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.
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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?
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!!!😄😄
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
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.
@@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!
Ron Flesher yeah I believe if I remember right Danny Bradley didn’t play for OU and a true freshman named Troy Aikman started his very first game! We ( OU) played like crap and Kansas I got to give it up to them ! They came ready to play and they whipped our butts!
@@ziggie7676 Yes, I was at the game and was shocked as a KU fan. Aikman's first game, then he got injured in 1985 I believe and Jamele Holloway took over, and Troy transferred to UCLA.
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.
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.
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🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
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.
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.
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!
