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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on December 13, 2025, 03:46:32 AM
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Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
Post.
THEN go back and scroll through.
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Many of these are a guess
Iowa -Nile Kinnick
Pitt - Tony Dorsett
Baylor - RG3
BYU -?? I think it was the QB IN 1991 but drawing a blank
Cuse - ?? Jim Brown?
BC - Doug Flutie
UCLA - ?? Troy Aikman?
Chicago - Jay Berwanger
Houston- Andre Ware
OK St - Barry Sanders
Louisville -?? Teddy Bridewater or else maybe the guy who is Ravens QB now. Drawing a blank.
Oregon - Mariota
TCU - ?? drawing a blank, the guy the running back trophy is named for. Played in the 40's.
Minn - ??
Ore St - ??
Penn St -?? I think the RB on the 94 team
SMU - ?? Eric Dickerson?
Stanford - John Elway
Princeton - ??
C? - ??
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Memory is a funny thing. What are some that I got wrong?
BYU- Ty Detmer won in 1990 as a junior, and returned as BYU QB in 1991, but did not repeat as Heisman winner.
Cuse - was Ernie Davis, not Jim Brown
Penn St - John Cappiletti in 1973. Funny thing is I now remember the made for TV movie Tears for Joey about his brother who died from cancer
TCU - Davey OBrien. I got him mixed up with Doak Walker. I though Doak Walker went to TCU. Davey OBrien of course has a QB trophy name after himself.
SMU- Doak Walker, not Eric Dickerson. Of course the award for best running back is named after Doak Walker but I did not know he went to SMU
Louisville- Lamar Jackson. Its funny how Jackson won the Heisman and has won MVP in the NFL yet I have the hardest time remembering his name. Yet I can easily remember Teddy Bridgewater's name. Like I said, memory is funny.
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
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THEN go back and scroll through.
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RG3
Detmer
Ernie Davis
Flutie
Aikman?
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Klingler
Chuck Long
Lamar
Mariota
Barry
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Tomlinson
Ki jana Carter?
Dorsett
Dickerson
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Rogers
Plunkett
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Baylor - RG3
BYU - Detmer
Syracuse - Ernie Davis (gonna be mad if it’s Jim Brown)
BC - Flutie
Houston - Andre Ware
Iowa - Kinnick?
Louisville - Lamar Jackson
Oregon - Mariota
Ok State - Sanders
TCU - Sammy Baugh (WRONG guy)
Penn State - Curtis Ennis? (If not him, it’s another 90s tailback, I think) (Completely WRONG)
Pitt - Tony Dorsett
SC - George Rogers
UCLA - … some 60s QB? (RIGHT time and position)
Chicago - No idea (Never woulda got it)
Minnesota - Bronko Nagurski? (TOO EARLY)
Oregon State - 70s QB? (Right position, wrong decade)
SMU - It’s an old QB they names an award after, but damn if I can remember the name (Has an award, wrong position)
Princeton - No idea (Never woulda got it)
Stanford - I know a mess of people who I think it’s not, and will be pissed if it was recent and I’m forgetting (DAMN, shoulda got it)
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
Post.
THEN go back and scroll through.
(https://i.imgur.com/gkEHmFZ.jpeg)
Guessing at some of these - in order
RGIII?
Detmer
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Flutie
Aikman?
Berwanger (1st Heisman)
Ware?
Kinnick
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Sanders?
Puke
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Tomlinson?
Carter?
Dorsett?
Dickerson?
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Plunkett?
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
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THEN go back and scroll through.
(https://i.imgur.com/gkEHmFZ.jpeg)
BYU Ty Detmer
BC Doug Flutie?
OSU2 Barry Sandars
Oregon Marcus Mariotta
Stanford John Elway?
Syracuse Jim Brown? Donovan McNabb?
I dunno.
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We didn't come to "Play Skool" and I need more coffee
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Baylor RG3
BYU Ty Detmer
Syracuse. Either Jim Brown or Ernie Davis? As I recall, Ernie died right after the season.
BC Flutie
UCLA no idea. Aikman best guess.
Cincinnati no idea.
UH Ward?. I don’t know why I can’t remember his name, he does TV broadcasts and he won in 1991.
Iowa Got nothing. I assume it was a long time ago.
