Best Football Game You Attended

[The Cats]

What is the best college football game you ever attended in person?

[Redbird 4th & short]

psshhh ... staying withing FCS realm, that's easy, ISUr vs NDSU in Frisco (Jan 2015) ... great game, bad ending. At the time, many said it was the best FCS Natty Game they'd seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDGaLAODow .. 4 min recap with highlights


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# 2 NORTH DAKOTA STATE (15-1) -VS- # 5 ILLINOIS STATE (13-2)



Team
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Total


Winner North Dakota State
3
7
10
9
29


Illinois State
7
0
7
13
27


NDSU: Carson Wentz (237), Carson Wentz (87), RJ Urzendowski (100)ILS: ROBERSON,Tre (https://goredbirds.com/sports/football/roster/tre-roberson/3628) (157), ROBERSON,Tre (https://goredbirds.com/sports/football/roster/tre-roberson/3628) (161), O'SHAUGHNESSY,James (https://goredbirds.com/sports/football/roster/james-o-shaughnessy/498) (44)DATE: 1/10/2015 SITE: Frisco, Texas STADIUM: Toyota State ATTENDANCE: 20918 KICKOFF TIME: 12:05 pm END OF GAME: 3:17 pm DURATION: 3:12 TEMPERATURE: 34 WIND: SSE 7mph WEATHER: Cloudy, cold


Qtr
Time
Scoring Play
NDSU
ILS


1st
05:28
ILS - ANDERSON,J 13 yd pass from ROBERSON,Tre (AUSSIEKER,Nick kick) 5 plays, 38 yards, TOP 2:33
0
7


1st
01:06
NDSU - Adam Keller 41 yd field goal 8 plays, 42 yards, TOP 4:22
3
7


2nd
08:43
NDSU - Luke Albers 6 yd pass from Carson Wentz (Adam Keller kick) 11 plays, 84 yards, TOP 5:30
10
7


3rd
12:55
NDSU - Adam Keller 41 yd field goal 4 plays, -5 yards, TOP 2:05
13
7


3rd
07:28
NDSU - John Crockett 7 yd run (Adam Keller kick), 8 plays, 76 yards, TOP 3:48
20
7


3rd
02:11
ILS - O'SHAUGHNESSY,J 41 yd pass from ROBERSON,Tre (AUSSIEKER,Nick kick) 8 plays, 66 yards, TOP 5:17
20
14


4th
11:20
NDSU - Adam Keller 24 yd field goal 12 plays, 62 yards, TOP 5:51
23
14


4th
08:05
ILS - O'SHAUGHNESSY,J 3 yd pass from ROBERSON,Tre (AUSSIEKER,Nick kick) 6 plays, 84 yards, TOP 3:15
23
21


4th
01:38
ILS - ROBERSON,Tre 58 yd run (ROBERSON,Tre pass failed), 5 plays, 80 yards, TOP 0:44
23
27


4th
00:37
NDSU - Carson Wentz 5 yd run (Adam Keller kick blocked), 6 plays, 78 yards, TOP 1:01
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[FUBeAR]

Furman vs. GaSou 1985 Natty says to NDSU vs. ISUr … “hold my beer” … 44-42 GaSou …. not decided until final seconds…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovAhumk0UaY

[Sitting Bull]

Great thread!

I’m sure all we have obvious homer picks and easy for me, the 2009 Tribe win at UVA with a pick 6 to seal it. Tribe 26, Cavaliers 14.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJAOJPP977Q

Aside from W&M games, the best for me was the 1981 Michigan at Notre Dame game. Irish won 29-27 on a 51 yard FG.

[CenMEBlackBearFan]

Great idea on this one!!!
Toss up for me, Maine beating App.State at their place in quarterfinals, App. State fans treated us great and kicked their butts in 2011- https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/313372026

More recently beating the heck out of Jacksonville State at our place in 2018 when all we heard is how fast they were- https://www.ncaa.com/embed/video/football%3A2018-12-01%3Afcs-football-maine-jacksonville-state

[ST_Lawson]

Gotta be our game at Northern Iowa back in 2000. Final regular season game, WIU was 8-2 and ranked #6 at the time (http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2000/Internet/ranking_summary/2000000000771.HTML), UNI was 7-3 and ranked #18 (http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2000/Internet/ranking_summary/2000000000504.HTML)...winner would get the Gateway Conference auto-bid to the I-AA playoffs (16-team bracket, all seeded).

It was a back-and-forth game in the first half, going into halftime with WIU up 21-16. WIU stormed through the 3rd quarter, rolling up three TDs by RB Charles Tharp (who would end up with 1,555 yards and 17 TDs on the ground with a 6.171 yards per carry average that season) to take a commanding 41-19 lead going into the 4th quarter. The Panthers refused to give up, though, putting up 3 TDs of their own to tie things up at 41-all with 3 1/2 minutes left in the game. WIU got the ball back with 3:36 left in the game but was only able to get a bit past midfield before nearly running out of time. The Leathernecks' placekicker had missed an XP earlier in the game and didn't really have the range to hit a FG from that distance, so they put in Punter Mike Scifres to attempt to win the game. Scifres would nail the 56-yard FG (still tied for the longest FG in WIU history) to win the game, the conference regular season title, and a spot in the playoffs.

Here's the box score: http://www.mvc.org/football/stats/00/wiu-uni.htm

On WIU's side, that game featured players such as:
- LB Edgerton Hartwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgerton_Hartwell) - that year's Buck Buchanan Award winner and Gateway Defensive Player of the Year, drafted in the 4th round of the NFL draft, played for six seasons on active rosters.
- RB Charles Tharp - that year's Gateway Offensive Player of the Year
- TE J.R. Niklos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Niklos) - incredibly fast TE/FB, played for six seasons in the NFL and NFL Europe
- DB Will Peterson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_(American_football)) - drafted in the 3rd round of the 2001 NFL draft, played for ten seasons in the NFL
- P Mike Scifres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Scifres) - drafted in the 5th round, played 12 years for the Chargers, holds the Chargers team record for most career punting yards, gross average yards per punt, and punts within the 20, and was a member of the "Chargers 50th Anniversary Team" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers_50th_Anniversary_Team)
- OL Rich Seubert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Seubert) - played for the NY Giants for ten years, starting 88 games including Super Bowl XLII (the one where the Giants prevented the Patriots from completing an undefeated season)
- LB Lee Russell - that year's conference Freshman of the Year, would finish 6th in 2002 and 5th in 2003 for the Buck Buchanan Award and ended his 3-year Leatherneck career at the top of the school's career solo tackles list with 317, #2 in total tackles with 480 (behind previously mentioned Ed Hartwell), #2 in Tackles for Loss with 58, and #1 in fumble recoveries with 10
The 2000 WIU Team in total had six first-team All-Conference players, three second-team players, and three honorable mention players, and HC Don Patterson won the conference Coach of the Year award.

