrifying Tommie Frazier.
The Huskers ran through their schedule like a stampede in a cornfield. But was this team truly the most dominant college football team of all time? Now, let’s turn back the tape, roll the highlight reel, and see.He passed for 1,362 yards, ran for 604 more, and was accountable for 31 total touchdowns while leading the toughest option offense in the history of football. He was consistent, commanding, and built for the big stage. Ask anybody who suited up against Florida that night, and Tommie Frazier was the whirlwind.
So⦠What Made Them So Dominant?
Aside from Frazier, the 1995 Huskers were loaded. We’re talking about 27 players who went on to play in the NFL, including Grant Wistrom, Jason Peter, and Ahman Green. The offensive line? Pads-clad bulldozers. Nebraska averaged 7.0 yards per carry as a team. Not one man. The team.
The defense? Top 10 nationally at nearly every statistic. They choked the run, harassed quarterbacks relentlessly, and dared anyone to try and get physical. Most teams folded in the second quarter.Jeff Sagarin’s iconic computer rankings (used by USA Today) labeled them as the best team since 1956. ESPN has them No. 1 on other all-time lists. Bleacher Report did too. Heck, even opposing fans tip their caps. Add in their margin of win, strength of schedule (they beat four top-10 opponents), and plain statistical dominance, and the rΓ©sumΓ© is unassailable.
But this is the thing: none of those teams overpowered greater rivals as completely as ’95 Nebraska. None beat the No. 2-ranked team in the country by 38 points in a championship game. None ran for almost 400 yards a game and scored almost 40 more points a week than they allowed. So the next time someone brings up the GOAT conversation in college football, just mention the ’95 Huskers.Tommie Frazier Is Surely The Maestro of Mayhem
At the center of this whirlwind was Tommie Frazier. He was the preppy dual-threat quarterback before being one was cool. The Heisman voters snubbed him (he finished second), but don’t get it twisted: Frazier was the college football player most feared.
