At 38:58 an FSU player helps the Nebraska player up. There is a statue of this incident outside doak Campbell stadium with the engraving “sportsmanship”. That’s what Bowden always taught.
@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 there is a difference between playing physical and playing dirty. Bowden’s teams ALWAYS played very physical. Football was a tough game back then. You must be a Nebraska fan? You’re still salty after all these years??
@@JD-sl1qs Not a Nebraska fan. FSU is dirty. Bowden was dirty. "Aw it's not like he shot the President" "We just play to the echo of the whistle". It's always been a dirty program, built by a dirty coach. There is ample evidence on video of FSU players intentionally trying to hurt opponents. It's the trashiest program in CFB history.
I was at this game. As a huge FSU diehard I had nothing but respect for Nebraska. They played a great game. Trev Alberts harassed CW all night. For Nebraska to hold FSU's offense to 18 points is very impressive. I still think this was FSU's best team ever. They played 7 ranked teams that year including the #1, # 2 and #3 teams at the time of the game.
Celebrating 30 years (1994-2024) of my NOLES winning their very 1st ever national championship in Orange Bowl and ending Nebraska perfect season on New Year's Day I remember that game like it was yesterday when my brother and I took Florida State over Nebraska and it's been our favorite college football team since!! That game is SUPER CLASSIC!!!
I'm a die hard FSU Fan but big respect to Nebraska... I wish all the legendary schools would come back up and conquer the college football world instead of everyone thinking Alabama and Clemson was so great... The country would never understand
Florida St. & Nebraska played some of the best games of that decade. They have bounced back this year a bit. I had so much respect for Bobby Bowden & the way they treated him at the end made me less of a fan. You're right though, some of the great programs need to get on track. Nebraska has been down way to long New Coach so we'll see. Frost sure wasn't what we had hoped. Our interim Mickey Joeseph got arrested for domestic abuse so he's gone too. The Conference championships showed the system is still flawed . They need to hurry up & get an elimination bracket in place like every other sport in the world. Not sure who Florida St. has in bowl game but good luck.
@Rob Chapman The video clearly shows that FSU won smh but ok bro... But in REALITY FSU would have mopped yall from 2010-2016.... 2017 to now would have been entertaining cause both teams are average... I hope yall get back on track though !! Matt Rhule aint a coach to sleep on... He did his thing at Temple & Baylor... Best of luck to yall Go Noles 🏹
When did he win the Heisman again? Wait, the best he did was come in second, but his vote count was closer to #3 Wuerfful, than it was #1 George. Oh well.
@@robjohnson8861 Frazier was robbed in '95. Heisman voting is always suspect. Had votes been cast after the bowls, Frazier would've walked away with the hardware, no doubt.
@@lomarsweed6604 You mean after the FL no show game AND Frost would have received the greatest GOAT (grass eating) award after his showing against ASU 2 games later. Neb took 3 safeties..
@@robjohnson8861 Don't try to paint it as if the Gators didn't care and rolled over... It was a national title game, they showed up and got their hats handed to 'em, just like every other Nebraska opponent that year.
Correction! Lost to Iowa st in 92 as freshman so 33-3 record 2-2 in bowls and played 10-1 fsu, 11-1 fsu 10-1 Miami and 12-0 gaters. His bowl opponents were combined 43-3! Ranked #3 , #1 , #3 , and #2 respectively
And his loss to Iowa St was one of the biggest ever for Neb. IO St was a 29 pt underdog. Totally F'ed the season that Devaney has touted as a great team.
@@robjohnson8861 yet it’s the trolls like you that need the attention lmao. Oh hey thanks to your stupidity, I keep getting support about my ways handling my brothers accident. Keep it up dip$hit.
@@sorney98 Your brother was murdered by a drunk driver and you try to minimize the severity by calling it an accident. Why? Because by your own admission, you worked with the state to get the murderer's sentence reduced. What a slime ball.
Tommy Frazier , most unstoppable triple option QB in Nebraska and probably ncaa history? Tony rice was awesome but he passed like 18 times a game, low number but still double Fraziers output, Scott frost was great but in the 2nd tier with guys like Eric crouch, Craig Hagen , Halliway of OU , Tony rice, and few others I can come up with off top of head! But in the 30 years I been watching , I've seen not one guy better the Frazier running option!
An unliked opinion by me: Eric Crouch was the best QB to ever play for Nebraska, on a team that had next to no talent compared to Frazier's teams. Nebraska 1996 reloaded, won the title in 1997. Crouch played for a title in 2001, what happened to Nebraska after that? Crouch is not given the respect he deserves. It is possible that Frazier ran the triple option better, but was he better than Crouch, or did Frazier simply benefit from having a MUCH better coach who didn't turn his QB into the one man workhorse that Solich did to Crouch? Think I'm crazy? What if Crouch was on 1994/5 Nebraska, and Frazier were on 2001 Nebraska? We will never know... but I stand by my opinion.
He was preseumed to be drafted in the 5th round. The NFL didn't take many black qbs back then. He said he would've chose football if he was projected as 3rd or up. Its just the way it was back then. Tommy frazier was accurate enough for the nfl too. But unfortunately, until Donovan mcnabb and micheal vick showed up. Black qbs were rarely drafted high.
Warren moon gave 7 years of his careeer in Canada. He went undrafted. And thats after winning the rose bowl. Having a career 68% comp. And in the 70s thats like 80% now. Back then they just weren't considered. Doug Williams who lead the league in passing yards and took the 0-12 Tampa Bay bucs to two consecutive playoff appearances in two years and a conference championship game didn’t get his contract renewed. That would be unheard of today. Its just how it was back then.
Nebraska competitive with Florida teams for two reasons. They converted to the 4-3 full time and receuited better cover men in the defensive backfield. This allowed them to start attackjng the pass oriented attacks from Miami, FSU and Florida. This was a loss. But, it definitely was a sign of things to come
This video cut out 10 minutes of the TV announcers repeatedly replaying the phantom block in the back and couldn't find it. The fumble td and the late hit out of bounce with 45 seconds or so left. He never touched him he did make the jester out of frustration but never made contact. In the end Nebraska had the last play to execute and failed. To this day it just eats at me like it did in 1994.
Nebraska was Steriods down. No player did anything after college. Trev Alberts stayed injured Tommy Frazier had blood clots. Nobody in the NFL wanted to risk it. They carried a weight room on a semi every away game.
Those shoes I had them the strap was black was the only difference but man I do not remember the name of those they had these in cleats as seen from above and the shoe variant wouldn’t mind a remake of these they were pretty comfortable.
Notre Dame gave away the championship by letting down and losing to Boston College after soundly defeating this Florida State that looked unbeatable and was having their best ever year. Before that loss, Notre Dame (#1) fans were screaming that they shouldn't have to play Florida State (#2) in a Bowl game after beating them. Nebraska was a massive underdog in this game. I think the line opened at something like 21 points but ended up around 17 to 18 points. The one common opponent was Kansas, Nebraska scraped by with a 1 point win while FSU beat them 42-0. Nebraska had two 1 point victories while FSU blew out everyone they played except Florida, whom they still beat handily and the loss at Notre Dame. The following year, Nebraska would finally beat a Florida team (Miami) in a Bowl game after getting beaten 6 straight times by FSU and Miami in the previous decade. Those losses resulted in 3 national championships even though Nebraska was not in the running for 1 of them (1991 against Miami). That win in the Jan 95' Orange bowl finally put Nebraska over the hump. The following year, Nebraska had the best and most dominant season, in my opinion, in college football history and beat another Florida team (Florida Gators) in dominant fashion. For the record, that wasn't the best college football team of all time, that honor probably belongs to 2000-2002 Miami, which had the most talent, even if there were other teams that performed better.
37:35 Toby Wright pass interference gives FSU chip shot winning field goal. You can't have a slow SS covering a fast FSU Wr. Wright gets released by RAMS after 98' season, 99' RAMS win SUPER BOWL with FSU Devin Bush replaced Wright!!
