The MOST CONTROVERSIAL AP RANKING in Texas A&M HISTORY | 1992 Texas A&M
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- In 1992, Texas A&M won the Southwest Conference after defeating TCU by a final score of 37-10. However, despite the dominant performance, and despite no one around them in the rankings doing anything noteworthy, Texas A&M, for some reason, actually went down in the AP poll. And to this day, no one really knows why. This is the story behind the bizarre controversy of the college football rankings and the Aggies
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I find it funny that both times I can think of a team dropping in the rankings after blowing out a conference foe late in the season involved TCU
TCU deserved the playoffs that year fuck Ohio state
What about Marshall in 2014? On some level, I could understand them slipping a little bit in the rankings despite being undefeated because they're a Group of Five program, but to CONSTANTLY fall every week despite destroying teams by 20, 30 or 40 points until they were out of The Top 20 is just plain absurd. Sure they lost their regular season finale to Western Kentucky, but it was by ONLY ONE POINT after a failed two-point conversion in overtime. Despite bouncing back and winning the C-USA Championship game the following week, THEY STILL WEREN'T IN THE TOP 25. That's rubbish!!! They were freaking 11-1!!! I don't give a damn if Marshall was a Mid-Major, placing them out of the Top 25 - behind a three-loss Georgia and four-loss Utah is STONE COLD BOLLOCKS!!
I think this probably had to do with the lack of respect the SWC had. The whole conference was in the process of falling apart in the aftermath of SMU. I think all but one SWC school got hit with sanctions when the investigations started
Rice was the only school that wasn't penalized
There used to be a joke going around that Rice would win the SWC by default because.all the other teams were on probation!
15 ppl thought FSU had best week of practice in history of NCAA football.
We talkin’ ‘bout practice.
Another fantastic video. Some stories make absolutely no sense. Great job laying out the context...but as for the explanation, just wow. Unreal. Excellent video!
People forget that the Aggies were very dominate in the 80's. They literally owned the Texas Longhorns from 1983 to 94. The Aggies only lost ONE GAME against them which was in 1990 where Texas actually had a good year and only beat the Aggies by 1 because the Aggies decided to go for 2 instead of kicking the extra point which would have given them a tie (no overtime until 1996). Still the 1992 Aggies were the best when it came to school history. II's sad that that the SWC didn't have anyone ranked other than the Aggies. Miami were just that good after winning the national championship (split with Washington) the year before and Alabama just played more ranked teams and played in the SEC championship. The Aggies didn't do any favors by losing to Notre Dame in the Cotton in 92 and the next year in 93.
I remember that Texas A&M was always very good back then. Seem like they were not into or 10 and 1 and seemed like they always start off 6 and 0. I mentioned to somebody else they remind me of Clemson before they won their recent championships. Always very good but could never get to the top.
I was at the Tech game when the Aggies won with a field goal as time expired as well as the 1993 Cotton Bowl which sucked for them. However, that team was not in the same league as some of the Florida schools and this was such a different time when most of their games were blacked out due to NCAA infractions. I agree the good guys got screwed but it was such a different time but also proves we need a better playoff system in College Football!
Back when the Southwest Conference was still a thing. Yes, I'm old enough to remember.
Are you Mr pepperidge
I'm old enough to remember watching the SWC's Raycom package here in Florida.
@@marcus813 and the Jefferson Pilot game of the week for the SEC. Usually involved Vanderbilt lol
@@GR-bn3xj I guess it's fitting that JPS' 1st SEC football telecast had Vandy visiting Alabama! 😄
This is the second video I’ve seen from this channel. As a total football geek, I appreciate this type of content. Keep going man!
I remember this I didn’t understand why then and I don’t understand it now! Awesome video my man!
I'm a life long A&M fan and I followed this season very closely. In reality this Aggie team was not very good and their offense was certainly not a machine. By 1992 the Southwest Conference wasn't even a shell of its former self. It was much worse. Most of the teams in the conference that season would've struggled in 1-AA. A&M, though talented, played down to their competition in '92. They struggled to beat Tech & Baylor at home. Then later on they had to rely on a miracle 4th QTR to squeeze by a horrible Houston team on Natl Television. Sure their non-conf. wins over Stanford & Louisville were decent enough. But lets not forget that they only beat a bad Tulsa team by 10 at home early in the season.
