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  • 05/18/2007, 04:48PM ET

The Florida Gators Three National Championships they racked up this last year is the Greatest Achievement in College Sports History.

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In 2006 when the Gators won the Basketball Title they became the first team to win basketball and football titles within 10 years of each other. Then in January when they won the football title they became the first team to hold both titles at the same time. Amazingly they won AGAIN in basketball in April to be the first to win the same calendar year. No team has come closet o matching that or ever will. Look out because they are loaded again in football for 2007.


UCLA dynasty

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One sport? You are giving me dominance in one sport over a three peat in the two biggest sports in the country. I love college basketball and many people do as well. But College Football is a level even bigger. To be elite in both sports at the same time is mind numbing. No way I'll buy the basketball dynasty over the Gators Three Peat.

This has nothing to do with the argument at hand but arguing UCLA brings a smile since they lost 2 times in the tourney to UF and helped UF reach BSC game


They way UCLA dominated college basketball was the greatest sports achievement especially on the college level.

What Florida did was impressive but I dont think anyone would argue them being the best of their era.

UCLA won 10 titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975
7 straight from 1967 to 1973
Went undefeated a record 4 times, in 1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973

That is the greatest accomplishment


One great coach can make the UCLA Dynasty (and did). It takes One great AD finding two elite coaches who both find unselfish athletes. Then they have to both make it through the grind of the season. The one and done of the NCAA playoffs. The treachery of SEC football. And through it all they have to keep winning with all the pressure building up. It happened three times in a row.


You could make the same argument for UConn their men and women won in the same year and the women won a bunch of other years. Like I have said what Florida did was good but no one will remember their accomplishments down the road because they weren't that great. No one is comparing these Florida teams to an all time great team

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May 18, 2007  04:57 PM ET
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Nah.... It was a TRULY AMAZING feat....but UCLAs 88 straight wins and 7 consecutive National Championships are greater. How about Oklahoma winning 47 straight games.

May 18, 2007  05:00 PM ET
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ill give you the UCLA as a close 2nd but Florida beat an undefeated "unbeatable" football team in Ohio State and won by 27 points also there 1st national championship in basketball and 2 in a row and they won the national championship in b ball and football in the same calender year which has never been done before

May 18, 2007  05:02 PM ET
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Florida's accomplishment still doesn't floor me. It's awesome, but what UCLA did and did for so long, was unbelievable.

May 18, 2007  05:06 PM ET
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florida's achievement--- good
ucla-- legendary
oklahoma- amazing

May 18, 2007  05:08 PM ET
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The other two are amazing but both are contained in ONE sport. The Gators had to have lightning in a bottle in two places at once.

May 18, 2007  05:11 PM ET
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I would take the Patriots 3 SP wins in 4 years before the Gators championship

May 18, 2007  05:15 PM ET
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You know something interesting?

When UCLA won those titles regional games were actually regional, and the West was the weakest out of the 4.

May 18, 2007  05:18 PM ET
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UCLA is the first school to 100 NCAA championships

May 18, 2007  05:32 PM ET
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how bout Texas in football, track, and Baseball at once... don't freak out anyone! it's just a joke! (though very impressive)

May 18, 2007  07:34 PM ET
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Before the 1980s Dynasty in Sports was very common. The Yankees, Celtics, Packers, UCLA, Canadians. Is it really that unique?

May 19, 2007  08:17 AM ET
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UCLA was good at one sport. Florida happened to win national championships in the two most popular sports there are in the same calender year. I appear, UCLA had a dynasty in basketball, but as a question that I think is about an athletic program overall, Florida takes it.

May 21, 2007  04:14 PM ET
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I stand by mt stance that two sport dominance is more impressive then one sport.

 
July 17, 2007  07:28 PM ET
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Chris Cole should have won this.

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