Michigan Oline just dominate that year; backus, Jansen, and Hutchinson. Used the play action to perfection in this game. Wsu had a great chance early to go up 10-0 or 14-0 but the Woodson INT changed momentum and wolverines never looked back.
I will never forget being there with my dad. I was 13 and my dad was about to turn 50. The last time Michigan had won a National Championship was 1948, the year my dad was born. While celebrating on the field after Michigan had just beaten Ohio State (this is the only Michigan game of the dozens I've been to that the fans stormed the field) my dad told me, "There is no way we are not going to Pasadena." It was awesome. Strange fact; the marching band's drum major that year was from Pasadena, California. Tell me that is not destiny!
I took my middle son to that RBowl too. Wa St mishandled the clock, or they would given Brian Griese a loss. Great win; Nebraska played no one that yr. Mich shoulda be Champs alone! Anti B-10 [W.coast) bias against Blue!!
That play action roll out to Tuman was money that enitre 1997 season. Tuman had a simple but great quote that season when asked about it. He said (paraphrasing), "If you throw me the ball, I'll catch it." Pretty simple, but it underlines a quiet confidence.
Lot of drops by Cougs. Not used to seeing that. Still, this receiving corps in the air raid would have been remarkable to watch. Michigan dropped a lot too.
I will never forget that the marching band's drum major that season was from Pasadena, California. Tell me that is not destiny! It is just too perfect; like it was written by a Hollywood.
🤣. Almost thought you were serious. Good one! Wazzu's assistant coach's cousin was married to a dude who lived on Pasadena Dr. Just a Hollywood story!!
@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc Look it up if you don't believe the Drum Major from the Michigan marching band was from Pasadena. They announce where the Drum Major is from at every Michigan game and all season long when they announced it the crowd would go crazy. Maybe you're just a cynic, I don't know, but if you love college football it's hard not to be romantic about stuff like that.
Too bad the officials botched it at the end. Michigan probably still holds on for the win but we were all robbed of that certainty. The opposite happened in yesterday's UW vs. Texas semifinal matchup. P.S. Look at all those flash bulbs, what a scene. No bowl game will ever match what the Rose Bowl used to be.
I always felt Michigan should have won the title outright. They were the clear #1 going into this game and they won. They played a tougher schedule that year than Nebraska did. The Big 10 was the best conference back then.
Played #8 in the country and went down to the wire? NU played #3 Tennesee w/ senior Payton Manning and killed'em. If this were yet another regular season game, NU jumps ahead in the rankings, plain and simple.
love Washington State's Crimson pants. they should wear Crimson helmets too. Yes , its true, i'm a Bama fan. i wish Bama would wear Crimson pants some times.
God this just hurts, brings back memories. I was 14 years old. Dad bought a 36" TV just to watch the game. We invited all the neighbors over. The house was filled with 30-40 people. The energy level was so damn high. And we were robbed of the potential last play... the game was over and nobody knew what was going on.... we all just stood there stunned. It was like a nuclear explosion just went off and nobody knew where to find their underwear.... it was just "over". Still to this day, I'm not sure if we still had one last play to run... it felt like a loss due to a technicality. What I wouldn't give to have one.last.play. I'll go to my grave wanting just one last play. #ForeverLEAF
Maybe so but throwing for the final 26 yards (shorter field than the two previous passes) in one play against that Michigan defense is NO easy task. I'd say you definitely should've had it had it not been for a missed offensive pass interference call on Taylor's catch over Woodson to get near midfield. Either way I can see how this would leave a bad taste in your mouths. WSU DID INDEED play well enough to beat just about anybody that day.
I remember when Michael Black was injured and taken out of the game. Even years later, Keith Jackson said the game would have gone a lot different, had he been able to play. I guess he was devastated at not being able to stay in there.