That 37-10 win over TCU wasn't impressive. This was in an era of college football where style points were EVERYTHING to AP voters. A&M coach RC Slocum was about as old school as you could get. He believed defense wins games, while the offenses job was to pound the ball and score just enough to give the D a lead to protect. He was also a terrible motivator, who didn't believe in running up the score unless otherwise provoked. You might call that "classy," but in 1992, that mentality kept ya out of National Title contention. Which is exactly what happened to them that year. The 1992 Aggies were a mediocre team that won 12 games thanks to a very soft schedule. The AP was 100% right to drop them down. No question.
Still not convinced? That Jan 1st the 4th ranked Aggies faced #5 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. Final Score: ND 28 A&M 3, and it wasn't that close.
Man that's brutally honest!
I'm so glad you said this so I didn't have to. Back then Texas A&M was always that one team that had a great record but nobody took seriously, as evidenced by the 3 straight Cotton Bowl losses. The sad part is, they haven't even had that much sustained success in the 30 years since. And yes, even Joe Paterno fell victim to the "not enough style points" ratings drop in '94 because Indiana scored twice in garbage time. That game was the epitome of everything wrong with college football.
because the media basically believed in style points over actual defense. It's why they gushed over Florida State despite never winning big games for years.
@@DolFan316 Yeah, kind of, like, how, Boise State played exactly, ONE, REAL, opponent, a weak conference, and, teams from other subdivisions, OF COURSE, they're going to do well, glad the pollsters, weren't, fooled, as, for, Joe Paterno, people thought Tom Osborne's last shot at a, Championship, had, already, come, and, gone, that year's, Title, was, his to, lose, Joe Paterno had, two, already, and, many people, disliked, him, personally, (they had, NO IDEA).
@@chrisuncleahmad Not, only do I think Bobby Bowden, did, less, with, more, than, any coach in history, the fact that the, NCAA, was, unwilling to ever truly punish him, was, only a slightly lesser blight, than, the offenses that merited it.
I would understand A&M losing ground to Florida State if TCU came even remotely close to winning the game, but not in this case. A&M did what it was supposed to do to a team of TCU's caliber.
As both a football and a weather nerd, this November 21, 1992 date stood out to me. The largest November tornado outbreak on record occurred that weekend; I believe that record still stands. My town got hit by one that Sunday night; I remember it well even though I was just a kid. Warning crawls were visible in the Houston-area broadcast clips in this video; Texas was struck by several twisters that day, so no wonder the weather in College Station was so bad. It was an interesting decision not to go with weather warning coverage, but that was probably standard prior to the digital switchover. In my area, the primary channel goes to and stays on weather as long as there's an active tornado warning and they announce which alternate channel they have shifted sports coverage to.
Devil’s Advocate: A&M’s strength of schedule would have dropped since TCU was so bad.
I still tend to give undefeateds the benefit of doubt, but that could be the reason.
The AP poll was always a little shady.
Hah, I remembered after he mentioned then #3 Michigan tying against unranked Illinois....oh yeah that was the year Michigan finished 9-0-3! They won the Rose Bowl and finished at #5 that year. If just a few breaks had gone the other way in those 3 ties, maybe Michigan's the national champion? It was a good team anyway, Elvis Grbac and Todd Collins at QB and Tyrone Wheatley and Ricky Powers at RB, among others.
Jeez, though, I forgot that Powers basically did jack squat in the NFL, he had a grand total of 51 yards in 3 games....he seemed so good at U of M. I think out of all the players on that team that year, the one who went on to have the best NFL career was the CB Ty Law (5-time Pro Bowler and 3 time SB winner) unless I'm just totally forgetting someone, lol
I think you meant “latter” rather than “former” when talking about which TCU team would show up around the 7-minute mark.
You’re right. Error on my part. Think I originally had the lines reversed in my script and then flipped them and didn’t change it
Videos are great. I wonder how many of those voters looked at the previous week’s list of teams without thinking. I also found it amazing that Stanford was the only team that was ranked when A&M played it during the regular season.
