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70s D with 2000s passing...the last Era to compare before the "modern/modern" NFL was re-imagined.

John Riggins was the embodiment of the myth of the Black Irish.

Bet Notre Dame would've easily beat this quota Tulane team.

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Nicest: Muhammad Ali

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As a kid in the 80s, our family took a regular commercial flight cross-country on vacation....My Dad noticed Ali in the Airport terminal, signing autographs, just standing around, wearing a suit with people around him....my Dad had my little sister walk over to get his autograph and he signed it and kissed her on the cheek... She walked back blushing.

Turns out he was on our flight. It was LA to New York and pretty soon once in the air, all these old white dudes were congregating around Ali's seat, so he got up and stood in the galley and entertained those around him the ENTIRE flight (back when you could get out of your seat and roam) , just telling stories making everyone laugh.

This was early early 80s when Ali was probably still the most famous man on the Planet. Never forgot that. It was unique then and certainly would be unheard of today... That nice, eager to please, common man touch. Ali was something else.

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Reggie Bush not even being on the field on that 4th and 1 was criminal.

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Even split out wide as a decoy but White was always gonna be the option on that play under Carroll who basically put Bush in the doghouse in the 2nd half after Bush's playground lateral attempt that lost points, killed momentum and gave Texas life in the 1st Half.

White was rolling in the 2nd half and the 4th down play would've still succeeded but the left tackle totally whiffed on his block and a corner crashed the edge. Today they'd instant replay for measurement (it was inches) that play to death.

The criminal part was having a Booster walk-ons sons on the field on Texas' final drive (Ting Brothers, tiny Asians at Cornerbacks) , people forget, the game was gonna be over...Young floated a deep pass early in the drive that would've been a game-ending Interception but the Ting bro just batted it down instead of catching a pretty easy pick for any halfway decent Corner.

But OP is right, with today's dumping on tradition and players leaving left and right, this game will be held up forever as the glory days...Two Bluebloods, two Heisman winners on the field, a Heisman winner (any other year, except the Barry Sanders year) on the other side of the field, Keith Jackson's last game and the Granddaddy of them all. We didn't know it then but it was,CFBs Swan song.

Yeah, what year is it?

Are we bringing back..."the 90s called, they want your joke back"?

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"... If we had assembled as a team on Sunday and rankings hadn't told us for the previous weeks, 'We're in, we're in, we're in. Take care of business, take care of business' ... Hey, I get it. But these rankings shows, like, what's the point? Why send these signals and get the hopes [up] of these teams, these coaches, these kids on the team, that believe they're doing everything necessary. It just felt, in that room, a collective sense of the rug being taken out from under us, without any explanation."

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How about fixing this first!

Same as last year, the CFB Committee "re-does" their final rankings even with most teams playing, disregarding their SEASON-LONG rankings as if they were just weekly teases.

Notre Dame believed they were in based on the weekly rankings, were told they were in with the penultimate rankings and suddenly, in the final vote...the Committee flip-flops again while Notre Dame sits at home...

....and they ignore Alabama's disastrous showing on TV for all to see....(who seriously wants to see this team, who got blown out twice this year, while no other Playoff team got blown out once?

You can't organize and a run a Playoff if you constantly change the implied rules midstream and just rescramble the rankings at the end as if a season's long precedent meant nothing.

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” and it always turns out fine.

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Tell that to Oregon last year. :lol:

#1 team in the Country and their first Playoff game is against Ohio State, a team that was at one point #1 and made,Oregon beat them twice.

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Both Oregon and Ole Miss' only losses became conference champions today.

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But only Oregon lost to undisputed #1...so, what's the argument for Ole Miss again?

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