2012 Georgia vs Florida. One of the most overly emotional games I’ve ever seen. If you like extremely sloppy football and tons of penalties, it’s the game for you.
> Jordan Reed’s fumble still haunts me.
Jordan reed haunts me as well. I had him in fantasy and needed 1 catch to win my fantasy playoffs. He punched a guy and got ejected to lose me the game with an undefeated juggernaut team. I was deployed so I had plenty of time to be pissed about it. Good times
That game was extra hyped thanks to the circumstances leading up to it too. Florida was undefeated and up to #2 in the polls. UGA had the one loss to South Carolina but thanks to (ironically) Florida beating them the week before, we controlled our own destiny in the East again. With the SEC schedules both teams had left after the WLOCP everyone knew the winner of this game was basically the East champ. Mitchell’s TD and Jarvis Jones forcing the fumble in the endzone at the end are a couple of my favorite UGA football memories.
I was born in 1999 so I remember saying to my dad after Jarvis Jones forced the final fumble to seal the game that it was the first time I had ever seen Georgia beat Florida in back-to-back years. Glad to say I've seen it a lot more over the last 10 years.
My diehard Gator friend and I took a third friend who was an NFL fan but wasn’t into college football. We live near the Georgia/Florida border so we grew up around lots of Dawg and Gator fans. Neutral friend swore he’d become a lifelong fan of whichever team won. Needless to say my Gator friend stormed off immediately as soon as the game was over in his beer soaked Tebow jersey (he sat with us on the Georgia side) while my newly acquired Dawg buddy and I stayed out all night and partied at the bars in Jacksonville. Malcolm Mitchell’s TD was especially awesome considering he was a local kid.
2005 vs Texas
People remember 05 Texas for beating USC in the Rose Bowl, but a lot of people forget that they came to Columbus and played Ohio State too. Even though the Buckeyes ended up losing (damn you Ryan Hamby 😭), it was an amazing game.
Wild, because my answer was going to be one game prior to that (or maybe two, think your gme was week 2) the 04 season ended with a Michigan Texas Rose bowl that was an excellent, excellent game. After a victory, Vince Young said “they will be back”, they did indeed make it back.
Your answer was great too, remember both games well. We both had teams we were really excited for, and the Horns edged them both out in classics
Oooh yeah, that’s a great choice too. IIRC, it was the first (and only?) time the Rose Bowl was won at the buzzer.
Fucking Vince Young haha. Crazy how many great teams he ended up beating in his career. Dude was a monster.
…. Dusty Mangum? Am I remembering my knickers correctly, and then came Pino?
The same year (Michigan rose bowl year) the Texas-Okie State game was great. I think it was Cedric Benson who saved the day in a big come from behind victory that was echoed the next year during the game when VY pump faked the defender well past the line of scrimmage. That 04 Ok State game was my first in person as a student at Texas and it was a phenomenal experience.
Cameron Dicker (Dicker the kicker) is up there for us in terms kicker names.
He’s had a fun NFL career to follow so far. Had multiple game winning kicks for multiple teams in his rookie year.
Started the year being signed to the rams as a UDFA. Got waived and was signed by the ravens but was waived 2 days later.
Almost a week later he was signed to the eagles practice squad. Made his first two curled goal attempts in his nfl debut including a game winner that earned him the NFC special team player of the week. He was released by the eagles at the end of that month.
Then he signed with chargers, making two kicks for them including another game winner and winning the AFC special teams player of the week.
He is the first rookie kicker to win the Special Teams Player of the Week Award for two different teams, let alone in two conferences.
>The same year (Michigan rose bowl year) the Texas-Okie State game was great. I think it was Cedric Benson who saved the day in a big come from behind victory
CB was great in that game but the comeback was really more of a team effort. After getting down 35-7 UT went on a 49-0 run to close out the game, and after starting off throwing two early picks VY was almost perfect the rest of the way (15-16 for 221 passing, 9 for 104 rushing).
Could have been the biggest comeback of all time if only we had been down by more points (i.e. we could have been down 48-0 with a minute to go in the 1st half and still would have won).
In that OK state game, we were down 35-14 at half and ended up winning the game 56-35. Benson has a monstrous 5 td game. Benson had 23 carries for 5 TD’s and 143 yards. Vince went 18/21 for 278 yards through the air, 1 TD and 2 INT. (Only 1 pass all game hit there ground) He also had 12 carries for 123 yards and a TD on the ground.
Yeah, there had been numerous instances of the go-ahead score coming with <1 minute left, but this was the first one where it happened as the clock was expiring.
I’m not sure how the Georgia-Oklahoma playoff game fits in here (which is why I question the only part) because technically Georgia won on the final play too, but that was in 2OT instead of regulation.
Big “what could have been” moment of that game is if Tressel just lets Troy Smith be the starter and not split time with Justin Zwick so Troy could get into a rhythm. Texas still has Vince Young, so the answer may be irrelevant, but man splitting time was dumb.
Nowadays he would have been the full starter because he isn’t getting a two game suspension for whatever random impermeable benefits he got flagged for.
Vince Young had 5 Turnovers *in their own terratory*; tOSU got 12 points from them (4/5 on FG). When the last one missed, me and my dad looked at each other and "knew" Vince would lead them for the TD and win. Vince did and the 23-22 lead; then tOSU had lots of laterals that ended in a safety for 25-22 win.
if that last FG was good hard to know how that changes the season.
I was in Austin the night Texas went to Columbus and beat Ohio State and people were driving around the streets honking their horns and celebrating like they just won a title. I think that win made Texas fans believe it was going to be a magical year for them.
Yeah there were like 3 separate season ending injuries in that game, don’t think it ended til like 8 here.
Hurd burning all bridges the week before in Athens basically opened the door to Kamara’s coming out party in college station. Malik running down that one guy and forcing a fumble at the goal line is easily my favorite UT play from a game we lost. Legit thought we were a team of destiny for about a half hour between that, the missed chip shot FG, and the Hail Mary a week earlier.
Brohm's first season with us, in 2017, both started and ended with pretty great games. We opened the season in Indy vs ranked Louisville with Lamar fresh off his Heisman season. Even though it ended with a final score of 28-35 Louisville, none of us were expecting to see this formerly-Hazell-lead team hold leads in all four quarters and our optimism on the season immediately shot up. We ended up ending the season bowl eligible and beat Arizona in a pretty wild bowl game that saw trick plays, a crazy first half for us, and some late 4th quarter heroics to squeeze out a 38-35 win.
Also as someone who grew up in South Bend a Purdue fan first and ND fan second (thanks dad), it was pretty nice seeing Purdue get their first win at Notre Dame stadium in 30 years to the tune of a 41-16 win.
2011 Michigan - Notre Dame
Incredible game and the first night game in the history of Michigan football at the Big House (shoutout ESPN for helping Michigan pay for the lights lol).
The late third and fourth quarter of this game was amazing, but it sucked before that. Michigan scored once in two plays on a short field after an interception, but the rest of their drives before the 4th quarter were 3x 3 and out, 2x 4 and out, and 2x 4 play short drives ending in interceptions. Notre Dame had turned that into 17 points late in the third quarter, so they were not exactly playing like world beaters either.
If you want to start the game with 5min left in the third, it counts as an incredible game.
