I was living in El Paso in 2005 and I had to work during the A&M game so I recorded it on my VCR and watched it after work. It was difficult to not check the score throughout the day but it was worth it. Had a blast watching the game.
We cut it off at 2000 so someone wouldn't outright win with Troy Davis. Jake Brend would've easily won with literally 3 of Troy's games at first pick and we'd all be chasing. If I was able to go all-time, Tracey Henderson '84 TAMU. School record of 217 receiving yards in a game. Harold Brown '82 Kent State for 242 which is what Breece matched against TCU in '21. Saying we don't know knowledge of the greats is laughable because I would guarantee if we had opened it up to the older generation, we'd still be trying to guess players and pushing a lot of picks. It was to streamline it.
I actually wanted that game over his 2017 TCU. It still wouldn't have made our group team beat my roster (we took most of the other better options in the draft).
Truly was. His 3rd down throw against his body from the suckeye end zone is still as unbelievable today as it was then. That single throw is one of the best in school history, given the stakes, the moment, the importance, and level of difficulty. And he made it look easy. What an absolutely generational talent that dude was.
Didn't Duck get kicked off the team not long after that? Pretty sure he didn't play football ever again.
That’s what I really remember about watching that Tech game on TV. Every time the camera showed the Red Raiders on the sideline, you could see how miserable they were and how much they wanted to just go home.
That has to be in my top 10-ish of "unexpected results for victory" in modern ISU FB history (I'll defined as previous 50 years or so). Winning it? I don't think that would have been a shock, Iowa State was somewhat close/almost in quite a few games that season, but winning by 56 wouldn't have been on my bingo card.
