A Football Life: The 2006 Rose Bowl 

Best college football game ever played, I'll never forget that season and everything that went into the build up of this game and for it to surpass the hype is incredible

If only Vince Young had gone to ANY team that wasnt coached by Jeff Fischer, his NFL career wouldve been alot different. Jeff Fischer spoiled Vince's career.

Love how Vince should have won the heisman and then Reggie try’s to do a heisman move and messes it up and Vince does the same thing and gets a TD out of it

Best college game I've ever seen. And I'll forever be grateful that my team, Texas, won that game. A true battle of titans.

College football just hasn’t been the same since this masterpiece.

Funny how Matt's coach takes some responsibility for his NFL career not working out but Jeff Fischer blames nobody but Vince Young. Knowing how bad of damage Fischer does to QBs and how petty he was being something tells he was part of the problem to.

No game in any sport will ever top this one. Even as a Sooner fan that loves to hate Texas, this is the best football matchup ever played. Thanks to both teams for putting on an absolute show!

Man...I can close my eyes and remember it clear as day. This game wouldn't let you even blink or breathe, out of the fear that you might miss something truly incredible.

I was 10 at the time. This game made me fall in love with football

It hurts when the greatest national championship game had your team losing

Went to the game, and just saw the film again , and still has chills running through my back....wow what a game!!!

I’ll never forget this day! My basketball high school team in Texas (30 minutes from Austin) had a game that night. Both coaches and refs agreed to have two 15 minute quarters, with running clock 😂 Finished the game in time, went home and caught the game. Even went to academy that night to get the championship shirt! Hook Em!

Best Game of the New Millenium and Keith Jackson's Final Broadcast....I believe God watched this game on TV instead of being there.

This game may have had the most “IT” factor out of any other American football game ever played, like this game feels like the climax of a movie anytime you watch it. The crowd The yellow-ish lighting The announcers who were boring but just have that “big game” classy feel to them All the future NFL stars in that game like Vince Young, Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, etc. And just how good the game was overall, this game WAS the climax of a movie in every aspect.

Are you kidding we all remember watching this song it was awesome 😊

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!! I know i sound old but the proof is here, the time was great, both teams were star studded and so far above every other team, 100 celebrities showed up to watch the game, i remember many girls i knew that didnt even watch or know football even got excited hearing the hype for this game. It will never be like that again. Great game and fun night, i was sad usc lost but after time passed, texas played better that night

I feel so grateful that I got to watch that game, and still remember it to this day, what a special night.

I was 10 years old when this game happened hands down the greatest college game ever hook em horns

During the 2006 Rose Bowl me and my family were living in Missouri but had family and friends from Southeast Texas who were huge Longhorn fans i remember when Vince Young scored that touchdown me and my brother both ran out of our rooms jumped in the air and high five each other over that game. It was truly the best football game I’ve ever seen no other football game so far has topped it yet.

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Hands down the best college football championship game I’ve ever watched in my life 40 years on this earth.

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I watched it while deployed at Camp Victory Iraq. Texas fans went nuts

Then White and Young become teammates at Tennessee! What a crazy feeling that had to be for them two.

I remember this game when I was 9 this is my favorite game ever I've ever seen and watched

I remember watching this game as a kid growing up to be a life king longhorn fan, having to put up with the Applewhite years, this title was so amazing the longhorns are the only team that I am a fan of and kept up all season with them and got to see them win a title 🤘

If USC woulda lined Bush out wide, that would have taken away a couple crucial numbers for the horns and maybe been enough to get a better push or a bigger whole for white to run thru and we wouldn’t be remembering this game as much as we do. Thankfully tho Pete does what Pete does and makes the wrong choice in a short yard situation.

I was 11 at the time. I remember it so vividly. I loved Vince so much but loved watching bush run the ball. I don’t think there will ever be a running back like bush in college football

Two great teams. Two great champions. Either one could win against the other on any given night. Texas won at the right time. All the eyes of Texas and the President were watching that Rose Bowl.

You didn't have to be a fan of either teams to truly appreciate the magnitude of this game. There were a few times in the 2005 season when it wasn't guaranteed they'd both meet, even though that was the expectation at the conclusion of the 2004 bowl season. Texas visited the #4 team at the time at the Horseshoe and came away in a close 25-22 win, and Vince Young sparked a comeback after falling 28-12 against another OSU team in Bedlam, then you had the Bush Push that saved USC's season, and practically every week every team giving the best against the two time defending AP champion, and defending BCS champion Trojans. Either way considering both teams were the only undefeated teams in 1-A, I think they could have afforded one loss and still faced each other. Regardless, both were undefeated and added to the hype and build up to the game, and gave quite possibly one of the greatest games of all time, regardless the sport. And a fitting end to Keith Jacksons legendary broadcasting career. My generation won't see a game like it again in our lifetimes. Truly a game of the century.

16 years old in the 10th Grade Sophomore Year in High School during Arnold Shortman's Senior Year in the 12th Grade.