Clifton Abraham was on the Dallas Carter hs in Dallas tx.team whose teammates were arrested back in 89 for theft and costing the team their high school state championship trophy
John Manning you aint kidding! I had only been watching fsu a few years and years at this point. This was our 4th bowl vs Nebraska in 6 years a besides a awesome game in 87-88 fiesta bowl we embarrassed them because the triple options kryptonite is speed on defense and noles were kings of speed. And basically only Miami had beaten us in that 6 years, minus a Clemson, in 89, S. Miss in 90 , and gator in 91 , and Notre dame in 93. Anyhow if it wasn't the canes I was supremely confident and even vs Miami and all the others I mentioned we could move the ball and played good just losing close. I was dumbfounded the first half, and really the entire game minus the final drive! I was to young to see then that the game being in Florida and in the stadium that'd been a house of horrors to us and all of college football, And so many near misses for bowden. That the game wasn't 100% on the level! Everyone not from Nebraska had fsu going away and I think once everyone including the refs saw that Nebraska was more than capable of beating and was in fact on their way to winning. FSU gotta lot of assistance manly the phantom clipping flag on the punt return that 25 years later I still can't find, to the clock operator trying to run the final 1 plus seconds off and cheat Nebraska outta a long FG, THE 2ND to last play . And flu never really did figure out Nebraska blitzes Charlie was sacked 5 times after only being sacked like 6 all season and hard counts drawing our defense off sides half dozenntimes. Anyhow that's the worse I've ever seen fsu get outplayed and not lose! Bobby Bowden was going home with a ring that night regardless what Tom foolery eeded to take place, and even though im FSU all the way, it still feels a little tanted to this day, and Nebraska started a 26 game win streak after this and had a 11 game streak going in! Just think they were that close to a 3peat and 37 game unbeaten that would've been 2nd longest in history behind OU 44! Peace # gonoles
I remember thinking to myself that there would be a split national champion after this game. FSU was fortunate to win this game, then won the national title over an ND team they had lost to.
The world had it out for Neb, huh? The voters consider strength of schedule. Neb had not played FL. Even so OSU #8 Neb #24 And this was after the bowl games. Before and it would have even been greater distance between the 2 bec FL was #2.
You always have to give the refs a break as they have a tough job and can never please everyone. That being said, of all Nebraska games over my lifetime, this is the one that seemed highly be tilted with rulings in favor of the opposing team. Given the game was so close, IMHO, the refs have this to FSU. The good news for Nebraska is that this game taken out of their grasp unfairly gave them tremendous incentive to win in the most dominant way possible and several national championships followed.
I don't know that ANY game was as blindly ref'ed in the favor of Nebraska's opponent, as the 1982 Penn State debacle. Two horrific calls on incomplete/out of bounds passes that gave Penn State the win. I realize it was a regular season game but it was Nebraska's one loss that entire season, the season before the juggernaut in 1983 lost their one game. Wow to be a teenage husker fan growing up in those days... so many devastating close calls, that made my time in college during the 60-3 era that much sweeter though. You can enjoy the thrill of victory so much more after having been throttled by getting SO CLOSE for so long. I'd give anything for some of those 1 loss seasons now.
@@rooh5825 Right on. At the time I worked as an engineer at Motorola in Austin TX. One morning soon after the game there was a young guy who was an avid FSU fan- we were gowning up in our cleanroom suits to enter the clean room and somehow the game came up. I very directly stated that Nebraska won that game and it was taken away by the refs. He disagreed! Ha! He was suddenly unhappy about the game.
The objective portion of the BCS was right. The failure was being weighted on the polls. I am referring to later years. FSU only dropped to number 2. While Notre Dame rightly lost after an emotional, big win, dropped to number 4. That is the polls. Colorado beat Nebraska 62-36, and they were like 6 and 7 the next week, as many AP voters still voted Nebraska higher. Putting them up against Miami after being at best 3rd in the Big 12. The playoff is even worse. It was a set up by ESPN and the fools went for it. A four team invite is not a playoff. Sorry about the tangent. You are correct.
Disagree strongly if you think they should've been in over Notre Dame. ND beating FSU at home by a touchdown by deflecting a ten-yard TD pass at the goal line at the gun -- at home -- isn't enough to overcome a loss to Boston College.
@@12106445consensus Both won 2. I dont count 1/2s esp coaches. But i will concede most would give neb the edge even though bowden did better in games won, head to head, bowl games won. Wait that's a lot. Look it like this, whose fans were happier most of the 90s?
It was pretty bad that they stole half of Nebraska's national title that year. Nebraska was truly the best team of the 1990's. And overall, the best team of the last half of the 20th century. Much better than Alabama has ever been.
@@rooh5825 Hey man, what the hell are you talking about? When did a FL team steal half of Neb's NC? And what the hell does Bama have to do with an FSU/Neb thread? Get some help.
Lifelong FSU fan here - one of the best defensive NC games ever. Nebraska's game plan was way better than ours...I think Coach Bowden seriously underestimated their overall team speed. Great game, Huskers - classiest team in college football.
Going in to the game Bowden knew how good they were. He said the point spread was ridiculous.. He admitted after that Nebraska outplayed them. Great game either way.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 You know Bowden was gaming Osborne the way Spurrier would game Richt and Fulmer. His comment was to goad Osborne. HA, "You outplayed me and still lost."
@@robjohnson8861 calling Nebraska a loser? Hmmm, kinda pathetic when someone spends his life on UA-cam trying to harass fans. Sounds like a typical troll loser to a lot of people
For sure. As a Texas fan I remember when Ricky Williams went up to Lincoln and Texas beat Nebraska; it was Mack Brown’s first year I think. They were interviewing Ricky Williams after the game and Mack Brown stayed on the field with him because he was concerned for his safety or something and the Nebraska fans stayed in the stadium and gave him a standing ovation and chanted Heisman for him. Nebraska fans definitely the classiest in all of college football
A little trivia: This is the last National Championship game where both teams were wearing Russell Athletic gear. It was about this time that teams began to contract with apparel companies such as Nike, Adidas, Starter, Reebok, and later on, Under Armor. The following year, Nebraska would wear Adidas in the Orange Bowl vs. Miami, and #2 Penn State had contracted with Nike.
@@SeanGrady90 Usually they wore Russell, Champion, Wilson or that company from Memphis with the bell logo. I don’t think anyone wore Nike until 1994. Nebraska went to Adidas in 1994.
You are absolutely correct. The score is all that matters at the end. Was a great game really. I wasn’t even a Nebraska fan but I was surprised by their defensive speed.
Not to mention Heisman Trophy winner Ward. Deion was a couple years later but Earrick Dunn, Fred Taylor, Boulware are just a few more Stacked top to bottom both sides of the ball.
@@stevenday9687 Deion Sanders played 1985 to 1988 Season at Florida State Seminoles, youngsters fans get your facts correctly 👏. then 1993 Season when FSU Seminoles were National Champions Orange 🍊 Bowl game .against Nebraska Cornhuskers . .1# Florida State Seminole beat 18 .2# Nebraska Cornhuskers .16 Dynasties the NCAA body Governorment, announced that FSU Seminoles is a Dynasty from 1987 to 2000 Three National Championship Three wins Championship and two loses.
The refs calls won the game for Free Shoes university , the Huskers did win 3 straight on the field. Even Bobby Bowden said later that NU may have very well won this game.
Boston college fan here. Nebraska way outplayed Florida state all game. Refs handed this game to them and that’s an honest opinion from someone that knows the game. Nebraska beat the piss out of them actually.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 *" from someone that knows the game."* Really. Find the 3 hr:29 min game and tell us exactly at what timestamp the refs handed FSU the game, otherwise your blowing fing smoke. I say the 3:29 game bec the block in the back is not cut out of that one.
You know that was a good 25 years ago when Florida State and Nebraska ruled college football, unfortunately they have been mediocre at best for a while! Nebraska really misses Osbourne, no idea what's going on with the Noles. I thought young high school players would be lining up to play for a team like FSU!
Nebraska had it in the end to win it, and he hooks it left!! Omg!! Wow. Helluva game by 2 great programs led by 2 great coaching legends, Bowden and Osborne. What fkin game, tho!!!!
@@therealfronzilla *"Actually, FSU was lined up off sides"* You have 2 problems. 1) Not showing us a timestamp where it happened, 2) it was 2nd down. They would have had another opportunity, possibly 2. Update: 2) is wrong. Offense can't extend game bec they were offsides.
