Top Ten regular season games in CFB history.

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Postby billybud » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:50 am

I have so many favorites..

The Choke at Doak...

FSU is down by 28 points to Florida in the 4th qtr...things look bleak. Warrick Dunn and the Noles put on a furious offensive push to score 28 points in 12 minutes and tie the game.

Wide Right I, II, III and the Cane Muff....all great games with Miami...all coming down to a missed kick as time runs out.

The 1987 FSU/Miami...game...FSU would go on to be undefeated except for the loss to Miami...Miami was #1...Time running out, FSU scores to make it 25-26 Miami. Bowden goes for two to win instead of taking the tie...loses for the season's only losss....Miami finished #1 AP, FSU finished #2 AP....FSU beat #6, 7, and 8 in the final AP. I still think Bowden did the right thing by going for two, but Bowden wonders...Miami and FSU both tied would have made a tough final vote.
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Postby colorado_loves_football » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:14 pm

CSTV was doing a retrospective on Navy football, 1963. Basically, it was their 'glory' years, with Roger Staubach at the helm.
They were playing Army, Army struck fast and early, taking a 7-0 lead.
Navy finally scored before halftime to 'knot' it up at 7.
Then they took a sizable lead, 2nd half, 21-7 before Army began a furious comeback. Navy in fact stopped an Army goal line charge, but Army still managed to come within 6 points, late in the game.
They got the onside kick, even got the ball down near Navy's goal line but the clock ran out on them.
I doubt it will make an 'all time' list of games, but it was fun to reflect on.

I think it's hard to do an 'all time' list anyway. Unless you were around, how does anyone really know which games had the most 'drama'? I'm sure BC's win over Miami is represented, somewhere, but that game, in my opinion was more about circumstance. It's not like it lead to a BC national title. So, ti's all relative.

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Postby billybud » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:30 pm

Sometimes it's not the game...it's the moment...the Flutie Hail Mary...the game ending run through the band and the KO of the tuba player (my fave), the exhausted FSU D line crawling off the field after stopping BC for seven plays inside the 2 yard line.

Or one no one other than a Nole fan would know...It's Halloween night, FSU is playing at a chilly Virginia. A spooky cold fog enshrouds the field. First play of the game...the camera focuses on 6' 5" Nole defensive end Sterling Palmer, twin plumes of steam exiting from under his dark face shield like an enraged bull, fog swirling in the background...Sterling steps to the line and the camera comes in tight...he blows a stream of steam and his head comes up and you can see his lips say..."Trick or treat...M...effer". LOL...he was a piece of work.
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Postby Yeofoot » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:06 pm

I would have to say the most exciting regular season game that I've watched would be this past year's Fresno State vs USC game. Then again, this was the first year I watched any game besides Texas.

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Postby Spence » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:33 pm

1973 Ohio State-Michigan. Both teams undefeated and they played to a 10-10 tie in Ann Arbor. A fitting tribute to the Woody-Bo ten year war.
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Postby Dossenator » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:32 am

Hands down the best regular season game I have seen (and was at) was the longest game in college football history: 7 overtime Arkansas vs. Ole Miss game in 2001. Arkansas won 58-56 in Ole Miss. What a shootout: Eli Manning against Matt Jones....Matt Jones and Arkansas prevailed.

The second best I have ever seen was the second longest game in college football history: 6 overtime Arkansas vs. Kentucky game in 2003. I was not at this game but watched it on tv. Again, Matt Jones was incredible in overtime and the final score was Arkansas 71 and Kentucky 63.

One of my favorite games to be present at was the 2003 Arkansas vs. #5 Texas game in 2003 in Austin, Texas. Arkansas beat the Longhorns 38-28. The following year was painful (2004). Texas came to Fayetteville and beat Arkansas 22-20. Arkansas had the ball on the 8 yard line with about 1 minute left in the game. All they needed was a field goal to win and Matt Jones fumbled the ball. The Hogs had the game won. Instead of trying to make a play fall on the ball and kick the field goal. Oh well.

The best bowl game I have been too was the Cotton Bowl in 1999. #24 Arkansas crushed #14 Texas 26-7. What a great game to be at....well if you are a Razorback fan.

I also enjoyed watching Texas beat Ohio State and USC last year though.

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Postby colorado_loves_football » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:26 pm

I witnessed a game between BYU and Air Force, I believe it was 1996, or thereabouts. It was a season opener for both teams.
Anyway, since I"m 'partial' to in-state football, I wanted Air Force to win, and win they did, decisively, over a very much 'hyped' passing attack QB'd by Steve Sarkisian (USC's offensive coordinator).
I know it wont' go down in the annals of 'best games' to watch, but BYU (until that time) had dominated Air Force.
So it was fun to finally see Air Force win one for DeBerry (he hadn't beaten them, in 13 tries).
Ironically, the QB who lead Air Force to victory was a Mormon himself!
Can't recall his name at the moment, but I don't think Sarkisian was.
Steve Sarkisian was Junior College transfer that was his 'introduction' into I-A football. I guess I mention it now, because I think I enjoyed that game more than any other in recent memory.
I saw a game in 1990 between Air Force and BYU, BYU put the 'hurt' on Air Force, and Air Force wasn't a bad team that year (beat OSU in Liberty Bowl). That year, TY Detmer I believe won the Heisman Trophy, and Colorado won the national championship.
BYU was beaten, soundly, in the Holiday Bowl, that year, by Texas A&M. I guess what goes around, comes around, eventually.

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Postby mountainman » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:01 pm

Would that have been Chance Harridge under center for the Falcons? 8)

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Postby RazorHawk » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:47 pm

RaliLlama wrote:Yeofoot,

One of the games listed was 1969 Texas-Arkansas. Your wide receiver was offside. I had a friend in the Air Force from Arkansas and he assured me that was the case. Wasn't your WR's name Cotton Speyer? James Street was the QB? I'm doing this off the top of my head.


As a Razorback fan, I would say this was probably it, even though we lost the game. The fact that the game was changed to the end of the season and both teams were undefeated and ranked #1 & #2 for the game. Texas had a bunch of turnovers and made the 4th down conversion "Street to Speyer" to win the game.
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