On UNI's side, you saw players like:
- QB Ryan Helming - first-team all-conference player who threw 219 passes for 3,145 yards and 30 TDs that season and is still #1 on the UNI career list for Passing Yards (9,089) and Passing TDs (77) and #2 on the list for Pass Completions (662) and Passing Yards/Game (206.6)
- WR Eddie Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Berlin) - first-team all-conference player who was drafted in the 5th round of the NFL draft and played for 5 years. In the UNI career record books, he's #1 in Receptions (249), #2 in Reception Yards (3,735), and #3 in Receiving TDs (34)
- TE Ryan Hannam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Hannam) - drafted in the 5th round of the NFL draft, played for 54 games in five years with the Seahawks and Cowboys
In total, the 2000 UNI team had six first-team All-Conference players, six second-team players, and five honorable mention players.


Honorable mention for me was also at UNI...in 2017 when we scored 13 points in the final 6 seconds of the game to win 38-29: https://goleathernecks.com/news/2017/10/7/football-leathernecks-complete-wild-comeback-win-at-northern-iowa.aspx
That was the same season we destroyed newly-FBS Coastal Carolina 52-10, finished the regular season #9 in the STATS poll and had to go on the road to play at #8 Weber State in the playoffs...losing by 2.

[POD Knows]

2012 vs GoSo in Fargo in the playoff. Winning TD on a 4th and goal to goal on the 4 yard line with a QB keeper, epic. And then GoSo completes a huge pass with almost no time left and botches the field goal. Loudest i have ever heard the dome.

[SCPALADIN]

Furman vs. Pitt at Heinz Field, September 25, 2004. Lost 41-38 in OT.

Unranked Akron vs. #2 Morehead State, 1986 at The Rubber Bowl. First college football game I ever attended. Zips dominated the entire game and upset the Eagles 30-7.

[kdinva]

1985: VMI 39; W&M 38, in Lexington, VMI scored TD at 00:00, was successful with two point play (end around).

1993: Citadel 34, VMI 33, in Charleston, Tommy Haskins' break out game: 236 yards, 3 TDs


2019: VMI 48, Samford 41, OT, In Lexington. VMI tied it at 00:00 w/56 yard field goal. scored first in OT, Samford then on 4th down missed a wide open pass play that could have tied the game, and extended it.



Qtr
Time
Scoring Play
SAM
VMI


1st
08:21
VMI - Alex Ramsey 1 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 11 plays, 84 yards, TOP 3:39
0
7


1st
05:35
SAM - M. Washington 10 yd run (M. Fineran kick), 8 plays, 75 yards, TOP 2:46
7
7


1st
02:57
VMI - Alex Ramsey 2 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 7 plays, 75 yards, TOP 2:38
7
14


1st
00:06
SAM - M. Washington 15 yd pass from Chris Oladokun (M. Fineran kick) 10 plays, 82 yards, TOP 2:51
14
14


2nd
09:35
VMI - Alex Ramsey 1 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 15 plays, 77 yards, TOP 5:31
14
21


2nd
08:02
SAM - T. Pollard 0 yd fumble recovery (M. Fineran kick)
21
21


2nd
03:00
VMI - Alex Ramsey 5 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 12 plays, 75 yards, TOP 5:02
21
28


2nd
00:11
SAM - M. Fineran 23 yd field goal 12 plays, 76 yards, TOP 2:49
24
28


3rd
09:15
SAM - Jay Stanton 19 yd pass from Chris Oladokun (M. Fineran kick) 13 plays, 86 yards, TOP 5:45
31
28


3rd
01:39
SAM - Chris Shelling 13 yd pass from Chris Oladokun (M. Fineran kick) 12 plays, 69 yards, TOP 3:19
38
28


4th
13:03
VMI - Grant Clemons 33 yd field goal 10 plays, 59 yards, TOP 3:36
38
31


4th
04:16
VMI - Alex Ramsey 1 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 9 plays, 50 yards, TOP 2:32
38
38


4th
00:41
SAM - M. Fineran 45 yd field goal 10 plays, 47 yards, TOP 3:35
41
38


4th
00:00
VMI - Grant Clemons 56 yd field goal 5 plays, 26 yards, TOP 0:41
41
41


OT
15:00
VMI - Alex Ramsey 25 yd run (Grant Clemons kick), 1 plays, 25 yards, TOP 0:00
41
48



Ramsey won every offensive player of the week award available

[Redbird 4th & short]

Gotta be our game at Northern Iowa back in 2000. Final regular season game, WIU was 8-2 and ranked #6 at the time (http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2000/Internet/ranking_summary/2000000000771.HTML), UNI was 7-3 and ranked #18 (http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2000/Internet/ranking_summary/2000000000504.HTML)...winner would get the Gateway Conference auto-bid to the I-AA playoffs (16-team bracket, all seeded).

It was a back-and-forth game in the first half, going into halftime with WIU up 21-16. WIU stormed through the 3rd quarter, rolling up three TDs by RB Charles Tharp (who would end up with 1,555 yards and 17 TDs on the ground with a 6.171 yards per carry average that season) to take a commanding 41-19 lead going into the 4th quarter. The Panthers refused to give up, though, putting up 3 TDs of their own to tie things up at 41-all with 3 1/2 minutes left in the game. WIU got the ball back with 3:36 left in the game but was only able to get a bit past midfield before nearly running out of time. The Leathernecks' placekicker had missed an XP earlier in the game and didn't really have the range to hit a FG from that distance, so they put in Punter Mike Scifres to attempt to win the game. Scifres would nail the 56-yard FG (still tied for the longest FG in WIU history) to win the game, the conference regular season title, and a spot in the playoffs.