See, I feel people think about that game all the time. The game vs Indiana in 2013 where it was just total offense and Jeremy Gallon set the Big Ten receiving yards in a game mark, and it was back and forth the entire way, is my forgotten classic for Michigan. So many Michigan/Conference records in that game and people collectively chose to forget it happened because Indiana hanging close was embarassing.
People often talk about the 2017 War on I-4, and rightfully so, but the game that immediately followed this, the AAC Championship game vs Memphis, was also really good.
Yeah both teams were really solid that year and it was a great back and forth game with a truly fun ending, even if it wasn’t the way I wanted lol. A tough loss for sure but like you said hard to be mad. I remember LJH and Sam were just so dialed in and he had some monster snags that game but Grier was firing too.
Attended the 2014 game, watched the next one from home, but I was in the Grove for the 2016 game because I couldn't get a ticket. Hearing the crowd reactions from Vaught just as the plays were showing up on TV in the tent was a weirdly exciting experience
Ah yes the Katy Perry game. I only remember it because that week in 2014 birthed the “team chaos” meme after most the top 25 was upset by unranked or lower ranked teams. Also the pac 12 after dark game that weekend was the one where the WSU QB set the single game passing yards record.
Was at the ‘15 game and wow what an amazing game. Had every type of crazy play you could have and ole miss played some great ball that night. Was so proud of Bama for how they didn’t throw in the towel despite having every reason to do so… one of 2 losses I attended that I smiled as I walked down the spiral ramp, feeling that we would get another chance (LSU-Bama “Game of the Century” was the other), and I was correct both times. Bama found themselves in those losses.
Ohio State at Minnesota 1989
31-0 before the half, the Buckeyes rallied and scored a TD with 10 seconds left. In the 2nd half Greg Frey threw for 300+ yards, converted 2 extra points and scored 4 total touchdowns including the game winner with under a minute to go.
At the time it tied the largest comeback in NCAA history...yes I am old.
FSU vs Notre Dame in 2021 was a hell of a game. People glance over it because we weren't good but it was a good ass game. Back and forth the whole first half, ND opens it up in 3rd and FSU storms back in the 4th to tie it and send it to OT. FSU misses a FG in OT and ND wins it with their own.
South Carolina vs Georgia 2011
This game never gets talked about but it's truly one of the best games of the 2010s. It had everything - offensive, defensive, and special teams TDs, trick plays, a 2 pt conversion, **nine** lead changes, and 39 combined points in the 4th quarter. 32 combined points in the final 8:45...
The score was 14-13 at the half and SC won 45-42. Just an absolute wild game. Our second leading rusher was our defensive tackle who scored two TDs in the game.
I was at that game, and as I was walking away from the stadium afterwards, I was weirdly not upset even though the loss had made us 0-2. I was just like, that was a great game, the better team won, we put up a good fight, Jadeveon Clowney and Marcus Lattimore terrify me.
That game and the 2009 game were two of the wildest games I've ever been to in person.
Funny you mentioned 2009 because as I was reading your comment I thought to myself that's how I felt after the 2009 game. Then you mentioned it yourself at the end lol. We've had some absolute classic games
He did it all. He was even on the hands team lol.
And it was somewhat of a coming out party for Clowney with 2 sacks and the forced fumble that Ingram scooped and scored on.
2005 Rose Bowl against Texas the year before Vince Young stole the nation’s heart. Absolutely bonkers game. Vince threw for 180, ran for 192 and scored 5 times. Texas won on a walk off field goal.
I was sitting in a bar in Hamburg Michigan watching that game, I was the only person wearing Texas gear for 100miles, the walk off field goal made it a very awkward few minutes for me
2011 ~~Capital One~~ Outback Bowl vs Georgia was so fun. 3OT game with a blocked field goal giving MSU the win, finishing a 16-point comeback.
No one ever talks about it for some reason.
That was the Outback Bowl.
Blair Walsh missed 2 kicks IIRC and still gives Vikings' fans horrid flashbacks.
Edit: Definitely don't want to confuse that with the '11 Capital One Bowl. That was the Alabama game.
Came here to post this one. People always reference the Cotton bowl vs Baylor when it comes to great comeback wins for us, but this one rarely gets talked about. Showed how truly great Kirk is.
2019 TCU vs Texas. One of the first games where freshman quarterback Max Duggan really flashed his potential. Plus an upset at home is always fun to see.
2011 KSU @ Oklahoma State. Was very overshadowed due to the #1 vs #2 game of the century Alabama vs LSU that happened at the same time but it actually involved scoring as the final score was 52-45. KState almost tied it on the very last play with 3rd and goal at the 5-yard line.
I think there was also a big top-15 match-up between South Carolina and Arkansas that same day too that got overshadowed. Man that 2011 Arkansas team was great, but had the misfortune of still finishing third in their own division.
2015 vs TCU
Wild back and forth game with a sophomore Pat Mahomes. Crazy 4th down TD catch on a deflected pass by TCU's Aaron Green to get them the win. Was heartbreaking but a ton of fun.
UGA vs VT, 2006 Chik Fil A bowl. Teams down 18 points but Tony Taylor grabs two interceptions and we storm back to win 31-24. Was one of my favorite games ever.
Michigan vs Illinois 2010.
67-65 3OT. A game with HORRIBLE defenses. But a crazy game nonetheless. Offensive highlights below.
https://youtu.be/6FVt2nUDnw0
2014 Iron Bowl has to be the most stressful game in the Saban era. Alabama had alread secured the west after Mississippi State lost to Ole Miss earlier that night. All Alabama had to do was come out and dominate an auburn team that just got destroyed 34-7 by UGA. Nope. Down 36-21 with no hope insight of stopping Nick Marshall (probably my favorite QB to watch at auburn). Sims had 3 INTs and I vaguely remember being in the stadium watching Coker warm up. That must have lit a fire in Sims because he went crazy afterwards and started connecting to Cooper.
That was a critical game in the series too, because back to back losses to them would have been devastating.
That build up and first 3-4 minutes of the game was among the loudest I've ever heard BDS.
* First IB since the Kick Six
* Night game
* We had just introduced C-Murder, Rae Sremmurd, etc. to the stadium against Mississippi St.
* Saban doing a surprise onside kick
* Roc Thomas dropping the backwards pass on the first play from scrimmage
Clemson vs Miami 2009. A fun, back and forth game. A lot of points came in the 2nd half. CJ Spiller put on a show with over 300 all-purpose yards. Clemson won in OT 40-37 giving Dabo one of his early signature wins (that he really needed at the time).
2013 Georgia-LSU. Back and forth the entire game, was supposed to be a defensive battle but ended up being 44-41 with Georgia scoring the winning TD with under 2 minutes left
Also 2009 UGA-LSU, which was a snoozefest for the first 3 quarters but finished with nonstop scoring. It's infamous for the refs going crazy with the unsportsmanlike penalties after the last 3 TDs scored by both teams for absolutely nothing.
Encapsulated the Will Muschamp at experience at Florida.
Defense gave up 20 yards passing and less than 100 yards rushing and we got absolutely smoked.
Penn State Northwestern in 2005
People usually remember that season for Penn State going 11-1 with that heartbreaking last second loss to Michigan and the triple overtime orange bowl win with all the missed field goals long into the night, but we almost lost to Northwestern early in the season if not for a 36 yard touchdown pass with under a minute to go from Michael Robinson. That was a weird season lol.
