1998 Orange Bowl - #2 Nebraska vs. #3 Tennessee Highlights
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- The final year of the Bowl Alliance featured the #2 Nebraska Cornhuskers (12-0) facing off against the #3 Tennessee Volunteers (11-1) in the national championship game. The #1 Michigan Wolverines, due to its contractual obligations with the Rose Bowl, were unable to participate.
RB Ahman Green, Nebraska, was the game's MVP.
yes, the Huskers were a juggernaut, and l can't wait until we get that way again
Big Red Machine is back this year, baby!!! Faster than evah, too!
i wish my alma mater (unc) cared about fooball as much as you guys do.
Ima canes fan but Nebraska is a close second. I got so many letters from them in school. Wanted to be a husker
Based on the way they look now, it will be a long time before Nebraska comes close to being relevant.
@@kiddmarlowe1534 That 3 - 5 record hardly looks like Nebraska is “back”. I bet Frost wishes he was back in Florida.
I am a Nebraska Fan, no matter what, what I saw about Tennessee was Class act the entire game. NOT LIKE FLORIDA SCHOOLS. BTW, Where were the Penalties, I DIDN'T SEE ANY. After the Game Tom Osborne let everyone know, "don't look at the score, this game was close". Who won the next year's national championship, "that's right TN". TN SHOWED RESPECT JUST LIKE NE. It's called SPORTSMANSHIP. I am glad NE won that year and where they were not in the contest. WE NEBRASKA FANS WERE ROOTING FOR TENNESSE. Trust me, WE WERE.
Of course you would root for Tenn. FSU Abused Huskers for so many years.
Coach Osborne wanted to play Michigan for the 97 national championship
Michigan wanted it too. The nation wanted it.
Good lord, Nebraska was a physical juggernaut during this era. Won titles outright in 1994 and 1995. Shared the 1997 title after they won this game. Should have won it all in 1996, except for a lack of focus aberration against Arizona State early in the season. They beat Tennessee like a drum in this game, and two years previous, they annihilated a loaded Florida team like they were a high school team. This game actually, in a shamed dog sort of way, motivated Tennessee to get more physical, especially on defense, and probably put the fire in their gut to go on and win the title in 1998.
I am a Husker through and through, but concerning Michigan ? I wonder ? I think Michigan would have had Nebraska in this one. Glad I did not decide this one.
+Huskerliving -- Not sure about that. Michigan had a better defense but the Huskers had a far better offense.
***** One game can make a difference. Nebraska was not supposed to take out the Florida Gators. We all know how that turned out. There is no way in Hell I would compare Touchdown Tommy with Frost. I still think Michigan had the edge in defense with Woodson. I really did not want to say one way or the other, but after viewing Michigan and Nebraska, I think Michigan was balls to the wall. Their defense would have been problems for the offense.
***** Nebraska was not supposed to even be able to stay with Florida in that particular bowl game and they did a 180 on them. That is what I meant. So one game can change things drastically for a team. In that game it was Florida's misfortune.
Michigan was the true and ONLY Champion for 1997. First of all, Michigan was ranked #1 in BOTH polls going into their bowl game. They won, and beat a highly ranked WSU team handedly. Therefore, never in the history of college football has a team went into a bowl game being ranked, then won, and dropped in ranking? Look at little bitch boy Neb qb Frost, whining and crying to the coaches to vote them ahead of Michigan, since it was Osbournes last game.....You see, the coaches poll that year was tainted, and not only that, but the AP is a higher ranked poll, and has more meaning. Oh, I guess you Nebraska fans forgot about that little game you had in Missouri, in which you LOST (if not for cheating, and kicking the ball in the endzone). But, you would like to forget that little hiccup, hey sparky? Michigan dominated every game they played, beat more ranked teams, had the Heisman Trophy winner (Woodson), and none of their games were close....Nebraska on the other hand, it took a miracle and LUCK for you to "beat" Missouri, and then you played a highly overrated Tennessee team which had chokemeister Manning at the helm...(Yes, Manning always choked in big college games, just ask him about Florida....lol)
I wanted to played Michigan that year, to prove it. It didn’t matter who we played, that team was on a mission to win Coach Osborne’s last game
And Peyton was on a mission to continue his flops when it mattered. 134 yds in this game. A&M had 264 passing, CO had 364 passing the two games before. The season avg against Neb was 189. A bunch of no name QBs did better against Neb than Manning did. Manning was 14-13 in playoffs. 12% of the time in his 21 years he brought home the bacon.