Here's the box score: http://www.mvc.org/football/stats/00/wiu-uni.htm

On WIU's side, that game featured players such as:

- TE J.R. Niklos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Niklos) - incredibly fast TE/FB, played for six seasons in the NFL and NFL Europe


In total, the 2000 UNI team had six first-team All-Conference players, six second-team players, and five honorable mention players.


Honorable mention for me was also at UNI...in 2017 when we scored 13 points in the final 6 seconds of the game to win 38-29: https://goleathernecks.com/news/2017/10/7/football-leathernecks-complete-wild-comeback-win-at-northern-iowa.aspx
That was the same season we destroyed newly-FBS Coastal Carolina 52-10, finished the regular season #9 in the STATS poll and had to go on the road to play at #8 Weber State in the playoffs...losing by 2.

hah, I know JR Niklos. He now owns/runs a strength & conditioning sports training company in west suburbs of Chicago. All 3 of my now adult kids trained under him and his brother Mike. 2 of my 3 also worked for them as they got older and in fact since became strength coaches, thanks to their influence. JR and his brother are such great guys, and really know what they are doing .. too much saturation/competition with people who don't really know what they are doing.

[Go...gate]

September 10, 1977.

Colgate 23, Rutgers 0 in Hamilton.

[caribbeanhen]

September 10, 1977.

Colgate 23, Rutgers 0 in Hamilton.

October 19th 1977

Delaware 21 Colgate 3 at Newark, Delaware

Colgate was a ranked 1A team coming in

[uni88]

I've got 2.

12/14/1985 - Northern Iowa vs. Georgia Southern in the semifinals (the game before FUBeAR's). The Eagles scored with 34 seconds left to break a tie and take a 40-33 lead and held on for the win. Neither defense could stop the others offense and the last team with the ball with enough clock left was going to win. The 2 teams together totaled 1057 yards of offense.

10/24/1987 - Northern Iowa @ Lawson's WIU Leathernecks. Western came into the game 6-1, 5-0 in the Gateway and I believe ranked #4 in the I-AA. UNI came in 3-3, 1-0 in the Gateway, and unranked. Lots of trash talk in the WIU student paper about UNI and rumors that the conference had the championship trophy on hand and ready to present to the Leathernecks after the game. It was UNI's first game after a heartbreaking 38-39 lose to Iowa State 2 weeks earlier and the Panthers took their frustrations out on the Leathernecks, winning 52-7. UNI used the momentum to win their final 4 games, win the Gateway and advance to the I-AA Semifinals.

[garland823]

2019: VMI 48, Samford 41, OT, In Lexington. VMI tied it at 00:00 w/56 yard field goal. scored first in OT, Samford then on 4th down missed a wide open pass play that could have tied the game, and extended it.



I didn't make that one, but the game in Charleston the week before was pretty good.

[atthewbon]

Objectively the best game ever was probably Ohio St at Maryland in 2018. It was a back and forth game in which Maryland lost going for 2 in OT. I didn't like the result but it was a crazy game. Best FCS game was probably SDSU at Youngstown st in 2019. SDSU was down 21-9 late in the third quarter and came back to win, with J'Bore Gibbs sealing the deal with a 63 yard TD in the final minute, which was immortalized by SVP in his bad beats segment, leading SDSU to a 38-28 win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLSsTIYcnFU

[DFW HOYA]

September 21, 2012, on ESPNU:

Georgetown 21
Princeton 19

Hoyas with the winning field goal with :19 left is its 11th win in its last 15 games. Never been close since.

[Tribe4SF]

Sitting Bull already cited the Tribe's 2009 win at UVA which is tops for me as well.

Runner-up is the 1977 Oyster Bowl in Norfolk when the Tribe beat East Carolina 21-17. In the 3rd quarter W&M QB Tom Rozantz broke loose down the sideline in front of the ECU bench and was headed for a go-ahead score. Below is the Wiki account of what happened.

East Carolina / "12th Man Tackle"[edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1977_William_%26_Mary_Indians_foot ball_team&action=edit&section=3)]On November 12, William & Mary met heavily favored East Carolina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_East_Carolina_Pirates_football_team) in the Oyster Bowl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Bowl). In the third quarter East Carolina led by three points. With 3:15 left in the third quarter, William & Mary quarterback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback) Tom Rozantz broke loose and ran for the end zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_zone). Jim Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Johnson_(coach)), a former head coach for the East Carolina football team, who was described by The Virginian Pilot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginian_Pilot) as "a portly 65-year-old gentleman in a raincoat", ran from the sidelines and threw a block tackle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_(American_football)) on Rozantz before he could score the winning touchdown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchdown). The unusual turn of events silenced the screaming William & Mary fans, and the officials gathered to discuss their course of action. After deliberation, the play was ruled a touchdown and William & Mary went on to win, 21–17.[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_William_%26_Mary_Indians_football_team#cite_n ote-8)

[KPSUL]

November 3rd, 2018; JMU @ UNH. UNH came into the game 2 - 5 on the season, JMU was ranked 3rd in the FCS. UNH forced 6 turnovers to include 2 pick-sixes. JMU played bothe Ben DeNucci and Cole Johnson at QB to no avail. UNH won 35-24 but it didn't really seem that close.

Great UNH produced highlights film if you got 2 minutes. There is also a JMU produced highlight video, but JMU has the ridiculous practice of only showing their own big plays, so don't bother with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2bpmwdyD80

[Gater]

October 19th 1977

Delaware 21 Colgate 3 at Newark, Delaware

Colgate was a ranked 1A team coming in

The week before the Delaware game the New York Times said, "Colgate made it into the nation's elite by being named No. 20 in the Associated Press weekly ranking and by regaining sole possession of first place in the run for the Lambert Trophy, awarded for the outstanding performance by a major Eastern team." Other papers reported that an undefeated season was a pretty much a lock and reps from various bowl games (a much bigger deal back then) were on the sidelines for games.