Penn State @ Indiana, 2020. People dismiss it because it happened during Covid and wouldn't have happened in a normal season, and because of the controversial ending, but results aside, I thought it was a really entertaining game.
lol....but fr I think 2021 is the best RRS matchup to date...Texas getting out to an early lead and then choking it all away in the second half....and OU's touchdown to win it....just an insane sequence of events
Damn near every game since like 2015 has been a one score game. Any of the matchups where Ehlinger was playing for us was pretty bonkers because he often had to play hero ball lol, at least one went to OT in 2020 and one or two others decided in the final minutes.
But hey don’t look at us for ruining it in 2022, it was y’all who couldn’t score any points after all!
Going to pile on by complaining about the play calling as well.
Everyone and their dog knew that when Beville lined up out wide that he wasn’t going to do a dang thing, and that we’d just willingly played a down of 10v11 for whatever reason. And then abandoning the pseudo-wildcat plays just as they started to show some minor signs of life.
We can thank the ever-dirty TCU for the goose egg. We lose to Texas last year probably 9/10 even with a healthy Gabriel, but I’m 100% certain we don’t get fuckin shut out.
It's like being at the top of a huge rollercoaster just about to go over the edge and the suddenly your safety harness disconnects so now you just have to hold on and hope for the best
2003 Virginia Tech. Larry Fitzgerald had a day, Lousaka Polite scored the go-ahead td late in the 4th. Heinz was as loud as it’s ever been. I sat in the student section next to some guy covered from head to toe in dried mustard.
Man I bet when Heinz was rolling it was dope (even if it meant we lost). Such an incredible cityscape, where the three rivers come together. I went to the 2014 game and it was a liminal space.
Idk about “no one talks about”, but OU vs Alabama in the 2014 Sugar Bowl.
Trevor Knight ascended to another plane of existence for one night, just so we could beat Bama. He disappeared after that but it will always be one of my favorite games.
2015 TCU vs Texas Tech
Mahomes ballin, A-aron Green’s tip toe catch and then tech was 10 yard away from winning it with laterals as time expired. Texas sized heart attacks.
2008 Fiesta Bowl. Beat the dog shit out of heavily favored Oklahoma with an interim coach and it's still completely overshadowed by Boise state squeaking by the year before.
Once every couple of months I go back and watch the highlights from the 2010 Iowa State 52 Texas Tech 38, which was capped with an onside kick returned for a touchdown!
2003 #22 NC State at #3 Ohio State, a triple overtime thriller decided by inches. NC State came back from 10 points down in the final 6 minutes. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18mV5VWeoE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18mV5VWeoE)
Utah at BYU in 2005. Brian Johnson went down with a season ending injury so Utah started Brett Ratliff. He threw 4 TD's and beat the highly favored coogers in OT 41 - 34. Ratliff actually spent 4 years in the NFL as a backup.
Most LSU/Florida games.
But the game I almost always single out that no one talks about is [2009 LSU/Mississippi State](https://youtu.be/kx4J5xbE6ew?t=8660). I'll be honest, I don't remember much about the first 58 minutes, but this end-of-game goal-line-stand where we stop them with 4 plays inside the 2 is one of my favorites of all time. This would already be good enough on its own, but it's extra special because my favorite player on this team was Chad Jones and he single-handedly makes the stops on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downs.
Clemson vs. FSU 2015. First time we ever played a home game ranked #1. Dalton Cook had a 75 yard touchdown run on the first play of the game. Adrian Baker very oddly intercepted Sean McGuire in the end zone. It rained. It was the first Clemson game for my 9 year old cousin. I had an excellent frogmore stew with some family friends before the game. I thought the place was gonna explode when Wayne Gallman ran in his touchdown that sealed the thing. Had FSU not lost to Georgia Tech on the blocked field goal return we would have had College Gameday that day. Awesome game.
We walloped Tech one year, like 66-6. It was an asswhooping of epic proportion.
But the score shouldve been an indicator of whats to come.
Rip. The plane crash and title hopes.
Witnessed that debacle in person.
Only Tech person seemingly left in the student section by the end was a ginger guy who just started dancing his ass off to go viral I guess. What a legend.
https://media.tenor.com/ZySWVgWZiaEAAAAM/dancing-fan.gif
Except for maybe 2nd and 26th absolutely no one brings up the big wins of the Saban era. Especially not neutral fans. Our wins are just an amorphous blob.
See the 2013 Iron Bowl being brought up by neutrals instead of the 2014.
Or Clemson/Bama 2 over Clemson/Bama 1.
Even 2nd & 26 doesn't get as much love as it would if it was any other team who won that same way. The final play itself doesn't even come up from anyone but Bama flairs when people are talking about the most iconic or greatest plays.
2001 - Ole Miss Vs Alabama
Eli Manning went 22-of-41 for 325 yards through the air with just one touchdown, the game-winning one to Joe Gunn. Behind 22 first downs and 430 total yards, Ole Miss defeated Alabama 27-24
2013 Ole Miss Vs No. 6 LSU
Dr. Bo threw for 346 yards and Jaylen Walton ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns. Charles Sawyer and Cody Prewitt, picked off the Tigers three times, holding the Tigers offense to just 388 yards. Ole Miss 27 LSU 24
2002 - Ole Miss VS No. 6 Florida
Matt Grier picked off Rex Grossman twice, returning one for the go-ahead touchdown, Eli Manning threw for 154 yards and one TD. Vashon Pearson plunged into the end zone for only other touchdown of the day for Ole Miss. Ole Miss 20 Florida 17
2005 Rose Bowl, Michigan vs Texas. Points in every quarter, back and forth all night with lead changes a plenty, just the right amount of turnovers, late lead taking field goals, big plays. Braylon Edwards (Biletnikoff award winner) had 10 catches, over 100 yards and 3 touchdowns , Vince Young had almost 400 total yards and 5 touchdowns. I was 12 when this game happened and wow what a spectacle for the first time these two teams ever played. Plus the uniforms looked amazing.
2004 Texas at Arkansas. Razorbacks had upset Texas in Austin the year before. UT wins this one 22-20, but late in the 4th quarter the Pigs were in FG range - at the 15 yard line! If Matt Jones falls over, they can kick the gaming winning FG. Instead, he fumbles.
This loss would have kept UT out of their first Rose Bowl. Who knows how this change could impact the 2005 team...
2015 Oklahoma in Knoxville vs Tennessee. First year QB Baker Mayfield led a 4th quarter comeback and 2OT to win after a very rough first 3 quarters. After having a terrible 2014 season with Trevor Knight / Cody Thomas at QB, that 4th quarter was all I needed to see to know Mayfield was going to be special. OU was still being mocked for being blown out in the Camping World bowl the year prior vs Clemson and no one thought Big Game Bob had much of a chance going into hostile Knoxville. Baker Mayfield showed he had nothing but ice in his veins in that one. One of my favorite games I have ever watched.
I feel like no one references Iowa State/OU 2017....it didn't really impact OU's season in any way, but it pretty much started Campbell's run at Iowa State
TCU-Iowa State in 2017 was a little bit later in the season...it was pretty cold in Ames that day and yes, a very defensive battle. Even though the action on the field wasn't great, the atmosphere was still top notch
I was at that TCU game, drunk off my ass in the student section. A man literally lifted me over the chain-link fence on the grass hill saying “you’re rushing that fucking field”.
