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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: Gigem on September 24, 2025, 08:16:24 PM
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Kind of a weird topic, but this can be any team or any game.
Please forgive me as some of these were so long ago I may have mixed up some of the details.
1996 was the first year I even followed CFB. So a lot of this stuff was new to me. I didn’t really know who was good, or who was considered a blue blood. It was actually really fun, I remember that first few years fondly.
1996…ND played at Texas. As I recall, the game came down to the very end. ND was winning 27-24. Texas kicked a FG at the very end…it bounced off the crossbar and they lost the game.
Also in 1996…the very first A&M Big 12 game. I knew almost nothing of the SWC or Big 12. I was there, it was my first CFB game. CU played at Kyle Field. They either punted or kicked off. Our returner, I believe it was Dante Hall, fumbled the kick and CU recovered. We lost the game, a lot of people were very unhappy about that fumble.
Late 90’s. I’m fairly certain it was Auburn. They had a fake punt that was beautiful, I think they either scored a TD or a very long drive they ended up scoring on. It may have been vs Clemson.
Also late 90’s or very possibly early 2000’s. Clemson vs FSU. Bobby Bowden coached FSU. His son, maybe Tommy Bowden, coached Clemson. They called it the Bowden bowl. First quarter was very competitive, I believe maybe a 7-3 type game. FSU was backed up to their own end zone. They ran the ball once or twice, no gain. The QB, possibly Weinke, was backed up deep in the end zone, launched a deep pass, the WR caught in stride, and scored a 99 yard TD. FSU ended up winning big.
1997. oSu came to Kyle Halloween weekend. They got up big, we ended up coming back and winning. I was there, it was awesome.
1998…RC did a fake FG vs Texas Tech. I believe Dan Cambell caught the pass for a TD. We won the game by 7. I wasn’t there, my grandfather was in the hospital, I think he died that day.
The WV OU bowl game with the Statue of Liberty play at the end to win. Maybe it was Boise St. That was the single most exciting game and awesome finish I’ve ever seen.
I will post some more, and maybe try to find some details out about the games that are fuzzy.
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Ok, I looked up the first game. ND kicked the winning FG and won. It almost seems like there was another Texas game that the FG bounced off the cross bar? Maybe it was OU?
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Auburn Fake FG
It was vs LSU 1999.
https://youtu.be/Ps-xq0exccE?si=tlZhcoPYFM6iWrpd
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following 'random' theme, thus no Nebraska games.
gonna go old school games here, i'm sure all of these are on youtube.
'84 OU v Texas (must see on YouTube). 15-15 tie on a very very soggy turf at the Cotton Bowl. (talk about games that would be different if they had replay review).
'84 BC at Miami, do I have to explain this?
'88 Miami at ND, all timer.
'89 Miami at FSU (wore out the remote when I was baby sitting between this game and the Bay Bridge WS. Toretta's debut and he was awful.
'91 Cotton Bowl Miami v Texas (one this Board's all time favorites) 'Come on back Randall.....'
'90 #5 Tennessee v #3 Auburn, 26-26 tie. Definitely classic Ron Franklin era (this time w Danielson) During school week, I bet an Auburn fan friend that this game would end in a tie. It was 26-9 UT, in 4th quarter, things looked dire, but I knew Pat Dye would go for a tie if the situation presented itself. When Tennessee kicker missed a GWFGA, one of his teammates fired a gatorade cup off of his helmet. meanwhile Auburn was giddy and thrilled with the tie.
'91 BYU v SDSU. 52-52 tie. great after dark game, great BYU comeback down 28. firepower all over the field. Even my late Grandfather stayed up late to watch with me.
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Technically it was the '91 Cotton Bowl. Truly a miserable, horrible experience.
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1975 - Wisconsin @ Iowa -- Iowa 45 - Wisconsin 28 -- This Iowa win started a string of Iowa wins against Wisconsin in which Iowa went 18-1-1, which made the Iowa/Wisconsin series competitive. I was a freshman and had season tickets. It seems meaningless, and random, as Iowa was such a bad team in the 1970s, -- so bad I took a pic of the scoreboard, but it falls directly within the OP's "theme of the thread." The all-time Iowa-Wisconsin series now stands at 47-49-2.
