Keith Jackson was college football. There was nothing better than watching college football on a fall Saturday afternoon and listening to Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles
They were a great team and makes you appreciate how bad Beth Mowins is. Jackson didn't even like college football, maybe that is why he was so effective.
I can see in a few years from now when Apple purchases ESPN from Disney that all of the regional rivalries will return to be the September non-conference games. The days of money games are slowly dying out and are not ratings friendly for television.
Today's announcers don't come close to Keith Jackson none of them PERIOD! Best tandem of announcers ever when Jackson and Broyles called the game of the week.
Also don't forget there was NO loudspeakers blaring out loud crap like that bass bell chime and none of that rock music trash nor none of those blinding flashing message boards back then! No score tickers nor program pop-ups on the bottom of the screen. No excessiveness of the cameras constantly looking at the student body. No female refs nor female meddling on the sidelines.
And do you notice how much LESS talking by the announcers? They used to let the game speak for itself. And the used to let the players really hit each other - including the quarterbacks. God, I feel old.
listen, spending time with your pops is great. But to spend time weekend in and weekend out on football be it college or pro is a serious waste of time.
One of the great things about ABCs broadcast in those days was they had the microphones near the sidelines and in the crowd so you could hear the bands during the game it brought all the atmosphere that makes college football so great right into your living room. Miss all of that so much.Still love cfb but miss this time period
Should've kicked that field goal to tie at 10. There was still time left on the clock to hold Oklahoma and get the ball back. Two tough defenses going at it. Tough to watch as a Husker fan, but always loved the Sooners and Huskers games no matter what the outcome. Thanks for uploading. GBR!
You saw the chip shot miss earlier right? T.O. plays for wins and didn't trust his kicker to even hit a chip shot. Going for it made sense. Should have run a QB sneak
@@jimbosc yep. learned nothing from the Miami game where all the prognosticators, many of who were ap voters, said a tie against Miami would have won Neb the NC. A tie here was clearly better than a loss.
@@johnmanning4097 I think the last time that I was genuinely elated as a Husker fan was the 33-0 ass kicking that 2009 team gave Arizona in the Holiday Bowl.
@@brantdangerNebraska outgained them roughly 2 to 1. Yes, sooner magic, they found a way to win it late like in 1986. But Nebraska outplayed OU, missed field goals etc. Tom Osborne said this was his most painful loss. The defense was #1 in the nation. Going in, other the Syracuse loss, the 9 wins were all by 10 or more, most were not close. I was young at the time, this team didn't inspire me the way 82 & 83 did. But looking back now, the defense was awesome points, yards, about as good as they ever had. And the offense was better than 1985 and many of the years to come. Craig Sundberg was a decent passer, mccathorn clayton, travis turner were not. Even 86-88 Steve Taylor was not horrible as a passer, but wildly inconsistent, sometimes he looked like M. Clayton did in 85. I can see now why this was hard for Osborne. Looking at OUs game results, I would have loved to see what NU would have done against Washington in the Orange bowl, unless they would have put someone else in there against Nebraska. Who knows, it was so squirrelly the way they chose bowl opponents back then. There were years like 1988 & 1991 (when Nebraska was not top 5 and it showed in the bowls from 88-92 teams) they put Miami in a home game, again, against a less than stellar Nebraska team. I'm sure OU fans can relate 85 86,87, the only games OU lost were to Miami. 91 it was for a share of the national title. #3 Florida was in the sugar. Miami was independent. Miami should have played Florida in the sugar. Instead they gave them a layup in yet another night home game in the orange bowl. It never gets any attention. All the love Miami gets for the 80s & 90s teams, and yet in 40 years no one brings this up, T.O. did say it gently a few times back in the day. Won 3 of 4 titles in night home games for the national championship. No one else was ever afforded that luxury. If UCLA had been gone undefeated and played in the Rose, or Arizona State had another year like 1996 but in the BCS era & got a title game in the Fiesta but it never happened. I can't think of another example besides Miami in 83,87,91. But, look up how they fared in bowl games away from Miami, some were for the national championship. 84 L to UCLA in fiesta, 85 L 35-7 in sugar (some talk since they beat ou they could split the title), 86 L to Penn state in Fiesta for the NC, 92 L to Alabama in sugar for the NC, 93 L to Arizona in Fiesta. Odd, no one ever points this out. You can't go back and replay them all, but I wonder what if 1983-1994 if Miami had to play all neutral site bowl games, I think it's clear they wouldn't have won 4 titles. They beat Texas(Cotton), Alabama in 89 when it was left up to the voters, but it's clear to me, when they played bowls against really good teams away from the Orange bowl, they usually lost😂😂😂. Wish they had made them leave town to play a game for the national championship every time, because no one else ever got that unfair advantage. In those 12 straight years Miami was at it's best, they won 6 bowls , lost 6. Interesting. Away from the Orange bowl, they don't get a home game.......the went 2-5 🤔. On top of that, what Nebraska did by winning the 1995 orange bowl against Ray Lewis, Warren Sapp & that defense was about as hard an assignment as you can get. That was a night home game on Miami's home grass. Add that to their 2-5 neutral site record. They are overrated. If they weren't allowed home bowl games that reputation as the U, or the Canes never would have happened