@@robjohnson8861 there was one second on the clock, it didn't matter how much time was left on the clock. The referee missed the offsides call, like they missed most of the calls that night. It was a horribly called game.
Please stop. Yiu jad PLENTY of chances to win and you didn't because Frazier wasn't a good enough QB. You had first and goal at the five and was scared to throw the ball. FOH!😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 GO NOLES! FBA/B1
@biggs949597 s You lost to Texas in 1996 and they were crap. We beat Florida at home but they got up for us the second time. Your team in 96 AND 97 would have been boat raced by FSU. We owned you guys in the 90s.
@biggs949597 s That was quite a rambling screed but the facts remain. We beat you every single time we played you in the 90s and Bobby Bowden owned Tom Osborne. There it is!
I was a big FSU fan when Coach Bowden was there. But it surprised me how good this Nebraska team was. Just think, a missed FG at the end of this game, and that ridiculous 4th and inches play by Texas in the 1996 Big 12 Championship game were all that stood between Nebraska and five consecutive National Championships.
@daniel In 1996, had Nebraska beaten Texas, then they would have played Florida State in the Sugar Bowl, not Florida. Texas' win over Nebraska is what set Florida up for that rematch with Florida State.
@@bigbuffguy9589 I’m glad you said it and not me…I agree, I think Florida St would have beaten Nebraska that year. I should have said “possibility of Five National Championships”
@@24lancelot85 Two. Plus they beat Nebraska head to head everything single time they played. They never finished lower than 4 and Nebraska had multiple loss years throughout the whole decade. FSU never lost more than two in one year.
@@24lancelot85 You are entitled to your opinion but a decade is ten years not 5 and FSU was consistently better ALL ten years. Nebraska was not and the third championship was split and really the first one should have been too. Also, FSU won the most games of any school in that decade. So, I think I have a stronger case than you.
Nebraska’s punt return for a TD called back for a holding no camera angles could find and FSU’s fumble Nebraska recovered in the end zone is a 14 point swing. Still one of my favorite NC games but you hate to see officials affect the outcome of a game between two great teams.
He was in the second half. He was suspended for the first half. Have to remember too, Calvin Jones was a Heisman candidate coming in to the year until his knee injury.
@@williamwolff8550 I don't believe Phillips was serving any form of suspension in this game. He was just buried on the depth chart at the time by guys due to seniority. Even as a freshman he was clearly the most talented RB on the roster and arguably in Husker history.
@@williamwolff8550 Well you may be correct, I was 14 years old when this game was played and I watched the original unedited telecast obsessively (I recorded it on VHS) and the commentators never alluded to it. It's certainly possible tho.
@@williamwolff8550 *"well you'd believe wrong. He was absolutely suspended for the first half of that game."* Please find 1 article that supports Phllips being suspended in the 1st half because I can't. He only had carried for 435 yds for the season at that point.
FSU joined the ACC in '92. From 92-99 (peak FSU years) the Seminoles lost twice as many games to SEC teams as they did to ACC opponents. I bring this up not to criticize FSU, but rather the ACC. That conference has always sucked. Still had some great teams with BB's Noles and Clemson '15-'20.
I was 11 years old during this game and I remember my Dad going ballistic watching it due to the horrible calls by the refs going against Nebraska. We're Pitt fans but always enjoyed Nebraska's option offense, and hated to see refs decide a game between 2 very good teams. I imagine this loss doesn't sting as bad for Nebraska fans though since their team went on to become *the dynasty of the 90's* and basically overshadowed FSU. Their 95 team is one of the best ever in college football.
Which horrible calls? 1) The Floyd goal line fumble would not pass the indisputable test 2) The block the back. Trumpy for NBC did the world a disservice. He had everybody focusing on the player he thought could be the only one that could have committed the penalty. It wasn't him, it was #23. You have to find a video with it in bec so many cut stuff out. Slow video down to .25 and keep watching it over and over. You will see #23 hit the FSU player and watch him take steps back after he is hit. He was running east and west at the time. Ref in in your screen right on top of it.
I wish Charlie Ward played in the NFL. He was a way better QB then he was a PG. But the NFL wasn't set up like it is today to complement his skill set.
36:46 Look at these jobbers from Nebraska taking off their helmets before the game is over. LOL! And then FSU mobs their kicker. They really let 'em celebrate back then!
Then there was that 5 years a player couldn't even raise a hand without a flag being thrown That was because of a Mii thrashing of Oklahoma & how the players acted. It was just a no class event & that's why that no celebration era happened.
@@stevenday9687 From watching "The U" 30-for-30 documentary on ESPN are you sure celebration rules weren't change after Miami embarrassed Texas in their infamous Cotton Bowl game? Or Miami embarrasing California (Cal), an innocent, helpless Academic school, in Berkeley? The Canes interviewed in the documentary seem to point at those 2 games causing the NCAA to crack down on excessive celebrations.
@@HufflepuffDaddy I believe it was the way they acted in a game vs Oklahoma. They smoked them like 66-10 & it was just sad the way they acted. Sure it's fun & you should be able to celebrate but Miami went as far as being totally disrespectful & made themselves look bad
@@stevenday9687 let's agree to disagree, my friend. Miami's largest margin of victory over the Sooners in the 1980s (and their entire series) was only 13 points in 1985 and then by 12 points the next season. All other games were in the series were close and competitive. They didn't play each other at all in the 1990s. There are no blowouts by Miami in the series, period. However OU blew them out in 2007, 51-13 in Norman. The games that made Miami infamous for having no class were: - 1985 vs Notre Dame in Gerry Faust last game when accused of running up the score (58-7) - 1990 vs Cal in a 52-24 blowout when they were dancing over tackled players in peace, love and happy Berkeley - 1991 Cotton Bowl vs Texas in Dallas when they had over 200 yards in penalties and still won 46-3 You have the right school (Miami) but they never blew out Oklahoma.
@@HufflepuffDaddy you're right. It was Texas. Still a shitty display of class & any type of sportsmanship. They showed the difference between winning games & being winners.
The phantom block in the back on Dixon’s run back Td, and Floyd’s 4th down goal to go fumble that the referees gave them the TD and the National Championship. Floyd even admitted he fumbled. I’ve always like Bobby Bowden his team was beat in this game.
I'm a Husker & have tremendous respect for Bobby Bowden (RIP). The man was a class act & Florida St. did him wrong in the end. I agree with you & if Nebraska would have won it would have been 4 out of 5 & a 3 peat. 3 out of 4 is still pretty good & in those 5 years went 60-3. Things are bad currently however.
1) The Floyd goal line fumble would not pass the indisputable test 2) The block the back. Trumpy for NBC did the world a disservice. He had everybody focusing on the player he thought could be the only one that could have committed the penalty. It wasn't him, it was #23. FIND THE FULL VIDEO bec so many cut stuff out. Slow video down to .25 and keep watching it over and over. You will see #23 hit the FSU player and watch him take steps back after he is hit. He was running east and west at the time. Ref in in your screen right on top of it.
On Florida States last field goal did they kick it on 2nd down and leave 20 seconds on the clock? I liked them and Bowden in that era but that had to be the most idiotic, piss poor clock management I've ever seen.
@@jamiecrawford8133 I hep ya. With no timeouts, he wanted to leave himself plenty of time to line up for a second or even 3rd FG if there was a bobbled snap and they were forced to just cover the ball.
@@jamiecrawford8133 But obviously they had not thought about this situation. It would have made more sense to get back to the huddle again and let Ward attempt a pass play on 2nd and then kicked a FG on 3rd.
Calvin Jones and Damon Benning were nice players, but Nebraska wins this game by 10 if Lawrence Phillips is the starting I-Back and gets the majority of the carries. He was a once in a generation talent and had the talent to go down as one of the all-time greats.
Phillips could have been the greatest of all time had he not been I'll. Man had it all. Size, power, speed, strength. He was in the 90's what Jim Brown was in the 60's. Very sad ending to what could have been extraordinary.
I really feel for Lawrence Phillips. He had such a promising future on the gridiron, if it was not for his misconduct away from it. As a result, he was serving a lengthy prison term until he committed suicide. What a waste.
Amazing game. Great to see two teams with such respect for the game and for each other. That's coaching. Osborne and Bowden were pretty good friends, so maybe that took a little bit of sting out of the loss for Dr. Tom.