My brother is becoming an Aggie this fall, I should send this to him
at 7 minutes into this video you say this game was not even close to competitive, it was 13-6 at the half and 16-6 at the end of the 3rd. A&M scored 21 4th quarter points to make the final margin, but was hardly dominating this game on the scoreboard at the 3 quarter mark, it wasn't until Pullig threw a long TD pass 2 minutes into the 4th quarter that A&M started to put a terrible TCU team away. although the final score and stats look lopsided, but it was a rather unimpressive win against a very bad team
Mechanically how this works is previously when FSU is #3 and A&M is #4 more voters had FSU ranked 1-3 than voter for the aggies did, making them 3 with a 3 point advantage, after watching the game more voters concluded that despite blowing out TCU they were convinced FSU could beat them or was a better team etc and so afterwards even more voters had FSU ranked 1-3 than the Aggies, with the gap increasing as people decided they weren’t better than FSU
Excellent video. I remember this 1992. The AP voters were favoring Miami and Alabama. They were also obsessed with Florida State who had one 3 point loss at Miami. The Aggies were not considered on that level. They were dominant in the SWC. They lost to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl after the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Michigan had three ties that year. Washington faded in November losing several games
Florida State couldn't win a big game for years, but the AP voters always seemed to give them a pass.
Bobby Bowden's, only, Championships, were, "The, Bridesmaid Bowl," against Nebraska, and, against a Virginia Tech team, with, Michael Vick, and, nobody, he didn't, win, more, because, he, wasn't, good enough, blood simple.
@@chrisuncleahmad The, NCAA, also, gave him, A, Lifetime, Pass, For, Cheating, because, of his, "Aw, Shucks," attitude, the only coach who, was, a bigger cheater, was, Barry Switzer, who, eventually, got himself removed, because, the brazen nature of his transgressions, couldn't be overlooked.
I remember there was one voter who voted Alabama number one the entire season and he was a hero in Alabama. But everybody was obsessed with Miami mainly as Alabama was a big underdog. I'm just glad we don't have this system now where sports writers control who wins it. I'm not a big fan of only four teams but at least it's settled on the field rather than people's opinions. We are all biased to a degree, it can't be helped. But unfortunately these people think they are not and had the championship in their hands.
@@GR-bn3xj Dennis Erickson got revealed.
Makes me think of when Alabama was somehow in the preseason Top 25 despite having been 3-8 a year earlier.
I've noticed the preseason polls do that a lot Texas, Michigan Texas a&m Arkansas etc . Top ten preseason then win 4 to 6 games
@@practicalathletics962 i think it has to do more with their recruiting class rather than their actual performance
Because they had great recruiting
RC Slocumb was an underrated coach.
The sports media has been against the Ags since the the first meeting of Texas and Texas A&M. Things are better now with the Aggies in the SEC, but you only have to look back as recently as the 2020 playoff snub to see media personalities like Kirk Herbstreit make a case for his college team, the Ohio State Buckeyes.
John Cooper, was, one of the greatest coaches in college football history, but, would get completely sunk by a, 3-13, lifetime record, against Michigan.
Well that's because Texas usually beats up on A&M they were the little brother in the rivalry
John Cooper was overrated mainly he won all the games he was suppose but couldn't beat michigan.
@@dustinsindledecker154 So, not, the, rivalry.
@@dustinsindledecker154 Only overrated in Columbus.
You had some highlights of Greg Hill when he played running back at A&M. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the bizarre circumstances under which he got drafted by the Chiefs.
Notre Dame took care of any Texas A&M thoughts of National Title sharing in the Cotton Bowl, with a 28-3 beat down.
As a Razorbacks fan, I miss the old SWC....more so for hoops, but football was great as well.
As a incoming cougar, I wish I was alive when it was around
It's like what happened recently in my NCAA 14 Dynasty where I played as Stetson University (custom teambuilder team), we were ranked 23rd, and made the Fiesta Bowl against #15 Oklahoma State. We won by 14 but somehow we dropped out of the rankings while Oklahoma State dropped to 25.
It might be because you were Stetson and nobody knows where Stetson is located.
@@dustinsindledecker154 the game tends to hate Teambuilder teams
@@dustinsindledecker154 The UCF pfp was a clue as to where Stetson University is. Central Florida.
@@XDrang93 UCF is one of my "rivals" in that dynasty. Rivals are in quotes because the game doesn't recognize it as a rivalry
Oh I didn't notice the UCF picture on the profile.
I’ve heard of teams losing ground or dropping in the coaches poll for dumb reasons. It’s rare to have this happen with the AP poll.
Remember in 1994 when Penn State beat a ranked Ohio State by 49 points and dropped from #1 to #2. (most people think it was the Indiana game that dropped them, but in fact, the AP had dropped them after Ohio State.) The AP was always about who the sportswriters preferred, and if they didn't like a team or really preferred another, they would find any reason to drop them.