2003 - FSU @ Notre Dame -- FSU 37 - Notre Dame 0 -- I had always wanted to see a game at Notre Dame, and the Seminoles were playing them there in a down year for ND. We had our Seminoles gear on. We met the father of one of FSU's D-Linemen on the walk to the stadium.
I negotiated to buy tickets out front. Someone wanted to charge me original price on tickets and I turned my back on him to negotiate with another seller because ND was so bad, and I believed tickets should not be original price, and he hollered at me after I turned my back, and discounted the tickets by $5.00.
I looked at the tickets and said, "Where are these?" I asked because they had weird lettering describing location. He said, "I don't know, I am from Nebraska." I bought them anyway. We walked in and they directed us toward our seat and we kept walking down, and there was a security guard checking tickets at the bottom of the stadium. Our tickets said FL 2 for "Row." I could not figure out what FL meant and feared somehow we would be somewhere high. We were at field level, and when the security guided us down on the benches in the end zone onto the field I realized what an idiot I was for almost passing on these tickets and trying to negotiate with someone else.
The All State Insurance net girl, a student at St. Mary's College, took our pic on the field during a time out.
1968 - Indiana @ Iowa -- Indiana 38 - Iowa 34 - I was 9. I had my own paper route money. Mom and dad had tickets; I didn't. I was there to see my football heroes, Eddie Podolak, and Larry Ely.
I put my finger up trying to buy tickets. Someone tried selling me a ticket in the end zone for I think $5. I said, "Let me ask my dad." I could not find him and the guy walked away. My thinking was that was expensive for an end zone ticket. When I found dad he excoriated me for not buying the ticket, and damn near made me cry (See the FSU @ ND post -- still hadn't learned my lesson or maybe I did what I did because of this experience as you shall see).
I put my finger up again seeking a ticket. An older woman approached (probably a young woman at the time but way older than me), I asked the woman, "How much?" She said, "This is free for a cute little boy like you." I had a ticket! I redeemed myself, having defeated dad's excoriation.
I sat at the 25-yard line about 25 rows up. These were really great tickets. At half-time the PA announcer asked the Iowa Legislature to stand, and for everyone to give a round of applause for them. Everyone around me stood up, except me -- and probably spouses of state legislators.
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Here's the Tenn v AU game. Yup. the gatorade cup right off the Kicker's helmet when he gets back to the sideline. Meanwhile Auburn euphoric with the tie. 2:22.00 in the video for the set up.
https://youtu.be/dmDsjS04bWA (https://youtu.be/dmDsjS04bWA)
https://youtu.be/dmDsjS04bWA?si=Z_6F8sPvjKYKploe
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that other thread which showed the barry highlights reminds me of that amazing 'Bedlam game in '88.
OU escaped, stole, somehow walked out of Stillwater with that win. Gundy /Sanders were brilliant. oSu WR totally botched a TD ball thrown right between his numbers in end zone to end the game. Mike Gaddis was quite good in that game for OU.
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In the Wisconsin bucket, Michigan from 2005 in 2008, Iowa from 2005, Illinois from 2007, I need to think of some other ones.
Non-Wisconsin: parts of Missouri-Nebraska from 2009, Navy-Louisiana Tech from either 2015 or 2016, I think it was Iowa-Penn State from 2008?
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There’s so many different games that can potentially come to mind while going about my day.
I’ll start with Texas over Virginia 17-16 in 1995. Thirty years ago? Have I watched college football for THIRTY YEARS now?
My brothers and I would’ve been ages 6 – 9 and after Saturday Morning Cartoons our Grandpa, who lived with us, would take over the family TV to watch college football. He preferred watching Steve Spurrier’s Gators, and unless Dad had us out of the house for Cub Scouts or Little League, we’d usually watch with him. But by 1995, we had moved from Florida to Texas over the summer, so Grandpa was learning to settle for afternoons with the Longhorns and Aggies.
I distinctly remember watching Texas beat Virginia because Grandpa called our attention to the TV while Texas set up to kick a game winning field goal.