@Steven Day What! He was a legend at flopping. 14 top 5 finishes in a row and 2 NCs to show for it. A losing record to every Cane coach with a NC, count em, 4. The man was SO overrated.
@@mas5867 Hi Rob Johnson, Alabama fan and big time jealous troll, Nebraska 1995, best team ever. Show us how jealous you are by responding with a bunch of idiotic stats from different years that don't mean anything LOL OWNED!!!
I've enjoyed watching all 13 of Tommie Frazier's bowl games. He was a cheat code before the video games really blew up. What a talent. Miss Nebraska being what they were. Florida State was also so, so good. It was just better then than now. Every team today looks generic in their sets
How did those not get called. Especially the 2nd time. Hell, I'm a Husker & see that was a crime. NU/FSU were the source of some great games in the 90's. May Bobby Bowden RIP. He was a class act dadgum it.
Nebraska was the best team in college football this season and they were from 93 through 97 they should have won five national championships in a row we're literally talking a bounce of the ball here and there and they go 63 and 0 and win five titles in a row the most dominant run in the history of sports maybe not just college football that's how great these Nebraska teams were they were clearly the superior team on the field this day and they showed that what they did the next two years with the same players when they rolled off two of the most dominating seasons ever this was one of the most rip-off national title games ever without those penalties calling back a kickoff return for a touchdown call him back that 4th and one William Floyd did not score this was a scam game Nebraska was Head and shoulders a better team
The Big 8 was trash. Nebraska would play one decent non-conference game usually and than Colorado. That’s it. They had a free ride to National championship Contention every year.
@@kevinfinnerty8414 if you actually believe what you just said you're an absolute bozo Nebraska was a Herculean program at that point in history they were Head and Shoulders above everybody else in the mid-90s like nobody's ever seen in college football they were so much better than every other program at that point they could have played all top 10 teams they would have beat them all by 30 or 40 points look up their record from 93 to 97 vs top 20 teams you say they just played one team here and there look up their record versus the top 20 and look at the average score of the games we're literally talk in an average margin of Victory by like 30 points over teams in the top 20
At 38:58 an FSU player helps the Nebraska player up. There is a statue of this incident outside doak Campbell stadium with the engraving “sportsmanship”. That’s what Bowden always taught.
Bowden never taught sportsmanship. He was dirty and so were his teams.
@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 there is a difference between playing physical and playing dirty. Bowden’s teams ALWAYS played very physical. Football was a tough game back then. You must be a Nebraska fan? You’re still salty after all these years??
@@JD-sl1qs Not a Nebraska fan. FSU is dirty. Bowden was dirty. "Aw it's not like he shot the President" "We just play to the echo of the whistle". It's always been a dirty program, built by a dirty coach. There is ample evidence on video of FSU players intentionally trying to hurt opponents. It's the trashiest program in CFB history.
Rip Bobby bowden one of the greatest
I was at this game. As a huge FSU diehard I had nothing but respect for Nebraska. They played a great game. Trev Alberts harassed CW all night. For Nebraska to hold FSU's offense to 18 points is very impressive. I still think this was FSU's best team ever. They played 7 ranked teams that year including the #1, # 2 and #3 teams at the time of the game.
Celebrating 30 years (1994-2024) of my NOLES winning their very 1st ever national championship in Orange Bowl and ending Nebraska perfect season on New Year's Day I remember that game like it was yesterday when my brother and I took Florida State over Nebraska and it's been our favorite college football team since!! That game is SUPER CLASSIC!!!
90s college football still to me was the best.
No doubt about it.
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 Miami fizzled, PSU fizzled, ND fizzled, OU fizzled, AL fizzled. Yeah, I can see why Neb fans like the 90's.
@@robjohnson8861 - 1994 Nebraska 45, 2020 Alabama 2
❤ 1970s/1980s / 1990s college football was the best: before play0ffs college football
Hell yes
I'm a die hard FSU Fan but big respect to Nebraska... I wish all the legendary schools would come back up and conquer the college football world instead of everyone thinking Alabama and Clemson was so great... The country would never understand
Florida St. & Nebraska played some of the best games of that decade. They have bounced back this year a bit. I had so much respect for Bobby Bowden & the way they treated him at the end made me less of a fan. You're right though, some of the great programs need to get on track. Nebraska has been down way to long New Coach so we'll see. Frost sure wasn't what we had hoped. Our interim Mickey Joeseph got arrested for domestic abuse so he's gone too. The Conference championships showed the system is still flawed . They need to hurry up & get an elimination bracket in place like every other sport in the world. Not sure who Florida St. has in bowl game but good luck.
The fact is that in reality FSU DID NOT win that football game..If played today that would be absolutely clear. In fact it wasn't even that close.
@Rob Chapman The video clearly shows that FSU won smh but ok bro... But in REALITY FSU would have mopped yall from 2010-2016.... 2017 to now would have been entertaining cause both teams are average... I hope yall get back on track though !! Matt Rhule aint a coach to sleep on... He did his thing at Temple & Baylor... Best of luck to yall Go Noles 🏹
@@lucy327rss I looked up the score and it said FSU 18 Nebraska 16. ????
The Big 8 sucked in the 90’s Nebraska cake walk schedule every year.
This was the 1st of 3 straight championship games in which Tommie Frazier was named MVP
When did he win the Heisman again? Wait, the best he did was come in second, but his vote count was closer to #3 Wuerfful, than it was #1 George. Oh well.
@@robjohnson8861 Frazier was robbed in '95. Heisman voting is always suspect. Had votes been cast after the bowls, Frazier would've walked away with the hardware, no doubt.
@@lomarsweed6604 You mean after the FL no show game AND Frost would have received the greatest GOAT (grass eating) award after his showing against ASU 2 games later. Neb took 3 safeties..
Why. Bec Neb, like FL, did not show up.
@@robjohnson8861 Don't try to paint it as if the Gators didn't care and rolled over... It was a national title game, they showed up and got their hats handed to 'em, just like every other Nebraska opponent that year.
RIP
Brook Barringer
RIP
Lawrence Phillips
Why give condolences to a thug many times over? Don't blame it on his childhood. Thousands have been raised on the streets and didn't kill others.
@@robjohnson8861 who did he kill?
You dont have to lie to prove a point...
@@joshleonard7641 are you serious? Read his wiki page and then comeback and edit your post and take him out.
@@joshleonard7641 I thought you were gonna read wiki and remove Lawrence.
@@robjohnson8861 - Prescription, please see your doctor bub, you need it.
To this day my favorite all-time Husker game.
Correction! Lost to Iowa st in 92 as freshman so 33-3 record 2-2 in bowls and played 10-1 fsu, 11-1 fsu 10-1 Miami and 12-0 gaters. His bowl opponents were combined 43-3! Ranked #3 , #1 , #3 , and #2 respectively
The 🐐
And his loss to Iowa St was one of the biggest ever for Neb. IO St was a 29 pt underdog. Totally F'ed the season that Devaney has touted as a great team.
The Good ole days
When football use to be real..
Scott Frost would like to believe 12-20 is fake, for sure!
@@robjohnson8861 - still posting, but trying to desperately avoid me Rob, as usual. Nebraska owns you.
@@rooh5825 lol. Who are u and why do u need my attention?
@@robjohnson8861 yet it’s the trolls like you that need the attention lmao. Oh hey thanks to your stupidity, I keep getting support about my ways handling my brothers accident. Keep it up dip$hit.
@@sorney98 Your brother was murdered by a drunk driver and you try to minimize the severity by calling it an accident. Why? Because by your own admission, you worked with the state to get the murderer's sentence reduced. What a slime ball.
Tommy Frazier , most unstoppable triple option QB in Nebraska and probably ncaa history? Tony rice was awesome but he passed like 18 times a game, low number but still double Fraziers output, Scott frost was great but in the 2nd tier with guys like Eric crouch, Craig Hagen , Halliway of OU , Tony rice, and few others I can come up with off top of head! But in the 30 years I been watching , I've seen not one guy better the Frazier running option!
Craig Hagen? Are you referring to Darian Hagan of CU infamy? I still have nightmares of Hagan beating NU in 1989.