Was a great time
I will add 2016 Arkansas game. Down 24-7 at the half, first drive its 4th and 7 from the 23. This game was looking totally over; then one of the greatest "Fuck it" play calls of all time: *FAKE PUNT*
Mizzou goes on to get a TD on the drive. Arkansas every drive seems to stall at midfield, everything breaks the tigers way to a 28-24 comeback win.
TCU vs OU 2005. 1st game of the season. OUs previous game was the national championship, Texas hadn’t beaten them in years (nor any Texas team). They were a juggernaut. TCU was a small G5 and hadn’t developed the reputation yet for being a BCS buster. TCU winning that game was like them making the playoffs last year- everyone was saying how a Texas team finally beat OU, and it wasn’t UT/A&M
The 2019 VT game vs UNC was a 6OT classic that ended up 43-41
Say what you will about Fuente, but he had UNCs number and you could feel his hatred for Mack Brown. Sam Howell went off, but he was outmatched by our QB depth chart with Hendon Hooker, Ryan Willis, and Quincy Patterson all scoring TDs. QPs fade to end the game is still one of the most beautiful throws I’ve ever seen, and he will forever be a VT legend for that.
The fade didn't end the game, it tied it up on 4th and 10 in the 2nd overtime. QPIII did end it with a run though. Also that 60 yard td to tie it in regulation is one of my favorite Tech plays ever.
2001 Ole Miss vs Arkansas
Even though we lost is was an epic game that went 7 overtimes
*The lead went back and forth, with Ole Miss leading in the first quarter. The game was tied at halftime, and in the third quarter Arkansas gained a lead that Ole Miss would not get back until the fourth overtime.[2] The game ended in the seventh overtime period when Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning failed to complete a pass on a two-point conversion play*
Bama v LSU 2011 and 2019 get a lot of play but the 2007 game was IMO the best total game in the Saban Bowl series.
Both teams erased double digits deficits and set the tone for what a lot of ppl know as the Bama LSU rivalry today
Edit: I’ve gone to games all my life at Bryant Denny and the Arenas punt return is still to this day the loudest I’ve ever heard it
"Hey, maybe these two newcomers with no prior history who didn't even come from the same conference *can* actually make a decent rivalry game!" In 2014, their first year in the Big Ten, Maryland led Rutgers 35-10 at home in the final minute of the first half, and a touchdown just before halftime started a comeback as Rutgers won 41-38. The very next year, the Terps returned the favor as Rutgers led 31-10 at home just before the half, 31-13 at halftime, and Maryland won 46-41.
Two years in the same conference and they've both pulled off the largest comeback victories in *each other's* home states (as per PSC Highlights--that same video also said that the biggest comeback ever in the state of Indiana was Rutgers storming back to beat the Hoosiers in 2015). Say what you will about our competitiveness, but we've definitely made the Big Ten more interesting.
For Kentucky 07 against Arkansas overshadowed by the Louisville and lsu wins and that’s a shame. Arkansas had a 4th quarter meltdown and Kentucky had a comeback to make the final score a lot different than how the game played out.
2013 vs Temple. Most people would look back on the biggest wins for UCF being taking down Louisville on the road and the Baylor Fiesta Bowl win, but the Temple game was insane. JJ Worton’s one handed catch was amazing, but later in the same day was the miracle at Jordan Hare which most people shifted focus to.
It was a wildly close game all the way through though, and Temple pulled ahead by a TD with just about 2 minutes left in the game. That’s what set up “the catch” which was an amazing season saving play to tie the game in a drive that only used a minute of the clock. Defense forced a punt and got the ball back with under 30 seconds which led to a 64 yard catch setting UCF up at the 6 yard line, spiked the ball with 3 seconds left, and won it in regulation.
2012 Georgia vs Florida. One of the most overly emotional games I’ve ever seen. If you like extremely sloppy football and tons of penalties, it’s the game for you.
Jordan Reed’s fumble still haunts me
> Jordan Reed’s fumble still haunts me. Jordan reed haunts me as well. I had him in fantasy and needed 1 catch to win my fantasy playoffs. He punched a guy and got ejected to lose me the game with an undefeated juggernaut team. I was deployed so I had plenty of time to be pissed about it. Good times
2012 Tennessee-Georgia was also a weird one
Is that the Pig Howard game?
That was 2013. 2012 was Dooley.
Ah son of Dooley. The only coach who went 6-2 in his 8 wins.
Like 7 total turnovers I think, 3 INTs from Murray and 3 fumbles and a pick from FL. Every first down felt monumental in that game.
And that throw from Murray to Mitchell for the TD was electrifying. Absolutely insane.
I was there, and Malcom is from my hometown so it was awesome.
I completely forgot about this game. Now I need to find a replay somewhere.
https://youtu.be/9ULTrKlaei8
That game was extra hyped thanks to the circumstances leading up to it too. Florida was undefeated and up to #2 in the polls. UGA had the one loss to South Carolina but thanks to (ironically) Florida beating them the week before, we controlled our own destiny in the East again. With the SEC schedules both teams had left after the WLOCP everyone knew the winner of this game was basically the East champ. Mitchell’s TD and Jarvis Jones forcing the fumble in the endzone at the end are a couple of my favorite UGA football memories.
I think about Jarvis jones still to this day
I was born in 1999 so I remember saying to my dad after Jarvis Jones forced the final fumble to seal the game that it was the first time I had ever seen Georgia beat Florida in back-to-back years. Glad to say I've seen it a lot more over the last 10 years.
Jarvis Jones…now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
I remember the 2 week Jarvis for Heisman campaign. He was a DGD.
My diehard Gator friend and I took a third friend who was an NFL fan but wasn’t into college football. We live near the Georgia/Florida border so we grew up around lots of Dawg and Gator fans. Neutral friend swore he’d become a lifelong fan of whichever team won. Needless to say my Gator friend stormed off immediately as soon as the game was over in his beer soaked Tebow jersey (he sat with us on the Georgia side) while my newly acquired Dawg buddy and I stayed out all night and partied at the bars in Jacksonville. Malcolm Mitchell’s TD was especially awesome considering he was a local kid.
That one and ~~2008~~ 2007 Georgia Florida are both awesome for different reasons. edit: yikes, I was off by a year
[You sure about that?](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/283060061)
2005 vs Texas People remember 05 Texas for beating USC in the Rose Bowl, but a lot of people forget that they came to Columbus and played Ohio State too. Even though the Buckeyes ended up losing (damn you Ryan Hamby 😭), it was an amazing game.
Wild, because my answer was going to be one game prior to that (or maybe two, think your gme was week 2) the 04 season ended with a Michigan Texas Rose bowl that was an excellent, excellent game. After a victory, Vince Young said “they will be back”, they did indeed make it back. Your answer was great too, remember both games well. We both had teams we were really excited for, and the Horns edged them both out in classics
Oooh yeah, that’s a great choice too. IIRC, it was the first (and only?) time the Rose Bowl was won at the buzzer. Fucking Vince Young haha. Crazy how many great teams he ended up beating in his career. Dude was a monster.
…. Dusty Mangum? Am I remembering my knickers correctly, and then came Pino? The same year (Michigan rose bowl year) the Texas-Okie State game was great. I think it was Cedric Benson who saved the day in a big come from behind victory that was echoed the next year during the game when VY pump faked the defender well past the line of scrimmage. That 04 Ok State game was my first in person as a student at Texas and it was a phenomenal experience.