Louisville QB for Ravens. Lamar ….?
Oregon Got nothing.
oSU Barry Sanders
Minnesota ancient history. No idea
Oregon State no idea
TCU Davey O’Brien
Penn St no idea.
SMU no idea. Maybe Dickerson
Pittsburgh RB, early 80’s.
South Carolina no idea
Stanford no idea. Trying to remember, maybe one of the QB’s in the nfl like Steve Young? I just remembered John Elway.
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I didn’t realize we had Chicago and Princeton in there. No idea.
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This is really fun so far. Thanks, guys.
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I think it's fun that many of us have TCU and SMU linked in our minds, know their winners were way back (if not Dickerson), but kind of mix them up. We know Doak Walker because of the award, but which of the pair of schools he was with is tricky. Plus the 'other guy' has a prominent trophy, too, makes it hard.
Troy Aikman getting a lot of love in place of someone else.
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Baylor - RG3
BYU - Detmer
Syracuse - Ernie Davis (gonna be mad if it’s Jim Brown)
BC - Flutie
Houston - Andre Ware
Iowa - Kinnick?
Louisville - Lamar Jackson
Oregon - Mariota
Ok State - Sanders
TCU - Sammy Baugh (WRONG guy)
Penn State - Curtis Ennis? (If not him, it’s another 90s tailback, I think) (Completely WRONG)
Pitt - Tony Dorsett
SC - George Rogers
UCLA - … some 60s QB? (RIGHT time and position)
Chicago - No idea (Never woulda got it)
Minnesota - Bronko Nagurski? (TOO EARLY)
Oregon State - 70s QB? (Right position, wrong decade)
SMU - It’s an old QB they names an award after, but damn if I can remember the name (Has an award, wrong position)
Princeton - No idea (Never woulda got it)
Stanford - I know a mess of people who I think it’s not, and will be pissed if it was recent and I’m forgetting (DAMN, shoulda got it)
You did really well!
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The Oregon State winner was the first winner west of the Mississippi, later led the basketball team to the Final 4 that spring, and then led the last college all-star football team that beat the NFL champion, when they did such things. And yes, he was the #1 pick in the NFL draft.
Dude was a baller.
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The Oregon State winner was the first winner west of the Mississippi, later led the basketball team to the Final 4 that spring, and then led the last college all-star football team that beat the NFL champion, when they did such things. And yes, he was the #1 pick in the NFL draft.
Dude was a baller.
First winner west of the Mississippi??? Do you mean west of the Rockies?
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Ah, west of Texas is the phrase. Oops. Kinnick and all that.
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Aflac Trivia Question: How many teams in CFB have a nickname that doesn't end with an "S". No cheating.
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Ehh, that's A LOT of teams to go through.
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Hoosier Hypesman winner?!?!?
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Yes you can add Indiana's Fernando Mendoza to the list of Heisman winners. I am just going to assume that's Indiana's first and only Heisman winner.
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Ehh, that's A LOT of teams to go through.
I don’t know the answer but I'll guess.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Navy Midshipmen
Stanford Cardinal
Syracruse Orange
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NC State and Nevada Wolf Packs (one Wolfpack and one Wolf Pack)...is Arkansas State a Wolfpack?
idk if Tulsa is the Golden Hurricane or with an S
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NC State and Nevada Wolf Packs (one Wolfpack and one Wolf Pack)...is Arkansas State a Wolfpack?
idk if Tulsa is the Golden Hurricane or with an S
Good one.
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A lot of color ones like the already mentioned Stanford Cardinal.
Tulane Green Wave
Alabama Crimson Tide
Harvard Crimson
Cornell Big Red
Dartmouth Big Green
North Texas Mean Green
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North Texas is actually the Eagles.
(https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/33/782/full/north_texas_mean_green_logo_primary_dark_1995_sportslogosnet-1411.png)
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Okay, back to the game!!
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North Texas is actually the Eagles.
(https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/33/782/full/north_texas_mean_green_logo_primary_dark_1995_sportslogosnet-1411.png)
They're actually not:
https://meangreensports.com/documents/2025/8/19/UNT_Athletics_Branding_Guide_2025.pdf
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https://youtu.be/Y6Dec5NkcCI
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Okay, back to the game!!