Michael Bishop of K-State was the best college quarterback to ever run the option
Frazier should have won the Heisman in 1995. For whatever reason, Heisman voters did not like option QBs.
What tony Rice are you talking about passing the ball 18 times a game🤣🤣...Not the one that played at Notre Dame...Maybe 5 times a game
An unliked opinion by me: Eric Crouch was the best QB to ever play for Nebraska, on a team that had next to no talent compared to Frazier's teams. Nebraska 1996 reloaded, won the title in 1997. Crouch played for a title in 2001, what happened to Nebraska after that? Crouch is not given the respect he deserves. It is possible that Frazier ran the triple option better, but was he better than Crouch, or did Frazier simply benefit from having a MUCH better coach who didn't turn his QB into the one man workhorse that Solich did to Crouch? Think I'm crazy? What if Crouch was on 1994/5 Nebraska, and Frazier were on 2001 Nebraska? We will never know... but I stand by my opinion.
Charlie ward should have chosen nfl over nba...
Knicks fans were very happy that he didn’t.
YES, I AGREE. I WISH HE WOULD HAVE PICKED THE NFL. . .
He sucked with the knicks. Starks was the only player on that team.
He was preseumed to be drafted in the 5th round. The NFL didn't take many black qbs back then. He said he would've chose football if he was projected as 3rd or up. Its just the way it was back then. Tommy frazier was accurate enough for the nfl too. But unfortunately, until Donovan mcnabb and micheal vick showed up. Black qbs were rarely drafted high.
Warren moon gave 7 years of his careeer in Canada. He went undrafted. And thats after winning the rose bowl. Having a career 68% comp. And in the 70s thats like 80% now. Back then they just weren't considered. Doug Williams who lead the league in passing yards and took the 0-12 Tampa Bay bucs to two consecutive playoff appearances in two years and a conference championship game didn’t get his contract renewed. That would be unheard of today. Its just how it was back then.
Charlie McBride had a great game plan. This was a great game low scoring or not
Jeez this was a scary game lol. Glad we won.
My favourite bit, around 14:34 when the kicker tries to body check the run back, lol
Nebraska competitive with Florida teams for two reasons. They converted to the 4-3 full time and receuited better cover men in the defensive backfield. This allowed them to start attackjng the pass oriented attacks from Miami, FSU and Florida. This was a loss. But, it definitely was a sign of things to come
We needed a playoff in 93…..FSU vs ND and Nebraska vs WVU
This video cut out 10 minutes of the TV announcers repeatedly replaying the phantom block in the back and couldn't find it.
The fumble td and the late hit out of bounce with 45 seconds or so left. He never touched him he did make the jester out of frustration but never made contact. In the end Nebraska had the last play to execute and failed. To this day it just eats at me like it did in 1994.
I remember this game. Old Man.
@@robjohnson8861 - Get your prescription refilled, they can help you with this paranoid schizophrenia and jealousy of Nebraska
@@rooh5825 Who are you and what are you talking about? Sheesh!
Nebraska was Steriods down. No player did anything after college. Trev Alberts stayed injured Tommy Frazier had blood clots. Nobody in the NFL wanted to risk it. They carried a weight room on a semi every away game.
We was the champs one of the best games ever❤
Those shoes I had them the strap was black was the only difference but man I do not remember the name of those they had these in cleats as seen from above and the shoe variant wouldn’t mind a remake of these they were pretty comfortable.
The William Floyd fumble really could use a review. That was a robbery …
Watched this game at Max's bar in Scottsdale with a bunch of ND, FSU and NU fans. Some fists were flying at the end of the game. 🤣
Notre Dame gave away the championship by letting down and losing to Boston College after soundly defeating this Florida State that looked unbeatable and was having their best ever year. Before that loss, Notre Dame (#1) fans were screaming that they shouldn't have to play Florida State (#2) in a Bowl game after beating them. Nebraska was a massive underdog in this game. I think the line opened at something like 21 points but ended up around 17 to 18 points. The one common opponent was Kansas, Nebraska scraped by with a 1 point win while FSU beat them 42-0. Nebraska had two 1 point victories while FSU blew out everyone they played except Florida, whom they still beat handily and the loss at Notre Dame.
The following year, Nebraska would finally beat a Florida team (Miami) in a Bowl game after getting beaten 6 straight times by FSU and Miami in the previous decade. Those losses resulted in 3 national championships even though Nebraska was not in the running for 1 of them (1991 against Miami). That win in the Jan 95' Orange bowl finally put Nebraska over the hump. The following year, Nebraska had the best and most dominant season, in my opinion, in college football history and beat another Florida team (Florida Gators) in dominant fashion. For the record, that wasn't the best college football team of all time, that honor probably belongs to 2000-2002 Miami, which had the most talent, even if there were other teams that performed better.
Was there in the opposite endzone to Bentley's kick. When the net went up all fucked up, I was sure that was a bad omen & he would miss.
37:35 Toby Wright pass interference gives FSU chip shot winning field goal. You can't have a slow SS covering a fast FSU Wr. Wright gets released by RAMS after 98' season, 99' RAMS win SUPER BOWL with FSU Devin Bush replaced Wright!!
Too bad defense wasn't Rams problem it was offense lol
Clifton Abraham was on the Dallas Carter hs in Dallas tx.team whose teammates were arrested back in 89 for theft and costing the team their high school state championship trophy
If Lawrence Phillips starts this game I believe the Huskers win by 9.
Back when college uniforms were cool!
Would an offense like Nebraska work in today’s era?
Trev Alberts
They should have started Lawrence Phillips
No doubt.... So many wasted series with slow ass Calvin Jones and scared ass Damon Benning.
He wasn't developed yet.
@@lomarsweed6604 So what you are saying is, that the great OZZY made yet another stupid blunder in his career, right?
@@robjohnson8861 Not nearly as many blunders as you, Rob... Any chance you'll seek out a life at some point?
I gotta give to Nebraska their defense had sec type speed.
Because they recruited all the Texas players. Once they left the XII they started going downhill. It's as simple as that
@@nolesquad5162 I agree.
19:25 Did anyone else hear that guy howl?
A great game...that Nebraska won.
Nebraska should have won this game they were manhandling Florida State's offense
John Manning you aint kidding! I had only been watching fsu a few years and years at this point. This was our 4th bowl vs Nebraska in 6 years a besides a awesome game in 87-88 fiesta bowl we embarrassed them because the triple options kryptonite is speed on defense and noles were kings of speed. And basically only Miami had beaten us in that 6 years, minus a Clemson, in 89, S. Miss in 90 , and gator in 91 , and Notre dame in 93. Anyhow if it wasn't the canes I was supremely confident and even vs Miami and all the others I mentioned we could move the ball and played good just losing close. I was dumbfounded the first half, and really the entire game minus the final drive! I was to young to see then that the game being in Florida and in the stadium that'd been a house of horrors to us and all of college football, And so many near misses for bowden. That the game wasn't 100% on the level! Everyone not from Nebraska had fsu going away and I think once everyone including the refs saw that Nebraska was more than capable of beating and was in fact on their way to winning. FSU gotta lot of assistance manly the phantom clipping flag on the punt return that 25 years later I still can't find, to the clock operator trying to run the final 1 plus seconds off and cheat Nebraska outta a long FG, THE 2ND to last play . And flu never really did figure out Nebraska blitzes Charlie was sacked 5 times after only being sacked like 6 all season and hard counts drawing our defense off sides half dozenntimes. Anyhow that's the worse I've ever seen fsu get outplayed and not lose! Bobby Bowden was going home with a ring that night regardless what Tom foolery eeded to take place, and even though im FSU all the way, it still feels a little tanted to this day, and Nebraska started a 26 game win streak after this and had a 11 game streak going in! Just think they were that close to a 3peat and 37 game unbeaten that would've been 2nd longest in history behind OU 44! Peace # gonoles
Nebraska's offense didn't do much either... We manhandled you guys as well.. Florida State baby!!!
And Nebraska is lucky Warrick Dunn was not played for some unknown reason...
@@mp6697 And FSU is lucky Lawrance Philips did not start.
@@markheil1434 Phillips played though, Dunn didn't play at all..