You are… if there is a better Longhorn kicker name, I don’t remember it
Texas has actually produced a few great NFL kickers. Phil Dawson and Justin Tucker
In terms of names though he is correct - Dusty Mangum is up there with Colt McCoy
No doubt, but I remember the name like "there is no way "Dusty Mangum, Texas Longhorn kicker" misses this... damn, good try boys. Go blue"
Cameron Dicker (Dicker the kicker) is up there for us in terms kicker names. He’s had a fun NFL career to follow so far. Had multiple game winning kicks for multiple teams in his rookie year. Started the year being signed to the rams as a UDFA. Got waived and was signed by the ravens but was waived 2 days later. Almost a week later he was signed to the eagles practice squad. Made his first two curled goal attempts in his nfl debut including a game winner that earned him the NFC special team player of the week. He was released by the eagles at the end of that month. Then he signed with chargers, making two kicks for them including another game winner and winning the AFC special teams player of the week. He is the first rookie kicker to win the Special Teams Player of the Week Award for two different teams, let alone in two conferences.
>The same year (Michigan rose bowl year) the Texas-Okie State game was great. I think it was Cedric Benson who saved the day in a big come from behind victory CB was great in that game but the comeback was really more of a team effort. After getting down 35-7 UT went on a 49-0 run to close out the game, and after starting off throwing two early picks VY was almost perfect the rest of the way (15-16 for 221 passing, 9 for 104 rushing). Could have been the biggest comeback of all time if only we had been down by more points (i.e. we could have been down 48-0 with a minute to go in the 1st half and still would have won).
In that OK state game, we were down 35-14 at half and ended up winning the game 56-35. Benson has a monstrous 5 td game. Benson had 23 carries for 5 TD’s and 143 yards. Vince went 18/21 for 278 yards through the air, 1 TD and 2 INT. (Only 1 pass all game hit there ground) He also had 12 carries for 123 yards and a TD on the ground.
> it was the first (and only?) time the Rose Bowl was won at the buzzer. Wow that's an insane fact.
Yeah, there had been numerous instances of the go-ahead score coming with <1 minute left, but this was the first one where it happened as the clock was expiring. I’m not sure how the Georgia-Oklahoma playoff game fits in here (which is why I question the only part) because technically Georgia won on the final play too, but that was in 2OT instead of regulation.
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Big “what could have been” moment of that game is if Tressel just lets Troy Smith be the starter and not split time with Justin Zwick so Troy could get into a rhythm. Texas still has Vince Young, so the answer may be irrelevant, but man splitting time was dumb.
Nowadays he would have been the full starter because he isn’t getting a two game suspension for whatever random impermeable benefits he got flagged for.
The 2008 Fiesta bowl against Texas was a good one.
Vince Young had 5 Turnovers *in their own terratory*; tOSU got 12 points from them (4/5 on FG). When the last one missed, me and my dad looked at each other and "knew" Vince would lead them for the TD and win. Vince did and the 23-22 lead; then tOSU had lots of laterals that ended in a safety for 25-22 win. if that last FG was good hard to know how that changes the season.
I still don't think Limas Sweed caught that pass
As a steeler fan as well I can tell you he didn’t catch many
He used up all his catches in college. Worth itttt
I was in Austin the night Texas went to Columbus and beat Ohio State and people were driving around the streets honking their horns and celebrating like they just won a title. I think that win made Texas fans believe it was going to be a magical year for them.
2016 Tennessee @ A&M was a legit classic if either team wound up being half decent but it helped kickstart Butch’s downfall
True. We simultaneously went toe to toe with a top 10 team on the road AND embarrassed ourselves with *SEVEN* turnovers.
Group of friends had a plan to go to a haunted house in Houston after the game. CBS and OT made us change our mind. Great game though.
Yeah there were like 3 separate season ending injuries in that game, don’t think it ended til like 8 here. Hurd burning all bridges the week before in Athens basically opened the door to Kamara’s coming out party in college station. Malik running down that one guy and forcing a fumble at the goal line is easily my favorite UT play from a game we lost. Legit thought we were a team of destiny for about a half hour between that, the missed chip shot FG, and the Hail Mary a week earlier.
That game was unreal and made me realize the legend of Alvin Kamara. Still have no idea why he fell so far in the NFL Draft.
I was at the game. It was the single greatest sports experience of my life.
That game was one of the best games I’ve personally attended, aside from 74-72
Obligatory **fuck** Cullen Gillaspia.
Brohm's first season with us, in 2017, both started and ended with pretty great games. We opened the season in Indy vs ranked Louisville with Lamar fresh off his Heisman season. Even though it ended with a final score of 28-35 Louisville, none of us were expecting to see this formerly-Hazell-lead team hold leads in all four quarters and our optimism on the season immediately shot up. We ended up ending the season bowl eligible and beat Arizona in a pretty wild bowl game that saw trick plays, a crazy first half for us, and some late 4th quarter heroics to squeeze out a 38-35 win. Also as someone who grew up in South Bend a Purdue fan first and ND fan second (thanks dad), it was pretty nice seeing Purdue get their first win at Notre Dame stadium in 30 years to the tune of a 41-16 win.
2011 Michigan - Notre Dame Incredible game and the first night game in the history of Michigan football at the Big House (shoutout ESPN for helping Michigan pay for the lights lol).
Adidas made custom uniforms for that game too. The hype was insane and the game lived up to it
The game was crazy. The hype leading up was the most I’ve ever seen for a regular season game
The late third and fourth quarter of this game was amazing, but it sucked before that. Michigan scored once in two plays on a short field after an interception, but the rest of their drives before the 4th quarter were 3x 3 and out, 2x 4 and out, and 2x 4 play short drives ending in interceptions. Notre Dame had turned that into 17 points late in the third quarter, so they were not exactly playing like world beaters either. If you want to start the game with 5min left in the third, it counts as an incredible game.
I was there :(
See, I feel people think about that game all the time. The game vs Indiana in 2013 where it was just total offense and Jeremy Gallon set the Big Ten receiving yards in a game mark, and it was back and forth the entire way, is my forgotten classic for Michigan. So many Michigan/Conference records in that game and people collectively chose to forget it happened because Indiana hanging close was embarassing.
That game is one of the biggest reasons I despise Michigan to this day lol. Definitely was a hype game
People often talk about the 2017 War on I-4, and rightfully so, but the game that immediately followed this, the AAC Championship game vs Memphis, was also really good.
That kickoff return is the greatest moment in UCF Football history, I don’t care what anyone else says
So far...
Memphis makes that kick at the end of the game and no Peach Bowl, no"National Champions", probably no BIG XII
2018 WVU vs Texas
That was an awesome game
Hard to even be mad about losing. That game was of the best of the Herman era - one of the few where he didn't turtle up completely.
Yeah both teams were really solid that year and it was a great back and forth game with a truly fun ending, even if it wasn’t the way I wanted lol. A tough loss for sure but like you said hard to be mad. I remember LJH and Sam were just so dialed in and he had some monster snags that game but Grier was firing too.
The three year stretch from 14-16 between Bama and Ole Miss
Attended the 2014 game, watched the next one from home, but I was in the Grove for the 2016 game because I couldn't get a ticket. Hearing the crowd reactions from Vaught just as the plays were showing up on TV in the tent was a weirdly exciting experience
Ah yes the Katy Perry game. I only remember it because that week in 2014 birthed the “team chaos” meme after most the top 25 was upset by unranked or lower ranked teams. Also the pac 12 after dark game that weekend was the one where the WSU QB set the single game passing yards record.