Looking back now, a few points stand out. Why were Texas and Virginia playing a non-conference game in late October? Virginia went have a historically good year, finishing the year ranked and famously beating #2 Florida State on an ESPN Thursday night game. Texas would go on to the Sugar Bowl, losing to VT.
https://twitter.com/_dannydavis/status/1848500203105468605
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That was an amazing game. I was one year graduated from college, and I had "young alumni" seats in Section 1 which was right on that south endzone goal line, press box side. From our perspective we watched that kick go up, it looked like it had the distance, and then it just hung up in the air. For what felt like 10 minutes. Then it dropped in across the cross bar, so we knew it had the distance, but couldn't tell if it had split the uprights, until the officials signaled it was good. The crowd went nuts.
I have no idea why we were playing UVA that late in the year. We played Hawaii to open the season and back then the schedule was 11 games, but when you traveled to play Hawaii, the NCAA would allow you a 12th game. So maybe that had something to do with the timing? Really have no idea.
Horns would go on to have a pretty good season, winning the final SWC title and going to the Sugar Bowl to play the Hokies where we lost in ugly fashion. But it was New Year's Eve in New Orleans so I still managed to have a pretty good time.
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I remember watching when Kordell Stewart broke the hearts of Michigan fans.
Miracle at Michigan - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_Michigan)
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Me too
Wish my memory was better
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I remember watching when Kordell Stewart broke the hearts of Michigan fans.
Miracle at Michigan - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_Michigan)
I was jumping around like the Indians had just won the series
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Speaking of the Wolverines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3OSBP6mbk
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I thought of it doesn't Toledo get any props
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Speaking of Appalachian State.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYTCK4snJI
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Speaking of Appalachian State.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYTCK4snJI
I would break out the UCLA/Texas game in 1997, but I remember the OU/A&M game from 2003.
I often wonder, and don't want to know the answer, has there ever been a more lopsided football game between two somewhat equal programs in the history of CFB? And I'm speaking of the A&M/OU game, infamously 77-0, and I think the scoring stopped in the 3rd quarter. I have since come to the conclusion that our team completely quit on _oach Fran and must have hated his guts.
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Horns over Colorado in the 2005 B12 championship game was almost as lopsided. 70-3 and Vince Young only played one series in the second half, all scoring was complete in the 3rd.
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following 'random' theme, thus no Nebraska games.
gonna go old school games here, i'm sure all of these are on youtube.
'84 OU v Texas (must see on YouTube). 15-15 tie on a very very soggy turf at the Cotton Bowl. (talk about games that would be different if they had replay review).
'84 BC at Miami, do I have to explain this?
'88 Miami at ND, all timer.
'89 Miami at FSU (wore out the remote when I was baby sitting between this game and the Bay Bridge WS. Toretta's debut and he was awful.
'91 Cotton Bowl Miami v Texas (one this Board's all time favorites) 'Come on back Randall.....'
'90 #5 Tennessee v #3 Auburn, 26-26 tie. Definitely classic Ron Franklin era (this time w Danielson) During school week, I bet an Auburn fan friend that this game would end in a tie. It was 26-9 UT, in 4th quarter, things looked dire, but I knew Pat Dye would go for a tie if the situation presented itself. When Tennessee kicker missed a GWFGA, one of his teammates fired a gatorade cup off of his helmet. meanwhile Auburn was giddy and thrilled with the tie.
'91 BYU v SDSU. 52-52 tie. great after dark game, great BYU comeback down 28. firepower all over the field. Even my late Grandfather stayed up late to watch with me.
I don't care what team or game you post. It can be your own, as I posted several of the games I attended in person.
I think more than anything a lot of people watched the Big time games, like USC/Texas Rosebowl from 2006. EVERYBODY, or nearly everybody, remembers that game.
I was just musing about games from the past that were really of little importance that were interesting, where something or maybe even one play stuck with you.
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Horns over Colorado in the 2005 B12 championship game was almost as lopsided. 70-3 and Vince Young only played one series in the second half, all scoring was complete in the 3rd.