I was 12 or so when this game happened and I remember risking being caught awake well past when I was supposed to be watching it. I was such a USC hater back then - I wanted anybody playing them to beat them. I had no reason to be a hater because my fandom lies with a Big 10 team that has never been a genuine contender for a title for USC winning all the time to truly even matter. So watching possibly the best title game ever and finally seeing them lose made my kid heart happy. Looking back Matt and Vince both kinda got shit hands when they entered the league and weren’t really put in situations where they had a good chance to succeed. That doesn’t mean they would’ve been long term elite level guys if they hadn’t landed as they did but it is fair to recognize that their landing spots, and some terrible luck for Leinart, lowered their odds quite a bit. Young truly got the shaft entering the league going to a team where the coaches didn’t want to draft him and the owner and office forced their hands and Jeff Fishers stubborness about how he handled every aspect of Young rather than doing his best with the direction he’s been given which ensured he would fail. Leinart may have had a chance if the Titans had grabbed him with a coaching staff that wanted him. But going to Arizona and being tossed into the role so soon when that wasn’t the plan and then getting hurt and then the next season with the switching him in and out to not truly have a commitment and security to grow in the role all to be hurt again really tanks his chances too. And then further bad luck that Kurt Warner returned to his top form snd he no longer had a chance for the spot. Both dudes may failed anyways but it’s one thing if you have a genuine chance and fall short compared to not having a true chance and falling short. At least if you had a real chance you can accept that it just didn’t pan out and move on with things compared to how you’d feel if you have a coach who never wanted you and treats you accordingly and forever wondering how it would’ve been if you had a coach who embraced and guided you instead.

I love college football,….the history, traditions, rivalries, etc. I’m also a lifelong USC fan. However I do disagree with their statement as the best of all time. In my opinion, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes were by far thee’ finest and most dominant college football team ever assembled, hands down.

Ready to recreate this on ncaa 24

When’s Randy Moss’s football life going out to come out ??

College football’s answer to Avengers: Infinity War

Real question is looking back was mario Williams the better draft pick? As a texans fan I was really upset they didn't draft Vince. 16 years later I can say it was the right choice.

Greatest team ever 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿 05 texas

I don’t care what anyone says now! This is still and will always be the BEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME EVER PLAYED! 🎤 drop! Bye!! Hookem baby!!!

Hmmm pete carrol making a questionable call late in a big game by taking out reggie bush which makes it obvious for texas to just load up the box and send the house. Makes me think of a super bowl i watched years back between the seahawks and pats, when there was seconds left in the game and the nfls best powerback marshawn lynch just had a 4 to yard carry and only needed 1 more foot to win the game, BUT, pete carrol then decided to......

Ending song?

😤🔥🔥🔥🔥Hook ‘‘em baby

That kid smugly said vince deserved the heisman over bush, and he technically did because he carried a much larger load than reggie and was more important to his team (but he was a qb) but reggie just looked like something never really seen. He was just so smooth, but he won because USC was big money, usc was the nations most watched and spectacular school

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Fun fact USC's loss from this game was later vacated.

Could you imagine the kind of money USC players of that era could have made with NIL ?

What’s crazy is just about every big name player that participated in that game did next to nothing in the next level

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Every time I see this Jeff fisher makes me sick

If anyone wants to know why Pete Carroll didn’t feed Marshawn Lynch now you know 🤣

TEXAS !!!

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Be patient Longhorn fans it is coming again! They’ll be back!!! 😂

Great game but both QB'S BECAME BUSTS LOL😂

Pete Carroll fucked up that call by taking out Reggie and he fucked up the Seahawks by not giving the ball to lynch

Gee I wonder if Vince Young was ever shown the clip of Leinart walking off the field after the game saying and snorting "They might have won the game but we're still the better team!" What a whiny little wuss....

End of an era,for sure. Shortly afterwards, failed NFL coach,Nick Saban, came to Alabama. USC and Texas have been irrelevant ever since. At least Texas and USC's star QB's sucked in the NFL.

I bet that white play ended up messing with petes head and thats why he bumbled the superbowl play

Leave it to Pete Carroll to make a terrible play call at a crucial moment.

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Uh... USC was NOT playing for its 'third straight national championship despite the nonstop yammering to that effect. At that time the accepted national champion as supported by the NCAA was the BCS Title Game. In 2004, following the 2003 season, that game was played between LSU and Oklahoma, with LSU winning 21-14. The 'national championship' for that season that is claimed by Southern Cal (I know they hate being called that) was nothing more than the opinion of the AP poll. No amount of repeating that claim ad nauseum will change that simple fact. But we here in flyover country understand. Each year Southern Cal need only to have players with a pulse and respiration to be declared a 'team for the ages', at least until the actual games are played....🤣🤣🤣

You can see why it didn't work out for Young in the pros. Too loose and immature.

It’s crazy how Pete made the exact same mistake in the NFL in the biggest game crazy like you literally don’t learn from it