Yeah, if memory serves me right, these five years at nebraska, you could make the argument was close to winning the national championship, in 81 the offense was humming with Turner Gill before he got injured, in 82 the offense was better, in 83 the offense was even better, in 81 the defense was great, in 82 the defense wasn't quite as good, in 83 the defense was much worse, in 84 they once again had a great defense, was this the year they were statistically number one, and yet they had many games where they scored a lot of points, the offense was good very good sometimes it was kind of an oddball thing with Sundberg throwing the ball and Travis Turner running the option, in 85 the defense was again good maybe not quite as good as 84s, and the offense in 85 was very very good at running the ball with Doug Dubose and Tom rathman in the backfield but they could not throw the ball to save their life(Sundberg was gone, look up clayton, 39% passer), for Husker fans thank God he had that amazing 5 year run , 60-3, in the 90s because otherwise we would have been tortured looking back at this forever, 81 it shook out in the bowls they're playing Clemson for the national championship, 82 if they don't lose that close game to Penn State they're playing for the national championship 83 we know what happened , 84 and 85 both times if they beat Oklahoma they're playing in the Orange Bowl for the national championship, people forget how close they were all five of those years
@@floatsting20 "The Red Pants Game" and yes, I tossed my cookies after that one as well. The only thing was that a Nebraska win in 1986 wouldn't have given them a shot at a Natty unlike this game.
Yes he was I could b outside around the house & when there was a fumble, u could hear him like u was standing n front of the tv. He would say FUMBLE!!!😄😄
@@robjohnson8861 Rob, if Nebraska tied this game and locked up an Orange Bowl slot, do you think they would've won a National Championship with a 10-1-1 record over BYU?
@@johnevans5434 JE, perhaps. I won't argue the hypothetical. It is worth mentioning, however, that BYU beat Washington (SI's 1985 preseason #1) 31-3 the following September. Nothing hypothetical about that.
@@molzerib Different team completely (Washington) in 1985! They lost a lot of talent to the NFL…just like byu was different in 1986 when Washington destroyed them in Seattle…in 84 I don’t see byu beating any of the teams I’ve mentioned - Barry Switzer was adamant in saying that Washington was the best team in the country in 1984!
Broyles early on in pregame saying if NU won, the caliber of the opponent for an orange bowl game wouldnt be of the caliber of OU. Well lets see here, OU won this game, their opponent in the orange bowl was Washington, and final score of the orange bowl was UW 28, OU 17. Nice try Frank. I will say though that this was probably osborne's best defensive team. To this day I am still stunned by the loss at syracuse, a week after NU went into the rose bowl and just killed UCLA 42-3. NOBODY saw that one coming.
Almost 35 years later, I consider this one of, if not the worst end-of-regular season losses since I became a die hard fan in 1982. It was the second time that Nebraska lost a game as the #1 team, and opened up the door for BYU. The injury to Jeff Smith in the UCLA game plagued him the whole season. Like the 1999 season, this team was also plagued by a lot of offensive turnovers. I believe they averaged three turnovers per game the whole season (24 fumbles lost and 12 INT'S). It reared it's ugly head with great force this day too. I was a freshman at the University of Maryland watching this game in my friend's dorm room, which was across the hall from the bathroom. When the game was over, I went across the hall and threw up. Then I opened the bathroom window (we were on the 7th floor) and yelled "F***" as loud as I could. I got my balls busted by almost everyone on my dorm floor and in my classes until the semester was over. A lot of people where "tightening their shirt collars" in my presence!
@@gynandroidhead Yeah sounds like u bleed red. I was shocked by this outcome too, though obviously not as much as by the Syracuse result. Switzer had lost 3 in a row to Osborn heading into this game though the last 2 were 7 points or closer. I think Switzer lost at home (3) to nebraska more times than he lost on the road to them (2).
@@gynandroidhead There's so many. How can you consider this as one of the worst. I guess it's best to put the 7 bowl losses in a row out of one's mind huh?
@@rawn4203 The Syracuse game was more of a shock, but the Huskers recovered from it to get the #1 ranking back, which made the finality of this game vomit-inducing.
Tom Osborne could have won at least two more National Titles than he did simply by playing for the tie. This and their Orange Bowl loss to Miami were prime examples of this. Despite failing I those two attempts, Tom Osborne get s my vote as college footballs greatest coach. A symbol of bedrock consistency. And the greatest five year stretch in college football history. From 1993-97 a total of 60-3 and three National Titles! Doctor Tom had the prescription for the nation's leading program.