Yes, there have been many such games like that. However, have you ever heard of any single game where the other team outscored the other one by 11 TD? And pretty much let off the gas in the 3rd? Even some of those OU/Texas games in the early 2000's weren't quite that bad. And 70-3 is quite the arse stomping, but not 77-0 bad? Can it be, that A&M is finally #1 in something?
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So obviously in my first post, I referenced the Texas-ND game where they kicked a FG at the end to win it. It's kinda funny, because I said in my title that these were games that stuck with you, but I totally got the ending wrong so maybe it didn't stick with me. I had the year right, and the winner right, but I thought Texas had missed the FG at the end to lose.
Now I'm driving myself crazy because I'm convinced that I watched a team, possibly either Texas or ND, bounce a FG off the cross-bar around that time to lose a game, and I can't find anything on the internet. I'm sure I saw something like this happen.
Does anybody possibly remember a scenario like this, in the mid to late 90's? I'm sure we can dig a few games up similar to this.
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Can it be, that A&M is finally #1 in something?
Could be?
(https://y.yarn.co/29276bfa-6c4d-49b1-b1f4-080548a00b1f_text.gif)
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I often wonder, and don't want to know the answer, has there ever been a more lopsided football game between two somewhat equal programs in the history of CFB?
In 1902 Michigan beat tOSU 86-0, of course they used stevedores and construction workers to do it
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the devastating losses stick. barely remember the wins.
App State was pretty god damn bad considering Chad Henne and Mike Hart were seniors and at home vs a freaking FCS team. 2006 Ohio State game was painful. So was 2016 @Iowa and of course that years THE GAME. JT Barrett was short.
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In 1902 Michigan beat tOSU 86-0, of course they used stevedores and construction workers to do it
bet you remember that beat down well. how old were you back then gramps? 15? :)
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I thought of it doesn't Toledo get any props
nah. that 2007 Michigan team in Lloyd Carr's last year was pretty solid and filled with seniors and future NFL draft picks. to lose at home as 4 TD favorites to an FCS team was beyond embarrassing. should've been a 10-3 team but was 9-4 cause they lost at home to a fucking FCS team.
Michigan 2008 in RichRod was just a fucking ass team. Every player worth a shit graduated or left early for the NFL or transferred because they didn't want to play for that fucking hillbilly from West Verrrr-geeeen-yuh. The QB's were Nick Sheridan and Steven Threet for christ sake. Those early RichRod teams absolutely blew chunks. That team losing to Toledo was embarrassing but not incomprehensible- Chad Henne and Mike Hart losing at home to an FCS team as seniors was incomprehensible.
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In 1902 Michigan beat tOSU 86-0, of course they used stevedores and construction workers to do it
I don't even know what a stevedore is...and I'll wager that most others don't either.
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In 1902 Michigan beat tOSU 86-0, of course they used stevedores and construction workers to do it
Hmph. A&M is no longer #1.
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Dockhand.
I only know because I was a USCG licensed master captain.
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Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0 (https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-09-14/georgia-tech-222-cumberland-college-0-history-weird-facts)
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Dockhand.
I only know because I was a USCG licensed master captain.
I've always thought that Austin could use more longshoremen and considered running for city council on a platform of making Austin a port city.
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I've always thought that Austin could use more longshoremen and considered running for city council on a platform of making Austin a port city.
What? Don't you know the entire state is landlocked? :57:
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Dockhand.
I only know because I was a USCG licensed master captain.
Dock hands were used for your Boat. Long Shoreman were used for Ore Carriers
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I've always thought that Austin could use more longshoremen and considered running for city council on a platform of making Austin a port city.
Hurricanes keep coming around it just may be in the not so distant future
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bet you remember that beat down well. how old were you back then gramps? 15? :)
In my other life and I drank Stroh's while watching it
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That team losing to Toledo was embarrassing but not incomprehensible- Chad Henne and Mike Hart losing at home to an FCS team as seniors was incomprehensible.
That was a very good FCS team that prolly could have beaten quite a few squads in the AP top 25
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https://youtu.be/OMGk5QKBmXo
I remember this one, because I was there!