It would be so awesome if during this upcoming playoff game vs Bama in the Rose Bowl if Michigan had the throwback giant patches on their shoulders like they did in every Rose Bowl pre-playoff. Now they just have that dumb playoff logo on the chest. It's a wasted opportunity. Also, I'd love to see "Color vs Color" uniforms for the playoffs this year. Blue vs Crimson in the Rose Bowl and Washington's Purple vs Texas's Burnt Orange in the Sugar Bowl. It would look incredible on everyone's hi def TVs.
There were two seconds. The ball can not be snapped until one second after the referee gives the ready for play signal, and then the play has to take at least one second, which takes the clock down to zero. The NCAA put in the rulebook a few years ago that to have a chance at 1 second left, there must be three seconds on the clock if you’re going to spike it.
Ending is controversial. On the one hand the last 3 seconds went by too fast, but on the other hand WSU never should have been allowed to be so far after the blatant missed pass interference call. Overall, MI deserved the win. Not sure who would have won MI-UN. Glad we have the playoff(s) now!
Ok,.here's my take on the dream matchup of Michigan vs Nebraska for the national Championship, had they played after the Bowls. I'm old school, not some biased kid of the past generations. I'm raised on Buckeye and Sooner football as illinois and northwestern were so bad when i was young they were never on tv, lol. The dream matchup?...NEBRASKA, ..and i dont think it would be all that close. Can't see Michigan holding up for 4 quarters as the Husker offense just hammers 'em, and Frost was twice the QB that Griese was. Nebraskas defense would be allover him, and their secondary just too physical. Michigan spreads em out with their receivers, and gets two, maybe three scores, as Strreets is a monster, but ball control is key and Nebraska's offense does just that, AND Frost throws for two, and is an option master, andis named MVP. I'm a fan of both the Huskers and Wolves to this day,..but the more i watched both bowls by these teams that year, (and esp the way Nebraska dismantled Tennessee,) i cant see Michigan beating the juggernaut of the nineties. I have it Nebraska 35-20. Hoping the Huskers get back to prominence soon too.
@@_________. enjoy the glorified coaches poll trophy that Osbourne got as a send off gift. Doesn't change the fact that they almost lost to a piss-poor Missouri team and refs had to bail em out
They were vastly superior by the numbers all season and far more impressive in their bowl game. Michigan was lucky to get the share. I think Nebraska beats them by 2-3 scores.
The 1900's hahahaha, the last time michigan won a bowl game hahahahaha. I thought they were still using leather helmets but looks like they made the upgrade to plastic.
Bro..the runner was down with 4 seconds left on the clock. Wow did WSU get screwed here. Not saying they would’ve won but that was pretty shitty of the officials to do.
Talk about an UNcomfortable game to watch no matter who you were there for. And a stupid ending.. My group was way up at the top row opposite end zone next to the jumbotron and couldn't see what happened, just the game suddenly ended. So glad the predictable lame conservative curse of Lloyd Carr is long gone. This was Gary Moeller's NC more than Carr's.
Plain and simple. Nebraska rolled a team that had arguably one of the best QB’s ever(manning) and a great RB (Lewis) Tennessee was great that year. You almost lost to a QB who smoked crack in a shower. Child please
Congrats to Michigan, but Nebraska was the best team in college football that year and beat a much better Tennessee team with Peyton Manning in the bowl game.
Nebraska would have destroyed both of teams this season. This is actually terrible football to watch. Very ugly football. Watch this game. Then go watch the dismantling of TN, when they played N N was the best team
Nebraska really lost to Missouri that Season and only beat a Colorado team by 3. Michigan beat Colorado 20-3! Nebraska got the sympathetic vote for Tom Osborn’s last season!
@@Steve_643 By that logic Arkansas would of beaten Alabama in 2015 because Arkansas beat a team that Bama didn't. Nebraska steamrolled Peyton Manning and Tennessee and would of done the same to Michigan that year. You do realize that Nebraska and Colorado were rivals right?