I remember in 1971 when Oklahoma (ranked 2), in a back and forth game with Nebraska (ranked 1), lost 35-31. Oklahoma dropped to 3 and Alabama, which, like Nebraska, was undefeated and untied, moved to 2. In the bowl games, Oklahoma blew out Auburn, then ranked 5. Oklahoma blew out Auburn 40-22 and Nebraska blew out Alabama 38-6. Oklahoma regained 2. Colorado jumped from 7 to 3 due to a 29-17 bowl win against Houston (ranked 15 at the time). Alabama dropped to 4. Now, Colorado was blown out by Oklahoma (45-17) and Nebraska (31-7) during the season so arguing Colorado was better than Alabama is on thin ice. And the fact that Alabama was undefeated going into the bowl game is not exactly the best reason to say it was considered better than Oklahoma since Oklahoma barely lost to the what was considered the best team in the country.
It just shows how fickle and illogical polls could be.
I remember that team and season well. A&M went 12-0 in the regular season but wasn't all that great of a team, at least not what you would think of as being a 12-0 type of team. That win over Stanford was the best they had, and that was Bill Walsh's first game back at Stanford, and he'd put in an offense that was too complex for college guys. It took them half the season to figure it out.
I never even thought they were a top-10 team in 1992. But if the voters thought they were, they didn't deserve to be moved down for a 27-point win in crappy conditions.
A&M had a lot of teams like that in the first half of the 1990s. In 1994, they went 10-0-1 and only finished No. 8.
Seemed like that Texas A&M was always 10 and 1 or 11 and 0 back then for a while. Reminded me of Clemson a few years ago. Always very good but not great.
Did the AP ever give a reason for the drop?
1994 Nittany lions beat Ohio state 63-14 . Dropped from 1 to 2
That destroyed their title hopes
If any team deserved a shot at a championship, it was them. Thanks big ten.
Now I can see why Nick Saban & Alabama has an issue with Texas A&M.
Yet Alabama won the National Championship against Miami using that very Philosophy. BTW, after shitcanning RC Slocum, how did that sparkling offensive output against Oklahoma feel, 77-0…
Turned out Dennis Erickson, was, already, on borrowed time, and, once Jimmy Johnson's players, finally, left, That's All She Wrote.
“You’re not going to go up after a loss.”
Texas: am I a joke to you?
I miss the southwest conference, I don't like these super conferences of today bring back the southwest, the football WAC, and big east football.
Texas A&M and Mississippi St. need to do a "maroon-off" where the loser of their next meeting has to choose a new uniform color, because I'm tired of both teams having the exact same one.
I had the same thought watching this first-round series between Tampa Bay and Toronto in the NHL. "It's taking me way too long to figure out which team is which."
Really one team has a maple leaf and the other has a lightning bolt not that difficult to tell them apart but that's just my opinion.
@@dustinsindledecker154 Yeah, I get that, and it's not *really* that big of a deal, but when you flip to the channel and see one time in blue and one team in white with blue trim, it can take you a minute when it should ideally be instantaneous. Another match-up where this crops up is Wisconsin and Nebraska--and it *really* ticked me off several years ago when both teams wore goofy alternates with lots of black.
Yeah it's very tough when you first turn on a game, especially back then to know which team is playing lol. And seeing Jackie Sherril on the sidelines doesn't make it any easier.
1994, Penn State 63, Ohio State 14. They dropped from #1 to # 2.
I wonder if voters were influenced by the Cotton Bowl in the previous season where FSU defeated Texas AM in the Cotton Bowl. I am not saying it should have influenced them as it was a different year with different players but I could see where it might have
It was also the first year the SEC Championship Game was played.
Alabama beat Florida 28-21.
Gene Stallings said after the gamel:" we're 12-0 and haven't won nothing."
Of course we know what happened after that on Jan 1st in the Sugar Bowl.
Yeah, he saved America from Miami, too bad people kept thinking Dennis Erickson could, actually, coach, once Jimmy Johnson's players left, "The, Emperor Had No Clothes."
Did gene Stallings coach in the nfl, I thought he might but I'm not sure.
@@dustinsindledecker154 Cardinals, 1986-1989, really, unfortunate.
I thought he did I just couldn't remember, those were some bad cardinals teams.
@@dustinsindledecker154 Wretched ownership, absolutely miserable.
Can you do UCLA’s 4th Quarter comeback against Texas A&M?
The game that sold me on Josh Rosen being a great NFL QB. What a whiff that was
@@JaguarGator8 "9 mistakes" 🤡
Kyle field looked so tiny compared to modern day
Kyle field was grown up so much over the years, I'm so proud of him.😆
7:42 Damn, yeah, I guess the weather for the game probably wasn't good if the TV station not that far away (KTRK is in Houston, about 80 miles from College Station) is showing tornado warnings during the broadcast!
