Steve Rhodes was one of my favorites even to this day. Remarkable Young man with deception speed and glue like hands. He was so prominant in the OU vs Ohio State game in the winning drive.
zyxquark-In the 1981 season Georgia was the #1 team in Ap Poll going into the bowl games and that afternoon pretty much wrapped up the National Titie with a 17-10 win over Notre Dame. In those days bowl bids went out before the end of the season and if it had been like today(before the playoff) Florida St at #2 would have gotten the Sugar Bowl invite to play the Bulldogs for the National Title.
I could be wrong, but my memory of this is we could have kicked the extra point, tied, and without a loss remained number one and still won the national championship (this was the orange bowl; the last game of the bowl season on new year's night). Instead, switzer (the river boat gambler) went for two and won the game and the national championship. this is my all-time favorite ou memory. thanks, jc watts, wherever you are. when switzer ran off the field you could hear his balls clank.
Was OU #1 in 1980? I'm a Nebraska guy and I saw the unfortunate Keith Jackson catch in 1986- I thought that was a year OU was #1. Anyway, looking forward to a great rematch in the XII title game in December
Do you think we ( FSU ) would have won this game, would we have had a good chance for a National Championship, or at least a split one? Or was Georgia clearly the best team that year?