I think that you are forgetting how good the Michigan D was that year. No way Scot Frost was the thrower that Leaf was back then. The only way to beat the 97 Michigan team was to spread them out and throw the ball all over the field. Nebraska would have had a chance, but Michigan would have won the game in the fourth quarter.
@@jonblue1417 Nebraska would've just wore them down with the triple option like every other team they played in that era. 93 FSU had the #1 defense in the country and a way better offense than Michigan and only won due to a missed FG! Peyton manning couldn't score on them but Brian Griese could? Next to 90 Colorado 97 Michigan is he sorriest national champs I've ever witnessed. The only team in the 90s who could've beat 97 Nebraska is 95 Nebraska!
I know they shared the Natty but without question Nebraska would have destroyed this Michigan team. Michigan got a big help from the refs at the end of the Rose Bowl game. WSU should have had one second left and one more play. And who knows what might have happened? While Nebraska embarrassed Tennessee and the mighty Peyton Manning in the Orange Bowl. (Ryan Leaf, what a waste of talent. Horrible attitude, pathetic work ethic, immature bratty antics...ruined career!)
You’re completely wrong about the last play because you obviously don’t know the rules. Even ignoring the obvious OPI on the play before that should have reverted Washington State to its own 3, they had two seconds and the previous play ended inbounds. By rule you can’t snap the ball until one second has elapsed after the referee gives the ready for play signal. That takes us from 2 to 1. The play has to take time off the clock so we go from 1 to 0. If they hadn’t spiked it and had just run a play they would have had that last shot. This situation is why the NCAA subsequently wrote into the rule book that in order to have a chance at there being time left after a spike there must have been three seconds or more on the clock.
@@shawnjames3533 That specific rule sure but as the rules were written back then in terms of the ready for play signal and the time the play has to take it's really not hard to see why it ended the way it did. If they'd just run a play instead of spiking it they would have had time for the play.
The mighty Peyton Manning whou couldnt beat Florida to save his life??? Who won one SEC title in 4 years?? You list the breaks UM got, well what about Nebraska illegally kicking an incomplete pass in the air so it can be illegally caught to keep their season alive vs a mediocre Missouri team??
Michigan Oline just dominate that year; backus, Jansen, and Hutchinson. Used the play action to perfection in this game. Wsu had a great chance early to go up 10-0 or 14-0 but the Woodson INT changed momentum and wolverines never looked back.
I will never forget being there with my dad. I was 13 and my dad was about to turn 50. The last time Michigan had won a National Championship was 1948, the year my dad was born. While celebrating on the field after Michigan had just beaten Ohio State (this is the only Michigan game of the dozens I've been to that the fans stormed the field) my dad told me, "There is no way we are not going to Pasadena." It was awesome.
Strange fact; the marching band's drum major that year was from Pasadena, California. Tell me that is not destiny!
Ramon Johnson was the drum major's name, yes from Pasadena California!
I took my middle son to that RBowl too.
Wa St mishandled the clock, or they would given Brian Griese a loss.
Great win; Nebraska played no one that yr. Mich shoulda be Champs alone!
Anti B-10 [W.coast) bias against Blue!!
@@bobstuart2507Nebraska played #3 Tennessee. Michigan played #7 Wazzu. Who played nobody again?
That play action roll out to Tuman was money that enitre 1997 season.
Tuman had a simple but great quote that season when asked about it. He said (paraphrasing), "If you throw me the ball, I'll catch it." Pretty simple, but it underlines a quiet confidence.
That last play would have been a major controversy today. Very clearly time left when he spiked it.
Lot of drops by Cougs. Not used to seeing that. Still, this receiving corps in the air raid would have been remarkable to watch. Michigan dropped a lot too.
I will never forget that the marching band's drum major that season was from Pasadena, California. Tell me that is not destiny! It is just too perfect; like it was written by a Hollywood.
🤣. Almost thought you were serious. Good one!
Wazzu's assistant coach's cousin was married to a dude who lived on Pasadena Dr. Just a Hollywood story!!