OK. This is a bit disingenuous. Texas A&M didn't play anybody in 1992. They played 2 ranked teams all season: a 10-7 win against #17 Stanford in week 1 and didn't play another ranked team until the Cotton Bowl where Notre Dame curb stomped them. In short, A&M was decent but certainly not a powerhouse and were way, way overranked. They were in no way a top 5 team. By contrast, Florida State played 7 ranked teams and won 6 of them pretty handily save for Georgia Tech who they beat by 5 and their 1 loss was on the road at Miami by a FG. The only weak sisters on their schedule were Duke who at the time was a notch above Prarie View and Northwestern when it came to futility, and Tulane. And maybe Maryland. A&M's opponents all had losing records save for Baylor, Rice, & Texas and they were all 1 game over .500. The only reason A&M were getting votes is because the media loved big conference schools and at the time the SWC was up there with the SEC, ACC, Big !0, and the rest. But in no way did they deserve to be in the top 10. And don't get me wrong, I'm a Florida State fan but they weren't good enough that season nor do I believe they deserved the national title a year later after losing to Notre Dame.
Ironic that 20 years later as Texas A&M joined the SEC, their offense was great, but the defense couldn’t stop anybody.
A&M in those days was like Cincinnati nowadays - a dominant team in a crap conference.
By this time in the season, Florida State was as scary a team as there was. Bama beat Miami in the championship, and as a Bama fan, I thanked god we didn't have to play Florida State instead of Miami. Florida State would win the championship the following year.
I will never trust the AP poll because they give every break imaginable to SEC teams. when a mediocre Florida team beat the Utah Utes to start off 2022, the AP voters put Florida at #12. This would never happen to a PAC-12, Big 12, or G5 team
6:24 made me laugh a wee bit
Marcus Buckley, Sam Adams, Aaron Glenn, Jason Atkinson, Lance Teichelman, that defense was salty. Too bad they had a great pitcher and a true freshman at qb.
No one in the national media wanted to have the Aggies in National Championship game.
30 Years Ago
Back when everything about life and the world was so much better (sighs).
@@DolFan316 certainly was a simple time, before instant gratification took over and we had to wait for information and didn't have these magical devices to answer our questions. Remember when "googling" someone was a whole other thing. Lol
I will never forget this.
I remember this, and 30 years later, still pissed.
Oh there was a tornado warning during that game, I hope everyone is okay even though it was 30 years ago.
“You’re not gonna go up after a loss”
2022 Texas after losing to Bama: 👋
I was expecting Texas A&M to fall to 5, 6, or 7
Aggies still getting robbed and disrespected to this day. (2020 College Football Playoff)
I think Notre Dame went up in the polls in 2000 after a lost to Number #1 Nebraska
They jumped up 2 spots without even playing during the same week referenced in this video.
The fact that Texas A&M lost to Notre Dame 28-3 kinda proves them right by losing some votes. This video has the feel of reaching for content. They went from being 3 points behind Florida State to 18. That's pretty insignicant when there is over 1,000 points from all the submitted rankings. If they win out, they wouldn't have overtaken Alabama, but laying an egg in the cotton bowl proved they weren't quite as good as the top couple of teams.
Hadnt FSU beaten like 5 teams ranked in the top 25 at the time of this pole
Not really a controversy at all by losing to notre dame to finish the season? Had a&m beaten notre dame, then the aggies got screwed?
at that time in college football, it was all about viewership and the bigwigs knew the aggies would not rate the viewership like the east coast schools. long story short - they should have brought more vaseline to the locker room.
At the end of the day, it made no difference.
This whole video for Texas A&M beating a bad TCU team and remaining #4. I can see a weak argument for moving them to #3, but it is hardly surprising they didn't. And given Florida State had beaten numerous ranked teams and only lost to #2 Miami, they DID deserve the #3 spot. Florida State was a better team than Texas A&M in 1992. Both only lost 1 game, but Texas A&M had one ranked win over #20 Stanford and Florida State had 6 ranked wins including #6 Florida. Really nothing Aggie should be complaining about.
Sorry the SWC wasn't much better than the MAC during that season.
Well to be FAIR Texas A&M has ALWAYS been way below a 39.6 and shouldn't even BOTHER to show up for their games.