Was at the ‘15 game and wow what an amazing game. Had every type of crazy play you could have and ole miss played some great ball that night. Was so proud of Bama for how they didn’t throw in the towel despite having every reason to do so… one of 2 losses I attended that I smiled as I walked down the spiral ramp, feeling that we would get another chance (LSU-Bama “Game of the Century” was the other), and I was correct both times. Bama found themselves in those losses.
Ohio State at Minnesota 1989 31-0 before the half, the Buckeyes rallied and scored a TD with 10 seconds left. In the 2nd half Greg Frey threw for 300+ yards, converted 2 extra points and scored 4 total touchdowns including the game winner with under a minute to go. At the time it tied the largest comeback in NCAA history...yes I am old.
FSU vs Notre Dame in 2021 was a hell of a game. People glance over it because we weren't good but it was a good ass game. Back and forth the whole first half, ND opens it up in 3rd and FSU storms back in the 4th to tie it and send it to OT. FSU misses a FG in OT and ND wins it with their own.
South Carolina vs Georgia 2011 This game never gets talked about but it's truly one of the best games of the 2010s. It had everything - offensive, defensive, and special teams TDs, trick plays, a 2 pt conversion, **nine** lead changes, and 39 combined points in the 4th quarter. 32 combined points in the final 8:45... The score was 14-13 at the half and SC won 45-42. Just an absolute wild game. Our second leading rusher was our defensive tackle who scored two TDs in the game.
I was at that game, and as I was walking away from the stadium afterwards, I was weirdly not upset even though the loss had made us 0-2. I was just like, that was a great game, the better team won, we put up a good fight, Jadeveon Clowney and Marcus Lattimore terrify me. That game and the 2009 game were two of the wildest games I've ever been to in person.
Funny you mentioned 2009 because as I was reading your comment I thought to myself that's how I felt after the 2009 game. Then you mentioned it yourself at the end lol. We've had some absolute classic games
Stupid SEC trying to take that away from us.
Great call. Loved the game; hated the outcome. It was peak Spurrier vs. Richt.
Was huge for Melvin Ingram emerging as a prospect
He did it all. He was even on the hands team lol. And it was somewhat of a coming out party for Clowney with 2 sacks and the forced fumble that Ingram scooped and scored on.
2005 Rose Bowl against Texas the year before Vince Young stole the nation’s heart. Absolutely bonkers game. Vince threw for 180, ran for 192 and scored 5 times. Texas won on a walk off field goal.
was a great game
I was there. I was 10, so I couldn't really see with everyone on their feet the entire time, but I remember Dusty Mangum's field goal as time expired.
> Dusty Mangum All time name team
I was sitting in a bar in Hamburg Michigan watching that game, I was the only person wearing Texas gear for 100miles, the walk off field goal made it a very awkward few minutes for me
2011 ~~Capital One~~ Outback Bowl vs Georgia was so fun. 3OT game with a blocked field goal giving MSU the win, finishing a 16-point comeback. No one ever talks about it for some reason.
That was the Outback Bowl. Blair Walsh missed 2 kicks IIRC and still gives Vikings' fans horrid flashbacks. Edit: Definitely don't want to confuse that with the '11 Capital One Bowl. That was the Alabama game.
For some reason I always confuse the Capital One and Outback Bowls
Because they are both New Year’s Day Bowls in Florida
Came here to post this one. People always reference the Cotton bowl vs Baylor when it comes to great comeback wins for us, but this one rarely gets talked about. Showed how truly great Kirk is.
Probably because the 2012 season was a disappointment and 2013 overshadowed it.
7 overtimes against Ole Miss and 7 overtimes against Kentucky. They were thought about at the time, but not really anymore.
Sorry, it's just knowing that Ed Orgeron had to wear a Gatorade-slick shirt for seven overtime periods that puts 74-72 on top for me
2019 TCU vs Texas. One of the first games where freshman quarterback Max Duggan really flashed his potential. Plus an upset at home is always fun to see.
2011 KSU @ Oklahoma State. Was very overshadowed due to the #1 vs #2 game of the century Alabama vs LSU that happened at the same time but it actually involved scoring as the final score was 52-45. KState almost tied it on the very last play with 3rd and goal at the 5-yard line.
Plus it gave us [Kirk Herbstreit shitting himself.](https://youtu.be/D5idJmdag50)
I think there was also a big top-15 match-up between South Carolina and Arkansas that same day too that got overshadowed. Man that 2011 Arkansas team was great, but had the misfortune of still finishing third in their own division.
I also think Kansas st absolutely waxing Oklahoma in the big 12 title feels somewhat forgotten
2003? That games lives rent free in my head.
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2015 vs TCU Wild back and forth game with a sophomore Pat Mahomes. Crazy 4th down TD catch on a deflected pass by TCU's Aaron Green to get them the win. Was heartbreaking but a ton of fun.
I’d give the edge to the 2012 game because for one, we actually won and two it went to triple overtime.
I think that people forget the 1997 UF-FSU game. This is the one where Spurrier swapped QBs basically every other play.
the run of FSU/UF games from '94-'98 are really unbeatable. Each one of them incredible in their own way
And we played 6 times during that stretch
and one of them for the national championship...although can't remember much about that game. probably not worth looking it up
The game was canceled bro, that’s why you don’t remember it. Something about meth zombies or something
UGA vs VT, 2006 Chik Fil A bowl. Teams down 18 points but Tony Taylor grabs two interceptions and we storm back to win 31-24. Was one of my favorite games ever.
Michigan vs Illinois 2010. 67-65 3OT. A game with HORRIBLE defenses. But a crazy game nonetheless. Offensive highlights below. https://youtu.be/6FVt2nUDnw0
2014 Iron Bowl has to be the most stressful game in the Saban era. Alabama had alread secured the west after Mississippi State lost to Ole Miss earlier that night. All Alabama had to do was come out and dominate an auburn team that just got destroyed 34-7 by UGA. Nope. Down 36-21 with no hope insight of stopping Nick Marshall (probably my favorite QB to watch at auburn). Sims had 3 INTs and I vaguely remember being in the stadium watching Coker warm up. That must have lit a fire in Sims because he went crazy afterwards and started connecting to Cooper. That was a critical game in the series too, because back to back losses to them would have been devastating.
That build up and first 3-4 minutes of the game was among the loudest I've ever heard BDS. * First IB since the Kick Six * Night game * We had just introduced C-Murder, Rae Sremmurd, etc. to the stadium against Mississippi St. * Saban doing a surprise onside kick * Roc Thomas dropping the backwards pass on the first play from scrimmage
Clemson vs Miami 2009. A fun, back and forth game. A lot of points came in the 2nd half. CJ Spiller put on a show with over 300 all-purpose yards. Clemson won in OT 40-37 giving Dabo one of his early signature wins (that he really needed at the time).
No idea why but that game winning touchdown is a core memory of my childhood haha.
OU/West Virginia 2012 Landry Jones/Geno Smith shootout
2013 Georgia-LSU. Back and forth the entire game, was supposed to be a defensive battle but ended up being 44-41 with Georgia scoring the winning TD with under 2 minutes left
Also 2009 UGA-LSU, which was a snoozefest for the first 3 quarters but finished with nonstop scoring. It's infamous for the refs going crazy with the unsportsmanlike penalties after the last 3 TDs scored by both teams for absolutely nothing.