GAMES!
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Mean Green is just kinda dumb. Lifeless. Mean Green what? Giants? Mean Green Giants! Mean Green Hulk!
Lot of corny nicknames out there, Hokies, Green Wave, Game cocks.
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Mean Green is awesome
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North Texas has a great music program. I know several kids there right now majoring in music. They're friends of my daughter, who were in high school marching band with her.
Some famous musical alumni/attendees of North Texas include Roy Orbison, Don Henley, Meat Loaf, and Norah Jones.
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Big Green and Big Red are good names.
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Big Green Egg!
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real sugar!!!
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I almost went to Cornell for a free MS in Engineering but decided I should just work.
Good decision.
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North Texas has a great music program. I know several kids there right now majoring in music. They're friends of my daughter, who were in high school marching band with her.
Some famous musical alumni/attendees of North Texas include Roy Orbison, Don Henley, Meat Loaf, and Norah Jones.
I have been to Denton exactly once in my life. It was at the end of Yom Kippur and I decided to break my fast by going to a well regarded local barbecue restaurant. The menu item I selected was basically every meat they had piled on top of some Texas toast and it was exactly as good as that sounds.
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Mean Green is just kinda dumb. Lifeless. Mean Green what? Giants? Mean Green Giants! Mean Green Hulk!
Lot of corny nicknames out there, Hokies, Green Wave, Game cocks.
Loosely tied to Mean Joe Greene who played there, The Texas St. Eagles at the time.
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Loosely tied to Mean Joe Greene who played there, The Texas St. Eagles at the time.
You’re shitting me right? They named their football program for one player who was famous for a few years 40-50 years ago? That’s funny.
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So gross
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You’re shitting me right? They named their football program for one player who was famous for a few years 40-50 years ago? That’s funny.
What.
Winslow, AZ is still pinning their economy on being mentioned in an Eagles song 50 years ago, lol.
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use what cha got
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What else would be their claim to fame? That Sundevilfroggy lived there?
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They have 1 really good hardware store. Way better than a town of that size should have.
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(https://i.imgur.com/gkEHmFZ.jpeg)
BYU: Ty Dettmer?
Syracuse: Jim Brown (hopefully)
Boston College: Doug Flutie?
UCLA: pretty sure one of their 90s QBs.
Oregon: Mariotta?
Pitt: Tony Dorsett
PSU: Biakabatuka?
SMU: Eric Dickerson?
Stanford: Jim Plunkett
Mad that I missed RGIII and Barry Sanders. Annoyed that I missed Kinnick.
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Nagurski for Minnie?
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
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THEN go back and scroll through.
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MN was Bruce Smith
Smith won the 1941 Heisman Trophy two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Smith_(halfback)#cite_note-:0-1) At the time, he was the first and only Minnesota player to receive the award.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Smith_(halfback)#cite_note-:2-3)
During World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), he served as a United States Navy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy) fighter pilot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_pilot). After the war, he played in the National Football League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League) (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers) (1945–1948) and the Los Angeles Rams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams) (1948).[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Smith_(halfback)#cite_note-:1-2)
The movie Smith of Minnesota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_of_Minnesota)[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Smith_(halfback)#cite_note-4) was released in 1942.
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PSU: Biakabatuka?
Mad that I missed RGIII and Barry Sanders. Annoyed that I missed Kinnick.
This is why you should be mad. Wrong school. UM
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At least it's obvious that I followed your directions...
~???
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I had posted my answers a couple days ago but interWebZ stuff happened and it vanished into the ether, and I wasn't typing it out again.
Sadly, I only knew 4 of them for sure, and while I got several others correct, they were just guesses, I didn't know for sure. About half in total...roughly the other half was news to me when I looked them up.
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The ones from the 30s are ridiculous.
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how so?
poor completion percentage or too many INTS?
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Just that anyone could remember them without looking them up.
Maybe Cincydawg.
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it's OK to study history young grasshopper
even encouraged in some circles
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
Post.
THEN go back and scroll through.