I just love how sensationalized this is. They did NOT go down in the polls. Not a chance. They stayed at #4. Who the f... cares if you're #4 by 3 points or #4 by 18? It's still #4.
You know what sucks? Being the defending national champions, winning all your games, and still dropping actual ranks in the polls. 2014 FSU and 2015 Ohio State both suffered for I guess not being in the overrated SEC. That actually would have been accurate to the video's theme of dropping in the polls despite doing nothing wrong.
is there a point
@@rewing84 My point is this was a terrible choice for the topic of unfair rankings or going down in the polls despite winning. It's like having a video titled "Worst Dictator Ever" and talking about your mean teacher from elementary school who gave you a C instead of a B- 20 years ago. You had so many choices and you chose THAT when it isn't even legitimately applied. I honestly don't know how there's much controversy when they didn't even move.
This was a sloppy video. I'm sure there were other factors outside of simply TAMU vs. TCU that lead to a "drop", like TCU losing to 3-8 NEW MEXICO 24-7 or 6-5 (7-5) Baylor 41-20, or how TAMU eked by quite a few mediocre/bad teams like Baylor, 5-6 Texas Tech, or 4-7 Houston. TAMU's biggest win was a 10-7 nailbiter against 9-3 (finished 10-3) Stanford who was blown out 41-7 by 9-2 (10-2) Washington and 21-6 by 6-4-1 (6-5-1) Arizona. Of course the only game I mentioned he seems to address is that 10-7 win against Stanford.
And again, they didn't even go down in the rankings. They lost trivial "points" that didn't matter against a team like Florida State that beat a bunch of a ranked (at the time) teams and only lost to #1 (#2) Miami by a FG. And, again, they stayed in place. FSU didn't leapfrog anyone (that week, at least). Nobody leapfrogged TAMU. Alabama and Miami were still #2 and #1, respectively. And considering Notre Dame whipped TAMU 28-3 in the bowl game, there REALLY shouldn't have been anyone peeved about this for much longer than a month, if they were peeved that they stayed at #4 in the polls.
Hey you want to do a video like this, I have a suggestion, the 1994 Penn State football team, PSU was undefeated and ranked #1, Nebraska was #2, Penn State played Ohio State and beat them 63-14, Nebraska beat Colorado 24-7, yet after that weekend, The Pollsters flip flopped PSU and Nebraska, moving PSU to second and Nebraska to #1.
Penn State fans still hate Nebraska...
@@tjp72675 The 1994 game between Nebraska and Colorado was between the number 2 and 3 ranked teams in the country on that day. Nebraska went into the game with more first place votes in the AP poll (24) than Penn State (19). The score, 24-7, made the game seem closer than it really was as Nebraska didn't allow Colorado to convert any third or fourth down attempts. Colorado had one of the best offenses in college football that year and could only score one touchdown and that was in garbage time. Colorado had 16 first place votes going into the game and 8 went to Nebraska afterwards. Anyway, McCloskey was out of bounds and Blackledge's pass to Bowman hit the ground
@@JMRyan10 for a minute I was having a Penn state's Todd blackledge flashback at the end of your comment, but that was over 10 years earlier
@@JMRyan10 be that as it may, Penn State beat Ohio State by 50 (or almost 50). It wasn't like they played some bottom feeder team, or some D3 school, they beat THE Ohio State by 50.
It’s the latter not the former
Doesn't seem that controversial at all. Actually seems like the AP should have had them lower since they got waxed by Notre Dame by 25 points and could only manage to score 3 points. So the AP was actually correct in there judgement of anything they should dropped them more. Ridiculous that you made a video calling this controversial, LOL
Weak. Ass. Conference. And scheduling was easy...the only formidable opponent was ND in the bowl game, and we see how that turned out.
I got a feeling that was some funny business why this happen to Texas A&M
Florida State would destroyed A&M that season the A P was right at the time The SWC was trash due to the death penalty of SMU.
That was the final nail in the coffin for a conference racked for years by sanctions and probations. Kudos to Rice for not getting into that kind of trouble.
Were you even alive back then? This is nitpicking. Anyway, I was a Bama fan and was glad Bama won the natty, but I had a gut feeling Bama would not have a chance against Florida State at the end of that season. The next season kind of convinced me. Perhaps the voters were waking up to how good the Seminoles were.
Happier Dennis Erickson, lost.
Texas A&M was still #4 after the win
Yeah, but the gap between it and Florida State somehow grew in terms of points. That's the part I don't understand.
Pooooooooooor aggy.
Couldn't happen to a bigger group of weirdos.