Delaware has wrecked some really good 'gate dreams along the way.

[bulldog10jw]

Most memorable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1981/10/04/unbeaten-yale-savors-23-19-upset-of-navy/3d2bf0a0-da98-4b31-ae6c-8894a29bb0a8/

The ancient Yale Bowl, the last bastion of Ivy League respectability, reverberated with the joy of a remarkable upset today. The Elis, best of an eight-team league that is de-emphasizing football, used the 202-yard passing of John Rogan and the three fumble recoveries of Fred Leone to defeat Navy, 23-19.

In the end, Yale (3-0) proved to the 38,000 noisy fans and a regional television audience that brains can succeed where brawn is not in evidence. Yielding both ball and wind to Navy (2-2) at the start of the third period, the Elis took advantage of the gusts in the fourth period to shove the Midshipmen into a trap from which they could not escape.

[UAalum72]

September 16, 2006 - Albany 17, Delaware 10

Albany, still in the NEC and in the first year offering scholarships, dominates UD for the first half. Scored on a flea-flicker on the second drive. Was thinking I didn't know 22,000 fans could be so quiet, until they started calling for Keeler's job, two years after a national championship.

It was going so well Bob Ford didn't wheel out the quick kick until the fourth quarter.

Joe Flacco could be MVP and Super Bowl champion, but he couldn't beat Albany

[Sitting Bull]

1985: VMI 39; W&M 38, in Lexington, VMI scored TD at 00:00, was successful with two point play (end around


That was a wild game and a wonderful win for VMI. I remember it well and think it was in 1985.

That was of note VMIs last win in the series. W&M has reeled off 24 straight wins I think, the current active record for FCS series win streak in a series. We do restart the series in 2024.

You may not have seen it but I remember as a young boy growing up in Virginia when VMI absolutely shocked the Hokies 12-10 in 1967. Tech came into the game 7-2 (they started 7-0 before dropping games to Miami and Florida State) and likely bowlbound. They had just been to the Liberty Bowl the year prior and had beaten VMI that year 70-12. This was back when the VMI/Tech games were annually played in Roanoke.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

#3 Holy Cross 43 #19 Lehigh 42, October 26th 1991

Even though Lehigh lost this is the greatest game in PL history in terms of quality of teams and national recognition. The game was tied at 7 at half before absolute chaos ensued during the final 30 minutes. There was a fumblerooksi, huge defensive plays/scores, wild offense and ultimately a failed Lehigh 2 pt conversion late in the game which proved to be the difference. The national networks (ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC) picked up on what was going on in this epic battle in Bethlehem and started providing updates/highlights. I was just a couple weeks past my 9th birthday when I attended this game yet the entire day remains vividly clear in my memory....


https://youtu.be/olD8VpgJMZI

Honorable mention
1995 Lehigh 37 Lafayette 30 OT
2001 Lehigh 27 Hofstra 24 OT First Round 1-AA Playoffs
2011 Lehigh 40 Towson 38 Second Round FCS Playoffs

[caribbeanhen]

September 16, 2006 - Albany 17, Delaware 10

Albany, still in the NEC and in the first year offering scholarships, dominates UD for the first half. Scored on a flea-flicker on the second drive. Was thinking I didn't know 22,000 fans could be so quiet, until they started calling for Keeler's job, two years after a national championship.

It was going so well Bob Ford didn't wheel out the quick kick until the fourth quarter.

Joe Flacco could be MVP and Super Bowl champion, but he couldn't beat Albany

Definitely one of the most embarrassing losses in Delaware history

I remember you had a really good LB and Keeler must of ran Omar Cuff 35 times in that game. I remember saying he Cuffed the offense …. Totally vanilla

[KPSUL]

Definitely one of the most embarrassing losses in Delaware history

I remember you had a really good LB and Keeler must of ran Omar Cuff 35 times in that game. I remember saying he Cuffed the offense …. Totally vanilla

If you decide you need to run a RB 35 times, Omar Cuff would have been a good choice.

[SU DOG]

Second Round FCS 1991 Playoffs Samford @ JMU. Samford was a huge underdog playing at Bridgeforth Stadium in Harrisonburg. The game was one of big plays from the outset. The Bulldogs' Tank Edwards scored on a 71 yard sweep right on the second play of the game. The Dukes would rebound to take a 14-7 lead into the half. Samford, aided by a 67 yard punt return for a TD, put up 17 points in the 3rd quarter and led 24-14. JMU cut it to 3 points in the 4th with a 9 yard TD pass. With 49 seconds left, JMU tried to tie the game with a field goal but it went just a few inches wide. Huge win for the young (4 year) Samford FCS program.

[VandalBasher]

I got to see many wins over the Junior College. But my favorite was the 1992 game in Boise. It was right before I graduated. The Vandals beat BSU on their horrible turf 62-16.

Hilarious.

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

NDSU beating Iowa in Kinnick Stadium in 2016.

[KPSUL]

September 16, 2006 - Albany 17, Delaware 10

Albany, still in the NEC and in the first year offering scholarships, dominates UD for the first half. Scored on a flea-flicker on the second drive. Was thinking I didn't know 22,000 fans could be so quiet, until they started calling for Keeler's job, two years after a national championship.

It was going so well Bob Ford didn't wheel out the quick kick until the fourth quarter.

Joe Flacco could be MVP and Super Bowl champion, but he couldn't beat Albany

This reminds me of my least favorite UNH game. 2016 at New Hampshire, Albany RB Elijah Ibitokun-Hanks gained 298 yards on 39 carries and the Danes beat the Wildcats 36-25. I heard his name called so much that I'll know how to pronounce forever - assuming the UNH announcer had it correct.

