The Story Of The 1987 College Football Season
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.
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1985 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
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 […]
How The 1987 San Francisco Giants Won The NL West
Roger Craig was hired as the manager in San Francisco in 1986, inheriting a franchise that had just lost 100 games and had not won the NL West since 1971. Craig—who ironically had the same name as a great running back who also starred in San Francisco in this same time period—immediately turned the team […]
1984 College Football: The Road To The National Championship
The 1984 college football season provided thrills from September through November, but it led to an anticlimactic New Year’s Day
The Playoff Teams & Legacy Of The 1985 NFL Season
The 1985 NFL season is remembered for the historic defensive dominance of the Chicago Bears. Led by Defensive Player of the Year Mike Singletary, colorful coordinator Buddy Ryan and head coach Mike Ditka, the Bears rolled to a 15-1 regular season record and won the Super Bowl.
But there was much more to the world of the 1985 NFL and the links below, with game-by-game narrative of twelve notable teams bring to light all the great stories of this season. You’ll see the following…
The 1983 College Football Season & The Road To The Major Bowls
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
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
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.
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.
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.
1987 Chicago Bears: Another Division Title & Another Missed Opportunity
The 1987 Chicago Bears were a part of the 1984-90 high point of the franchise’s modern history, an era that included the 1985 run to a Super Bowl trophy. In the 1987 the Bears won a fourth consecutive division title and were a 2-seed in the playoffs. But they were also a part of an […]
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.