DNS Kansas has a good point. Especially if he is referring primarily to the great Bob Devaney. Devaney set the entire stage for the longest run of sustained success in College Football History. From the moment he arrived in 1962, he galvanized an entire football mad state behind him. Taking with him almost his entire staff from Wyoming, he added one key additional hire. Graduate Assistant Tom Osborne. The native of Hastings, Nebraska was called by Devaney, "The best hire I ever made." As a native of Michigan, I am naturally proud that Devaney hailed from my home state. All favoritism aside, I believe a compelling case can be made for Bob Devaney being the most successful individual ever associated with College Football. Winner of 52 games at Alpena High School alone, Devaney was hired by Michigan States Biggie Munn in 1953. The Spartans won more than 30 games in a four year span. Devaney left for Wyoming in 1957, forrging a 35-10-5 record at the Cowboy helm. In his 11 seasons at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers were 101-20-2 with Back to Back National Titles. As his hand groomed successor Tom Osborne won 255 games in his 25 year career. Do just a little quick math and you uncover that Bob Devaney was affimiated with college teams that won nearly 400 games during his lifetime!! Add in the High School games he won and the figure might have approached 500. If anybody knows of anyone else that can make that claim, please leave a comment. Bob Devaneys affiliation with the University of Nebraska was beyond an iconic one.
Wasn’t Osborne’s record against Barry Switzer 4-12? I mean it wasn’t even close & his bowl record wasn’t very good either, several were blowouts as well. Osborne is a great coach but not the greatest.
@@utcnc7mmyeah, they were in line to go to the Orange bowl to play for the national championship if the beat OU in 84 & 85. I was born in 74, I remember watching games from 82 on. It was interesting later on to realize he was the OC under Devaney (balanced attack) and he also had a balanced attack through the '70s. Hard to believe, I didn't get to see how Nebraska football was covered from that Johnny Rodgers era all the way up til he started running the option. Dave Humm made the NFL. Vince Ferragamo transferred in to play for Osborne. Took the Rams to the Super Bowl. I remember him as the L.A. Rams QB in the early & mid 80s. Blew my mind to look at stats, and hear older guys talk about how innovative and passing game Tom Osborne was. He had to go old-timey to try to beat OU and it worked 82 82 83. Then you see BYU, Miami, FSU have pro-style passing games and it looked like by the late 80s football had passed him by. I had no idea at the time Nebraska looked like that for the entire decade of the 1970s
NU outplayed them, shouldhave won this game, too much Sooner magic, and missed FGs and turnovers. I think there's articles to be found, Osborne said this was his most painful loss. Having rozier recently be there, and, I was in 4th grade, I didn't appreciate how truly special Doug dubose was😊 46:07 and 47:26. That year he played 2 qbs, travis Turner was the better option qb, craig sundberg the better passer if i remember correctly. But i didn't remember sundberg being that good a passer that first quarter throw was pretty damn good.
@@gynandroidhead But if Nebraska had tied, the national championship would if been gone due to another blemish on their record. They had a loss (to Syracuse) entering this contest.
@@pajamamar2011 I still think they would've had a chance despite having if they won a bowl game with a 10-1-1 record. Not a good one, but one nonetheless.
There was still plenty of time left on the clock. Osborne was trusting his defense to get a stop and get the ball back. The defense did force the punt, but Jeff Smith fumbled the return. It wasn't Jeff Smith's day that day.
Another Osborne FU. Broyles said it in first 2 or 3 mins, this was a big time opportunity for Nebraska. BYU wound up playing a 6-5 MI team to win the NC by 7 points. Osborne consistenly showed why he was at the top of.......2nd tier coaches.
cant agree with that. the sooners regularly had better players for both the right and wrong reason. tom ran as clean of a program as any and developed both men and ball players. getting equal talent to lincoln nebraska has proven difficult both before and after tom. his hands are on all 5 national titles that hang on memorial stadium. i dont believe there has been or is a coach that can match the accomplishments of doctor tom. every single one that is going threw your head has a far superior recruiting location and most have a trail of stink that reeks of continued institutional misdoings
@@darrelnavrkal1026 Like Paterno's grave mistake for not doing the right thing at the right time, Osborne's piss poor, lousy excuse for playing Phillip's will forever cloud his other accomplishments, as it should. He wanted to win at all cost and he knew retirement was soon. So what if he screwed morale. Solich and Pelini have Osborne to thank for their getting fired. Both avged 'at least 9 wins, but Neb said, F that Osborne crap, we dont want another 21 years of woulda, coulda, shoulda clouded by a silly 60-3 run season over mostly nobodies. 8 teams held Neb to less pts than FL did. Only 2 SEC teams finished in the top 20 that year. Fewest of the 90s. See my other posts where i shread the 60-3 run. Frost's extension, when he has done shit, shows that the administration has reversed their position and would be tickled to avg 9 wins a season.