[Professor Chaos]

psshhh ... staying withing FCS realm, that's easy, ISUr vs NDSU in Frisco (Jan 2015) ... great game, bad ending. At the time, many said it was the best FCS Natty Game they'd seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDGaLAODow .. 4 min recap with highlights



2012 vs GoSo in Fargo in the playoff. Winning TD on a 4th and goal to goal on the 4 yard line with a QB keeper, epic. And then GoSo completes a huge pass with almost no time left and botches the field goal. Loudest i have ever heard the dome.
These are #1 and #2 on my list. #3 would be:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQvOOq8PZm0

[Bisonoline]

First playoff game against GA Southern with there supposed vaunted triple option. We shut it down. One of the best defensive games Ive seen the Bison play.

[Professor Chaos]

First playoff game against GA Southern with there supposed vaunted triple option. We shut it down. One of the best defensive games Ive seen the Bison play.
Ah yes... the #ButtBama game. By transitive property we found out that the 2011 FCS national champion Bison (who beat GaSo by 28) were better than the 2011 FBS national champion Alabama (who beat GaSo by 24).

Pretty epic pregame thread for that one too: https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?102839-NDSU-vs-Georgia-Southern-Semifinals

[Go...gate]

October 19th 1977

Delaware 21 Colgate 3 at Newark, Delaware

Colgate was a ranked 1A team coming in

November 19, 1977. Colgate was #20 in the AP poll going in.

Cost us a bowl appearance.

[Go...gate]

#3 Holy Cross 43 #19 Lehigh 42, October 26th 1991

Even though Lehigh lost this is the greatest game in PL history in terms of quality of teams and national recognition. The game was tied at 7 at half before absolute chaos ensued during the final 30 minutes. There was a fumblerooksi, huge defensive plays/scores, wild offense and ultimately a failed Lehigh 2 pt conversion late in the game which proved to be the difference. The national networks (ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC) picked up on what was going on in this epic battle in Bethlehem and started providing updates/highlights. I was just a couple weeks past my 9th birthday when I attended this game yet the entire day remains vividly clear in my memory....


https://youtu.be/olD8VpgJMZI

Honorable mention
1995 Lehigh 37 Lafayette 30 OT
2001 Lehigh 27 Hofstra 24 OT First Round 1-AA Playoffs
2011 Lehigh 40 Towson 38 Second Round FCS Playoffs

I attended this game. Agree that it was one of the greatest games in FCS/1-AA history. Simply epic.

[Gil Dobie]

1985 NDSU 49 UND 0.

[caribbeanhen]

November 19, 1977. Colgate was #20 in the AP poll going in.

Cost us a bowl appearance.

Yes Sir, and Delaware was a Div II team at the time, when was the last time a division 2 team even played top 20 division 1A / FBS team anyway? Much less beat them

I wasn’t actually at the game but listened to it on the radio

[caribbeanhen]

2012 vs GoSo in Fargo in the playoff. Winning TD on a 4th and goal to goal on the 4 yard line with a QB keeper, epic. And then GoSo completes a huge pass with almost no time left and botches the field goal. Loudest i have ever heard the dome.

That game and the Wofford game with that burly FB were great games to watch

[POD Knows]

That game and the Wofford game with that burly FB were great games to watchYea, I remember that Wofford game and I thought we would absolutely destroy them and as the game went on it was a WTF moment. Wofford pushed us around in the trenches that game. the Wofford game was the one before the GoSo game I referenced. I went back and checked the stats in that game and Wofford had 260+ yards rushing and that just didn't happen to Bison teams back then. Eric Breitenstein had 135 but only on 24 carries and only one carry for a loss. Our middle linebacker and 29 tackles/assists in that game. Their O line must have been really good,

[Sitting Bull]

November 19, 1977. Colgate was #20 in the AP poll going in.

Cost us a bowl appearance.

This is why 5 years later the initial Colonial League (todays Patriot) formation along with W&M and Holy Cross was really quite formidable - until the Ivy League got too involved in the league guidelines.

[aceinthehole]

August 30, 2014 - Johnny Unitas Stadium

Central Connecticut - 31
#13 Towson - 27

On the road, Pete Rossomondo upsets a ranked FCS team and the 2013 National Finalists in his first game as the CCSU head coach.


Nick SanGiacomo threw for two touchdowns and Rob Holloman ran for two more to lead Central Connecticut State to a 31-27 win over Towson on Saturday night.

Trailing 27-24 in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils marched 80 yards in 11 plays to take the lead on a 1-yard TD run by Hollomon with 36 seconds left. SanGiacomo was 22 of 28 for 273 yards passing, while Hollomon rushed for 161 yards on 23 carries.

Tyrell Holmes had four catches for 102 yards and a touchdown for CCSU and Brandon Hollomon, younger brother of Rob Hollomon, scored with a 5-yard TD catch.

Towson's Connor Frazier accounted for three touchdowns, including a 49-yard scramble in the fourth quarter, but was held to just 125 yards passing. Darius Victor had 19 carries for 105 yards and a touchdown for the Tigers, who hadn't lost a season opener at home since 1991.

[McNeese75]

Hobo Day October 4, 2008 McNeese beats the Jacks in triple overtime.

Sept 12 2009 McNeese takes down App State in Boone 40 -35

[The Cats]

The Immaculate Reception II

The year was 1983, the Cats were 0-2 on the season. Game three, in Cullowhee against East Tennessee State University, seemed destined to seal a forgettable season for the Catamounts. The stands were beginning to empty late in the fourth quarter with the Cats trailing 16-6.

With 4:31 left in the game, Western took possession at its own 9-yard line. Eight plays and 91 yards later, a scoring drive ended with one of the most memorable plays in WCU history.

With the clock winding under three minutes, reserve quarterback Willie Perkins fired a pass toward receiver Eric Rasheed in the corner of the end zone. East Tennessee State cornerback Harvey Zachary headed to intercept the ball.

He could’ve had it, maybe should’ve. Instead it went high off his hands and then off his knee and to Rasheed, who grabbed the ball off the top of his shoes.

Even with the score and subsequent two-point conversion, WCU trailed 16-14 with 2:35 left and had only a slim chance for a win.

They had to recover an onside kick. ETSU was not expecting an onside kick, and played their regular receiving team, Western went for the onside kick and WCU's Tiger Green got to the ball untouched.

And then they had to score again.

So they did, courtesy a 21-yard field goal from Dean Biasucci with nine ticks left on the clock.