Both teams played for 2nd. Notre Dame was #1. Smoked FSU
1994 Penn State would have crushed both of these teams
Nebraska was the best team that year and night but robbed by the refs on that punt return TD that would’ve been the difference
I remember thinking to myself that there would be a split national champion after this game. FSU was fortunate to win this game, then won the national title over an ND team they had lost to.
Rowland
it sucks Tommie Frazier got screwed on the Heisman. Go Big Red
The world had it out for Neb, huh?
The voters consider strength of schedule. Neb had not played FL.
Even so
OSU #8
Neb #24
And this was after the bowl games. Before and it would have even been greater distance between the 2 bec FL was #2.
Ward certainly wasn't accurate of course ,defense won it.
You always have to give the refs a break as they have a tough job and can never please everyone. That being said, of all Nebraska games over my lifetime, this is the one that seemed highly be tilted with rulings in favor of the opposing team. Given the game was so close, IMHO, the refs have this to FSU. The good news for Nebraska is that this game taken out of their grasp unfairly gave them tremendous incentive to win in the most dominant way possible and several national championships followed.
I don't know that ANY game was as blindly ref'ed in the favor of Nebraska's opponent, as the 1982 Penn State debacle. Two horrific calls on incomplete/out of bounds passes that gave Penn State the win. I realize it was a regular season game but it was Nebraska's one loss that entire season, the season before the juggernaut in 1983 lost their one game. Wow to be a teenage husker fan growing up in those days... so many devastating close calls, that made my time in college during the 60-3 era that much sweeter though. You can enjoy the thrill of victory so much more after having been throttled by getting SO CLOSE for so long. I'd give anything for some of those 1 loss seasons now.
@@rooh5825 Right on. At the time I worked as an engineer at Motorola in Austin TX. One morning soon after the game there was a young guy who was an avid FSU fan- we were gowning up in our cleanroom suits to enter the clean room and somehow the game came up. I very directly stated that Nebraska won that game and it was taken away by the refs. He disagreed! Ha! He was suddenly unhappy about the game.
Booooooh Seminoles
Notre Dame got cheated out of a national championship that year
As a former FSU fan, totally agree with you on that. ND should have been in this game.
The objective portion of the BCS was right. The failure was being weighted on the polls. I am referring to later years. FSU only dropped to number 2. While Notre Dame rightly lost after an emotional, big win, dropped to number 4. That is the polls. Colorado beat Nebraska 62-36, and they were like 6 and 7 the next week, as many AP voters still voted Nebraska higher. Putting them up against Miami after being at best 3rd in the Big 12. The playoff is even worse. It was a set up by ESPN and the fools went for it. A four team invite is not a playoff. Sorry about the tangent. You are correct.
Disagree strongly if you think they should've been in over Notre Dame. ND beating FSU at home by a touchdown by deflecting a ten-yard TD pass at the goal line at the gun -- at home -- isn't enough to overcome a loss to Boston College.
judolphin Notre dame was winning by 17 points for the majority of the game (FSU). It was not close as the score indicated.
@@mitchfricano But losing to Boston College at home is much worse
The nineties were all the Florida teams and Nebraska
But in 90s bowls,
HA!
Bowden was 8-2
Osborne was 5-5
@@robjohnson8861 Osborne 3 NC’s
Bowden 2 NC’s
@@12106445consensus
Both won 2. I dont count 1/2s esp coaches.
But i will concede most would give neb the edge even though bowden did better in games won, head to head, bowl games won. Wait that's a lot.
Look it like this, whose fans were happier most of the 90s?
It was pretty bad that they stole half of Nebraska's national title that year. Nebraska was truly the best team of the 1990's. And overall, the best team of the last half of the 20th century. Much better than Alabama has ever been.
@@rooh5825 Hey man, what the hell are you talking about? When did a FL team steal half of Neb's NC? And what the hell does Bama have to do with an FSU/Neb thread?
Get some help.
Ward certainly wasn't accurate of course ,defense won it.
Nebraska was so close to winning 5 straight chips 3 out of 5 not bad
Absolutely great run!
I’m a FSU fan but Yeah that 1993-97 years Nebraska was a juggernaut. That 1995 was their best team ever and top 5 greatest team ever.
Close to 4 out of 5. 1996 they lost 2 in Frost's first year as QB.
Lifelong FSU fan here - one of the best defensive NC games ever. Nebraska's game plan was way better than ours...I think Coach Bowden seriously underestimated their overall team speed. Great game, Huskers - classiest team in college football.
LOL. Check out that class now that they are a perennial loser.
Going in to the game Bowden knew how good they were. He said the point spread was ridiculous.. He admitted after that Nebraska outplayed them. Great game either way.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 You know Bowden was gaming Osborne the way Spurrier would game Richt and Fulmer. His comment was to goad Osborne. HA, "You outplayed me and still lost."
@@robjohnson8861 calling Nebraska a loser? Hmmm, kinda pathetic when someone spends his life on UA-cam trying to harass fans. Sounds like a typical troll loser to a lot of people
For sure. As a Texas fan I remember when Ricky Williams went up to Lincoln and Texas beat Nebraska; it was Mack Brown’s first year I think. They were interviewing Ricky Williams after the game and Mack Brown stayed on the field with him because he was concerned for his safety or something and the Nebraska fans stayed in the stadium and gave him a standing ovation and chanted Heisman for him. Nebraska fans definitely the classiest in all of college football
A little trivia: This is the last National Championship game where both teams were wearing Russell Athletic gear. It was about this time that teams began to contract with apparel companies such as Nike, Adidas, Starter, Reebok, and later on, Under Armor. The following year, Nebraska would wear Adidas in the Orange Bowl vs. Miami, and #2 Penn State had contracted with Nike.
Wait so prior to that all schools wore Russell Athletic? Is that what you’re saying?
@@SeanGrady90 Usually they wore Russell, Champion, Wilson or that company from Memphis with the bell logo. I don’t think anyone wore Nike until 1994. Nebraska went to Adidas in 1994.
No that a lot of teams wore them, but Nebraska rocking the Converse.
These guys are wearing some huge shoulder pads... The receivers look like D Linemen..
lol That's how it was back then.
NO quit in those great 90's Nebraska teams, and this is from a Hurricane fan.
Respect to the Canes. I'm a Nebraska man. If I didn't like Nebraska Canes would be my team.
Oklahoma fan here. Wish y’all were back in the top 10 like the old days.
@@soonerstone80 Need all of us back, get those great games back
Nebraska defense smacked Charlie ward so hard that he decided on a career with the New York knicks. He never recovered from this ass kicking.
Doesn't matter. We still won.
You are absolutely correct. The score is all that matters at the end. Was a great game really. I wasn’t even a Nebraska fan but I was surprised by their defensive speed.
If there were replays back then Nebraska would have won.
@@sir_yehoshua If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas.
He made millions in the NBA, would have barley made a living in the NFL before he was cut.
Will florida state ever get back to this level?
Alot sooner then Nebraska 🤫
we have the same question here in Nebraska
Yes. Sooner than most think
God FSU was stacked back then. This team and the year b4 with Buckley, Amp Lee and Edgar Bennett. My 3 favorite FSU players
Still lost to ND
Not to mention Heisman Trophy winner Ward. Deion was a couple years later but Earrick Dunn, Fred Taylor, Boulware are just a few more
Stacked top to bottom both sides of the ball.
@@stevenday9687 Fred Taylor played for the Gators.
@@stevenday9687 Deion Sanders played 1985 to 1988 Season at Florida State Seminoles, youngsters fans get your facts correctly 👏. then 1993 Season when FSU Seminoles were National Champions Orange 🍊 Bowl game .against Nebraska Cornhuskers .
.1# Florida State Seminole beat 18
.2# Nebraska Cornhuskers .16
Dynasties the NCAA body Governorment, announced that
FSU Seminoles
is a Dynasty from 1987 to 2000
Three National Championship
Three wins Championship and two loses.
The Cornhuskers almost had three straight.
The refs calls won the game for Free Shoes university , the Huskers did win 3 straight on the field. Even Bobby Bowden said later that NU may have very well won this game.
Great game in spite of us losing. Go Big Red!
Boston college fan here. Nebraska way outplayed Florida state all game. Refs handed this game to them and that’s an honest opinion from someone that knows the game. Nebraska beat the piss out of them actually.