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bet you remember that beat down well. how old were you back then gramps? 15? :)
Cincy was just out of college...
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I've always thought that Austin could use more longshoremen and considered running for city council on a platform of making Austin a port city.
(https://i.imgur.com/Idp5umo.jpeg)
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I was at the first overtime game ever in the Swamp. That was cool (W vs Aub).
In the early 00s, I'd be over at my friend's house Saturday nights and he had a baby, so we'd drink and watch late-night Pac-10 football. One year, UCLA would routinely get down 3 scores and always seem to come back to win. So we'd be amazed and going ape-shit like maniacs...in total silence.
Karim Abdul-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah?) was the star of one of those games. I'd have to research them for specifics, but I haven't.
It was comical, though. They'd suck horrifically, and we'd both agree the Bruins had them right where they wanted them (down by 20+). And they'd win, over and over!
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I'll throw in a random one: the 2001 Clock Game between Michigan and MSU from East Lansing.
On the last series, on 2nd and goal down by 4, Jeff Smoker takes off running but doesn't get either to the end zone or out of bounds, so the play ends with 12 seconds to go and the clock running. Everyone quickly gets back in formation to spike the ball, and Smoker does so with 1 second left on Ye Olde Clock. Lloyd Carr just about strokes out screaming at the refs that time ran out before the spike, but the refs ain't buying it. On 4th down, Smoker throws a walkoff TD.
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In the early 00s, I'd be over at my friend's house Saturday nights and he had a baby, so we'd drink and watch late-night Pac-10 football. One year, UCLA would routinely get down 3 scores and always seem to come back to win. So we'd be amazed and going ape-shit like maniacs...in total silence.
Karim Abdul-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah?) was the star of one of those games. I'd have to research them for specifics, but I haven't.
It was comical, though. They'd suck horrifically, and we'd both agree the Bruins had them right where they wanted them (down by 20+). And they'd win, over and over!
I remember watching a lot of those late Pac 10 games from the burrito line at Burrito Loco at last call, and it inevitably involved Washington State scoring 35 points in the 4th quarter only to lose at the end.
Do keep in mind that my BAC may or may not have been zero at the time, details get a little hazy.
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Oh man I just thought of the Cheater Buffs and their Fifth Down game against Mizzou in 1990. That was something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJT8q0MMwQ
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how about this one???
2007 Fiesta
https://youtu.be/vmDmekN-kLU
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how about this one???
2007 Fiesta
https://youtu.be/vmDmekN-kLU
Gotta admit I enjoyed that one quite a bit...
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Bronco magic!
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Oh yeah, Thom Brenneman doing college football on Fox. Ugh...
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Oh yeah, Thom Brenneman doing college football on Fox. Ugh...
Yeah he called the Appalachian State game in Ann Arbor, then got himself fired when a hot mic caught him describing the experience.
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mizzou's are generally nut kickers from 5th down as a little kid to the kicked ball game against neb in 1997 to losing to south carolina in double overtime in 2013 after doinking a chip shot fg. coughed up a 2 td lead in the 4q to get to the ot. i was at the sc game - figured our chances to get to the ccg were out the window but we ended up winning out & getting there. the cotton bowl ending that yr is the best one that we've won as far as wild finishes go. this strip sack returned for a td with like a min left turned a precarious 3 point lead with okst driving into a game clinching win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1w59xW8I3Q
there was also a very weird game against fla in 2014. we had no offense....119 yards to be exact yet won 42-13. they had a boatload of turnovers. mizzou ran a kickoff back for a td, punt back for a td, fumble recovery returned for a td & a pick six. it was bizarre. the box score:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup/_/gameId/400548362
there was another game in the barry odom era down there where mizzou blew them out which was strange just b/c we were mediocre at best. felt twilight zonish b/c i think they were ranked at the time. 2017-2018ish.
at no point in either of the above fla games did i think we were actually significantly better than them but in each instance there we were kicking the **** out of them anyway.
we had a game in 2010 against san diego st that was pretty meh but the ending was wild. it used to be online but i can't find anything now. anyway we were playing like poop sdst scored with like a min to play to take the lead. tj moe caught a short pass & took it up the sideline. their safety took a disastrous angle & 65+ yards later we escaped embarrassment.