Asheville Citizen-Times Sport Editor Doug Mead called Rasheed’s reception “perhaps the most unbelievable play in Western Carolina history.” It soon came to be known as Immaculate Reception II, harkening back to Franco Harris’ reception on Dec. 23, 1972, that evidently ricocheted off an Oakland Raider defender and was falling harmlessly to the ground when Harris scooped it up and headed for the game-winning TD.

WCU Coach Bob Waters told Mead, “This could be a turnaround for this team.”

Was it ever.

The ’83 squad didn’t lose another game until falling in the Division I-AA National Championship game and became the most decorated squad in school history, producing 11 All-Southern Conference first team players that year, along with two All-American honorees. Five other team members would go on to earn All-American honors before ending their careers, and several went on to become Sunday football fixtures in the NFL.

[lionsrking2]

I've been to too many to count at the FBS level, but sticking to FCS and my team, I'd have to say my top 4 are:

2013: SLU 30, Sam Houston 29 in the second round of the NCAA playoffs. We drove 85 yards in 45 seconds, scoring with 30 seconds left, to pull out our first playoff win.

SLU at Texas State in 2009. We were down by 24 points with less than 10 minutes to play ... we staged a furious rally without the aid of a turnover or onside kick, scoring three touchdowns and three two-point conversions to send the game to OT. We scored first in OT; Texas State comes right back and scores a TD on the second play then doinks the extra point off the upright. LIONS WIN! LIONS WIN! 51-50.

SLU 45, Villanova 44. First round playoffs 2019- Frank Scelfo's first playoff win. Back and forth affair all night. Villanova leads by 17 at the half; we erase the lead in the 3rd quarter then go back and forth in the fourth before we pull it out. Epic battle.

SLU 45, Idaho 42. First round playoffs 2022. Somewhat similar to the Villanova game. We fall behind early, come roaring back to take lead then see-saw late. We actually led by 10 in the 4th quarter and get an INT to potentially seal it, but we're called for a BS roughing the passer which gives the Vandals new life. They score on the next play to cut it to three. We hang on in the end when Idaho's kicker slips on a potential game-tying FG. Another great game.

Bonus: SLU 50, Northeast Louisiana (Now UL-Monroe) 47. The Indians take a commanding first half lead at our Homecoming and go into the halftime locker room leading by double digits. They continue to pour it on, going up by 24 in the third quarter before it starts raining. As the stands clear out, back come the Lions! We cut it to 10, they jump back up by 17 then we come roaring back to win 50-47! A game like that would be ho-hum in this day and age but not in 1981.

Bonus II: The epic 2021 showdown in San Antonio between Cole Kelley and Cameron Ward. The Lions lose a heartbreaker, 55-52, but the QB play that day was for the ages. Cole finished 50-68 for 647 yards, 3 TDS, 0 INT; Cameron Ward 34-52, 610 yards, 7 TD, 1 INT. Defense was optional, no question, but both offenses were THAT good.

Bonus III: Nicholls 28, SLU 27, 2019. Not often does a regular season finale vs your arch-rival double as a winner-take-all for the conference championship. The atmosphere in Strawberry Stadium was electric and the game matched the hype. Unfortunately, we came up a fumble and a couple of inches short of the goal line in the final seconds, but we managed to squeak into the playoffs as an at-large, defeating Villanova in the first round.

[AshevilleApp2]

App vs UNI in the 2005 Championship
App vs Michigan in 2007

[NY Crusader 2010]

This is a good thread. I need time to think about it.

Too bad I was in Jacksonville this year at the FL-GA game, played at the same time as HC-Fordham 53-52 OT thriller.

A couple that come to mind:

Holy Cross 27 Lafayette 26 in 2008 in Easton => Leopards scored with about a minute left but missed PAT. We won on a Hail Mary pass and ensuing PAT with 6 seconds left. Pass was caught by 6'6" QB-turned-WR Rob Koster. This games was effectively a Patriot League semifinal game, the second to last week of the season. Unfortunately, we lost another classic to Colgate in Hamilton the following week in the finale.

Holy Cross 31 Harvard 28 in September 2007 at Fitton -> game was home opener and also Homecoming. Crusaders win on a 40yd TD pass from Randolph to Tommy Harrison with under 20 seconds to go in the game.

William & Mary 10 Delaware 7 in October 1996 in Williamsburg => first overtime game in the history of Tribe football and it ended up deciding the Yankee Conference. 42yd FG by Brian Shallcross gave Tribe the lead, a kick that almost appeared to have been off the cross-bar but actually barely made it over, and bounced off the V-neck holding up the crossbar. Game was sealed with an INT on 3rd down on Delaware's ensuing possession.

Navy 42 California 38 => 1996 Aloha Bowl (now Hawaii Bowl), this was played on Christmas Day. Tons of scoring in first half after game opened with a 101yd KOR by Cal's starting tailback. Navy was down 38-28 in the 4th and came back to win. Backup QB Ben Fay threw for over 330 yards which I believe is still the Navy single game record. Tony Gonzalez was playing tight end for Cal that day.

[ST_Lawson]

Thought of a couple more that were "up there" in terms of some of the best games I've been to. Both were home OT wins against South Dakota State, actually

2007 - Home opener for the season and the first time we'd played SDSU since 1981. 29-26, 4 OT victory. I think that was the year before they joined the conference (but we knew by then that they'd be joining). Photo of the fireworks and scoreboard after the victory.
(https://i.imgur.com/hgFV7us.jpg)

2015 - SDSU fans hate this one because they had to travel to Macomb in a blizzard. SDSU was ranked #5 at the time, but we ended up winning 30-24 in 2 OT. Immediately after the game, some of our players were running up and sliding down the hill next to the field (in celebration).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sCyZHdpIc

For SDSU, it meant missing out on a playoff seed, going on the road, and losing to Montana in the first round. For WIU, it meant that we slipped into the playoffs ahead of a couple of other deserving teams (like UND...it was the origin of the recurring joke about spending more time in the weight room), beat Dayton 24-7 in the first round, then lost at #2 Illinois State 36-19 in the second round.

