Just a note for the younger fans out there: back in the 1980s going to a bowl game was a big deal because ESPN wasn't literally inventing bowl games so that everyone eligible can participate. You actually had to be GOOD to go to a bowl.
I remember my younger brother and I counting em up in 85-16 bowl games then, as opposed to close to 40 now. A 6-5 team would occasionally get a bid (84 Michigan, for example)-but it was a relative rarity
And now nobody wants to actually play in any of these useless bowls so every game has the third stringers out there and is even more unwatchable than before.
@@DolFan316 even .500 teams get bowl games now! In my state for high school, you have to have a winning Conference record to qualify for the state tourney. Thinking that would be a good way to eliminate a lot of boring games.
These old Raycom/Jefferson Pilot graphics in the video take me back. Look forward to more of these. It’s still baffling that GT won a National Championship in between those Miami teams, not to mention beating FSU to the punch among ACC teams.
@@gth804f right, but FSU was still a power as an Independent. They'd been to multiple NY6 bowls in the 80s. There's a reason why when they joined the ACC, they were so dominant. They only lost 2 conference games in the entirety of the 90s.
I was there that night as a 15 yr old GT diehard! Seeing this is one of those “RU-vid” moments we have; reviving a sentimental memory that was unforgettable. Now for a mind-blower: there was a young DB Coach for Michigan State coaching his first game in the state of Alabama that night. He did ok in the decades that followed! Ladies and gentlemen, ‘twas none other than Nick Saban. How awesome is that? Thank you so much for posting my friend.
I guess the "that's worse than if you didn't showed up" will be this channels version of "worse than if you did nothing but spiked the ball to the ground on every play"
I'd love to see you do a video on the 1983 Oregon-Oregon State game, now known as the Toilet Bowl. It was the last 0-0 tie in NCAA history, and is often considered the worst college football game ever played.
There was a 1987 game between Kansas and Kansas State that is also called the Toilet Bowl. Kansas won one game that season and K-State was winless, and they played to a tie. A year later, K-State got Bill Snyder and those days ended.
As a side note, he went from GT to Alabama and in 1988 he suspended Alabama QB Jeff Dunn for the Sun Bowl. Twice in 4 years he sat his starting QB for a bowl game. I have always thought that he is a stone cold football genius and had he not been a part of The Alabama Shuffle he may have made a career there. Then again, even while winning a SEC title, he went 0-3 against the cow college across the state and that will get you run out of Tuscaloosa by a mob with torches and pitchforks. Roll Tide Roll
This was the only bowl I ever knew Georgia Tech to be in until the 1990 Citrus Bowl. By the time I started paying attention in 1984, Tech’s glory days were long past and, as a kid, I really had very little awareness of them. I remember this game…it was just absolutely surreal that Tech was in a BOWL! Thanks for the memories!
During the 1990 Sugar Bowl, Curry's last game at Alabama, he grabbed receiver Prince Wimbley by the face mask and dragged him to the sideline after Wimbley celebrated after a routine catch. Between that incident and this one, you could tell Curry learned very well from Lombardi and Shula.
That '85 Georgia Tech "Black Watch" defense was great, though. Pat Swilling was their best player. In that tie at Tennessee, the Vols hit field goals from 55 and 51 yards to get that 6-6 tie--and then went on to win the SEC championship and beat Miami by four touchdowns in the Sugar Bowl. I remember this game, and I remember thinking when it began that Tech had a shot, no matter who played QB, because of that defense. Lorenzo White had a big day running the ball for MSU, but Tech kept him from breaking anything. Tech just needed Rampley not to screw up, and he didn't.
"That's worse than if you didn't show up." Should be the new ad nauseum line for this channel. Fits with the other one on your other channel. I didn't even think you could get a negative Passer Rating.
That was one of the more unlikely championship runs we'll ever see. It would probably take 100 years for Tech to have the personnel and luck to even sniff a championship now.
OK who else is fascinated by the refs in shorts in the NC State clips 3:16? Oh and did you spot Jerry Glanville at :24? He was on the GT staff in the early 70s (had to look it up to be sure)
I was at the Georgia game, when Gary Lee returned a kickoff to win the game. The black watch defense was introduced. Pat Swilling and Ted Roof were all americans at LB. Dewberrys taking the hedges after beating Georgia, whete he used to play, and then his infamous dui. Great year as a Tech fan, except for the dui. But, somehow we pulled off the win.
So what you're saying is I had a better college passer rating than the individual in questions going into this bowl game. I was 14 and in the 8th grade.
Well it seems to me that the team Georgia Tech was PLAYING AGAINST was WORSE than a 39.6. But the game would have been WAY MORE ENTERTAINING to ME if Georgia Tech and their opponents had just SPIKED the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!
Aw, come on - the 1929 Rose Bowl was the craziest bowl performance by Georgia Tech -- or any team -- ever. They won by doing nothing on the game's pivotal play. They let California's Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels win it for them.
So i know this might be outside what you normally do but how about a rivaly by the two worst university team in North America The York University Lions and the Universtity of Toronto Blues. the even have a trophy they play for in the red blue bowl. each team has never had a winning season in 45 years. both schools have over 50000 students.
As a UGA fan, Curry was probably a little heavy handed on that. Maybe bench those guys for the first half, but don’t send them home. Punishment didn’t fit the crime.
