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10 best things to happen to SMU football since the DP
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Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:26 pmby tristatecoog
I'm pretty new at this but...
1. Ford Stadium is built
2. JJ hired
3. Win over KU in first Ford Stadium game (sold out)
4. Win over Top 25 ranked TCU
5. Winning season in early '90s
6. 2005 win over UTEP stops them from winning the West Division
7-10. ???
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Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:29 pmby Junior
7. Ramon Flanigan
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Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:30 pmby Junior
8 - 10. refer to #4 above
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Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:42 pmby George S. Patton
Whipping Cougar High, 41-16 in 1992(?) at Ownby.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:05 amby tristatecoog
George S. Patton wrote:Whipping Cougar High, 41-16 in 1992(?) at Ownby.
The Cougars took years to recover from that whipping and had four wins over the following three years.
Re: 10 best things to happen to SMU football since the DP
Posted:
Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:08 amby BrentMusburger
tristatecoog wrote:I'm pretty new at this but...
1. Ford Stadium is built
2. JJ hired
3. Win over KU in first Ford Stadium game (sold out)
4. Win over Top 25 ranked TCU
5. Winning season in early '90s
6. 2005 win over UTEP stops them from winning the West Division
7-10. ???
I would switch #1 and 2. Ford Stadium was enormous, but JJ is a glorious miracle!
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:19 amby J.T.supporta
the TCU win has to be #1 or #2...first win over a ranked team since the DP. Ford Stadium is either before the TCU win or just after it.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:33 amby Walter Sobchak
Beating those camel-(deleted) from Arkansas 3 years in a row between 1995 and 1997 has to be somewhere in the top 10.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:23 amby Mustang1991
Hello? How about #1: 1989 victory over UConn. The comeback victory on the last-play of the game which was our first post-DP victory and proved we were indeed back from the dead at least statistically. I don't know how anyone who was at that came doesn't rank it at least in the Top 10.
#2: Ford Stadium. Without such an excellent facility, no top-tier coach like JJ would seriously consider coming here.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:25 amby hubberlang
I can't believe our tie against a top 5 A&M team in 94 at the Alamo Bowl is not anyone's list. I think SI called it the biggest upset of the year in College Football and it was tie. Similar to USC/Stanford this year in shock value.
That was only five years after our return from DP. Hard to believe that fourteen years later, we are just now finding a reason to think we can be that competitve again.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:48 amby Scoops
Tying the Aggies was nice, but frustrating.
Beating Cougar High was awesome.
List has to include the creation of this site, too.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:00 amby tristatecoog
Was UConn the first game at Ford Stadium?
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:22 amby Mustang1991
tristatecoog wrote:Was UConn the first game at Ford Stadium?
No. UConn was in 1989 at Ownby. Ford was opened in 2000 against Kansas.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:58 amby SMU2007
it wasn't a "top 10 greatest thing to happen to smu football" but the hail mary to win it against UAB was pretty fun
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:38 amby FWMustangGirl
hubberlang wrote:I can't believe our tie against a top 5 A&M team in 94 at the Alamo Bowl is not anyone's list. I think SI called it the biggest upset of the year in College Football and it was tie. Similar to USC/Stanford this year in shock value.
That was only five years after our return from DP. Hard to believe that fourteen years later, we are just now finding a reason to think we can be that competitve again.
I'm still bitter about that. A stinking missed field goal. We had lots of those during those years.