[Sitting Bull]

I picked 2009 vs Virginia - and Tribe4sf picked the 1977 Oyster Bowl game vs East Carolina (agree there too but didn’t attend that). Neither of us picked an FCS match-up so I dug back in my mind and chose this one, 2013 homecoming vs JMU. Dramatic close and another pick 6 to seal it, this one I think is in the W&M record books.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o76xyMYQ77g&list=LL&index=10&pp=gAQBiAQB

[Sader87]

A few for varied reasons:

1977 BC at HC, a 1-9 Crusader squad upsets a decent BC team 35-20 for the 2nd to last win ovah our ancient rivals.

1978 HC at Army, HC continues with the momentum of that BC win and starts the 78 campaign 5-0 with wins ovah a Bill Parcells coached Air Force and a 31-0 drubbing of the Black Knights of the Hudson.

1981 Yale at HC, tremendous game that the Eli pull out late 29-28 due much in part to the running of Yale
's Rich Diana.

1983 Colgate at HC, before 20K+ the Crusaders eke this one out late 21-18....both teams were Top 5 I believe.

1986 HC at Army, the coming out pahhty for Gordie Lockbaum....played in something like 100 plays overall. Saders pull out the W 17-14 on a FG from my then dorm roommate Billy Young.

Skipping ahead to this Century....I'd have to put last year's Fordham game at the top of the list.

[Go Green]

1981 USC over Oklahoma in Los Angeles. Back in the days when a game of #1 versus #2 was pretty rare (although both teams ended up losing a few more later in the season).

USC won on a last second touchdown after being given new life when the refs called pass interference against the Sooners on a fourth down play. Oklahoma insisted that there was no foul, and replays showed that they had a legitimate gripe...

[crusader11]

Nice offseason thread. A few that come to mind...

Yale 24 - Harvard 21 (1999) -- Eric Johnson, who went onto a nice NFL career with the 49ers and parlayed that into a post-career marriage with Jessica Simpson, had 21 receptions in this one. Terrific game that was a come-from-behind win for Yale.

Holy Cross 30 - Army 21 (2002) -- an early college football memory for me...and a very nice one! Army heavily outgained HC on that September afternoon, but turned the ball over five times, IIRC.

UMass 45 - Holy Cross 42 (2008) -- UMass came into the season ranked in the top five; HC was really good and probably underachieved (7-4) that season with Dom Randolph as QB. A real back and forth game, in which UMass won on a FG as time expired. That UMass team had Victor Cruz on it, along with another good WR (Jeremy Horn...cup of coffee in the NFL)

[Tribe4SF]

I picked 2009 vs Virginia - and Tribe4sf picked the 1977 Oyster Bowl game vs East Carolina (agree there too but didn’t attend that). Neither of us picked an FCS match-up so I dug back in my mind and chose this one, 2013 homecoming vs JMU. Dramatic close and another pick 6 to seal it, this one I think is in the W&M record books.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o76xyMYQ77g&list=LL&index=10&pp=gAQBiAQB

That was a good one but I'll take the regular season match-up with the Dukes on 11/13/2004 in Harrisonburg. The teams traded the lead and were tied four times. The last tie came when Justin Rascati lead the Dukes 68 yards in 11 plays to knot it up at 24-24 with 45 seconds remaining. Tribe started the last drive on their 28 and Lang Campbell completed four consecutive passes to set up a Greg Kuehn 46 yard FG attempt with .05 on the clock. Kuehn nailed it and the Tribe won 27-24. Campbell was 26-33 for 323 yards that day and I believe it cinched his winning the Payton Award.

[Sitting Bull]

That was a good one but I'll take the regular season match-up with the Dukes on 11/13/2004 in Harrisonburg. The teams traded the lead and were tied four times. The last tie came when Justin Rascati lead the Dukes 68 yards in 11 plays to knot it up at 24-24 with 45 seconds remaining. Tribe started the last drive on their 28 and Lang Campbell completed four consecutive passes to set up a Greg Kuehn 46 yard FG attempt with .05 on the clock. Kuehn nailed it and the Tribe won 27-24. Campbell was 26-33 for 323 yards that day and I believe it cinched his winning the Payton Award.

Good one but I don’t qualify, didn’t attend the game. I did watch it on TV - must have been when we had NBCSN doing games. It was thrilling to watch.

[NY Crusader 2010]

Nice offseason thread. A few that come to mind...

Yale 24 - Harvard 21 (1999) -- Eric Johnson, who went onto a nice NFL career with the 49ers and parlayed that into a post-career marriage with Jessica Simpson, had 21 receptions in this one. Terrific game that was a come-from-behind win for Yale.

Holy Cross 30 - Army 21 (2002) -- an early college football memory for me...and a very nice one! Army heavily outgained HC on that September afternoon, but turned the ball over five times, IIRC.

UMass 45 - Holy Cross 42 (2008) -- UMass came into the season ranked in the top five; HC was really good and probably underachieved (7-4) that season with Dom Randolph as QB. A real back and forth game, in which UMass won on a FG as time expired. That UMass team had Victor Cruz on it, along with another good WR (Jeremy Horn...cup of coffee in the NFL)

That was a great game for sure. Like the Harvard thriller the year prior, Holy Cross double-dipped with the home opener and Homecoming weekend. UMASS traveled well and I think we had 14K or so in the seats that afternoon. HC senior WR Brett McDermott housed the opening kickoff for a TD to start the game. K for UMASS was Armando Cuko, whose little brother would walk-on at Holy Cross but I don't think ever kicked in a game for us. UMass also underachieved that season, finishing at 7-5. Back to back late November losses to Maine and UNH killed their postseason chances after they started the season as a national championship contender.

[Ivytalk]

1974 Harvard-Yale game, without question. Harvard won it, 21-16, on a short run by QB Milt “The Hawaiian Pineapple” Holt with 15 seconds left, capping a long drive that consumed five minutes. Harvard’s win enabled it to share the Ivy title with Yale, which had entered The Game undefeated. Yours truly almost got brained by a falling goalpost afterwards.

