The best college football game you ever attended

[DiamondM75]

I really enjoyed the 1978 Cotton Bowl. Loved watching Joe Montana and the Irish destroy Earl Campbell and the #1 ranked Texas Longhorns. Though I had tickets to the next years game as well, the great ice storm kept us trapped at the house that day but the 35-34 victory was amazing. I still watch that game over and over on ESPN Classic.

Isn't this the Cotton Bowl game that our new AD Steve Orsini played in?

[PlanoStang]

1982 SMU 17 Arkansas 17

Two top ten teams, a sold out Texas Stadium, national TV, and the SWC
championship on the line. The tie gives us the championship, and a trip
across town to the Cotton Bowl with national championship hopes intact.

[k pony]

1994 A&M 21 Good Guys 21 at the Alamodome

Ramon shut the mouths of 50,000 jarheads.

The only way it is better is if Crosland makes the FG.

Long Live Keith Childs

[mr. pony]

[quote="mrydel"]McElhenny's debut against Texas in Austin.[/quote]

That had to great.
'82 also. That's when some t*rd LB for UT said Dickerson would be carried off the field, right?
And the LB wound up being injured. Don't remember his name.

[Treadway21]

1985 - SMU 44 Texas 14. We beat Todd Dodge; Akers gets fired. I can't remember who scored the TD, but SMU ran a full back dive from our own 5 yardline and the full back breaks through then fumbles about our 40 and the wide receiver recovers in full stride and takes it the rest of the way for a 95 yrad TD.

Beating TCU in 86 in the Cotton bowl in front of 50,000.

The Arkansas game in the Cotton bowl when we recovered the fumble on the 1 yard line when they were driving for the win with less than a minute in the game.

All facts questionable due to memory issues.

[that's great raplh]

UAB last year

it felt so good

[gostangs]

xtc - I was a that Aloha game also - dont think Tim Brown was on that ND team yet?

Two tied for me:

1980 20-6 SMU vs the Horns. Everyoen new we were gettin good but nothing was going to happen until that UT monkey got thrown off our back. By the way, I am convinced the 44-14 embarassement of the Horns a few years later sealed our fate - and the eventual break up of the SWC. SMU beating the horns that often by that much was not going to last long - even if they were breaking ALMOST as many NCAA rules.

Holiday Bowl - I think it was also 1980. Pony express vs Jim McMahon aerial circus. It is still shown among the best classic games ever. We blew a big lead and came up short at the end, but what an offensive slugfest. Dozens of future NFL stars on the field.

[peruna81]

Baylor -SMU 1966...I cried, I cussed ( dad gave me the stink-eye ), I cheered when the kick-off return went a long way back...and then I watched Pardee kick it home.

next would be Tech in 1982...never heard Jones Stadium so loud and then so quiet.... great drive back to Dallas with my Techsan roomate at Seminary in Ft. Worth sulking all the way to Seymore...hope it ends like that again this September.


long live Bobby Leach...

[NavyCrimson]

I WAS THERE TOO IN 1966, PERUNA81!!!

[Stallion]

yeah that 1966 SMU Baylor game was a classic but I'm surprised that anyone who actually saw the 1982 SMU Tech game could ever put a game above that one . It was simply the most awesome spectacle I've ever seen on a football field at least for a visiting team. Both those games were classic see-saw battles that were decided at the gun. I just think an 89 yard Kick-off Throw Back play to preserve an undefeated season outdraws a FG to put SMU in First place and on the road to first SWC Championship in 17 years

[ALEX LIFESON]

treadway21 1985 - SMU 44 Texas 14. We beat Todd Dodge; Akers gets fired. I can't remember who scored the TD, but SMU ran a full back dive from our own 5 yardline and the full back breaks through then fumbles about our 40 and the wide receiver recovers in full stride and takes it the rest of the way for a 95 yrad TD.

The fullback was Coby Morrison, and receiver was Jeff Jacobs.
Oh I remember that game very well too!!!!!!

