CFB51 College Football Fan Community

The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: ELA on July 15, 2020, 09:42:35 AM

Title: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 2002 vs. 2003
Post by: ELA on July 15, 2020, 09:42:35 AM

2002		2003
Ohio State	NATIONAL CHAMPION	USC/LSU
FIESTA: #2 Ohio State 31, #1 Miami 24 (2OT)	NATIONAL TITLE GAME	ROSE: #1 USC 28, #4 Michigan 14 SUGAR: #2 LSU 21, #3 Oklahoma 14
Ohio State	BIG TEN CHAMPION	Michigan
#7 Oklahoma 34, #6 Washington State 14	ROSE BOWL	#1 USC 28, #4 Michigan 14
Carson Palmer	HEISMAN WINNER	Jason White

#1 PROGRESSION
2002

Preseason: Miami
November 2: #2 Oklahoma 27, #13 Colorado 11 (#2 Oklahoma jumped to #1)
November 9: Texas A&M 30, #1 Oklahoma 26 (#2 Miami jumped to #1)
January 3: #2 Ohio State 31, #1 Miami 24 (2OT) (#2 Ohio State jumped to #1)

2003

Preseason: Oklahoma
December 6: #13 Kansas State 35, #1 Oklahoma 7 (#2 USC jumped to #1)

OTHER NOTES
2002

12 game season allowed due to extra week in between Labor Day and Thanksgiving that would have otherwise forced two bye weeks per team
Option for PAT penalties to be enforced on the ensuing kickoff, rather than the reception, and on change of play, when the ball is spotted, not when snapped
After a 3-2 start, USC won 8 in a row, to begin a streak where they won 45 of 46 and two national championships; with only a 2004 upset loss to Cal preventing the 2006 Rose Bowl against Texas to also
Protection rule implemented to allow auto-bid conferences to still get the 2nd place team from their conference, after the Rose Bowl lost Iowa to the Orange Bowl
Ohio State beat Miami in the Fiesta Bowl to end the Canes 34 game losing streak, which was the longest major college winning streak since Oklahoma from 1953-1957, and in the FBS since Toledo from 1969-1971

2003

Halo rule eliminated
Army was first 0-13 team in college football history
Final split championship, after USC finished #1 in the AP Poll, but was #3 in the BCS, and left out of the Sugar Bowl

Title: Re: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 2002 vs. 2003
Post by: ELA on July 15, 2020, 09:59:35 AM

These were both sneaky good seasons. I voted 2003 almost solely due to what I still think is the best weekend of college football ever (October 9-11)

We had the rare Thursday night SEC game with South Carolina beating Kentucky

Friday night #18 TCU held off USF 13-10, and #20 Michigan came back from down 21 points in the 4th quarter to beat #17 Minnesota, in a game moved up due to the Twins having a playoff game Saturday.

Then Saturday, I actually think Gameday did a split host because there were so many big games...

#2 Miami beat #5 Florida State in Tallahassee
#1 Oklahoma slaughtered #11 Texas in the RRS
Notre Dame upset #15 Pitt on the road
Clemson upset #25 Virginia 30-27
Auburn upset #7 Arkansas 10-3 in Fayetteville
#8 Georgia won on the road at #14 Tennessee
Florida upset #6 LSU 19-7 in Death Valley
Missouri upset #10 Nebraska in Lincoln
Oklahoma State upset #22 Kansas State
#23 Wisconsin ended #3 Ohio State's 19 game winning streak, and 10 game Big Ten winning streak, 17-10
Arizona State hammered an Oregon team coming off an upset of Michigan, 59-14

5 games between ranked teams, 11 ranked teams losing, only 3 of which were in true road games

Title: Re: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 2002 vs. 2003
Post by: MaximumSam on July 15, 2020, 10:36:30 AM

2002 Buckeyes for life

Title: Re: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 2002 vs. 2003
Post by: ELA on July 16, 2020, 04:10:15 PM

Wow, first tie?

Tiebreaker needed