A Top 10 Season For 1989 Illinois Football
1989 Illinois football had one of the program’s better season, winning a bowl game and finishing in the Top 10. Read the season-long narrative.
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1989 USC Football: Larry Smith Gets Off The Rose Bowl Schneid
After two straight years of reaching Pasadena, but losing, Trojan head coach Larry Smith needed to win a Rose Bowl. Read how 1989 USC football did just that
1989 Miami-Florida State: Seminoles Win A Battle; Canes Win A War
Read about the 1989 Miami-Florida State game, where the Seminoles continued their red-hot play and temporarily derailed the Hurricanes run to a national title.
1989 Notre Dame-Michigan: The Rocket Launch
Read about the 1989 Notre Dame-Michigan game, from the backdrop to the game itself to the aftermath.
1990 Colorado-Nebraska: The Buffaloes’ 4th Quarter Turnabout
Read about the 1990 Colorado-Nebraska game that settled the Big Eight, from the backdrop to the game itself to the aftermath.
1989 Nebraska-Colorado: Battle For The Big Eight In Boulder
Read about the 1989 Nebraska-Colorado game that settled the Big Eight title, from the backdrop to the game itself to the aftermath.
1978 Purdue Football: A Breakout For Jim Young & Mark Herrmann
Jim Young was in his second year as the Purdue head coach, taking over a program that had fallen off the radar and producing very good teams from 1966-69, including a Rose Bowl entrant in ’66. The 1978 Purdue football team would have a breakout year and start a short run of success for the […]
1978 Ohio State Football: A Tough Season & The End Of Woody Hayes
Ohio State came into the 1978 college football season hoping to arrest a modest downturn. After four straight Rose Bowl appearances earlier in the decade, the Buckeyes had lost to archrival Michigan in both 1976 and 1977. The ’77 season ended with a Sugar Bowl humiliation at the hands of Alabama and Ohio State’s final […]
The Top 6 Stories Of 2008 Big Ten Football
It was a year that produced Joe Paterno’s last major bowl, a prime-time battle in Columbus and a new era in Michigan. Read about 2008 Big Ten football.
1978 Clemson Football: The Tigers Get Back On The Map
Clemson football had been in a funk for about a decade. The great Frank Howard had built the program to greatness in the mid-20th century, but the end of his career in the 1960s was marked by a slow decline. Two successors tried to achieve a restoration, but more mediocrity followed. Then Charley Pell arrived […]
The Notebook Nine: September College Football 1978-88
College football produces early season drama like no other sport. Here are the nine best September showdowns from The Era in 1978-88.
1992 Big Ten Football: One More Time For Michigan
The Michigan Wolverines were at the peak of their power and ran to a fifth straight conference title behind Tyrone Wheatley. Read about these and other highlights of 1992 Big Ten football.