He led one of the top defenses in the country for an undefeated team.
"I would like to coach an undefeated team before I'm done with this, " he said.
The Tigers were the only undefeated team this season and will play against Alabama in the BCS National Championship Game on January 9.
The lose-to-win theory is fueled by a lonely fact: just one undefeated team, those '72 Dolphins with Bob Griese and Larry Csonka, has ever won a Super Bowl.
The defending champion Great Danes (27-3), regular-season champions for the first time in program history, ended the regular season as the lone undefeated team in league play at 16-0.
Even if you go back and include the prehistoric, pre-Super Bowl NFL playoffs, the ones deprived of Black Eyed Peas halftime shows, not a single other undefeated team has won a title.
The defending champion Great Danes (27-3), regular-season champions for the first time in program history, ended the regular season as the lone undefeated team in league play at 16-0 before tacking on two more wins in the postseason.
Last year's Giants-Patriots clash had everything working for it--two major markets, an undefeated team (New England) playing for a place in history and a close game to hold viewers curious to see whether the Giants could pull off the upset (they did).
This year's Patriots, who defeated five playoff teams during a 16-0 season, scored far higher than the last undefeated NFL team, the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
The caveat being that any undefeated BCS team from a major conference or a major independent program such as Notre Dame would automatically be given a berth.
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West Point's basketball team lost only one game that year and the tennis team was undefeated.
Because what really kills me about listening to these guys is that that team went undefeated, but they weren't one of the greatest teams of all time. 1985 Bears were the most dominant defensive team I've ever seen.
It echoes a similar showdown in 1999 when coach Ken Carter famously locked the gym on his undefeated Richmond High basketball team and threatened to forfeit the rest of the season until his players showed the same commitment in the classroom that they showed on the court.
For a team to go undefeated, he said, it needs mega-talented players who can win on off nights.
The team's undefeated season came to a crushing end when Alabama's Crimson Tide defeated the Irish in a 42-14 rout in the BCS National Championship.
Several players who won the award went on to greatness: Indiana University's Quinn Buckner was co-captain of the team that went undefeated and won the 1976 national championship.
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No team has gone undefeated since its introduction to college basketball in the 1987 season, and of the 10 longest winning streaks of all time, none are from the last 20 years.
Pittsburgh vowed to press on without the league's leading scorer, but hardly looked like the juggernaut that outscored opponents 52-26 while becoming the first NHL team to go undefeated in a calendar month.
No major-league team has ever gone undefeated, which may stun fans of the 1998 Yankees.
It was the Golden Gophers' fourth title since 2004 and it marked the first time a Division I women's hockey team finished a championship season undefeated.
They tied the record for the most regular-season wins, went undefeated at home, became the first team in WNBA history to go a perfect 7-0 in the playoffs on the way to the title.
The game wasn't exactly a thriller the U.S. team closed out its group play session undefeated with a one-sided 1-0 victory over North Korea.
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Tustin Red Cobras head coach Darren Crawford and assistant coach Richard Bowman, whose powerhouse squad went undefeated during the 2011 regular season, told their team to target specific players on the youth football teams from Yorba Linda, Santa Margarita and San Bernardino, said then-assistant coach John Zanelli and three players interviewed by the Register.
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Founded in 2008 by owner, Mark Ein, the Kastles are the defending WTT champions and first team in 36 seasons to complete a season undefeated.
Back in January, with the whole country watching, this team lined up against the number-one ranked, undefeated Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, and dominated from the first possession.
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During the first three weeks after the start of the season, Team Curse came out swinging and went 7-0, undefeated in the season.
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The Tigers were undefeated, and had a chance to become the No. 1 college football team in the country.
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