Huskers showed they could play with anybody.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 *" from someone that knows the game."*
Really. Find the 3 hr:29 min game and tell us exactly at what timestamp the refs handed FSU the game, otherwise your blowing fing smoke.
I say the 3:29 game bec the block in the back is not cut out of that one.
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 *"Huskers showed they could play with anybody."* HA! Playing and winning are not mutually exclusive.
@@robjohnson8861 First step is showing you can compete.
You know that was a good 25 years ago when Florida State and Nebraska ruled college football, unfortunately they have been mediocre at best for a while! Nebraska really misses Osbourne, no idea what's going on with the Noles. I thought young high school players would be lining up to play for a team like FSU!
25 years ago till now..Nebraska is 1-13 vs Twxas
Charley ward was a great football player and a great basketball player
Nebraska had it in the end to win it, and he hooks it left!! Omg!! Wow. Helluva game by 2 great programs led by 2 great coaching legends, Bowden and Osborne. What fkin game, tho!!!!
Makes up for for years of FSU kicking it "wide right"
@@matthewprestia7647
But Neb wasn't Miami and Ozzy had not won a NC yet. Bowden had a losing record to ever Cane coach with a NC, 4.
Actually, FSU was lined up off sides, but like the whole night, the officiating wasn't going to catch that.
@@therealfronzilla *"Actually, FSU was lined up off sides"*
You have 2 problems.
1) Not showing us a timestamp where it happened,
2) it was 2nd down. They would have had another opportunity, possibly 2.
Update: 2) is wrong. Offense can't extend game bec they were offsides.
@@robjohnson8861 there was one second on the clock, it didn't matter how much time was left on the clock. The referee missed the offsides call, like they missed most of the calls that night. It was a horribly called game.
If not for a phantom clip, Nebraska would have won that game.
Those Huskers used this disappointment to inflict as much pain as humanly possible against their opponents in the next 4 years.
The infamous no call fumble on goaline and phantom clipping calls.
I'm still pissed about that
As respected as Coach Osborne was the refs still wanted Bowden to have his first championship more.
Floyd was in the end zone the previous play plus number 23 clipped.
Please stop.
Yiu jad PLENTY of chances to win and you didn't because Frazier wasn't a good enough QB.
You had first and goal at the five and was scared to throw the ball.
FOH!😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
GO NOLES!
FBA/B1
Boy if Nebraska had Kris Brown as their kicker two years earlier like in this game, that 45 yard field goal goes through at the end.
Nebraska had some INCREDIBLE kickers for about a 15 year run there, lately they've been absolutely awful, like everything else on that team :(
I wish these two still commentated games,they were much better than Herbstriet and Fowler by far!
FSU Won the National Title in '93 but did not share with Notre Dame, or Auburn was on probation
AU was on probation for sure. They went undefeated that year
@biggs949597 s FSU would have beat you bad in '96. So would have UF
@biggs949597 s You lost to Texas in 1996 and they were crap. We beat Florida at home but they got up for us the second time. Your team in 96 AND 97 would have been boat raced by FSU. We owned you guys in the 90s.
@biggs949597 s That was quite a rambling screed but the facts remain. We beat you every single time we played you in the 90s and Bobby Bowden owned Tom Osborne. There it is!
@biggs949597 s The all time record is 6-2 FSU. 🎙 drop
I was a big FSU fan when Coach Bowden was there. But it surprised me how good this Nebraska team was. Just think, a missed FG at the end of this game, and that ridiculous 4th and inches play by Texas in the 1996 Big 12 Championship game were all that stood between Nebraska and five consecutive National Championships.
@daniel In 1996, had Nebraska beaten Texas, then they would have played Florida State in the Sugar Bowl, not Florida. Texas' win over Nebraska is what set Florida up for that rematch with Florida State.
@@tmarsh0307 1996 Nebraska got smoked by Arizona State also. I don't think they would have beaten Florida State.
@@bigbuffguy9589 I’m glad you said it and not me…I agree, I think Florida St would have beaten Nebraska that year. I should have said “possibility of Five National Championships”
From 1993 through 1997 Nebraska went 60-3 with 3 National Championships.
2.5 titles. FSU was consistently better that decade
@@GentlemanJack295 How many NCs did FSU have that decade?
@@24lancelot85 Two. Plus they beat Nebraska head to head everything single time they played. They never finished lower than 4 and Nebraska had multiple loss years throughout the whole decade. FSU never lost more than two in one year.
@@GentlemanJack295 I don't know...I'd give a team that won 3 nattys more clout than a team that won 2. That's just me, tho.
@@24lancelot85 You are entitled to your opinion but a decade is ten years not 5 and FSU was consistently better ALL ten years. Nebraska was not and the third championship was split and really the first one should have been too. Also, FSU won the most games of any school in that decade. So, I think I have a stronger case than you.
This Nebraska team would beat Alabama 2020. 1995 Nebraska would destroy Alabama 2020.
Even with covid,
Games won,
*"Bama 2020"*
10
+ Conf Champ
+ Playoff
+ NC
= 13
*"Neb95"*
11
+NC
=12
13>12.
You lose.
@@robjohnson8861 - 1995 Nebraska 56, 2020 Alabama 10
@@rooh5825 HA! 13>12
Except in Neb, it's 13
@@robjohnson8861 "USA Today, Washington post, readers digest, nfl.com..." best team ever
I remember this game, we were hosed by the refs
That touchdown call on the fumble at go alone was a make up for the play before! 2 wrongs somehow made a right in this case.
No. Forward progress was ruled stopped. Player safety.
Agreed. I had forgotten the play before. Evened out
Nebraska’s punt return for a TD called back for a holding no camera angles could find and FSU’s fumble Nebraska recovered in the end zone is a 14 point swing. Still one of my favorite NC games but you hate to see officials affect the outcome of a game between two great teams.
The calls went against Big Red including the Punt Return and Lawrence Philips should of been the feature running back.
He was in the second half. He was suspended for the first half. Have to remember too, Calvin Jones was a Heisman candidate coming in to the year until his knee injury.
@@williamwolff8550 I don't believe Phillips was serving any form of suspension in this game. He was just buried on the depth chart at the time by guys due to seniority. Even as a freshman he was clearly the most talented RB on the roster and arguably in Husker history.
@@lomarsweed6604 well you'd believe wrong. He was absolutely suspended for the first half of that game.
@@williamwolff8550 Well you may be correct, I was 14 years old when this game was played and I watched the original unedited telecast obsessively (I recorded it on VHS) and the commentators never alluded to it. It's certainly possible tho.
@@williamwolff8550 *"well you'd believe wrong. He was absolutely suspended for the first half of that game."*
Please find 1 article that supports Phllips being suspended in the 1st half because I can't. He only had carried for 435 yds for the season at that point.
This was the game I became a Husker fan.
That’s cool
me too
FSU joined the ACC in '92. From 92-99 (peak FSU years) the Seminoles lost twice as many games to SEC teams as they did to ACC opponents. I bring this up not to criticize FSU, but rather the ACC. That conference has always sucked. Still had some great teams with BB's Noles and Clemson '15-'20.
I was 11 years old during this game and I remember my Dad going ballistic watching it due to the horrible calls by the refs going against Nebraska. We're Pitt fans but always enjoyed Nebraska's option offense, and hated to see refs decide a game between 2 very good teams.
I imagine this loss doesn't sting as bad for Nebraska fans though since their team went on to become *the dynasty of the 90's* and basically overshadowed FSU. Their 95 team is one of the best ever in college football.
Which horrible calls?
1) The Floyd goal line fumble would not pass the indisputable test
2) The block the back. Trumpy for NBC did the world a disservice. He had everybody focusing on the player he thought could be the only one that could have committed the penalty. It wasn't him, it was #23. You have to find a video with it in bec so many cut stuff out. Slow video down to .25 and keep watching it over and over. You will see #23 hit the FSU player and watch him take steps back after he is hit. He was running east and west at the time. Ref in in your screen right on top of it.
@@robjohnson8861 - There was no clip, just stop dingbat.
@@rooh5825 If you watched the play in the game above, what color shirt was the ref wearing?
@@robjohnson8861 - I know your doctor is wearing a blue button up dress shirt. Go get your prescription refilled.