[TribeNomad1]

That was a good one but I'll take the regular season match-up with the Dukes on 11/13/2004 in Harrisonburg. The teams traded the lead and were tied four times. The last tie came when Justin Rascati lead the Dukes 68 yards in 11 plays to knot it up at 24-24 with 45 seconds remaining. Tribe started the last drive on their 28 and Lang Campbell completed four consecutive passes to set up a Greg Kuehn 46 yard FG attempt with .05 on the clock. Kuehn nailed it and the Tribe won 27-24. Campbell was 26-33 for 323 yards that day and I believe it cinched his winning the Payton Award.


I remember walking out of the stadium, the fans were in shock. Not their usual jeering and screaming, I recall pretty quiet, some cussing, but for them, really quiet.

[NY Crusader 2010]

Lang Campbell was a gamer! One of my all time favorite FCS players. I caught the W&M game at UNC in 2004, which was one of the more exciting college games I've been to, at least for 2 and a half quarters. UNC ended up wearing down the Tribe defense with their running game, coming from behind to win 49-38. Despite a number of close calls, Tribe still winless all time in Chapel Hill. They may have tied once.

I was also at the West Virginia game in 2013, which had a similar feel to it but everyone on the Tribe side came into that game with lower expectations. This was WVU's first year after Geno Smith graduated and the offense was not of the typical Mountaineer video game variety. Tribe saw a 10-point lead get overtaken early in the 4th, losing by a TD in the end. I think WVU was another school that W&M had never beaten despite a brief history of playing in the Southern Conference together in the 1960's and early 1970's.

[Tribe4SF]

Lang Campbell was a gamer! One of my all time favorite FCS players. I caught the W&M game at UNC in 2004, which was one of the more exciting college games I've been to, at least for 2 and a half quarters. UNC ended up wearing down the Tribe defense with their running game, coming from behind to win 49-38. Despite a number of close calls, Tribe still winless all time in Chapel Hill. They may have tied once.

I was also at the West Virginia game in 2013, which had a similar feel to it but everyone on the Tribe side came into that game with lower expectations. This was WVU's first year after Geno Smith graduated and the offense was not of the typical Mountaineer video game variety. Tribe saw a 10-point lead get overtaken early in the 4th, losing by a TD in the end. I think WVU was another school that W&M had never beaten despite a brief history of playing in the Southern Conference together in the 1960's and early 1970's.

Two ties against UNC and one against West Virginia.

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[THE DANIMAL]

No question the best game I have ever been too. Montana vs. App St. in the semifinals. The atmosphere that night was amazing!! Even re-watching these highlights gets me excited.


https://youtu.be/knX92v66gg8

[bulldog10jw]

A few for varied reasons:

1981 Yale at HC, tremendous game that the Eli pull out late 29-28 due much in part to the running of Yale
's Rich Diana.


I was at that game as well. Diana was spectacular.

Yale had another game that 1981 season that was great in retrospect. Princeton 35 Yale 31. Diana had over 200 yards rushing, but was upstaged by Princeton's 500 yards passing. Yale's only loss in 1981.

[Son of Eli]

2014 Yale vs Army at the Yale Bowl. Army pulled out all the stops to help their old time rivals commemorate the Yale Bowl’s 100th anniversary. They bought their cadets and they marched through the Water Camp Gate as they did in the great games of yesteryear. They also bought their helicopters and skydivers. A class act by Army.

Yale won 49-43 in OT on the strength of 5 TD’s by RB Tyler Varga. Yale never led the whole game, but they kept battling back until the final play of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLE1oIep90Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWGmq-ST0o

[Son of Eli]

Most memorable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1981/10/04/unbeaten-yale-savors-23-19-upset-of-navy/3d2bf0a0-da98-4b31-ae6c-8894a29bb0a8/

The ancient Yale Bowl, the last bastion of Ivy League respectability, reverberated with the joy of a remarkable upset today. The Elis, best of an eight-team league that is de-emphasizing football, used the 202-yard passing of John Rogan and the three fumble recoveries of Fred Leone to defeat Navy, 23-19.

In the end, Yale (3-0) proved to the 38,000 noisy fans and a regional television audience that brains can succeed where brawn is not in evidence. Yielding both ball and wind to Navy (2-2) at the start of the third period, the Elis took advantage of the gusts in the fourth period to shove the Midshipmen into a trap from which they could not escape.


If only someone would post the film from this game. It was an ABC broadcast with Al Michaels and Ara Parsheghian in the booth.

[NY Crusader 2010]

2014 Yale vs Army at the Yale Bowl. Army pulled out all the stops to help their old time rivals commemorate the Yale Bowl’s 100th anniversary. They bought their cadets and they matched through the Water Camp Gate as they did in the great games of yesteryear. They also bought their helicopters and skydivers. A class act by Army.

Yale won 49-43 in OT on the strength of 5 TD’s by RB Tyler Varga. Yale never lead the whole game, but they kept battling back until the final play of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLE1oIep90Y

A few weeks later I went to the Army-UCONN game at Yankee Stadium. After the Black Knights sealed that game with a late INT, I started a "Yale is better" chant.

[bulldog10jw]

If only someone would post the film from this game. It was an ABC broadcast with Al Michaels and Ara Parsheghian in the booth.

You would think Yale would have the tape, as well as Channel 8 in New Haven. Yale athletics has posted games to YouTube. Why not historical football victories.

[rhowdyram]

#9 URI 42 Brown 38 September 29, 2001

URI led 21-10 at halftime, Brown owned the beginning of the second half going up 24-21 early in the fourth quarter. From that point on each team scored on each of their full possessions. Brown took a 38-35 lead with 1:03 left, and finally URI's David Jamison ran it in from 17 yards out with seven seconds left to go in the game to secure the Governor's Cup. Kyle Rowley set the Brown and Ivy League records for most passing yards in a game with 474 and Chas Gessner did the same for receiving yards with 269. David Jamison rushed for 197 yards and three touchdowns.

That was the first time URI started the season 4-0 since 1957 and was only our 20th win in the then 86 year history of the series.

I was also at the #2 URI 23-17 1984 playoff win vs #12 Richmond, but I would only turn 4 later that month, so the details on that are pretty fuzzy. I'm thinking it was pretty great though.