The World Has Righted Itself

[Goober McTuber]

1. Texas (44) 6-0
2. Alabama (14) 6-0
3. Penn State (3) 7-0
4. Southern California 4-1 9
5. Texas Tech 6-0
6. Oklahoma 5-1
7. Florida 5-1
8. Brigham Young 6-0
9. Georgia 5-1
10. Oklahoma State


Other than interlopers Texas Tech (they'll be long gone soon), Brigham Young (don't play anybody) and Oklahoma State (see Texas Tech comments), the college football world looks quite proper today.

Not with USC sitting at #4, it doesn't.

[Q, West Coast Style]

1. Texas (44) 6-0
2. Alabama (14) 6-0
3. Penn State (3) 7-0
4. Southern California 4-1 9

6. Oklahoma 5-1
7. Florida 5-1
8. Brigham Young 6-0
9. Georgia 5-1

Looks right.

Sincerely,

The early 1980's

PS: Where's Miami?

[Cornhusker]

You're right about that.

I'm looking through old guy traditional power glasses.
In which case, Notre Dame shudder should be in there, I guess. Ugh...I feel a little bile in my mouth...

Clean 'em.

[Terry in Crapchester]

1. Texas (44) 6-0
2. Alabama (14) 6-0
3. Penn State (3) 7-0
4. Southern California 4-1 9
5. Texas Tech 6-0
6. Oklahoma 5-1
7. Florida 5-1
8. Brigham Young 6-0
9. Georgia 5-1
10. Oklahoma State


Other than interlopers Texas Tech (they'll be long gone soon), Brigham Young (don't play anybody) and Oklahoma State (see Texas Tech comments), the college football world looks quite proper today.

Apologies to LSU, Missouri, Auburn, Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Florida State, and Wisconsin. You guys have no one to blame but yourselves.

The college football universe has finally aligned properly and will continue to do so for years.

Just for the record: Vanderbilt had no business being ranked...and still doesn't. They suck. Going into the Mississippi State game, they ranked dead last in the SEC in total offense and total defense.

One major omission to your list, there, Sam.

Hint: we're one year away.

[Mr T]

Other than interlopers Texas Tech (they'll be long gone soon), Brigham Young (don't play anybody) and Oklahoma State (see Texas Tech comments), the college football world looks quite proper today.

Brigham Young won a MNC in 1984. So I would say seeing them seems proper.

BYU had a drop off for a while but it is nice to see them mormons back to playing some decent football.

Apologies to LSU, Missouri, Auburn, Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Florida State, and Wisconsin. You guys have no one to blame but yourselves.

You throw in Michigan but leave out Miami?

[King Crimson]

Nebraska belongs far more that Texas. Texas finished the season unranked in 80, and then 84-89 (5 straight years, half the decade). if the 80's are the criterion...and to sour grapes a little from last saturday. :D

81-83: #2, #17, #5.

[Cornhusker]

Terry,

I mentioned Notre Dame mid-thread.

Brigham Young won a MNC in 1984. So I would say seeing them seems proper.

Brigham Young didn't deserve that NC. That was ridiculous. If I remember right, they finished off that season by beating a 7-5 Michigan team in some shitty bowl.

I did have Miami in there, but pulled 'em. Not sure why.

You're right about that.

I'm looking through old guy traditional power glasses.
In which case, Notre Dame shudder should be in there, I guess. Ugh...I feel a little bile in my mouth...

Clean 'em.

OMIGOD! How did I forget your boys?! My bad. That is a far more egregious omission (in my mind) than Miami.

Well Sam, I can't hold it against you. When you're off the radar for over half a decade (Top 25 wise) and ESPN has NO interest in a certain school, you can get forgotten national pretty easily. Plus when your former A.D. hires a POS NFL wash-out, you get buried even deeper....'sup A&M?

[Cornhusker]

Husker, you're probably too young to remember some of the great bowl games between Alabama and Nebraska. Matter of fact, I have a Sports Illustrated on my desk at home right now with NU on the cover whippin' the Tide's butt. Love reading the old SIs.

Sam, I don't post alot...obviously, but at one time or two I played my age on these boards. I remember all too well some of our early Orange Bowl get togethers '66, 39-28 (first time I saw on-side kicks... you guys got 2 that night.) the ass kicking we got in the Sugar Bowl in '67 (some guy named Ken Stabler). We paid ya back however....thanks Johnnny R....1972; I also remember the '64 Orange Bowl game when we beat Auburn.

