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December 20th, 2012, 05:38 AM
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It was 20 years ago today...
It was 20 years ago today, but Sgt. Pepper wasn't anywhere near Huntington, WV on December 19, 1992 for the first back-to-back title game rematch in Football Championship Subdivision (then I-AA) history.
By Sam Partridge
The CAA Today Columnist
College Sporting News
The Marshall University Thundering Herd has wrested the rights to the game from Stateboro, GA and looked to take advantage of the friendly confines of the year-old Marshall Stadium in a reprisal of their 1991 championship game loss to Youngstown State. It would be the second of three straight clashes between the two powerhouses but it would go down as the most memorable of the trilogy.
Marshall played in all three back-to-back rematches in FCS title game history (Georgia Southern and Furman first faced off twice in the title game in the 1980's but their rematch was separated by a few years) but the first was certainly the most treasured.
Read More... (http://www.collegesportingnews.com/content.php?905-It-was-20-years-ago-today)
It was 20 years ago today...
It was 20 years ago today, but Sgt. Pepper wasn't anywhere near Huntington, WV on December 19, 1992 for the first back-to-back title game rematch in Football Championship Subdivision (then I-AA) history.
By Sam Partridge
The CAA Today Columnist
College Sporting News
The Marshall University Thundering Herd has wrested the rights to the game from Stateboro, GA and looked to take advantage of the friendly confines of the year-old Marshall Stadium in a reprisal of their 1991 championship game loss to Youngstown State. It would be the second of three straight clashes between the two powerhouses but it would go down as the most memorable of the trilogy.
Marshall played in all three back-to-back rematches in FCS title game history (Georgia Southern and Furman first faced off twice in the title game in the 1980's but their rematch was separated by a few years) but the first was certainly the most treasured.
Read More... (http://www.collegesportingnews.com/content.php?905-It-was-20-years-ago-today)