biggs949597 s I still believe that they should bring back the Big 8 Conference. Nebraska in the Big Ten still doesn’t sound or look right🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
In a further comment, it is true that Tom Osborne struggled in his first several contests versus Oklahoma. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT SWITZER CHEATED LIKE A RIVERBOAT GAMBLER IN ACQUIRING MANY OF HIS PLAYERS. So much so that the Sooners were forever under the NCAA's lightbulb. Before and after his tenure. The only coach in the current era to compare to him is the loathsome Urban Meyer. Even their press agent would have mixed emotions!! In footballs elite hierarchy, there are two kinds of coaches. Those that operate within the prescribed guidelines. And the Switzers and Meyers of the world. Who couldn't win at cards without a loaded deck!! At the end of Switzers, tenure was a recruiting scandal so severe it took the Sooners years to recover. While Oklahoma languished, the Cornhuskers compiled the greatest teams in collegiate football history. Switzer bears full culpability in the Sooners tumble into the abyss. That avalanche of defeats that followed his regime are more his than those of any coaches that followed him. On a yearly basis, the Nebraska Cornhuskers had a 40 year run of consistency that remains unrivaled in collegiate football annals. When you build something, the right way it doesn't fall apart as quickly.
Broyles says "how about a quick kick" when OU was lined up on their own 3 yd line in wishbone. Literally impossible. Maybe Broyles not much of an offensive mind. Should have not fired Holtz.
Wow in 2023 hearing these guys weight at 240 & 265 pounds, unreal there are high school kids weighing that much now. Not knocking the players, just an observation.
I respected Oklahoma but thought Switzer was a POS, Now as far as the Big 8 Colorado was definitely the gutter dwellers in both fans, players and coaches!
Keith Jackson was college football. There was nothing better than watching college football on a fall Saturday afternoon and listening to Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles
Kieth was good at all the announcing , Olympic, Boxing , stock car and the “Wide World of Sports” .with “WishBone” Frank Broyles .
They were a great team and makes you appreciate how bad Beth Mowins is. Jackson didn't even like college football, maybe that is why he was so effective.
For those born after 2000, this is what regional conferences looked like. Thanks for posting!
Really sad that ESPN and the other networks have destroyed all the tradition.
I can see in a few years from now when Apple purchases ESPN from Disney that all of the regional rivalries will return to be the September non-conference games. The days of money games are slowly dying out and are not ratings friendly for television.
The golden days of college football.
Keith Jackson..the voice of sports..the style that others wanted to emulate..sorely missed these days...
YES ICONIC KEITH JACKSON!
Today's announcers don't come close to Keith Jackson none of them PERIOD! Best tandem of announcers ever when Jackson and Broyles called the game of the week.
He was great but nowadays most really suck to me I watch with no sound a lot of times
Agreed. Keith Jackson🎉😅 the best
@@michaelfroien6775
Dandy Don Meredith
(Only sayin') 😢
No 300 pound slobs, no Jack Assery antics after every play, no useless graphics littering the screen.. The good old days..
Also don't forget there was NO loudspeakers blaring out loud crap like that bass bell chime and none of that rock music trash nor none of those blinding flashing message boards back then! No score tickers nor program pop-ups on the bottom of the screen. No excessiveness of the cameras constantly looking at the student body. No female refs nor female meddling on the sidelines.
Except of course for "the Boz"
That goal line stand was epic no doubt
And do you notice how much LESS talking by the announcers? They used to let the game speak for itself. And the used to let the players really hit each other - including the quarterbacks. God, I feel old.
Yeah buddy good old fashion CTE and career ending injuries due to astro turf. woohoo
I remember watching this at home with my dad back in the day. Man what a great rivalry game we lost!!
I watched the game with my dad. It was great seeing OU kick their ass.
@@brantdanger Kicked their ass? How old were you then? You sound like the same age now.
listen, spending time with your pops is great. But to spend time weekend in and weekend out on football be it college or pro is a serious waste of time.
1971 OK Nebraska, the best college game I ever saw.
We won a lot in those days! Switzer was an amazing coach!!
Love the mesh jerseys. Should go back to those
Too easy to grab
It’s sad this rivalry had to end it should still be played each year.
One of the great things about ABCs broadcast in those days was they had the microphones near the sidelines and in the crowd so you could hear the bands during the game it brought all the atmosphere that makes college football so great right into your living room. Miss all of that so much.Still love cfb but miss this time period
Well said.
When the weather was Sept cool and Nov cold now it's 80degrees in Sept 56degrees on Thanksgiving in NYC
I was there with my late uncle Jack. Fond memories. Whoaaaa Nellie!
Should've kicked that field goal to tie at 10. There was still time left on the clock to hold Oklahoma and get the ball back. Two tough defenses going at it. Tough to watch as a Husker fan, but always loved the Sooners and Huskers games no matter what the outcome. Thanks for uploading. GBR!
You saw the chip shot miss earlier right? T.O. plays for wins and didn't trust his kicker to even hit a chip shot. Going for it made sense. Should have run a QB sneak
@@jimbosc yep. learned nothing from the Miami game where all the prognosticators, many of who were ap voters, said a tie against Miami would have won Neb the NC. A tie here was clearly better than a loss.
@@robjohnson8861 Agreed. It would've clinched an Orange Bowl slot with a 6-0-1 Conference mark.
OU really kicked their ass that day.
@@brantdanger Sure they did.
