Your school's single most memorable memory (play)

[TheJON]

First off, it's rare for a 7 win team to make it to a New Year's Day bowl anymore with the 12 game schedules.

But here's our January Bowls........

5 BCS
Outback, CapOne, Gator, Cotton

Correct me if I'm wrong, but except for the addition of 1 BCS game, those 8 games used to be New Year's Bowls back before the BCS, right?

We've been to a January Bowl 5 of the last 7 years. 4 of those years we finished in the Top 20, 3 in the Top 10. The other year.......well, okay we didn't really deserve to go but our fans got us there (sup M Club?). But still, it's not like we're talking about a bunch of lousy teams.

And we are 3-1 vs the SEC in those January Bowls.

[M Club]

jon's technically right about playing on new year's day: there are only five or so games actually played on the 1st. prestige is a whole different issue.

i'm afraid i don't get this point. the constancy of the number of games may be the same. i can have 5 pieces of paper money in my pocket. they can all be 20$ bills or they can be 100$'s. either way, i have 5 bills. winning a major conference 20 years ago is not, to me, comparable to going 8-4 and playing another team that's 8-4 in the BCS framework.

the quantity of the the games may be the same on NYD, but the quality isn't....nor is the success required to get there.

that's basically what i was saying about jon being technically right about playing specifically on nyd. the whole jan 1 prestige thing comes from back in the day when most bowl games were on the 1st and only a few played beforehand. i believe you used "relic" in reference to this. now that there are 102 bowl games, the more prestigious of them have been moved to february, for all intents and purposes, while only a handful of marginal games are still played on jan 1. so, again, jon's technically right that it's difficult to land a 1.1 game considering only five of 82 games are played that day.

[M Club]

We've been to a January Bowl 5 of the last 7 years. 4 of those years we finished in the Top 20, 3 in the Top 10. The other year.......well, okay we didn't really deserve to go but our fans got us there (sup M Club?). But still, it's not like we're talking about a bunch of lousy teams.

eh, what's this "'sup mclub" about? is this about some year you went to a slightly less middling bowl game than us in florida because of your fans and also the fact we've been osu's maid of honor for the last 20 years and keep showing up to the capone bowl thing?

[King Crimson]

the two Froz has are good, but i'd include these (for the Switzer generation), the Ohio State game is a big fave of people my pops age (though, with all respect, OU wins that game by multiple scores if Thomas Lott and Billy Sims don't get hurt. OU is playing the 3rd team QB (Dean Blevins, moron) at the end--also notable is in a longer youtube clip, Switzer is chain-smoking on the sidelines: the Ohio State players look like they've been shot after the kick). i remember watching this game at age 5 and afterwards people driving around the neighborhoods where i lived in Norman honking their horns and throwing beer cans out in the street.

this is also, due to a scheduling anomaly, the first of two consecutive W's in Lincoln in 86 and 87. they play two years in a row at NU.

the Jackson catch epitomized Switzer's ability to win in Lincoln...a lot of times when NU was clearly the better team (76, 84). OU is down 17-7 with about 5 minutes left. they score to tie, and my dad who is at the game (he used to go pheasant hunting with some buddies in NE the week of that game every other year)....is yelling to go for two. and one of the NU guys sitting next to him says: "naw, Switzer will kick the PAT because he knows he'll get the ball back...and you fuckers will do it to us again". which is exactly what happened.





the so-called Game of the Century II: 1987, OU vs. NU....#1 and 2. OU "3 and outed" NU something like 10 straight possessions in the game.



this was one my faves as a kid:

[King Crimson]

Good calls, KC.

The Sigma Nu house at OU has a tanned and stretched pigskin with the date of the von Schamman game and the final score that was won in a bet with the Ohio State chapter. Apparently this is the shit people in fraternities did in the 70s. And coke.

and listen to Foghat.

[King Crimson]

Jesus. Hall ate that tackle's lunch there.

#80, that really eats his guy's lunch...pushing the play into Hall is the late Ricky Bryan. he's a FR here, but future 2 time consensus All-American from Coweta, USA.

this 1980 team is the one that Elway beat in Norman in the rain, lose to Texas and bounce back to beat #6 UNC (with LT, and UNC talking a lot of shit) in Norman 41-7 and then beat FSU in the 18-17 Orange Bowl comeback. beat 3 top 10 teams in their last 6 games to finish #3. i'd say, for me, the TD throw to Steve Rhodes (one of the most clutch Sooners of all-time) and 2 point convo to Valora are among my "most memorable" plays. FSU had really played OU off their heels up to that point.

[King Crimson]

i'm actually wrong here, and it didn't seem right when i was posting it, but this the 84 OU team and OU-NU. when Bryan is a senior. Nebraska is undefeated and #1.

this team could have saved the world the BYU MNC in the Holiday Bowl (against 6-5 Michigan) but screwed the pooch against Don James and UW in the Orange Bowl.

http://soonerstats.com/football/games/r ... GameID=844

[King Crimson]

Yeah, Bryan got in deep, but I was looking at how Hall's man got no push at the point of attack. Hall defeats the block to the outside and made an outstanding one-on-one play.

he also gets the back of Smith's shoulder pad....Jeff Smith was a real player.

this is the year of the fake tie to Texas and, somehow, and i don't remember this game at all (will have to ask the pops)....we lose in Lawrence, 28-11. Kansas has really pissed in our punch a few times. this is, according to Soonerstats.com, a 2-5 KU team.