And yet Nebraska was the NC, dork boy Rob Johnson. Having a 30 IQ must hurt your brain to think of all the stupid rhetoric you spout. Hilarious.
@@robjohnson8861 Peyton is in the NFL Hall of Fame and is a multi-millionaire. I don't think he gives a s**t what you think.
I wonder if Peyton Manning still remembers this defense
I would hope so.
Only at night. When he's asleep. :-)
Knocked so many times, his recollection might be FUZZY!!! GBR
tom brady is the goat and i hate tom brady
Yes he does he even told Tom Brady that he was lucky to share the National title with Nebraska. Payton said if Tom Brady got to play Nebraska he would never had a National title I pray we will be this Dominant again.... GBR
Michigan did not deserve to split a title with Nebraska.
Domination! Those were the days.
Back when Nebraska played dominating hard nose football. Now they're just, at best, an average Big 10 team.
The second half of this game was perhaps the most physical domination I ever saw. It was 9 yards every time they ran the ball…
Nebraska stats alone was unreal
Nebraska went to the Orange Bowl, and made Tennessee into Orange Juice!
green was a beast
He ran me over in a Freshman year High school game. He was a beast already at 14.
This would have been a great semi final. Then Michigan and Florida State in the other
Rumbling and stumbling ahah...The days of the huge shoulder pads. Lol.
Go Huskers!
Yeap got our ass whopped lol. GO VOLS
Nebraska was literaly 2 or 3 ft. Away from a three peat actually if the refs had called that fumble on the goal line would have won three in a row and would have had 4 titles in five years!!! Its a little ridiculous that you call that arizona state loss a lack of focus!!! Considering jake plummer and arizona state was a really good team! I think scott frost and the rest of that 96 team did exceptioally well for his first year at quarter back trying to fill tommies shoes in a very sophisticated triple option offensive scheme thats all about timing and making the right reads thats very effective and exicution is a must!!!
Travis Krause, don’t forget the Nebraska punt return for a TD against FSU that was called back for an invisible holding call no camera could show. 🤨
Those two plays created a 14pt swing and we still only lost by two. FSU May have been more talented overall but anyone watching that game knew Nebraska was better that night and Frazier was a better QB than the Heisman winner Charlie Ward.
GBR!!!
@@mrh3085 I've argued that point endlessly, Tyrone Williams 62 yd punt return was sick as hell, we beat FSU and 3 peeted! But nope those refs were horrible that night!
@@mrh3085 "but anyone watching that game knew Nebraska was better that night and Frazier was a better QB than the Heisman winner Charlie Ward." The old eyeball test. I have yet to find those stats anywhere. Please advise.
This Nebraska team would have destroyed Michigan that year. Michigan barley beat #8 ranked Washington State (Rose Bowl) and Nebraska destroyed #3 Tennessee. 🤷🏾♂️
Exactly! To put it in NFL QB terms, Nebraska crushed a team QBd by future Pro legend Peyton Manning 42-17, while Michigan squeaked out a 21-16 win over a team QBd by future NFL mega-bust "Cryin' Ryan" Leaf, and had a little help from an inept clock operator even doing that!
LOL. MI's closet win, 5 pts over the #8 ranked team. Neb's closest win, 7 pts over an UNRANKED team that took them to overtime.
Results, Neb blew their chances in that game.
Hey Big 10 fans #7 is now our coach. Don't need to go in to his resume, but there is a new sheriff in town in Lincoln..
Yep,will take a few years till he starts getting his players that he is recruiting now,should be good going and better teams with his mentality,GO BIG RED.