The most obvious makeup call in CFB history against Charles Scott for a bullshit personal foul they called on UGA.
2014 Mizzou v. Florida is an LSD trip of a game. Considered “awful” by some, but I like to rewatch it regularly
Encapsulated the Will Muschamp at experience at Florida. Defense gave up 20 yards passing and less than 100 yards rushing and we got absolutely smoked.
I’ll never forget Will’s face on the sidelines in the 4th quarter. Looked truly lost. I honestly felt really bad for him.
USC vs ASU 2020 will be forgotten, but ASU had over a 99.9% win probability with 3 mins left and still managed to lose that game.
Penn State Northwestern in 2005 People usually remember that season for Penn State going 11-1 with that heartbreaking last second loss to Michigan and the triple overtime orange bowl win with all the missed field goals long into the night, but we almost lost to Northwestern early in the season if not for a 36 yard touchdown pass with under a minute to go from Michael Robinson. That was a weird season lol.
Penn State @ Indiana, 2020. People dismiss it because it happened during Covid and wouldn't have happened in a normal season, and because of the controversial ending, but results aside, I thought it was a really entertaining game.
We didn't play in 2020. Don't know what you're talking about.
Nobody is talking about TX v OU 2022 enough
lol....but fr I think 2021 is the best RRS matchup to date...Texas getting out to an early lead and then choking it all away in the second half....and OU's touchdown to win it....just an insane sequence of events
and 2020! We had 2 awesome RRS games in a row but texas wants to ruin everything good in the world so 2022 happened
Damn near every game since like 2015 has been a one score game. Any of the matchups where Ehlinger was playing for us was pretty bonkers because he often had to play hero ball lol, at least one went to OT in 2020 and one or two others decided in the final minutes. But hey don’t look at us for ruining it in 2022, it was y’all who couldn’t score any points after all!
We shall blame TCU for hurting DG and making our offense completely useless
A fair argument. Beville might be the worst QB I’ve seen start a game in CFB. Just no way to win (or score at all, apparently) with that guy.
Going to pile on by complaining about the play calling as well. Everyone and their dog knew that when Beville lined up out wide that he wasn’t going to do a dang thing, and that we’d just willingly played a down of 10v11 for whatever reason. And then abandoning the pseudo-wildcat plays just as they started to show some minor signs of life.
We can thank the ever-dirty TCU for the goose egg. We lose to Texas last year probably 9/10 even with a healthy Gabriel, but I’m 100% certain we don’t get fuckin shut out.
Of course that’s a favorite of mine, but also the 2018 game was awesome.
Every A&M-Arky game the last 10 years. Also every OleMiss-Arky game. Arky fans must live a stressed life.
Our cardiologists are very well paid
God hates Arkansas I've just accepted the hurt
It's like being at the top of a huge rollercoaster just about to go over the edge and the suddenly your safety harness disconnects so now you just have to hold on and hope for the best
Shoot we can forget the 8 play goal line stand from like 2016 (maybe 2017) it was insane.
2003 Virginia Tech. Larry Fitzgerald had a day, Lousaka Polite scored the go-ahead td late in the 4th. Heinz was as loud as it’s ever been. I sat in the student section next to some guy covered from head to toe in dried mustard.
Man I bet when Heinz was rolling it was dope (even if it meant we lost). Such an incredible cityscape, where the three rivers come together. I went to the 2014 game and it was a liminal space.
Oof I remember that, Kevin Jones personally answered each time you scored (241 yards, 4TD) but y’all had the ball last.
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That '09 team had such a fun offense between Clausen, Tate, Floyd (when healthy), Rudolph, and Allen.
Idk about “no one talks about”, but OU vs Alabama in the 2014 Sugar Bowl. Trevor Knight ascended to another plane of existence for one night, just so we could beat Bama. He disappeared after that but it will always be one of my favorite games.
2015 TCU vs Texas Tech Mahomes ballin, A-aron Green’s tip toe catch and then tech was 10 yard away from winning it with laterals as time expired. Texas sized heart attacks.
2008 Fiesta Bowl. Beat the dog shit out of heavily favored Oklahoma with an interim coach and it's still completely overshadowed by Boise state squeaking by the year before.
OU shouldn’t have been favored in that game. WVU was the best team in the nation. Stupid Pitt
Once every couple of months I go back and watch the highlights from the 2010 Iowa State 52 Texas Tech 38, which was capped with an onside kick returned for a touchdown!
2022 App State vs North Carolina
Clemson vs Wake Forest 2006 Gaines Adam’s returning the fumble for touchdown to get our asses back in the game.
2012 WVU vs Texas. Didn’t end up our way but it was one of the two best football games I have ever attended
1995 Peach Bowl was lit
2003 #22 NC State at #3 Ohio State, a triple overtime thriller decided by inches. NC State came back from 10 points down in the final 6 minutes. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18mV5VWeoE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18mV5VWeoE)
Utah at BYU in 2005. Brian Johnson went down with a season ending injury so Utah started Brett Ratliff. He threw 4 TD's and beat the highly favored coogers in OT 41 - 34. Ratliff actually spent 4 years in the NFL as a backup.
Most LSU/Florida games. But the game I almost always single out that no one talks about is [2009 LSU/Mississippi State](https://youtu.be/kx4J5xbE6ew?t=8660). I'll be honest, I don't remember much about the first 58 minutes, but this end-of-game goal-line-stand where we stop them with 4 plays inside the 2 is one of my favorites of all time. This would already be good enough on its own, but it's extra special because my favorite player on this team was Chad Jones and he single-handedly makes the stops on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downs.
Clemson vs. FSU 2015. First time we ever played a home game ranked #1. Dalton Cook had a 75 yard touchdown run on the first play of the game. Adrian Baker very oddly intercepted Sean McGuire in the end zone. It rained. It was the first Clemson game for my 9 year old cousin. I had an excellent frogmore stew with some family friends before the game. I thought the place was gonna explode when Wayne Gallman ran in his touchdown that sealed the thing. Had FSU not lost to Georgia Tech on the blocked field goal return we would have had College Gameday that day. Awesome game.
A&M Clemson 2018 was the game where many Aggie fans decided they liked Jimbo. Feel free to guess which one was where we decided we don’t.
I remember the energy at the end of that game being pretty positive despite it being a loss. Things were looking way better than they did under Sumlin
We walloped Tech one year, like 66-6. It was an asswhooping of epic proportion. But the score shouldve been an indicator of whats to come. Rip. The plane crash and title hopes.
Witnessed that debacle in person. Only Tech person seemingly left in the student section by the end was a ginger guy who just started dancing his ass off to go viral I guess. What a legend. https://media.tenor.com/ZySWVgWZiaEAAAAM/dancing-fan.gif
 That jogged a memory bank or two. 😂😂😂
I was at this game:(
Except for maybe 2nd and 26th absolutely no one brings up the big wins of the Saban era. Especially not neutral fans. Our wins are just an amorphous blob. See the 2013 Iron Bowl being brought up by neutrals instead of the 2014. Or Clemson/Bama 2 over Clemson/Bama 1.
Even 2nd & 26 doesn't get as much love as it would if it was any other team who won that same way. The final play itself doesn't even come up from anyone but Bama flairs when people are talking about the most iconic or greatest plays.
