Rudy89
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I made a thread like this last year comparing the two undefeated regular seasons we have experienced in recent memory. I felt that this could lead to another fun discussion comparing two successful seasons that had some highs, lows, and a few “what ifs”
2017- After losing a heartbreaker to UGA we began a streak of dominating performance including the humiliation of our biggest rival in primetime at home. We ran with this momentum until unfortunately an old rival from our past humiliated us on national tv and had us questioning everything about what we had accomplished up to that point. In one of the glaring differences between the two seasons we unfortunately didn’t play our best against rival Stanford and any hope of the NY6 was dashed that night in Palo Alto. That disappointment aside we bring everything together for a big Bowl win against LSU to cap off a really good season compared to where we were the previous year.
2019- Started off very similarly. Dominating performances until an unfortunate loss to UGA. From here we didn’t blow as many teams out but we went into a bye week against another old rival from our past with hopes of keeping the playoffs/NY6 alive. Our rival destroys us and as a fanbase we wondered what went wrong with our program. This time however we rose to the occasion and finish the year out winning including dominating Stanford en route to another bowl in Orlando. The bowl was a more dominant performance compared to 2017 but the ISU was clearly not as quality of a win as LSU. All that aside we finish one game better than we did 2 years ago.
So which season did you enjoy more? I think even though we did finish with a better record this past year I enjoyed 2017 more. The domination of USC and ending the season with a win over a more respected program gives that season the nod for me. Even though I hated losing to Stanford that year (especially because we were prolly the better team) beating LSU on New Year’s Day was one of my highlights in my time as an Irish fan (the only other big bowl I had ever seen them win in my fandom was the cotton bowl in 1994 when I was 4 years old) so despite winning one less game I will reflect better on that season compared to this past one. That isn’t to say I didn’t love this year and think this was a bad year just what I prefer as fan?
What about the rest of IE, which season did you prefer?
2017- After losing a heartbreaker to UGA we began a streak of dominating performance including the humiliation of our biggest rival in primetime at home. We ran with this momentum until unfortunately an old rival from our past humiliated us on national tv and had us questioning everything about what we had accomplished up to that point. In one of the glaring differences between the two seasons we unfortunately didn’t play our best against rival Stanford and any hope of the NY6 was dashed that night in Palo Alto. That disappointment aside we bring everything together for a big Bowl win against LSU to cap off a really good season compared to where we were the previous year.
2019- Started off very similarly. Dominating performances until an unfortunate loss to UGA. From here we didn’t blow as many teams out but we went into a bye week against another old rival from our past with hopes of keeping the playoffs/NY6 alive. Our rival destroys us and as a fanbase we wondered what went wrong with our program. This time however we rose to the occasion and finish the year out winning including dominating Stanford en route to another bowl in Orlando. The bowl was a more dominant performance compared to 2017 but the ISU was clearly not as quality of a win as LSU. All that aside we finish one game better than we did 2 years ago.
So which season did you enjoy more? I think even though we did finish with a better record this past year I enjoyed 2017 more. The domination of USC and ending the season with a win over a more respected program gives that season the nod for me. Even though I hated losing to Stanford that year (especially because we were prolly the better team) beating LSU on New Year’s Day was one of my highlights in my time as an Irish fan (the only other big bowl I had ever seen them win in my fandom was the cotton bowl in 1994 when I was 4 years old) so despite winning one less game I will reflect better on that season compared to this past one. That isn’t to say I didn’t love this year and think this was a bad year just what I prefer as fan?
What about the rest of IE, which season did you prefer?
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