The games with 'Bama were great and the people here always respected The Bear..I know Devaney sure did. The press here in the early bowl games played it up as Alabama didn't have black players and made comment they felt they would make racist comments towards NU's guys. NU had 4 or so black starters. Devaney was quoted, as I recall, how respectful the 'Bama players were and no "trash talking" was thrown around. He attributed it to the discipline Bryant instilled in his team.

Anyway, let's just say Eisenhower was president when I came to be.

[Goober McTuber]

Anyway, let's just say Eisenhower was president when I came to be.

We are contemporaries, I see.

Give ‘em hell Harry was wrapping up his second term on the truly blessed day of my birth.

[Q, West Coast Style]

BYU had a drop off for a while but it is nice to see them mormons back to playing some decent football.

BYU playing well takes me back to my early childhood breaking in my new X-mas presents, while on TV, BYU was in a shootout with somebody in the Holiday Bowl. So I kinda root for BYU out of nostaligia . . . even if the school is run by a bunch of smilie-faced zombies.

[Adelpiero]

BYU had a drop off for a while but it is nice to see them mormons back to playing some decent football.

BYU playing well takes me back to my early childhood breaking in my new X-mas presents, while on TV, BYU was in a shootout with somebody in the Holiday Bowl. So I kinda root for BYU out of nostaligia . . . even if the school is run by a bunch of smilie-faced zombies.

some of best bowl games ever

SMU vs BYU and BYU vs Mizzou.

[Cornhusker]

Anyway, let's just say Eisenhower was president when I came to be.

We are contemporaries, I see.

Give ‘em hell Harry was wrapping up his second term on the truly blessed day of my birth.

For what it's worth Goobs, as long as I've been a Nebraska fan, I also picked the Packers as my NFL team as a kid and have NEVER wavered Dowler, Dale, Nitschke, Davis, Starr ('Bama boy) Kramer, Adderley, Hornung, Thurston, Wood, Ringo, (I loved how Lombardi dealt him..was epic), Jordan, Mercine (sp) Gregg, Aldridge, Grabowski, Pitts, Mcgee...guys I idolized ....I hate the Bears but respect them..I lothe the VikQueens...damn expansion teams. Detriot, who cares?

Ice Bowl, (Cowboys) Fog Bowl, (Colts) I remember them well! I hate the Cowboys to this very day, but they were our bitch.

Funny I can remember those guys, but don't ask me any random team since.. I recall the names of guys, but can't list them as a team like the '66 Packers..Ha, I've been a rabid fan ever since and watch them EVER chance I get, but the memory from your childhood is so much more entrenched.
Hell, my oldest son traveled from his home in Steamboat Springs CO. to see the loss to Atlanta two weeks ago..he like my youngest son, LOVE THOSE PACKERS! I did something right by them! I gotta get to Lambeau someday before the dirt nap. :wink:

[Cornhusker]

I was a Packers fan as a kid myself. I can run off every name on the mid-60s Green Bay team before I could name 5 starters on any pro team today. Still have a '66 Packers media guide, too. Always liked Nitschke more than Huff and Butkus.

Any of you old farts remember the little sheets of stamps of pro players you'd get at a gas station (can't remember which brand)? I found a bunch of them the other day. The misshapen heads and helmets reminded me of how far printing technology has come!

YES I DO! I had them as well, you tried to fill out a sheet with the stamps, EPIC, you still have them!? Damn Sam if you could scan that as well I'd probably get all teary eyed if I saw them today. It was one of my first memories of NFL collectables.
Rack you for saving! I'd put that on my desktop!

I remember where our local station was that offered them, I always asked my mom to get her fuel there to get those stamps, but the company I'm not sure...Standard maybe.?

[Cornhusker]

Then you would have loved some of the conversations I heard when I was a kid. Max McGee lived in the same condo as my mother in Miami, and we would see him at parties and functions. Hearing him talk about scoring the first touchdown in Super Bowl history was fascinating and hysterical no matter how many times I heard it.

I loved that guy. I do remember a story where Lombardi was addressing the team about curfew; Hornung and McGee liked the women and their booze; anyway Lombardi told them they better be in by such and such a time or risk fines, after a pause he looked at Mcgee and said, "Max, if you find anything out there worth the fine, I want you to let me know, I'm going with you."

[Screw_Michigan]

The world has righted itself? Like back to the days before scholarship limitations when Bear and the other assorted pole-smokers would give 150 schollys to everyone and their brothers and sister-fucking cousins to have them at third string just to hoard the talent and keep them off the smaller schools?

Yeah, those were the "good ol' days." Go fuck yourself.