[mrydel]

yeah that 1966 SMU Baylor game was a classic but I'm surprised that anyone who actually saw the 1982 SMU Tech game could ever put a game above that one . It was simply the most awesome spectacle I've ever seen on a football field at least for a visiting team. Both those games were classic see-saw battles that were decided at the gun. I just think an 89 yard Kick-off Throw Back play to preserve an undefeated season outdraws a FG to put SMU in First place and on the road to first SWC Championship in 17 years

I would have had it up there on my list but I did not attend the game. I listened to a very bad radio broadcast while living in Georgetown, Tx. Could barely get the station to come in and it kept skipping on and off. After the game was tied I was so depressed I almost turned it off but I was not sure how much time was left. Kept listening to static and the next thing I heard was announcers screaming. I thought that maybe SMU had positioned themselves for a field goal, and never knew for certain what had happened until I could hear the score on the evening sports news.

[Stallion]

I was so depressed I almost walked out myself but was there with my Texas Tech girlfriend and her family and they were having a great deal of fun at my expense. Yet another reason to rank that game so high. Never in my life have I seen the agony of [tieing] turn to the "thrill of victory" . Simply a classic with about 5-6 lead changes during the game.

[ThadFilms]

I don't know why this is so hard for me. Seriously. I know it sounds corny but every game that I attend that SMU wins is the best game I have ever attended. I've never thought about it. Never quantified or qualified any victory over another one. Every win leaves me breathless ready to take on the world, ready to right every wrong, ready to storm the castles and oust the infidels. I don't know.

Last year vs. TCU was special. But I wouldn't dream of giving TCU the respect of ranking it #1. (Though when TCU ran the opening kickoff of the second half back for the touch, I really thought it was over.) The SMU Arkansas game in shreveport my freshman year was pretty special. But it's watered down because when I think of that game I always think of the season ender at TCU. It amkes me want to toss my cookies every time I think about it. Beating UTEP last year to end the season on a three game win streak was awesome, and to blow them out almost a year to the day after they blew us out, awesome. Pretty cool. But not really memorable.

If I had to rank the games, they would go in this order:

1. SMU v. Pitt 1/1/83 - I was 4, and it's the earliest sports memory of a specific game that I have. I remember other things from that year, being at Texas Stadium, Dickerson breaking off long runs, liking Craig James better because everybody loved Dickerson, but all thos kind blend together. But that game at the Cotton Bowl. Beating Dan Marino. Huddled under a blanket. McIllheny scoring. For years I thought we had actually won the national championship, that day. Needless to say I was sorely dissapointed when I found out the truth.

2. SMU 44 Texas 14 in 1985 - it was so hot that day. Numerous fights broke out. It was awesome.

3. SMU v. Arkansas 9/13/97 - though that was during their down years, but to beat them three straight years was awesome. It was my first game in college - unfortunately it was at Shreveport, that stadium is terrible.

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Of course all would move down a rung should we go to and win a bowl game this year.


My favorite memory from a college game came right here in Austin at DKR. Maybe it wasn't even called DKR at the time. 10/27/90. Unfortunately - it was a 52 - 3 thrashing of our beloved Mustangs to the hated Horns. But my brother was the drum major of the Mustang Band. I was 12 at the time and my folks and I drove down for the game. We sat way up high, and the slope was so steep I was afraid we might fall. Not kidding. But seeing my brother run out on to the field at half time, hearing his name announced... it was just an incredible feeling. An incredible moment. It was so awesome. I was so proud. When I told my brother about it - earlier today - (talking about my favorite moment at a game) he thought I was going to bring up the line backer Ray something (Sugar Ray they called him) racking the UT player. I was like, "No, darn it, Tedd, it was you running out on to the field! C'mon!"

[SMUballboy]

2001 Rose Bowl. Miami defeated Nebraska 37-14 to win the championship. Not much of a game, but the atmosphere was awesome.

Smoopower, I was at that game it was awesome! Nebraska didn't stand a chance, we could've put 70 on their asses if we wanted too