I think Osborne only won 4 of the first 16 times he played Switzer when both were head coaches. Switzer was incredible against the Huskers.
Keith Jackson, for every other team but OKLAHOMA
Huh?
Nebraska football on ABC. The way it should be. Fox just doesn't feel like a right fit.
Yes, Neb vs the Agony of Defeat go hand in hand. For you youngsters, see ABC's wide world of sports intro.
Nebraska being in the Big Ten still doesn’t feel right.
@@allengreene9954 Yeah, it doesn't sit well what so ever.
But is not ABC anymore it’s ESPN on ABC.
@@allengreene9954 UCLA AND USC in 2022 say hold my beer.
This was a tough one to lose. Still bothers me
Enjoyed. Thank you
when we actually played defense. We are beyond terrible on defense and have been so since the 2004 season.
We had several years around 2009 where our defense was pretty good oh, and I would say in 2009 we have the best defense in the nation
@@rooh5825 AGREED...I believe that 2009 DEFENSE was the last Great one Oklahoma has had.
@@johnmanning4097 I think the last time that I was genuinely elated as a Husker fan was the 33-0 ass kicking that 2009 team gave Arizona in the Holiday Bowl.
It feels good too see players in Nebraska uniforms who enjoy tackling.
Nebraska needs to come back home
The network was expecting Oklahoma to lose. The music they played after the game said it was 'going to be a long way back home'.
Huge upset and great win for Oklahoma
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This was back when you could still build a good team. Now if you don't recruit you don't win.
Football was so different back then it was all running no passing.
This game still irks me smh... Missed field goals and that blasted goal line stand. I miss this rivalry though so many great games.
OU kicked their ass.
@@brantdangerNebraska outgained them roughly 2 to 1. Yes, sooner magic, they found a way to win it late like in 1986. But Nebraska outplayed OU, missed field goals etc. Tom Osborne said this was his most painful loss. The defense was #1 in the nation. Going in, other the Syracuse loss, the 9 wins were all by 10 or more, most were not close. I was young at the time, this team didn't inspire me the way 82 & 83 did. But looking back now, the defense was awesome points, yards, about as good as they ever had. And the offense was better than 1985 and many of the years to come. Craig Sundberg was a decent passer, mccathorn clayton, travis turner were not. Even 86-88 Steve Taylor was not horrible as a passer, but wildly inconsistent, sometimes he looked like M. Clayton did in 85. I can see now why this was hard for Osborne. Looking at OUs game results, I would have loved to see what NU would have done against Washington in the Orange bowl, unless they would have put someone else in there against Nebraska. Who knows, it was so squirrelly the way they chose bowl opponents back then. There were years like 1988 & 1991 (when Nebraska was not top 5 and it showed in the bowls from 88-92 teams) they put Miami in a home game, again, against a less than stellar Nebraska team. I'm sure OU fans can relate 85 86,87, the only games OU lost were to Miami. 91 it was for a share of the national title. #3 Florida was in the sugar. Miami was independent. Miami should have played Florida in the sugar. Instead they gave them a layup in yet another night home game in the orange bowl. It never gets any attention. All the love Miami gets for the 80s & 90s teams, and yet in 40 years no one brings this up, T.O. did say it gently a few times back in the day. Won 3 of 4 titles in night home games for the national championship. No one else was ever afforded that luxury. If UCLA had been gone undefeated and played in the Rose, or Arizona State had another year like 1996 but in the BCS era & got a title game in the Fiesta but it never happened. I can't think of another example besides Miami in 83,87,91. But, look up how they fared in bowl games away from Miami, some were for the national championship. 84 L to UCLA in fiesta, 85 L 35-7 in sugar (some talk since they beat ou they could split the title), 86 L to Penn state in Fiesta for the NC, 92 L to Alabama in sugar for the NC, 93 L to Arizona in Fiesta. Odd, no one ever points this out. You can't go back and replay them all, but I wonder what if 1983-1994 if Miami had to play all neutral site bowl games, I think it's clear they wouldn't have won 4 titles. They beat Texas(Cotton), Alabama in 89 when it was left up to the voters, but it's clear to me, when they played bowls against really good teams away from the Orange bowl, they usually lost😂😂😂. Wish they had made them leave town to play a game for the national championship every time, because no one else ever got that unfair advantage. In those 12 straight years Miami was at it's best, they won 6 bowls , lost 6. Interesting. Away from the Orange bowl, they don't get a home game.......the went 2-5 🤔. On top of that, what Nebraska did by winning the 1995 orange bowl against Ray Lewis, Warren Sapp & that defense was about as hard an assignment as you can get. That was a night home game on Miami's home grass. Add that to their 2-5 neutral site record. They are overrated. If they weren't allowed home bowl games that reputation as the U, or the Canes never would have happened
Man if this Nebraska 84 team has any of the 83 offense , man . Great defense.
OU kicked their ass that day.