@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc Look it up if you don't believe the Drum Major from the Michigan marching band was from Pasadena. They announce where the Drum Major is from at every Michigan game and all season long when they announced it the crowd would go crazy.
Maybe you're just a cynic, I don't know, but if you love college football it's hard not to be romantic about stuff like that.
Too bad the officials botched it at the end. Michigan probably still holds on for the win but we were all robbed of that certainty. The opposite happened in yesterday's UW vs. Texas semifinal matchup.
P.S. Look at all those flash bulbs, what a scene. No bowl game will ever match what the Rose Bowl used to be.
I would love to know who was the clock operator behind the clock at the end
I always felt Michigan should have won the title outright. They were the clear #1 going into this game and they won. They played a tougher schedule that year than Nebraska did. The Big 10 was the best conference back then.
Played #8 in the country and went down to the wire? NU played #3 Tennesee w/ senior Payton Manning and killed'em. If this were yet another regular season game, NU jumps ahead in the rankings, plain and simple.
Don't forget about FSU for those years. From 1993 to 2000, FSU played in 5 national championship games. Big 10 time though?
love Washington State's Crimson pants. they should wear Crimson helmets too. Yes , its true, i'm a Bama fan. i wish Bama would wear Crimson pants some times.
Ryan Leaf was a savage. If only he could have handled the relentlessly brutal press better in pro his career might have been different.
Ryan leaf in college he's Good in NFL he's a Bust.
God this just hurts, brings back memories. I was 14 years old. Dad bought a 36" TV just to watch the game. We invited all the neighbors over. The house was filled with 30-40 people. The energy level was so damn high. And we were robbed of the potential last play... the game was over and nobody knew what was going on.... we all just stood there stunned. It was like a nuclear explosion just went off and nobody knew where to find their underwear.... it was just "over". Still to this day, I'm not sure if we still had one last play to run... it felt like a loss due to a technicality. What I wouldn't give to have one.last.play. I'll go to my grave wanting just one last play. #ForeverLEAF
Maybe so but throwing for the final 26 yards (shorter field than the two previous passes) in one play against that Michigan defense is NO easy task. I'd say you definitely should've had it had it not been for a missed offensive pass interference call on Taylor's catch over Woodson to get near midfield. Either way I can see how this would leave a bad taste in your mouths. WSU DID INDEED play well enough to beat just about anybody that day.
Your.....underwear??? 🤣🤨. Sounds about right. You lost your panties that day. Go Blue!!
I remember when Michael Black was injured and taken out of the game. Even years later, Keith Jackson said the game would have gone a lot different, had he been able to play. I guess he was devastated at not being able to stay in there.
A Buckeye account posting this game. Respect, sir.
Keith Jackson is the goat but man. He was so confused on what was going on in the fourth quarter with some of his calls
188 apartment beaded doorways the good days 8mile here !
Tai Streets (Of San Francisco)
It would be so awesome if during this upcoming playoff game vs Bama in the Rose Bowl if Michigan had the throwback giant patches on their shoulders like they did in every Rose Bowl pre-playoff.
Now they just have that dumb playoff logo on the chest.
It's a wasted opportunity.
Also, I'd love to see "Color vs Color" uniforms for the playoffs this year. Blue vs Crimson in the Rose Bowl and Washington's Purple vs Texas's Burnt Orange in the Sugar Bowl.
It would look incredible on everyone's hi def TVs.
S buck question why do you call no huddle and some speed, any difference?
No difference, just thought 'no huddle' might be more descriptive and better for search results
The last time the Rose Bowl ended before 5PM Pacific Time
Damn, WSU got screwed on the last play! They should've had one more play with 1 sec remaining.
They have no right to complain after the botched missed call on PI 2 plays before
@@cmupensfan Exactly!
imagine if they saved another second somewhere else in the game and actually used clock management, then they wouldn’t be in the predicament
There were two seconds. The ball can not be snapped until one second after the referee gives the ready for play signal, and then the play has to take at least one second, which takes the clock down to zero. The NCAA put in the rulebook a few years ago that to have a chance at 1 second left, there must be three seconds on the clock if you’re going to spike it.
