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.
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The Rose Bowl Run Of 1990 Iowa Football
The 1980s had been good to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Hayden Fry took the program to the Rose Bowl in 1981 and 1985 and went to eight bowls overall in a nine-year stretch. But 1989 had been the outlier year, when the Hawkeyes struggled to a 5-6 finish. The program needed a comeback season and the […]
1990 Michigan Football: The Post-Schembecler Era Begins
The 1990 Michigan football team marked the dawn of a new era in the long history of the proud program. After the last two decades in charge, the legendary Bo Schembecler stepped aside and offensive coordinator Gary Moeller was elevated. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTS Start reading today. Coming off back-to-back Rose Bowl trips, Michigan football was […]
Notre Dame-Miami: 1990’s Final Catholic Vs. Convicts War
The bad blood even spilled into American culture, with a “Catholics vs. Convicts” paradigm, named after a T-shirt sold on the Notre Dame campus prior to the 1988 game and meant to further the White Hats vs. Black Hats image the two teams had—an image, that like most stereotypes wasn’t accurate on either side, but in which neither side—including black-hatted Miami—backed away from.
A Split Championship Ends A Crazy & Chaotic 1990 College Football Season
The 1990 college football season started with defending national champion Miami being upset by BYU and its soon-to-be Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Ty Detmer. That should have told us we were headed for a year that would be on the bizarre side. The BYU-Miami game unleashed a year of upsets and upheaval not seen since the seminal year of 1981.
1990 Sports: NFL Upsets & College Football Chaos
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1990 sports, a year that saw a big upsets in the key NFL playoff games and complete college football chaos break out.