We have laid several title eggs over the years
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You’re absolutely correct. Problem is that over half the people on the forum were not alive when that happened and have idea who Wayne Stanley or Buddy Hardeman were. Being an old fart, I remember the game very, very well. ISU beat Neby that year, finished with the same record, and Neby got selected for a bowl game, not ISU. How does that happen?
Weather tomorrow isn’t looking good.. better 50% chance storms with hail and gusty winds...double yikes. If it’s bad weather I’m seriously concerned..def favors Texas.
The short answer is that the bowl system back then was the Wild West.
I hope we end up with more then at least I have chicken... I want that whole god damn ship......
Why? We have Breece? And we are a good against the run?
Why?? besides Ehlinger who does Texas have? he is their leading rusher even.. we have Hall, Nwangwu, Purdy, Brock...
Texas’ D is good against the run and suspect vs the pass. Then again, UTs running game isn’t great either.
Yes, we’ve laid several thread title eggs over the years, too!Thread title is ban-worthy!
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8-3 and no bowl, how times have changed. If you hit .500 now you get a bowl.
Actually we could have still made it to a Bowl Game IF...Nebraska could beat Oklahoma in Lincoln NE, but the Okie's as usual came from behind with a few minutes left to WIN and keep us out of a BOWL....
Next year 1977 we made the Peach Bowl in Atlanta and me and my wife went to the game, had a great time in Atlanta but we lost the game ....but it was still a GREAT Time to be a Cyclone!
I AGREE with you.... Coach Campbell will get us to the promised land of college football aka the Natl Playoffs.....
I was paying attention as a kid in Birmingham to what ISU was doing during that Era. FWIW, when Iowa State played Texas A&M in the Hall of Fame Classic @ Legion Field in 1978, I attended and rooted for the Cyclones. I have been an Iowa State fan ever since!
I became a Cyclone fan at that exact same time, in the run up to the Bowl. Dexter Green really caught my attention!
I remember it well. The wife and I actually drove to Ames to sit on the floor with friends in an empty apartment and listen to the game on the radio. Our Ames friends had just rented a new apartment and the furniture hadn't arrived yet. We and another couple drove to Ames so that we could all be together for the game.
Because of the weird bowl situation back then, it was either co-Big 8 Champions and the Orange Bowl or nothing. We got the nothing. #16 Okie State won and it wasn't even close (mainly due to our quarterback, Wayne Stanley, being injured, as I recall).
It was sweet revenge when we beat #2 Okie State in 2011 to end their National Championship hopes!!
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we were on trimesters back then and we never had a full compliment of players for our bowl games.
As the OP I'll now gladly put this thread to rest. I'm not normally optimistic for big games, but had a feeling.
Cue Rodney:
"HEY EVERYBODY! WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!"
Cue Rodney:
"HEY EVERYBODY! WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!"
This was it. Everything was on the line. All the hard work from the season comes down to this game on the big stage, network TV, vs the brand of the conference. Adversity and when they need to make plays the team made them. Regardless of the outcome the rest of the season this program had made that next step. 3 or 4 years ago the level of where we are at seemed unreachable. Even last year after the ND game even though we were flirting with going up the next level it seemed so far away.