(https://i.imgur.com/gkEHmFZ.jpeg)
baylor - rg3
byu - koy detmer (j/k - it's ty)
syracuse - ernie davis - i only know this b/c of the movie.
bc - doug flutie
ch - andre ware
smu - doak walker
louisville - lamar
oregon - marcus mariota
stanford - andrew luck
pitt - tony dorsett
usc - george rogers
okie lite - barry sanders
tcu - davey obrien
iowa - nile kinnick. i only know this b/c of the stadium.
the rest - idk. penn st guy is an italian name. he's before my time as are the others idk i'm pretty sure.
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i have never heard of the guys i didn't get. my cousin & i used to watch the show every yr when we were kids & take turns going back as many yrs as possible. now i barely care about it.
good for indiana though. funny that they were able to buy a football team in this era & their hoops are still a mess.
pavia is really showing his ass at this point. he's gone from being an underdog it was fun to root for to an insufferable douche.
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i have never heard of the guys i didn't get. my cousin & i used to watch the show every yr when we were kids & take turns going back as many yrs as possible. now i barely care about it.
good for indiana though. funny that they were able to buy a football team in this era & their hoops are still a mess.
pavia is really showing his ass at this point. he's gone from being an underdog it was fun to root for to an insufferable douche.
Honorary Vol ^^^^
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What's Pavia doing (or saying)?
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F the Hypesman voters and F Indiana
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No scrolling down!!!!
Here's the game - below is the list of schools with one and only one Heisman winner.
Quote and type as many of the players as you can name.
Post.
THEN go back and scroll through.
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My Heisman knowledge is pretty shaky. Gonna be more "it's gotta be" guesses than confident picks.
Iowa - Nile Kinnick
BYU - Ty Detmer
BC - Doug Flutie
Baylor - RG3
Louisville - Lamar Jackson
Okie St - Barry Sanders
SMU - Eric Dickerson
Stanford - Christian McCaffery
Houston - Andre Ware
Pitt - Tony Dorsett
TCU - Ladanian Tomlinson
Oregon - Marcus Mariota
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My Heisman knowledge is pretty shaky. Gonna be more "it's gotta be" guesses than confident picks.
Iowa - Nile Kinnick
BYU - Ty Detmer
BC - Doug Flutie
Baylor - RG3
Louisville - Lamar Jackson
Okie St - Barry Sanders
SMU - Eric Dickerson
Stanford - Christian McCaffery
Houston - Andre Ware
Pitt - Tony Dorsett
TCU - Ladanian Tomlinson
Oregon - Marcus Mariota
sure seemed like he earned it at the Rose Bowl, but Hypesman awarded before the bowls
At the 2016 Rose Bowl, Stanford's Christian McCaffrey delivered a legendary performance, setting a new Rose Bowl record for all-purpose yards , scoring touchdowns on a 75-yard catch and a 66-yard punt return, and capping his historic season as Heisman runner-up.
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checked my results. apparently i hallucinated andrew luck winning it b/c i actually decided i remembered it when filling that out.
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gotta be an old guy to remember Jim Plunkett
tough guy that played well in the league for the Patriots & the Raiders
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Yeah, there's a reason I didn't even attempt to play this game... I didn't follow any CFB before about 1996, so I had a feeling there were a whole lot of past winners I'd barely even heard of, if I'd heard of them at all.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of Jim Plunkett. Wouldn't for the life of me had been able to tell you he'd won a Heisman, or what school he played for, or what decade he played in, or what he went on to do in the NFL, if anything... If I have heard of him, it probably means he played in the NFL at some point though.
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F the Hypesman voters and F Indiana
^^^that's the capstone quote but he's got a catalog of obnoxious bloviating about his greatness at this point.
idk how tx or ala beat them listening to him. frankly we would have as well were our offense not offensive.
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gotta be an old guy to remember Jim Plunkett
tough guy that played well in the league for the Patriots & the Raiders
I already put Plunkett in my list.
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frankly we would have as well were our offense not offensive.
I hear you.
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gotta be an old guy to remember Jim Plunkett
I already put Plunkett in my list.
Checks out :57:
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I'm not that old, but I grew up in a Stanford household, my dad was at Stanford when Plunkett was there, and he was a 49er and a Raider.
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I already put Plunkett in my list.
you might be an old guy
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Checks out :57:
Absolutely.
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I only remember because I looked up whether Elway won it because I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to CFB back then, other than the Big 10.