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nwms has played in a ton of them i attended live. this is the wildest game winning drive i've ever seen live (our radio guy has the personality of dried paint, it be what it be):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt01crClbuU
we were playing the next best team in our league at their place - they were very good. we were trailing 16-14 with less than 2 min to play, hadn't done much offensively all day & needed a gw fg from a kicker who at the time had been a disaster all season. he routinely missed extra points & short fg's let alone longer ones. the drive started with a sack. we managed to recover & get an initial first down which was followed by a hook & ladder play that got us the bulk of the yards on that drive & across midfield. on 3rd down with no timeouts left & the clock running under 30 seconds we gained like 7-8 yards & were in range for a 45 yrd fg. nbd for a competent kicker but for this dude is an obv no go. at the time watching from the stands i figured we'd just line up & throw it in the end zone - he was that bad & we had guys that could go up & get the ball. well we ran the fg team onto the field - a legit fire drill - & he made a career long kick to clinch the conference championship. i of course was stunned. his issues up to that point in the season were apparently mental b/c he was great after that & was all conf the following season iirc. i think the fire drill helped him b/c there was no time to think - we snapped the ball with like 2-3 seconds on the clock. we met them again in the playoffs & won easily.
in college we won a division 2 national championship in 4 overtimes after scoring 30 points in the 4th quarter that included two 2-point conversions to force ot. it is the best fball game i have ever seen, wouldn't know where to start with that circus.
greg zuerlein is or was a very good nfl kicker. he might still be in the league idk. anyway, he transfers to our rival for his sr season. i didn't know who he was or that he was any good. division 2 kickers are typically sketch. so we're playing them in a competitive game in 2011 (they were very good that yr). he kicked a 53yrd fg early in the game that surprised me but whatev. that mofo lined up for & made a 58 yrd fg that had plenty of room to spare at the end of the 3q that proved to be the winning margin. needless to say i googled him after that. we met again the playoffs & avenged that loss in another wild game.
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i remember watching that crazy 7 ot game between ole miss & arkansas live.
in 2003 california played kstate in one of those kickoff classic type games so it was a week before either of my schools played. the game was at arrowhead which is a 35min drive from where i lived at the time so a friend & i bought tix through the cal site & sat with a bunch of their players family members at the 50yrd line. cal is starting some guy nobody would remember & they were going to platoon him with a juco who turned out to be aaron rodgers. the cal guy is decent but no hall of famer. ar comes into the game for his first drive & throws a missile down the seam for like 20 yrds & i look at my buddy & we're like
"who the heck is this guy?!"
a couple passes later we were like
"they need to start this guy & punt this platoon nonsense".
kst won easily but rodgers had a great game. cal could have had a chance in a shootout imo if they'd started & played him the whole game.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2003-08-23-kansas-state.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJywALq-eM
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There is a pair of games that I attended that serve as my reminder never to take final MoV at face value without looking a little deeper:
#25 Iowa 35 at #4 Ohio State 56, October 28, 1995:
Don't let the "only" 21 point MoV fool you, the Buckeyes absolutely dominated this game . . . at least in the first half. Ohio State scored their 8th TD to take a 56-0 lead in the second quarter. Then Iowa thoroughly dominated from there. The Hawkeyes scored a TD late in the first half to cut the lead back under half a hundred at 56-7 then proceeded to score 28 more unanswered points in the second half. It got bad enough that Cooper actually put some defensive starters back in the game late. Still, Ohio State played the bulk of the second half without most of their starters and Ohio State's backups got rolled by Iowa's starters to the tune of 35-0 in a little over a half.
The amazing part is that this was a decent Iowa team. They finished 8-4/4-4 and #25 with a bowl win over Washington in the Sun Bowl. The Buckeyes got all the way to 11-0 and #2 but this was under Cooper so they lost the last two games to finish 11-2 and #6.
#24 Penn State 6 at #1 Ohio State 28, September 23, 2006:
The only difference in the first 57 minutes of this game was Red Zone Offense/Defense. Ohio State had two TDs while Penn State had gotten deep into Ohio State territory late in the first half and had a 1st and Goal on the 5 mid-way through the third quarter and settled for FGs both times.