@@alexcentury2166 what does rule changes from "a few years ago" have to do with WSU getting screwed in 1998? ...NOTHING!!!
Appropriate that Michigan beat Washington State for their last national championship and now they need to beat Washington for their next one
Ending is controversial. On the one hand the last 3 seconds went by too fast, but on the other hand WSU never should have been allowed to be so far after the blatant missed pass interference call. Overall, MI deserved the win. Not sure who would have won MI-UN. Glad we have the playoff(s) now!
Where’s the offensive PI ON WOODSON
ty steel, did you get my other question
I missed it, but no I don't get into college hoops, sorry. I'll likely do classic NFL at some point but unfortunately that's not stuff I can even post
i have another for you sir, 1986 orange bowl, my fav because it was both my teams, please
Actually have that one finished as well... uploading now
WSU totally reamed on the last play. They set it go from 4 to 2. Then start it too soon? WTF was that?
Ok,.here's my take on the dream matchup of Michigan vs Nebraska for the national Championship, had they played after the Bowls.
I'm old school, not some biased kid of the past generations. I'm raised on Buckeye and Sooner football as illinois and northwestern were so bad when i was young they were never on tv, lol.
The dream matchup?...NEBRASKA, ..and i dont think it would be all that close. Can't see Michigan holding up for 4 quarters as the Husker offense just hammers 'em, and Frost was twice the QB that Griese was. Nebraskas defense would be allover him, and their secondary just too physical. Michigan spreads em out with their receivers, and gets two, maybe three scores, as Strreets is a monster, but ball control is key and Nebraska's offense does just that, AND Frost throws for two, and is an option master, andis named MVP. I'm a fan of both the Huskers and Wolves to this day,..but the more i watched both bowls by these teams that year, (and esp the way Nebraska dismantled Tennessee,) i cant see Michigan beating the juggernaut of the nineties. I have it Nebraska 35-20. Hoping the Huskers get back to prominence soon too.
Michigan Wolverines national champions
Yikes no they werent
@@_________.keep telling yourself that bud
@@Bruce_144 who has the trophy? That’s what i thought 😬
@@_________. enjoy the glorified coaches poll trophy that Osbourne got as a send off gift. Doesn't change the fact that they almost lost to a piss-poor Missouri team and refs had to bail em out
@@Bruce_144 the last play of the rose bowl still hasn’t been played to this day . LMAO Talk about refs. You couldn’t even beat wazzou without help.
2 words from a Cougar Alum ...................................... GO DAWGS!!!!!!!
I hope not....I am a Coug alum, too, and after the way UW bailed out on our conference, no way I can sympathize w/ the Dawgs. Go Blue !
Knee pads have to be over the knees. Not anymore, they are all playing in shorts now. SMH
I think Nebraska received part of the title because their coach was going to retire after the season
They were vastly superior by the numbers all season and far more impressive in their bowl game. Michigan was lucky to get the share. I think Nebraska beats them by 2-3 scores.
The 1900's hahahaha, the last time michigan won a bowl game hahahahaha. I thought they were still using leather helmets but looks like they made the upgrade to plastic.
You are clueless about what football equipment teams wore in the nineties. And you brag about it. Sound like a sharty fan indeed
the whining WSU fans seem to be ignoring the uncalled offensive pass interference that got the ball to midfield on that last possession.
Bro..the runner was down with 4 seconds left on the clock. Wow did WSU get screwed here. Not saying they would’ve won but that was pretty shitty of the officials to do.
Now it's "4 seconds". 🤣💩
@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc it was literally 4 seconds
Talk about an UNcomfortable game to watch no matter who you were there for. And a stupid ending.. My group was way up at the top row opposite end zone next to the jumbotron and couldn't see what happened, just the game suddenly ended. So glad the predictable lame conservative curse of Lloyd Carr is long gone. This was Gary Moeller's NC more than Carr's.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers would have demolished Michigan.