Yeah.... this comment hasn't aged well lol.
@@Wrangler59 at all 😂
This Nebraska team would have thumped Michigan!
Those were the days . Go Osborn!
Not the only time Shaun McDonough called a major disappointment for Michigan
1997 Michigan Wolverine team was probably thinking God that they didn't play Nebraska Nebraska would have killed Michigan worse than they beat Tennessee
Nebraska might have scored 14 points on the Michigan defense.
@@Wrangler59 yeah right keep dreaming
@@raidersacdc4892 Michigan would've won bud.
@@Wrangler59 no they wouldn’t have. It would have been a great game but the superior Nebraska offense wears out Michigan in the 2nd half. Just like they did to every opponent
@@raidersacdc4892 the superior Michigan defense would've stopped the Nebraska offense.
Peyton Manning looked so panicked to get rid of the ball, right away from the first play of the game.
Benjamin May reminds me of his super bowl against Seattle.
He always had happy feet. Looks like his father would have said, what'z up with that crap?
Huskers just set em up and knocked em down that second half. This was the last time either of these teams were worth a shit. Go Big Red!
UT won the National Title a year later.
Both teams were good in 99 when Nebraska beat Tenn in the Fiesta bowl.
Manning looks scared against those Husker blackshirts
Manning always looked fear in the eye and twitched. Hey, that is TShirt material.
McChicken sharing the NT is a joke!!
Osborne's last football game: "Tom Osborne heads for a fishing pole".....well, uh, and 3 terms as a US Congressman, so there's that.
Scott Frost was great in Christmas Story.
Michigan Wolverines who?
They havent won a big 10 title since 2004. Most over rated program in college football.
@@waingro5834 lol. I was huge MI fan early on. Why not, they have the coolest uniforms. 1984 or 85 asswipe BO along with asswipe Harbaugh go to IL and #2 MI ties 3-3. I said Im done and never looked back.
97 national champs, that's who. Respect Nebraska but you struggled with a decent Missouri team.
Rob Johnson, bandwagon jumping 30 IQ boy. Who's your team now, LSU?
3 now, where's nebraska@@waingro5834
A couple year,s before this game, nebraska imbarrest florida
lol, they did what? Are you from Lincoln?
Go back to elementary spelling class
Please let this happen again.
Tom Osborne knew when to bail out.
This wasn't "The National Championship Game." There was no national championship game per se during the Bowl Alliance era. This was the Orange Bowl between the #2 and #3 teams.
Nothing fancy here. Huskers capitalized on a few early turnovers, then power ran the ball and tired out the Vols. UT refused to stick with a run game, and put their defense back on the field too much.
Its ashame nebraska has lost its program, tom osborne spoiled them, just to think they fired frank solich cause he could only win 9 games a year, the next 4 coaches couldnt get them to a bowl , pitiful
Might want to check your stats Einstein. Bo Pelini won 9 games every year he was the head coach, and took them to bowl games every year.
@adjuster57 Hey Einstein, Bo NEVER won a game that mattered. Like a conf championship. LOL At Neb or YSU.
a vol win and Michigan loss and ut would have been national champs and woodson's Heisman would have been nothing
Nebraska was handing out CTE like Little Debbie snack cakes.
Now I know why Peyton says Omaha during his cadence before he hikes the ball in the pros. He got his bell rang so many times in this game by the Huskers that he can't remember what town Lincoln is in Nebraska so he says Omaha instead lol.
