2007-03-19 07:38:23 · 28 answers · asked by Tanya M 5 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Not a chance in hell. If you pit Boise St, Ohio St, Florida, LSU, USC, Michigan, or even Texas against the likes of the Texans, Lions, or Raiders, the NCAA team will get murdered. The skill level is completely different. The NFL is stronger, faster, and bigger. They are smarter, read plays faster, take advantages easier, and are more athletic. This is just a common sense question. NFL players were the cream of the crop of the entire NCAA, and are now experienced in a high league.
This is like asking if the best high school team could take on the worst NCAA football team. Even better question would be if the best peewee football team could beat the worst high school team.
Think before you ask a question like this.
2007-03-19 09:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by Tyler E 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I doubt Florida would get past midfield against Oakland.
How can a team with maybe 5 potential draft picks (UF) beat a team with 50 (any team in the NFL)? Not to mention the superior coaching at the NFL level, more complicated schemes that UF would never have seen in college, and the fact that the NFL game is twice as fast as the college game.
Remember little things like the fact that no one runs option in the NFL because defenders are too fast...or that QBs that scramble in college have only a few big gains per year on their feet (think Vince Young and Mike Vick) in the NFL. Think about the fact that Troy Smith, college football's best player, will not even be drafted in the first round (and maybe not even the second).
There is *no* comparison. At all.
2007-03-19 11:11:40 · answer #2 · answered by DRT 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No College team could beat a pro team. The game would be deicded on the Defensive and Offensive lines. The pro D line would completely annihilate the O line of even the best college team. The college D line wouldnt break the line of scrimmage. The pros could pretty much have their way with them. They just have to decide HOW they want to score. THe pros are the best of college, college is the best of highschool, see a trend here? A senior collegiate athlete almost always will win out over his freshman counterpart. What would lead you to believe that someone with an even greater age difference woudlnt do the same thing, to believe it would even be close is laughable.
On another note Florida fans need to calm down a little bit. Florida is the worst team to win a national title in at least 7 years. The 05-06 Longhorns would stomp them into nothing, 03-04/04-05 Trojans would hand them a loss worse than USC gave Oklahoma in the 03-04championship. Even OSU in 02-03 would beat the snot out of Florida. And dont even try to compare them to the01-02 Hurricanes they would make Florida look like they are running in sand.
Most of these years even the second or third best team would hand Florida a loss and to argue otherwise is pointless.
2007-03-19 08:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO! I am tired of people asking this. If you think about Florida, how many of their players will go on to be players in the NFL? Not all of them. Some, but not all. A team like the Raiders have proved to be the best, hence why they are even IN the NFL. The best college team would get beat by any NFL team, Raiders, Texans, Lions, ECT., any day of the week. Maybe if USC had a class a senior class that were all first round prospects, but otherwise no way!
2007-03-19 08:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by Brady 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i don't think they could i mean what the first thing a rookie any thing says when he gets to the NFL (man i didn't realize how fast they really are here) and that every rookie when asked about the NFL or it's how hard they hit.(bush)
take this for example the option
the bread and butter play of the NCAA teams. but u never see that in the NFL why because they are so fast. plus the players are bigger in the NFL. not taking any thing from the gators they are a great team. but they wouldn't be able to handle a sapp or any def line man for that matter. it would be like putting a peewee team up against a high school varsity team it would be no contest the NFL would win hands down even if it was the worst in the NFL
2007-03-19 07:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by ryan s 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a tricky question. the easy instinctual answer is "yes". however, in most cases, the sheer size and strength of NFL players is greater than most college players.
The key thing to remember is that Florida, is the best COLLEGE team, not professional. Oakland or Detroit is a group of PROFESSIONAL athletes. They are the worst of the league of world class football players. Many of the guys from this year's Florida team won't be in the NFL. All of the players from either Oakland or Detroit are in the NFL and will probably be around for a few years at least.
None of that even accounts for the pride factor that if this game was played, the pro's would bring it even more than normal because they don't want to lose to a college team.
I'd have to say that a pro team would win.
2007-03-19 09:55:02 · answer #6 · answered by matcoach2382 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not anymore. The gap between college and pro teams has grown considerably. Don't forget the old days instead of a Pro Bowl we would see a College All Star team take on the Pro Championship team. All you have to do is count the number of players from those top college teams that are even going to make it into the NFL. There will not be 22 players off of that Florida team to make it to the NFL.
The NFL is based off of size, strength, speed, technique and then solid schemes. All of these increase in the NFL. Players are biggers, stronger, faster, have better technique and since coaches get their players for much longer periods of time in the NFL their schemes are more advanced. Just ask Charlie Weis how much he had to compact his offense going to the college level.
Its fun to joke around and say yeah last year's Florida would have beaten last year's Oakland but even the Raiders had an amazing defense that is just on another level than anything the Gators saw in college ball.
I love college ball, but the pro level is just that, its the pro level. A step above.
2007-03-19 07:55:13 · answer #7 · answered by Pats Fan 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The worst player on the worst NFL team would still be among the best, if not THE best player on the college team. NFL football is a completely different level when compared to college ball. In other words, the NFL team would handily beat the college team.
2007-03-19 09:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by penixmania 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 22:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would watch that game just to see the Gators get stomped. The diffrence between an NFL team and a college team are HUGE, and altough it would be interesting, you would have to be dreaming to say they would win. Would a team full of rookies be any good? NO! So why would a college team beat an NFL team? I don't even think a college all-star team could win against the Raiders.
2007-03-19 10:53:54 · answer #10 · answered by random bailey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