Yeah, if memory serves me right, these five years at nebraska, you could make the argument was close to winning the national championship, in 81 the offense was humming with Turner Gill before he got injured, in 82 the offense was better, in 83 the offense was even better, in 81 the defense was great, in 82 the defense wasn't quite as good, in 83 the defense was much worse, in 84 they once again had a great defense, was this the year they were statistically number one, and yet they had many games where they scored a lot of points, the offense was good very good sometimes it was kind of an oddball thing with Sundberg throwing the ball and Travis Turner running the option, in 85 the defense was again good maybe not quite as good as 84s, and the offense in 85 was very very good at running the ball with Doug Dubose and Tom rathman in the backfield but they could not throw the ball to save their life(Sundberg was gone, look up clayton, 39% passer), for Husker fans thank God he had that amazing 5 year run , 60-3, in the 90s because otherwise we would have been tortured looking back at this forever, 81 it shook out in the bowls they're playing Clemson for the national championship, 82 if they don't lose that close game to Penn State they're playing for the national championship 83 we know what happened , 84 and 85 both times if they beat Oklahoma they're playing in the Orange Bowl for the national championship, people forget how close they were all five of those years
I was at this game as a Husker fan.
It must've been like a funeral after 60 minutes of regulation play.
@@gynandroidhead As bad as this is, nothing like 2 years later
@@floatsting20 "The Red Pants Game" and yes, I tossed my cookies after that one as well. The only thing was that a Nebraska win in 1986 wouldn't have given them a shot at a Natty unlike this game.
The OU seniors almost graduated without a win vs Nebraska. Likewise, Nebraska seniors almost graduated without losing to Oklahoma.
OU really kicked their ass that day.
Jeff Smith was seriously underrated.
He was no match for the OU defense.
@@brantdanger You are a match with lack of brain cells
@@brantdanger and also no match for NFL either
TONY WAS A BEAST!...WHICH IN TURN MADE THE "BOZ" THAT MUCH BETTER!
For some reason the Sooner/Husker game was most exciting in Lincoln.
I agree. I grew up as a Sooner fan, but always thought of the games in Lincoln when I thought about the rivalry.
Keith was the greatest fumble and Georgia !
Yes he was I could b outside around the house & when there was a fumble, u could hear him like u was standing n front of the tv. He would say FUMBLE!!!😄😄
and this game is the game that Oklahoma basically won the Big 8 and represented the Big 8 in the 51st Orange Bowl against Washington.
@Calvacade of Fred Couples But they lost to a mediocre USC team. Have to win the big and the small ones.
The pollsters were on drugs. BYU finished 13-0 but with a strength of schedule of 82, but hell WA has a SOS of 59. What a throw away year.
@@robjohnson8861 Rob, if Nebraska tied this game and locked up an Orange Bowl slot, do you think they would've won a National Championship with a 10-1-1 record over BYU?
Mack Brown with the head set talking to Barry Switzer
Sooners rocking the gerry curl.
The band meant much.
Is it me or did seem like Buster Rhymes was at Oklahoma forever
I was thinking the same thing.
Spencer Tillman was... ha
Remember watching this game 21yrs old..horrible, horrible field position...one of the greatest goal line stands
Love the Sooners!
34:38 Sharp eye producer in the truck said: "let's stay here for a while!"
Yeah, the lady in the headscarf was hot, hot, hot.
@@fridaysmith2567 LOL
@@fridaysmith2567 wont be long before the cutie in front of the old lady will look like her. 36 more yrs will do that.
Fine little flower 🌺
At 4:08 you can see Troy Aikman.
Had Nebraska won, it would have played Washington in the Orange Bowl and BYU likely gets shut out of the National Championship no matter the outcome.
Byu would have lost bad to Washington, Oklahoma, and Nebraska! Washington was the best team in the country in 1984 and is the true national champion!
@@johnevans5434 JE, perhaps. I won't argue the hypothetical. It is worth mentioning, however, that BYU beat Washington (SI's 1985 preseason #1) 31-3 the following September. Nothing hypothetical about that.
@@molzerib Different team completely (Washington) in 1985! They lost a lot of talent to the NFL…just like byu was different in 1986 when Washington destroyed them in Seattle…in 84 I don’t see byu beating any of the teams I’ve mentioned - Barry Switzer was adamant in saying that Washington was the best team in the country in 1984!
@@johnevans5434I agree...shoulda have won it in at least one poll...AP or UPI....
Broyles early on in pregame saying if NU won, the caliber of the opponent for an orange bowl game wouldnt be of the caliber of OU. Well lets see here, OU won this game, their opponent in the orange bowl was Washington, and final score of the orange bowl was UW 28, OU 17. Nice try Frank. I will say though that this was probably osborne's best defensive team. To this day I am still stunned by the loss at syracuse, a week after NU went into the rose bowl and just killed UCLA 42-3. NOBODY saw that one coming.
Almost 35 years later, I consider this one of, if not the worst end-of-regular season losses since I became a die hard fan in 1982.