After Penn State's second FG they held Ohio State to a three-and-out and got the ball back with about 6:00 to play and down 14-6. The Nittany Lions then drove out to about midfield and . . . Threw pick-6's on back-to-back possessions leading to the final, 22 point MoV for Ohio State.
I keep these as my reminder that it is about more than MoV. Ohio State's 21 point win over Iowa in 1995 was MUCH bigger than Ohio State's 22 point win over Penn State in 2006.
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https://youtu.be/gtpD1-1H_Lk?si=xhLHCrNcjX_BDRlH
Random game: Seneca Wallace's Iowa State Cyclones knock off Nebraska for the first time since the Stone Age, and at the time they fancied themselves Big XII contenders.
This was on TV the first weekend I went home my freshman year.
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The first game I ever attended was UGA-Tech in Atlanta 1971. I sort of recall it, UGA won on a late play. I was still more of a Tech fan then as I wanted to be an architect or civil engineer and build stuff.
Their matchup this year is in the Dome, which strikes me as "weird". I looked at ticket prices and decided nah.
(I'm not counting the ND-Army game in the 1940s.)
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Their matchup this year is in the Dome, which strikes me as "weird". I looked at ticket prices and decided nah.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlgN85wB6U
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couple of games come to mind: 2005 Alamo Bowl with NU coming out on top 32-28 after this: (Per Wikipedia)
Michigan's last-ditch attempt to win the game came on a seven-lateral scramble somewhat reminiscent of the famous Cal-Stanford band play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Play_(Stanford_vs._California)). Henne completed a pass across the middle of the field to Jason Avant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Avant), who caught the ball at midfield and immediately lateraled to Steve Breaston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Breaston). Breaston threw the ball backwards to Mike Hart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hart_(American_football)), who lateraled back to Avant. Avant then threw the ball across the entire width of the field, where Manningham caught it as he was being tackled. Manningham attempted another backward pass, which hit the ground and bounced two or three times off the hands of two Nebraska defenders, before being picked up by Michigan Center Mark Bihl, who lateraled to Tyler Ecker. Because the ball had hit the ground, several members of both teams and the media, believing the play was dead, rushed onto the field while Ecker ran downfield. Controversially, several of the officials began to leave the field, unaware that the play was still occurring. Nebraska players also gave their coach the Gatorade dunk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatorade_dunk) before the play was over, reminiscent of the Bluegrass Miracle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_Miracle). Ecker dodged several players and coaches and returned the ball approximately 60 yards to the Nebraska 16-yard line. At that point, Cornhusker cornerback Zackary Bowman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zackary_Bowman) knocked him out of bounds after time had expired ending the game.
I was jumping up and down yelling at the tv with that one. Thank you, Zackary Bowman!
The other game that comes to mind is the 2009 OU-NU game where we pulled out a 10-3 slobber knockin' win. It was the last game my dad went to before he died and he was so tickled with the defensive battle. Both Suh and McCoy deserved all the accolades they got in their careers -although Suh should have gotten the Heisman, lol.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlgN85wB6U
actually that might be the worst one ever.
man Michigan has been on the receiving end of way too many wild flukey ass last second losses. it's actually kind of insane.
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Gold Jerry Gold
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man Michigan has been the beneficiary on the receiving end of way too many wild flukey ass last second losses. it's actually kind of insane.
FIFY
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I've watched A LOT of football over the years. That MSU-UM blocked punt game is the #1 worst sudden-loss ever.
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I think the Baylor 'statement' game in 2000, loss would be the worst sudden loss ever.
Baylor's first year coach wanted to make a statement, leading 24-21 vs UNLV, wanted to punch it in at the goaline instead of taking a knee. Instead, UNLV strips the ball, fumbles and UNLV takes it 100 yards to the house for a 27-24 win, denying HC Steele his first win at Baylor.
https://baylorbears.com/news/2000/7/27/Last_Second_Fumble_Return_Robs_Steele_of_First_Victory.aspx