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Title: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: ELA on July 31, 2020, 01:20:55 PM

1997		2007
Michigan/Nebraska	NATIONAL CHAMPION	LSU
ROSE: #1 Michigan 21, #8 Washington State 16 ORANGE: #2 Nebraska 42, #3 Tennessee 17	"NATIONAL TITLE GAME'	#2 LSU 38, #1 Ohio State 24
Michigan	BIG TEN CHAMPION	Ohio State
#1 Michigan 21, #8 Washington State 16	ROSE BOWL	#7 USC 49, #13 Illinois 17
Charles Woodson	HEISMAN WINNER	Tim Tebow

#1 PROGRESSION
1997

Preseason: Penn State
September 20: #3 Florida 33, #4 Tennessee 20 (#3 Florida jumped to #1)
October 11: #14 LSU 28, #1 Florida 21 (#2 Penn State jumped to #1)
October 18: #2 Nebraska 29, Texas Tech 0 (#2 Nebraska jumped to #1)
November 8: #4 Michigan 34, #2 Penn State 8 (#4 Michigan jumped to #1)

2007

Preseason: USC
September 29: #1 USC 27, Washington 24 (#2 LSU jumped to #1)
October 13: #17 Kentucky 43, #1 LSU 37 (3OT) (#3 Ohio State jumped to #1)
November 10: Illinois 28, #1 Ohio State 21 (#2 LSU jumped to #1)
November 23: Arkansas 50, #1 LSU 48 (3OT) (#3 Missouri jumped to #1)
December 1: #9 Oklahoma 38, #1 Missouri 17 (#3 Ohio State jumped to #1)
January 7: #2 LSU 38, #1 Ohio State 24 (#2 LSU jumped to #1)

OTHER NOTES
1997

November 8 featured two matchups of Top 5 teams, as #4 Michigan beat #2 Penn State and #3 Florida State beat #5 North Carolina, however, the story of the day was Nebraska needing a kicked ball to avoid an upset loss to Missouri
Fred Taylor ran for 162 yards and 4 touchdowns against the nation's top run defense to knock Florida State out of the national title discussion
Marshall won the MAC Championship in their first season in Division 1-A, thanks to Randy Moss and Chad Pennington
Charles Woodson became the only primarily defensive player to win the Heisman

2007

Timing rules implemented in 2006 were removed
North Texas and Navy set the record for points in a quarter and in a regulation game, on November 10, scoring 63 2nd quarter points, giving North Texas a 49-45 halftime lead, before losing 74-62
There were 59 times where a ranked team lost to a lower ranked team, including a record 13 upsets of top 5 teams by unranked teams, the first upset of a ranked team by an FCS team (Appalachian State over Michigan), the #2 team losing on 7 of 9 consecutive weeks (6 of the 7 to unranked teams), and the top 2 teams losing on the same weekend three different times, after not happening at all in over a decade
Colt Brennan set the FBS record for passing TDs and total TDs
Only 2nd time in BCS era that there was no undefeated team, with Kansas being the only 1 loss BCS conference team, and LSU being the first 2 loss team to be recognized by the AP or Coaches as a national champ since 1960 Minnesota (with 1990 Colorado at 10-1-1 being the most recent team with two non-wins)
Sonny Lubick and Lloyd Carr retired after the season

Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: ELA on August 01, 2020, 03:41:23 PM

I'm going to let this last one run through the weekend

Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: ELA on August 03, 2020, 01:00:45 PM

No shocker. 2007 with the win

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Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: FearlessF on August 03, 2020, 02:11:58 PM

really?

The Huskers/Wolverines season doesn't win?

Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: MarqHusker on August 03, 2020, 02:57:24 PM

I voted 2007. It was chaos, bedlam. A little recency bias I'm sure, but 97 just wasn't all that exciting lined up w 07. Personal experiences aside.

Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: FearlessF on August 03, 2020, 04:09:49 PM

ya think you know a guy

Title: Re: OT Tourney (Final) - 1997 vs. 2007
Post by: ELA on August 03, 2020, 04:36:02 PM

97 basically had the one weekend with SHOWDOWN Saturday, that were both duds, and Mizzou-Nebraska turned out to be the good game; and then Fred Taylor upsetting FSU