It was the second time that Nebraska lost a game as the #1 team, and opened up the door for BYU. The injury to Jeff Smith in the UCLA game plagued him the whole season. Like the 1999 season, this team was also plagued by a lot of offensive turnovers. I believe they averaged three turnovers per game the whole season (24 fumbles lost and 12 INT'S). It reared it's ugly head with great force this day too.
I was a freshman at the University of Maryland watching this game in my friend's dorm room, which was across the hall from the bathroom. When the game was over, I went across the hall and threw up. Then I opened the bathroom window (we were on the 7th floor) and yelled "F***" as loud as I could. I got my balls busted by almost everyone on my dorm floor and in my classes until the semester was over. A lot of people where "tightening their shirt collars" in my presence!
@@gynandroidhead Yeah sounds like u bleed red. I was shocked by this outcome too, though obviously not as much as by the Syracuse result. Switzer had lost 3 in a row to Osborn heading into this game though the last 2 were 7 points or closer. I think Switzer lost at home (3) to nebraska more times than he lost on the road to them (2).
@@gynandroidhead There's so many. How can you consider this as one of the worst. I guess it's best to put the 7 bowl losses in a row out of one's mind huh?
@@rawn4203 The Syracuse game was more of a shock, but the Huskers recovered from it to get the #1 ranking back, which made the finality of this game vomit-inducing.
@@robjohnson8861 end-of-regular season losses, the timing, the finality, etc. Read my OP.
Tom Osborne could have won at least two more National Titles than he did simply by playing for the tie. This and their Orange Bowl loss to Miami were prime examples of this. Despite failing I those two attempts, Tom Osborne get s my vote as college footballs greatest coach. A symbol of bedrock consistency. And the greatest five year stretch in college football history. From 1993-97 a total of 60-3 and three National Titles! Doctor Tom had the prescription for the nation's leading program.
Forgetting someone are we?
DNS Kansas has a good point. Especially if he is referring primarily to the great Bob Devaney. Devaney set the entire stage for the longest run of sustained success in College Football History. From the moment he arrived in 1962, he galvanized an entire football mad state behind him. Taking with him almost his entire staff from Wyoming, he added one key additional hire. Graduate Assistant Tom Osborne. The native of Hastings, Nebraska was called by Devaney, "The best hire I ever made." As a native of Michigan, I am naturally proud that Devaney hailed from my home state. All favoritism aside, I believe a compelling case can be made for Bob Devaney being the most successful individual ever associated with College Football. Winner of 52 games at Alpena High School alone, Devaney was hired by Michigan States Biggie Munn in 1953. The Spartans won more than 30 games in a four year span. Devaney left for Wyoming in 1957, forrging a 35-10-5 record at the Cowboy helm. In his 11 seasons at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers were 101-20-2 with Back to Back National Titles. As his hand groomed successor Tom Osborne won 255 games in his 25 year career. Do just a little quick math and you uncover that Bob Devaney was affimiated with college teams that won nearly 400 games during his lifetime!! Add in the High School games he won and the figure might have approached 500. If anybody knows of anyone else that can make that claim, please leave a comment. Bob Devaneys affiliation with the University of Nebraska was beyond an iconic one.
Wasn’t Osborne’s record against Barry Switzer 4-12?
I mean it wasn’t even close & his bowl record wasn’t very good either, several were blowouts as well.
Osborne is a great coach but not the greatest.
@@utcnc7mmyeah, they were in line to go to the Orange bowl to play for the national championship if the beat OU in 84 & 85. I was born in 74, I remember watching games from 82 on. It was interesting later on to realize he was the OC under Devaney (balanced attack) and he also had a balanced attack through the '70s. Hard to believe, I didn't get to see how Nebraska football was covered from that Johnny Rodgers era all the way up til he started running the option. Dave Humm made the NFL. Vince Ferragamo transferred in to play for Osborne. Took the Rams to the Super Bowl. I remember him as the L.A. Rams QB in the early & mid 80s. Blew my mind to look at stats, and hear older guys talk about how innovative and passing game Tom Osborne was. He had to go old-timey to try to beat OU and it worked 82 82 83. Then you see BYU, Miami, FSU have pro-style passing games and it looked like by the late 80s football had passed him by. I had no idea at the time Nebraska looked like that for the entire decade of the 1970s
NU outplayed them, shouldhave won this game, too much Sooner magic, and missed FGs and turnovers. I think there's articles to be found, Osborne said this was his most painful loss. Having rozier recently be there, and, I was in 4th grade, I didn't appreciate how truly special Doug dubose was😊 46:07 and 47:26. That year he played 2 qbs, travis Turner was the better option qb, craig sundberg the better passer if i remember correctly. But i didn't remember sundberg being that good a passer that first quarter throw was pretty damn good.
Troy Aikman at 4:08
Where’s the audio?
If Nebraska didn't lose and Oklahoma State won the following week, that would've been quite interesting.
If Nebraska and Oklahoma had tied, Nebraska would've clinched an Orange Bowl slot with an unbeaten 6-0-1 Conference Record.
@@gynandroidhead But if Nebraska had tied, the national championship would if been gone due to another blemish on their record. They had a loss (to Syracuse) entering this contest.
