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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Bjerknes04 on 2025-07-20 00:32:43+00:00.
For MLB, the league I’m most familiar with, I’d say that 2011 and 2023 were the closest in terms of craziness.
2011: The Cardinals, who were over 10 games out of a playoff spot with a month to go in the season, not only making it to the World Series, and who were literally one strike away from being eliminated from said series twice, only to come back. The Rays also came back from 10 games out of a playoff spot in the last month IIRC. Kind of like LSU 2007, when you thought they were dead in the water after that 2nd loss.
2023: In this case, the WS itself wasn’t too eventful, with the Rangers beating the Diamondbacks in 5 games. But both of those teams seemingly came out of nowhere, and both haven’t done much of note since then. Both LCS went to 7 games. The Yankees missed the playoffs, the Dodgers failed to win a single playoff game when they got there. The 100-win Orioles failed to win a playoff game. Just a season full of either big market or seemingly great teams doing nothing, and low-seeded teams you don’t expect being in the mix, like Boston College, South Florida, Kansas, and Missouri being contenders at points in 2007.
What about other leagues, or is there another MLB season that have 2007 vibes?