[Degenerate]

this is the year of the fake tie to Texas and, somehow, and i don't remember this game at all (will have to ask the pops)....we lose in Lawrence, 28-11. Kansas has really pissed in our punch a few times. this is, according to Soonerstats.com, a 2-5 KU team.

That was Troy Aikman's freshman debut, IIRC. He was abysmal - he had three INTs and only two completions. Plus i think OU's punter botched a snap standing in his own end zone. Just an all-around weird game.

[King Crimson]

this is the year of the fake tie to Texas and, somehow, and i don't remember this game at all (will have to ask the pops)....we lose in Lawrence, 28-11. Kansas has really pissed in our punch a few times. this is, according to Soonerstats.com, a 2-5 KU team.

That was Troy Aikman's freshman debut, IIRC. He was abysmal - he had three INTs and only two completions. Plus i think OU's punter botched a snap standing in his own end zone. Just an all-around weird game.

yeah, you're right. that was Aikman's first game (though, because of injury to Danny Bradley)....and had him trying to run some option. the forward pass did not come easy in Norman. much like trying to run the I with Marcus Dupree, it didn't really work. the Aikman experiment ended the next year against Miami in Norman when Jerome Brown broke his leg (in addition to blocking a big FG attempt, big day for JB). Freshman Holieway comes off the bench and leads OU to the NC.

KU also beat the eventual NC champs in 75 in Norman. with Nolan Cromwell at QB.

[Felix]

Given that I'm the only Boise State fan that posts here consistently you could pick any of the three.....but the hook and lateral was probably the most surprising

[Van]

That Boise St game is still the best non-championship level game I've seen. Those were some of the ballsiest calls ever. Why on earth do more teams not do some of those things?

That Statue Of Liberty play, for a two point play? When the whole building is looking for a pass play? When will that play ever not work, if properly executed?

It was so cool to see Boise St just going for it, play after play, balls out, with no fear.

Sheer chutzpah won that game.

[King Crimson]

Given that I'm the only Boise State fan that posts here consistently you could pick any of the three.....but the hook and lateral was probably the most surprising

i'll crawl through the prison sex feeling as an OU fan, to say, BSU made the plays. that OU team really overachieved in a lot of ways with a converted WR at QB and Peterson hurt most of the year (to be honest, insofar as you can say something like this, i'm not sure that wasn't a better, more balanced team without AD)....and the Oregon bullshit...that team was really young on the LOS. but, hey, what can you say?

[Felix]

That Statue Of Liberty play, for a two point play? When the whole building is looking for a pass play? When will that play ever not work, if properly executed?

It was so cool to see Boise St just going for it, play after play, balls out, with no fear.

Weird thing about that play (Statue) is that they'd run it earlier in the year and Petersen wasn't sure whether the OU coaching staff had seen it or not...they practiced that play every day for the entire year (same thing with the hook and lateral)....Boise State had nothing to lose and everything to gain from that game......insofar as the play calling, Petersen is probably one of the ballsiest coaches I've ever seen....

i'll crawl through the prison sex feeling as an OU fan, to say, BSU made the plays. that OU team really overachieved in a lot of ways with a converted WR at QB and Peterson hurt most of the year

I never did understand why Stoops decided to stay with Petersen for so long when Patrick was much more effective against us....OU's depth started to catch up with BSU late in the third and fourth quarters.....at the end of the game our guys were gassed.....that's the reason Petersen went for the two point conversion.....

still ranks as one of the most exciting college games I've ever watched

[Mr T]

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[King Crimson]

i'll crawl through the prison sex feeling as an OU fan, to say, BSU made the plays. that OU team really overachieved in a lot of ways with a converted WR at QB and Peterson hurt most of the year

I never did understand why Stoops decided to stay with Petersen for so long when Patrick was much more effective against us....OU's depth started to catch up with BSU late in the third and fourth quarters.....at the end of the game our guys were gassed.....that's the reason Petersen went for the two point conversion.....

still ranks as one of the most exciting college games I've ever watched

Patrick was money. Peterson, to be honest, they ran him out of the deep I on outside pitches almost all the time. Patrick was between the tackles. and he was a baller. tough guy. i was at the ISU game in Norman when Peterson gets hurt and Patrick is playing special teams and puts it on this guy from ISU like he was dropped from a helicopter. big fucking take the guy on a stretcher hit.

[Killian]

Peterson must be so good from slingin rock.

[BlindRef]

Being at this game...the comeback..the season. Definitely top 5 plays in my memory.

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I just love the perspective that this video gives and the begging of chad henne not to mess it up.

[Felix]

I mean, yeah, you don't know that at the time, but there's a pretty big gap in talent level between Peterson and Patrick. You expect that Peterson's going to break out-and he ended up doing so.

Peterson was pretty much ineffective against Boise State until his 25 yard run in OT....that run represented 25% of his total rushing output in that game, and BSU was sucking the O's by that time....BSU had the outside locked down for the majority of the game, and as was said, Patrick was having success between the tackles....I'd of run Patrick more because he had the hotter hand....