@@pajamamar2011 I still think they would've had a chance despite having if they won a bowl game with a 10-1-1 record. Not a good one, but one nonetheless.
as a NY'er w/ no college team/allegiance, I ALWAYS loved OU/Switzer spanking That BIG PHONY Tom (HIDE THE GUNS) Osborne.
Kick a field goal and go to the Orange Bowl!
Osborne " Fuck that, let's lose!"
There was still plenty of time left on the clock. Osborne was trusting his defense to get a stop and get the ball back. The defense did force the punt, but Jeff Smith fumbled the return.
It wasn't Jeff Smith's day that day.
17-7 Oklahoma victory
What was the final score of this game ?
17-7 Oklahoma
Nebraska crapped the bed in this game
lol.
Jesus run a hitch
Another Osborne FU. Broyles said it in first 2 or 3 mins, this was a big time opportunity for Nebraska. BYU wound up playing a 6-5 MI team to win the NC by 7 points. Osborne consistenly showed why he was at the top of.......2nd tier coaches.
cant agree with that. the sooners regularly had better players for both the right and wrong reason. tom ran as clean of a program as any and developed both men and ball players. getting equal talent to lincoln nebraska has proven difficult both before and after tom. his hands are on all 5 national titles that hang on memorial stadium. i dont believe there has been or is a coach that can match the accomplishments of doctor tom. every single one that is going threw your head has a far superior recruiting location and most have a trail of stink that reeks of continued institutional misdoings
@@darrelnavrkal1026 Like Paterno's grave mistake for not doing the right thing at the right time, Osborne's piss poor, lousy excuse for playing
Phillip's will forever cloud his other accomplishments, as it should. He wanted to win at all cost and he knew retirement was soon. So what if he screwed morale.
Solich and Pelini have Osborne to thank for their getting fired. Both avged 'at least 9 wins, but Neb said, F that Osborne crap, we dont want another 21 years of woulda, coulda, shoulda clouded by a silly 60-3 run season over mostly nobodies. 8 teams held Neb to less pts than FL did. Only 2 SEC teams finished in the top 20 that year. Fewest of the 90s. See my other posts where i shread the 60-3 run.
Frost's extension, when he has done shit, shows that the administration has reversed their position and would be tickled to avg 9 wins a season.
Rob Johnson you’re a fucking idiot!!!!!!
Rob Johnson Phillips won him two National Titles did he???
biggs949597 s I still believe that they should bring back the Big 8 Conference. Nebraska in the Big Ten still doesn’t sound or look right🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
We fucked it up.
Things went better for Nebraska in Sugar Bowl. Oklahoma didn't do so well in Orange
Year of BYU
Stop crying that you lost
Special hurt. Us.
This game is a great cure for insomnia...lol
In a further comment, it is true that Tom Osborne struggled in his first several contests versus Oklahoma. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT SWITZER CHEATED LIKE A RIVERBOAT GAMBLER IN ACQUIRING MANY OF HIS PLAYERS. So much so that the Sooners were forever under the NCAA's lightbulb. Before and after his tenure. The only coach in the current era to compare to him is the loathsome Urban Meyer. Even their press agent would have mixed emotions!! In footballs elite hierarchy, there are two kinds of coaches. Those that operate within the prescribed guidelines. And the Switzers and Meyers of the world. Who couldn't win at cards without a loaded deck!! At the end of Switzers, tenure was a recruiting scandal so severe it took the Sooners years to recover. While Oklahoma languished, the Cornhuskers compiled the greatest teams in collegiate football history. Switzer bears full culpability in the Sooners tumble into the abyss. That avalanche of defeats that followed his regime are more his than those of any coaches that followed him. On a yearly basis, the Nebraska Cornhuskers had a 40 year run of consistency that remains unrivaled in collegiate football annals. When you build something, the right way it doesn't fall apart as quickly.
WHERE THE HELL IS THE SOUND
grew up watching KJ and Frank Broyles. in hindsight... Frank was not much
1:54:33
If Edwin Simmons had not had knee problems he would have been scary.
Broyles says "how about a quick kick" when OU was lined up on their own 3 yd line in wishbone. Literally impossible. Maybe Broyles not much of an offensive mind. Should have not fired Holtz.
Danny Bradley was probably the worst QB Switzer ever had at OU.
Thought Kelly Phelps was bad.
Aikman might've been, for the type of offense that they ran.
Wow in 2023 hearing these guys weight at 240 & 265 pounds, unreal there are high school kids weighing that much now. Not knocking the players, just an observation.
The boz
A MAN ONCE SAID SPENCER TILLMAN,,,,IS A BUST!!!!!😕😕😕
what the H? Near the end the video switches to a different year's game. Irritating
Back when men played real football and the commentators were 100% American-made and not this woke-ass crap today.
I respected Oklahoma but thought Switzer was a POS, Now as far as the Big 8 Colorado was definitely the gutter dwellers in both fans, players and coaches!
Your mom is POS!