Maybe, maybe not.
Easily
you mean that nebraska team that almost lost to colorado and mizz a team michigan destroyed that year ?? keep telling yourself that clown
Plain and simple. Nebraska rolled a team that had arguably one of the best QB’s ever(manning) and a great RB (Lewis) Tennessee was great that year. You almost lost to a QB who smoked crack in a shower. Child please
Its about the teams not the qbs. Nebraska and Michigan didn’t play so we dont really know what would have happened.
Congrats to Michigan, but Nebraska was the best team in college football that year and beat a much better Tennessee team with Peyton Manning in the bowl game.
bullcrap nebraska almost lost to colorado slim a team michigan destroyed
Nebraska would have destroyed both of teams this season.
This is actually terrible football to watch. Very ugly football.
Watch this game. Then go watch the dismantling of TN, when they played N
N was the best team
you mean that nebraska team that almost lost to mizz and colorado a team michigan destroyed that year ?? keep telling yourself that clown
Nebraska would've steamrolled this Michigan team just like they did to every team from 95-97
Nebraska really lost to Missouri that Season and only beat a Colorado team by 3. Michigan beat Colorado 20-3! Nebraska got the sympathetic vote for Tom Osborn’s last season!
@@Steve_643 By that logic Arkansas would of beaten Alabama in 2015 because Arkansas beat a team that Bama didn't. Nebraska steamrolled Peyton Manning and Tennessee and would of done the same to Michigan that year. You do realize that Nebraska and Colorado were rivals right?
@@Steve_643 exactly!
I think that you are forgetting how good the Michigan D was that year. No way Scot Frost was the thrower that Leaf was back then. The only way to beat the 97 Michigan team was to spread them out and throw the ball all over the field. Nebraska would have had a chance, but Michigan would have won the game in the fourth quarter.
@@jonblue1417 Nebraska would've just wore them down with the triple option like every other team they played in that era. 93 FSU had the #1 defense in the country and a way better offense than Michigan and only won due to a missed FG! Peyton manning couldn't score on them but Brian Griese could? Next to 90 Colorado 97 Michigan is he sorriest national champs I've ever witnessed. The only team in the 90s who could've beat 97 Nebraska is 95 Nebraska!
I know they shared the Natty but without question Nebraska would have destroyed this Michigan team. Michigan got a big help from the refs at the end of the Rose Bowl game. WSU should have had one second left and one more play. And who knows what might have happened? While Nebraska embarrassed Tennessee and the mighty Peyton Manning in the Orange Bowl. (Ryan Leaf, what a waste of talent. Horrible attitude, pathetic work ethic, immature bratty antics...ruined career!)
You’re completely wrong about the last play because you obviously don’t know the rules. Even ignoring the obvious OPI on the play before that should have reverted Washington State to its own 3, they had two seconds and the previous play ended inbounds. By rule you can’t snap the ball until one second has elapsed after the referee gives the ready for play signal. That takes us from 2 to 1. The play has to take time off the clock so we go from 1 to 0. If they hadn’t spiked it and had just run a play they would have had that last shot. This situation is why the NCAA subsequently wrote into the rule book that in order to have a chance at there being time left after a spike there must have been three seconds or more on the clock.
@@alexcentury2166 when was this rule added? A couple decades after the game in question was played?
@@shawnjames3533 That specific rule sure but as the rules were written back then in terms of the ready for play signal and the time the play has to take it's really not hard to see why it ended the way it did. If they'd just run a play instead of spiking it they would have had time for the play.
The mighty Peyton Manning whou couldnt beat Florida to save his life??? Who won one SEC title in 4 years?? You list the breaks UM got, well what about Nebraska illegally kicking an incomplete pass in the air so it can be illegally caught to keep their season alive vs a mediocre Missouri team??
That may be the dumbest thing I've ever read. Congrats.