@@rooh5825 How long have you been a proctologist?
@37:05 seriously?
I wish Charlie Ward played in the NFL. He was a way better QB then he was a PG. But the NFL wasn't set up like it is today to complement his skill set.
Corey Robinson Plus the money was better on the NBA. But, I agree with you.
Wasn’t an FSU fan but liked Charlie Ward. IMO best QB ever to play there
Ward made the right choice he made plenty of money saved his body. He was one hell of a point gaurd .
Accuracy sucks but still a beast 💪 💯 go noles
One of the worst officiated games I've ever seen. Nebraska fans had every right to be pissed off about this game.
36:46 Look at these jobbers from Nebraska taking off their helmets before the game is over. LOL! And then FSU mobs their kicker. They really let 'em celebrate back then!
Then there was that 5 years a player couldn't even raise a hand without a flag being thrown
That was because of a Mii thrashing of Oklahoma & how the players acted. It was just a no class event & that's why that no celebration era happened.
@@stevenday9687 From watching "The U" 30-for-30 documentary on ESPN are you sure celebration rules weren't change after Miami embarrassed Texas in their infamous Cotton Bowl game? Or Miami embarrasing California (Cal), an innocent, helpless Academic school, in Berkeley? The Canes interviewed in the documentary seem to point at those 2 games causing the NCAA to crack down on excessive celebrations.
@@HufflepuffDaddy I believe it was the way they acted in a game vs Oklahoma. They smoked them like 66-10 & it was just sad the way they acted. Sure it's fun & you should be able to celebrate but Miami went as far as being totally disrespectful & made themselves look bad
@@stevenday9687 let's agree to disagree, my friend. Miami's largest margin of victory over the Sooners in the 1980s (and their entire series) was only 13 points in 1985 and then by 12 points the next season. All other games were in the series were close and competitive. They didn't play each other at all in the 1990s. There are no blowouts by Miami in the series, period. However OU blew them out in 2007, 51-13 in Norman. The games that made Miami infamous for having no class were:
- 1985 vs Notre Dame in Gerry Faust last game when accused of running up the score (58-7)
- 1990 vs Cal in a 52-24 blowout when they were dancing over tackled players in peace, love and happy Berkeley
- 1991 Cotton Bowl vs Texas in Dallas when they had over 200 yards in penalties and still won 46-3
You have the right school (Miami) but they never blew out Oklahoma.
@@HufflepuffDaddy you're right. It was Texas. Still a shitty display of class & any type of sportsmanship. They showed the difference between winning games & being winners.
Tom Osborne rocking the most 90s jacket of all time lol
I prefer to pretend this game never happened 😢 (GBR!)
Florida state is my favorite football team but Nebraska cornhuskers is my team 2
What is so strange is hardly any of these guys made much of a living in the NFL.
You better look again. SMH.
The phantom block in the back on Dixon’s run back Td, and Floyd’s 4th down goal to go fumble that the referees gave them the TD and the National Championship. Floyd even admitted he fumbled. I’ve always like Bobby Bowden his team was beat in this game.
I'm a Husker & have tremendous respect for Bobby Bowden (RIP). The man was a class act & Florida St. did him wrong in the end. I agree with you & if Nebraska would have won it would have been 4 out of 5 & a 3 peat. 3 out of 4 is still pretty good & in those 5 years went 60-3. Things are bad currently however.
@@stevenday9687 I totally agree.
1) The Floyd goal line fumble would not pass the indisputable test
2) The block the back. Trumpy for NBC did the world a disservice. He had everybody focusing on the player he thought could be the only one that could have committed the penalty. It wasn't him, it was #23. FIND THE FULL VIDEO bec so many cut stuff out. Slow video down to .25 and keep watching it over and over. You will see #23 hit the FSU player and watch him take steps back after he is hit. He was running east and west at the time. Ref in in your screen right on top of it.
Toddrick McIntosh is my cousin and made the very first defensive play of that game. RIP T-Mac.
I never did understand why Trev Albert's won the Butkus award when he clearly was a defensive end that year
How did FSU not run the clock out with 30 seconds left with a 1st and goal at the Nebraska 5 yard line?
After 1st and goal on Nebraska’s next to last drive, Osborne decided to just run up the middle and take the field goal, big mistake.
*"Big mistake."* He was top 5 in that category, right?
On Florida States last field goal did they kick it on 2nd down and leave 20 seconds on the clock? I liked them and Bowden in that era but that had to be the most idiotic, piss poor clock management I've ever seen.
@@jamiecrawford8133 I hep ya.
With no timeouts, he wanted to leave himself plenty of time to line up for a second or even 3rd FG if there was a bobbled snap and they were forced to just cover the ball.
@@jamiecrawford8133 But obviously they had not thought about this situation. It would have made more sense to get back to the huddle again and let Ward attempt a pass play on 2nd and then kicked a FG on 3rd.
Rob, you’re top five in stupid.
Calvin Jones and Damon Benning were nice players, but Nebraska wins this game by 10 if Lawrence Phillips is the starting I-Back and gets the majority of the carries. He was a once in a generation talent and had the talent to go down as one of the all-time greats.
Phillips could have been the greatest of all time had he not been I'll. Man had it all. Size, power, speed, strength. He was in the 90's what Jim Brown was in the 60's. Very sad ending to what could have been extraordinary.
I really feel for Lawrence Phillips. He had such a promising future on the gridiron, if it was not for his misconduct away from it. As a result, he was serving a lengthy prison term until he committed suicide. What a waste.
Amazing game. Great to see two teams with such respect for the game and for each other. That's coaching. Osborne and Bowden were pretty good friends, so maybe that took a little bit of sting out of the loss for Dr. Tom.
Cut from the same cloth we're those 2. Florida St. did Bowden wrong at the end. You don't treat a legend with disrespect.
@Steven Day What! He was a legend at flopping. 14 top 5 finishes in a row and 2 NCs to show for it. A losing record to every Cane coach with a NC, count em, 4.
The man was SO overrated.
@@mas5867 Hi Rob Johnson, Alabama fan and big time jealous troll, Nebraska 1995, best team ever. Show us how jealous you are by responding with a bunch of idiotic stats from different years that don't mean anything LOL OWNED!!!
I've enjoyed watching all 13 of Tommie Frazier's bowl games. He was a cheat code before the video games really blew up. What a talent. Miss Nebraska being what they were. Florida State was also so, so good. It was just better then than now. Every team today looks generic in their sets
Nebraska got robbed point blank in this one! Fumble on the goal line, and a phantom flag on punt return touchdown!
37:22 Nebraska AD Trev Alberts lines up offsides on consecutive plays and the officials fail to catch it
How did those not get called. Especially the 2nd time. Hell, I'm a Husker & see that was a crime. NU/FSU were the source of some great games in the 90's. May Bobby Bowden RIP. He was a class act dadgum it.
What about the phantom clip that cost Nebraska a TD?
He did not get the AD job till a month after this game.
Nebraska was the best team in college football this season and they were from 93 through 97 they should have won five national championships in a row we're literally talking a bounce of the ball here and there and they go 63 and 0 and win five titles in a row the most dominant run in the history of sports maybe not just college football that's how great these Nebraska teams were they were clearly the superior team on the field this day and they showed that what they did the next two years with the same players when they rolled off two of the most dominating seasons ever this was one of the most rip-off national title games ever without those penalties calling back a kickoff return for a touchdown call him back that 4th and one William Floyd did not score this was a scam game Nebraska was Head and shoulders a better team
The Big 8 was trash. Nebraska would play one decent non-conference game usually and than Colorado. That’s it. They had a free ride to National championship Contention every year.
@@kevinfinnerty8414 if you actually believe what you just said you're an absolute bozo Nebraska was a Herculean program at that point in history they were Head and Shoulders above everybody else in the mid-90s like nobody's ever seen in college football they were so much better than every other program at that point they could have played all top 10 teams they would have beat them all by 30 or 40 points look up their record from 93 to 97 vs top 20 teams you say they just played one team here and there look up their record versus the top 20 and look at the average score of the games we're literally talk in an average margin of Victory by like 30 points over teams in the top 20
Bobby was a genius,, went to,that no,huddle when every body said it couldn't be done. Ha now every body. Does it even in,the pro's,,,