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Odd no one picked Steve Young for BYU, in the same manner as Elway for Stanford.
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QBs didn't always win back in Steve Young's day
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Odd no one picked Steve Young for BYU, in the same manner as Elway for Stanford.
I guessed Elway for Stanford, one of my wrong guesses in my vanished post.
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sure seemed like he earned it at the Rose Bowl, but Hypesman awarded before the bowls
At the 2016 Rose Bowl, Stanford's Christian McCaffrey delivered a legendary performance, setting a new Rose Bowl record for all-purpose yards , scoring touchdowns on a 75-yard catch and a 66-yard punt return, and capping his historic season as Heisman runner-up.
Haha, a lot of guesses in the bottom half of my list.
I think Tim Brown is the first winner I actually remember. Everything prior to that is a history lesson.
Outside of SMU's 30 for 30, my knowledge of SWC football is 0.0. LT for TCU was a complete guess, Andre Ware was 50/50.
I had Akili Smith down for Oregon until the last minute.
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I don't pay enough attention to the Heisman to be able to play this game. But I like naming teams that don't end in "s."
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Yeah, there's a reason I didn't even attempt to play this game... I didn't follow any CFB before about 1996, so I had a feeling there were a whole lot of past winners I'd barely even heard of, if I'd heard of them at all.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of Jim Plunkett. Wouldn't for the life of me had been able to tell you he'd won a Heisman, or what school he played for, or what decade he played in, or what he went on to do in the NFL, if anything... If I have heard of him, it probably means he played in the NFL at some point though.
Same.
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Odd no one picked Steve Young for BYU, in the same manner as Elway for Stanford.
I only knew Detmer because (according to Aggie Legend) BYU complained when they got paired up with A&M in the 1990 (or was it '91?) Holiday Bowl I guess they had bigger plans? Anyways, it must have really pissed off RC and the team, because they absolutely destroyed BYU, like 60 something to 14 or something. They say they battered Ty so badly he separated his shoulder. This was in the late 80's early 90's when A&M was winning the conference championship (SWC days) a lot and 9/10 vs Texas. Apparently they also f'd up Ware pretty good at UH a couple of times as well.
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The Wrecking Crew separated both of Ty Detmer's shoulders that day. First, his non-throwing arm, so he kept on playing. Until he separated the other one.
That was a brutal game-- for BYU.
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The Wrecking Crew separated both of Ty Detmer's shoulders that day. First, his non-throwing arm, so he kept on playing. Until he separated the other one.
That was a brutal game-- for BYU.
Geez I wish I was around. I missed the best era of Aggie Football by about 4 years. Maybe two, because 1994 was a good one as well. My first year, 96, we were 6-6.
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The Wrecking Crew separated both of Ty Detmer's shoulders that day. First, his non-throwing arm, so he kept on playing. Until he separated the other one.
That was a brutal game-- for BYU.
I remember watching that game and rooting for the Aggies
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If you're a youngin' you may have a chance at SMU's Doak Walker.
Ricky Williams befriended the old Heisman winner and wore his #37 to honor him. So if you remember that, there's your SMU Heisman connection.
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and then there's this award with his name on it
but, Dickerson is infamous
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TIL that Doak Walker attended SMU, and that he won a Heisman trophy!
Doubt I'll remember that past next week though.
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Geez I wish I was around. I missed the best era of Aggie Football by about 4 years. Maybe two, because 1994 was a good one as well. My first year, 96, we were 6-6.
Yeah you just missed the Ags' best run by a couple years, although you did get to see their 1998 B12 CC up close.
My i s c & a aggie wife was there from 90-95 so she got to see a lot of the good years. Somehow her mom got her a job in the Kyle Field football ticket office and she had four 50-yardline, front row, 2nd deck seats for her entire time in College Station.
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A&M would easily win the SWC, have an OLB with 12 sacks, and lose the Cotton Bowl every year in the early 90s, lol.
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Fun trivia I hadn't seen before: Schools with both a World Series MVP and a Super Bowl MVP.
USC: ______________, _______________ (3 choices for SB MVP)
UCLA: _____________, ________________
Florida: ______________, _____________
BYU: ______________, _______________
Warshington State!: ____________,____________