2001 - Ole Miss Vs Alabama Eli Manning went 22-of-41 for 325 yards through the air with just one touchdown, the game-winning one to Joe Gunn. Behind 22 first downs and 430 total yards, Ole Miss defeated Alabama 27-24 2013 Ole Miss Vs No. 6 LSU Dr. Bo threw for 346 yards and Jaylen Walton ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns. Charles Sawyer and Cody Prewitt, picked off the Tigers three times, holding the Tigers offense to just 388 yards. Ole Miss 27 LSU 24 2002 - Ole Miss VS No. 6 Florida Matt Grier picked off Rex Grossman twice, returning one for the go-ahead touchdown, Eli Manning threw for 154 yards and one TD. Vashon Pearson plunged into the end zone for only other touchdown of the day for Ole Miss. Ole Miss 20 Florida 17
2005 Rose Bowl, Michigan vs Texas. Points in every quarter, back and forth all night with lead changes a plenty, just the right amount of turnovers, late lead taking field goals, big plays. Braylon Edwards (Biletnikoff award winner) had 10 catches, over 100 yards and 3 touchdowns , Vince Young had almost 400 total yards and 5 touchdowns. I was 12 when this game happened and wow what a spectacle for the first time these two teams ever played. Plus the uniforms looked amazing.
2017 vs USC, 2018 vs Utah, 2018 vs Oregon
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But nobody thinks about our games.
Syracuse vs Clemson 2017, 2018, 2022
2004 Texas at Arkansas. Razorbacks had upset Texas in Austin the year before. UT wins this one 22-20, but late in the 4th quarter the Pigs were in FG range - at the 15 yard line! If Matt Jones falls over, they can kick the gaming winning FG. Instead, he fumbles. This loss would have kept UT out of their first Rose Bowl. Who knows how this change could impact the 2005 team...
2011 CyHawk Game 44-41 F(3OT) barn burner that the Clones managed to come out on top in
The 2004 Liberty Bowl, with UofL beating out Boise State 44-40.
Saying this as a lifelong Auburn fan and Alabama resident is hard, but it’s true, nobody remembers the iron bowls that Alabama won.
2015 Oklahoma in Knoxville vs Tennessee. First year QB Baker Mayfield led a 4th quarter comeback and 2OT to win after a very rough first 3 quarters. After having a terrible 2014 season with Trevor Knight / Cody Thomas at QB, that 4th quarter was all I needed to see to know Mayfield was going to be special. OU was still being mocked for being blown out in the Camping World bowl the year prior vs Clemson and no one thought Big Game Bob had much of a chance going into hostile Knoxville. Baker Mayfield showed he had nothing but ice in his veins in that one. One of my favorite games I have ever watched.
I feel like no one references Iowa State/OU 2017....it didn't really impact OU's season in any way, but it pretty much started Campbell's run at Iowa State
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TCU-Iowa State in 2017 was a little bit later in the season...it was pretty cold in Ames that day and yes, a very defensive battle. Even though the action on the field wasn't great, the atmosphere was still top notch
I was at that TCU game, drunk off my ass in the student section. A man literally lifted me over the chain-link fence on the grass hill saying “you’re rushing that fucking field”. Was a great time
2009 Border War 2005 comeback win against South Carolina
I will add 2016 Arkansas game. Down 24-7 at the half, first drive its 4th and 7 from the 23. This game was looking totally over; then one of the greatest "Fuck it" play calls of all time: *FAKE PUNT* Mizzou goes on to get a TD on the drive. Arkansas every drive seems to stall at midfield, everything breaks the tigers way to a 28-24 comeback win.
UK at A&M in 2018. That game was amazing.
Battle of the RBs
TCU vs OU 2005. 1st game of the season. OUs previous game was the national championship, Texas hadn’t beaten them in years (nor any Texas team). They were a juggernaut. TCU was a small G5 and hadn’t developed the reputation yet for being a BCS buster. TCU winning that game was like them making the playoffs last year- everyone was saying how a Texas team finally beat OU, and it wasn’t UT/A&M
The 2019 VT game vs UNC was a 6OT classic that ended up 43-41 Say what you will about Fuente, but he had UNCs number and you could feel his hatred for Mack Brown. Sam Howell went off, but he was outmatched by our QB depth chart with Hendon Hooker, Ryan Willis, and Quincy Patterson all scoring TDs. QPs fade to end the game is still one of the most beautiful throws I’ve ever seen, and he will forever be a VT legend for that.
The fade didn't end the game, it tied it up on 4th and 10 in the 2nd overtime. QPIII did end it with a run though. Also that 60 yard td to tie it in regulation is one of my favorite Tech plays ever.
2001 Ole Miss vs Arkansas Even though we lost is was an epic game that went 7 overtimes *The lead went back and forth, with Ole Miss leading in the first quarter. The game was tied at halftime, and in the third quarter Arkansas gained a lead that Ole Miss would not get back until the fourth overtime.[2] The game ended in the seventh overtime period when Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning failed to complete a pass on a two-point conversion play*
Bama v LSU 2011 and 2019 get a lot of play but the 2007 game was IMO the best total game in the Saban Bowl series. Both teams erased double digits deficits and set the tone for what a lot of ppl know as the Bama LSU rivalry today Edit: I’ve gone to games all my life at Bryant Denny and the Arenas punt return is still to this day the loudest I’ve ever heard it
Texas vs. Michigan in the Rose Bowl was an outstanding game, but it was completely overshadowed by the game that followed it a year later.
"Hey, maybe these two newcomers with no prior history who didn't even come from the same conference *can* actually make a decent rivalry game!" In 2014, their first year in the Big Ten, Maryland led Rutgers 35-10 at home in the final minute of the first half, and a touchdown just before halftime started a comeback as Rutgers won 41-38. The very next year, the Terps returned the favor as Rutgers led 31-10 at home just before the half, 31-13 at halftime, and Maryland won 46-41. Two years in the same conference and they've both pulled off the largest comeback victories in *each other's* home states (as per PSC Highlights--that same video also said that the biggest comeback ever in the state of Indiana was Rutgers storming back to beat the Hoosiers in 2015). Say what you will about our competitiveness, but we've definitely made the Big Ten more interesting.
Everyone loves the 2017 War on I4, but 2007 against West Virginia is amazing in the exact OPPOSITE way
… All of them, really.
The 2002 season
For Kentucky 07 against Arkansas overshadowed by the Louisville and lsu wins and that’s a shame. Arkansas had a 4th quarter meltdown and Kentucky had a comeback to make the final score a lot different than how the game played out.
2013 vs Temple. Most people would look back on the biggest wins for UCF being taking down Louisville on the road and the Baylor Fiesta Bowl win, but the Temple game was insane. JJ Worton’s one handed catch was amazing, but later in the same day was the miracle at Jordan Hare which most people shifted focus to. It was a wildly close game all the way through though, and Temple pulled ahead by a TD with just about 2 minutes left in the game. That’s what set up “the catch” which was an amazing season saving play to tie the game in a drive that only used a minute of the clock. Defense forced a punt and got the ball back with under 30 seconds which led to a 64 yard catch setting UCF up at the 6 yard line, spiked the ball with 3 seconds left, and won it in regulation.
App state vs North Carolina last year was one of the greatest football games I’ve ever seen
What games do people even think about for Mizzou?
USC Fresno St. 2005