1978 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
Drama on the goal-line defined the 1978 college football season, with Alabama and USC getting shares of the national championship in bowl victories both dramatic and controversial.
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The 1979 College Football Season’s Road To The Major Bowls
At first it looked like another year to argue over Alabama and USC, the way 1978 ended. Then it looked like a second straight year with co-national champions when Ohio State got in the mix. But in the end, the 1979 college football season proved to be about celebrating Alabama, as the Tide rolled to a second straight national championship, this one outright.
1980 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
The Georgia Bulldogs have been a pretty consistent winner over the years, but only once have they won the national championship. That came in the 1980 college football season, when a freshman running back named Herschel Walker came blazing onto the scene and transformed Georgia and the entire SEC for the three years he was in Athens.
The Rose Bowl Run Of 2000 Purdue Football
When Joe Tiller arrived in West Lafayette to take over the Purdue Boilermakers in 1997, the football program was on hard times. They hadn’t enjoyed a winning season since 1984. No consecutive bowl appearances since 1978-80. The last piece of a Big Ten title had been in 1967 and the last Rose Bowl trip was […]
The 1986 College Football Season Narrative
The 1986 college football season was marked by the first time in recent history that the nation’s top two ranked teams were not tied to any of the then-major bowls (Cotton, Rose, Sugar, Orange). Miami and Penn State were both independents. They would play a game that is not only one of the great college football games ever played, but marked a historic shift in the sport’s postseason landscape.
The Season-Long Narrative Of The 1986 Miami Hurricanes
The 1986 Miami Hurricanes were loaded with talent on both sides of the ball, and weren’t afraid to let you know it. They spent the entire regular season backing up their talk and looked poised to secure a place in college football history. They did…but for the wrong reasons, as an infamous bowl loss has […]
The Season-Long Narrative Of The 1986 Oklahoma Sooners
The 1986 Oklahoma Sooners were the defending national champions and with a lineup loaded on both sides of the ball were in prime position to repeat. That goal got away from them early, but Barry Switzer’s team was still one of the country’s most dynamic and remain memorable thirty years later. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart […]
1986 Michigan Football Makes A Rose Bowl Run
The 1986 Michigan Wolverines had a lot of momentum coming into the season, after finishing #2 in the nation in 1985. But it had been 1982 since they reached the Rose Bowl, and that was an eternity in the era of Bo Schembecler, who had guided the program to Pasadena seven times since 1969. The […]
The Seasonal Narrative Of 1986 Penn State Football & A Championship Season
The 1986 Penn State football team came into the season focused on nothing less than the national title. They had gone undefeated in the 1985 regular season, but an Orange Bowl loss to Oklahoma ended their year in disappointment. The Lions were loaded in 1986 for another run at college football’s mountaintop and in a […]
40 Years Ago: When Rutgers Never Lost
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the great unknown stories in college sports—the 1976 Rutgers Scarlet Knights became the only team in the modern era to have an undefeated regular season in both basketball and football. The basketball team is the better known of the two, although even they’re buried beneath the […]
The Seasonal Narrative Of 1981 Ohio State Football
Earle Bruce was in his third year as head coach at Ohio State. After a sterling start to his tenure in Columbus with an 11-0 regular season in 1979, Bruce lost the national championship in the Rose Bowl. Ohio State lost the Fiesta Bowl following the 1980 season and continued a downward trend in 1981, […]
The Disappointment Of 1981 Michigan Football
The 1981 Michigan football team entered the season on a high. They had concluded the 1980 season with nine straight wins and captured the Rose Bowl for the first time under head coach Bo Schembecler. They entered 1981 ranked #1 in the polls. But the season just didn’t go the way anyone in Ann Arbor […]