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1977 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls

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The 1977 college football season defined by a dramatic January 2, when the four major bowl games were played. Two big blowouts created chaos and a controversial national champion.

The Inspiring Season Of 1989 Colorado Football

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The 1989 Colorado football team opened the season with the cloud of tragedy hanging over them off the field and an inferiority complex within their conference on it. They ended the season coming within one half of a national championship and providing inspiration to the country. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today.  It had been 1976 […]

The Rose Bowl Run Of 1988 Michigan Football

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The period from 1983-87 was, by the standards of Bo Schembecler’s Michigan program, a dry one. The Wolverines “only” made it to one Rose Bowl in that five-year stretch. In ‘87 they lost four games. Perhaps most galling was that in-state rival Michigan State had won the Big Ten in 1987. And at a time […]

1987 Miami Hurricanes: A Redemptive National Championship Run

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The 1987 Miami Hurricanes were in need of some redemption. Each of the last two years they’d gone into the major bowls in position for a national title. Each time they lost as a favorite. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today.  The first one came to Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl following the 1985 season. Worse […]

The Rose Bowl Run Of The 1987 Michigan State Spartans

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The Rose Bowl had been a long time coming for the good people of East Lansing. They hadn’t been to Pasadena since 1965 and hadn’t won there since 1955. In 1966 they were denied a trip because of a Big Ten rule preventing a team from going in consecutive years, even if they were conference […]

The Story Of The 1987 College Football Season

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College football is set to introduce a “Final Four” playoff format for the 2014 season. It wasn’t by design, but that’s the way the 1987 college football season played out.

1985 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls

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The 1985 college football season marked the first of a two-year stretch where Oklahoma, Penn State and Miami all stayed at the top of the polls. This time around, the Sooners won the national championship, beating the undefeated Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl. The Hurricanes beat Oklahoma in the regular season and had a […]

The 1983 College Football Season & The Road To The Major Bowls

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The 1983 college football season was a seminal year in the history of the sport. Miami’s stunning upset of Nebraska in the Orange Bowl to win the national championship marked the start of a dynasty and dramatic shift in the balance of power to the state of Florida in general. 1983 was also a year […]

The 1982 College Football Season & The Road To The Major Bowls

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The 1982 college football season was a historical landmark, as the legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno won his first national championship, defeating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl to seal the deal. It was also a year where highly regarded early favorites did not play to form. This blog compilation tells the season-long story of […]

The 1981 College Football Season’s Road To The Major Bowls

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The 1981 college football season can be marked as the year parity arrived. College football had long been the province of a few exclusive powers, but the effects of scholarship limits began to take hold and new teams rose up to challenge the establishment. Nowhere was that more evident than the Clemson Tigers coming out of nowhere to win the national championship.

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