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So I’m confused I started watching football in 2011 but I knew a lot about how the BCS system works bc it’s 1 and 2 playing in the natty but before that like this year and the past decades why they split national titles? It don’t make sense how they make random bowl games the national championship games and why there could be multiple champs in a season? Someone please explain that shit bc it’s confusing af 😂😂😂
It was straight bullshit. They just crowned whoever they wanted to. Seriously... Not decided on the field. So, sometimes they made it worse and split it... Smh
In those days take the committee now whoever one of them said deserve it could claim it so it was basically a group of writers picking unless one was just straight outright undefeated Nebraska actually has 11 championships but they only claim the undefeated ones
The main reason for the split, at least during the mid 90s after most of the bowl games actually tried to cooperate and get 1 vs 2 matchups, was the Rose Bowl, or as we called them at the time, the "Troub-Bowl". The Rose Bowl was hell-bent on keeping its Big 10 champ vs Pac-10 champ format and refused to participated in the Bowl Alliance. That screwed up both the 1994 and 1997 national title pictures because one of the top 2 teams was Big 10 champs: Penn St. in 1994 and Michigan in 1997. Fortunately, in 1994, Penn St., the #2 team, played a much softer schedule than Nebraska, with all of their opponents losing at least 4 games that year, so Nebraska easily won the vote in both polls by beating #3 Miami. In 1997, however, the strength of schedule was much more even, as both Nebraska and Michigan had quality wins over high-level opponents and close calls against mid-level teams. Michigan had big wins over Penn St. and Ohio St., while Nebraska had big wins over Washington, Kansas St., and Tennessee. Michigan had a bad scare against Iowa, and beat them 28-24 at home, while Nebraska nearly got stunned at Missouri, completing a desperation pass for a touchdown on the last play of regulation to tie the game, then winning in overtime, 45-38. That said, Michigan would have been in serious trouble if they had played Nebraska head-to-head, as the Wolverines had the nation's best defense but a terrible offense, while the Cornhuskers had a top 10 defense and a powerful offense.
@DamonNomad82 You can't create your own strength of schedule. Well, you can but it won't mean anything.
*"1994"*
Calculated SOS (after bowl games which contribute 1/12)
PSU 8th
Neb 40th
LOL at your comparing MI beating #15 Iowa by 4 and Neb having to go to overtime to beat UNRANKED MO.
*"1997"*
SOS
Mi: 32nd
Neb 41st
Regarding MI's "terrible offense"
MI's best game against IN, Carr pulls Griese when MI went up 31.
Classless Osborne pulls Frost when up 56 against Iowa St.
LOL. Of course Neb was gonna have better offensive numbers.
Head to head same competition
Against Baylor.
MI 38-3 (won by 5 TDS, didn't allow a TD)
Neb 49-21
Against CO
MI 27-3 (won by 3 TDS, didn't allow a TD)
Neb 27-24
NC vote
Total votes both polls: MI was 3 votes from consensus, Neb 31 votes.
@@DamonNomad82 The worst ever was 1990 when Colorado split with Georgia Tech. That season, Colorado had one tie and two losses. The second loss was reversed as the officials gave Colorado five downs to score the winning touchdown. If Bill McCartney was the "holy man" he claimed to be he would have forfeited that horseshit win. To top it off, they needed a phantom clipping call on Notre Dame to win their bowl game. Of note, Nebraska had three losses in 1990, two of which came against Colorado and then Georgia Tech.
The. Mighty 90 teams have fallen
Neither reason 97 Nebraska with a killed 97 Michigan Michigan quarterback was praying greasy he stuck he wouldn't made it through the first quarter brass Coldwater killed him bad it been embarrassing
23:48 Lewis jawing at his own player like an A hole
Frost followed a legend at qb (and did great). He would have the exact opposite experience when he became head coach.
comparing the lackluster list of coaches preceeding Frost w/the QB years is not even in the same universe.
Frazier, a legend?
Heisman Votes
George 1460
Frazier 1196
Wuerffel 987
Legends aren't closer to number 3 in total votes than they are to #1.
Brady is so much better in the big games, and you can even see it in college. Compare this performance to Tom bradys 2000 orange bowl performance, where he brought his team back from two 14 point deficients, and won the game with over 300 yards, 4 tds, and no int.
Belicheck carries brady my ass. Even if manning was on the patriots during his career, he still wouldnt have more than 3 superbowls.
GBR !🌽☠️☠️👍
Too bad the actual national championship was played in Pasadena, CA.
Coach Osborne wanted to play Michigan for the 97 national championship
BS, like he wanted to play PSU in 94?