In those days, ALL the great games, important games, were on TV from noon to midnight january 1st. NBC, ABC, and CBS with 7-8 games on the first day of the new year. Pizza, Coke, pop corn, chocolat bars, etc. I need a time machine!
NBC gave the respect of the New Years Day bowl games. Most of them decided the National Championship. From 1985 until 1991, one of those three bowl games decided the National Champion. Rose Bowl had the traditional PAC-10 vs. BIG-10 tie-in. Orange Bowl had the Big-8 vs. ACC or Independent match up. I do remember the 1987 Penn State - Miami match-up for the national championship.
NBC knew what it was doing. They're like "yeah, all you other networks, you broadcast the meaningless games. We'll only go after the ones that really count. The ones that decide championships."
I think the rise of then-Independents Miami, Florida State, Penn State, and Notre Dame and Big 8 powerhouses Oklahoma and Nebraska in the mid to late 80s made major bowl games like the Sugar on ABC which had ties to SEC and the Cotton on CBS with SWC ties meaningless from 1986-1992 as it was either Independents or the Big 8 champion ranked at or near the top.
@@jerseyflaTruth. But also OSU, USC in the 60s & 70s so often, and the Orange Bowl in the same time frame, too. 26 times in the last 45 years NBC had the Rose, Orange or Fiesta Bowl, a team they covered on NYD won the national title.
That might be changing in the next few years as NBC is officially back in college football outside of Notre Dame due to them getting a portion of the rights to the Big Ten earlier this year. With the College Football Playoff expanding as well, there is a great chance that NBC will be airing at least one if not all three of the bowls you mentioned in the next few years.
I have missed that theme music for 34 years, when you heard it you knew it was college football and it was an alarm to let you know on 1 January the rose bowl was about to get started then the Orange and the fiesta after that.
I’m watching the Rose Bowl and started playing my video in the living room. It just fits perfectly instead of the boring and redundant theme (Da-Da-Da-Da….Da-Da-Da-Da) that ESPN uses. One day NBC will pay to dethrone ESPN for the rights to some of the New Year’s Bowl games and playoffs.
The National Broadcasting Company presents the best in college football...the Big Ten Conference! Today, from Michigan Stadium, it's the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
I hope y’all will reply to this RIP Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson…….. I hope y’all can answer this question is Don Criqui still working as an announcer?????!!!!
@@jerseyfla It seems to be a difficult piece to find. I've contacted an NBC composer named John Colby and he didn't make that one. I also got through to former NBC football director John Gonzalez and he had no idea who composed that music either.
I hope y'all will reply to this a year after the Orange Bowl victory Jimmy Johnson would coach my Dallas Cowboys and restore them to their winning ways
Criqui and Trumpy was underrated solid gold
In those days, ALL the great games, important games, were on TV from noon to midnight january 1st. NBC, ABC, and CBS with 7-8 games on the first day of the new year. Pizza, Coke, pop corn, chocolat bars, etc. I need a time machine!
NBC gave the respect of the New Years Day bowl games. Most of them decided the National Championship. From 1985 until 1991, one of those three bowl games decided the National Champion. Rose Bowl had the traditional PAC-10 vs. BIG-10 tie-in. Orange Bowl had the Big-8 vs. ACC or Independent match up. I do remember the 1987 Penn State - Miami match-up for the national championship.
Loved New Years day & all the bowl games back then. Now we get like 2 on New Years day.
I miss these two guys; Merlin Olsen and Dick Enberg. I believe Mr. Enberg grew up in Michigan. I forget the name of his home town.
NBC knew what it was doing. They're like "yeah, all you other networks, you broadcast the meaningless games. We'll only go after the ones that really count. The ones that decide championships."
I think the rise of then-Independents Miami, Florida State, Penn State, and Notre Dame and Big 8 powerhouses Oklahoma and Nebraska in the mid to late 80s made major bowl games like the Sugar on ABC which had ties to SEC and the Cotton on CBS with SWC ties meaningless from 1986-1992 as it was either Independents or the Big 8 champion ranked at or near the top.
@@jerseyflaTruth. But also OSU, USC in the 60s & 70s so often, and the Orange Bowl in the same time frame, too. 26 times in the last 45 years NBC had the Rose, Orange or Fiesta Bowl, a team they covered on NYD won the national title.
Fiesta Bowl, Rose Bowl, and the Orange Bowl.
Back in the day when the rose fiesta & orange bowl games were on NBC it was spectacular before ESPN broadcast all 3 games
That might be changing in the next few years as NBC is officially back in college football outside of Notre Dame due to them getting a portion of the rights to the Big Ten earlier this year. With the College Football Playoff expanding as well, there is a great chance that NBC will be airing at least one if not all three of the bowls you mentioned in the next few years.
Now that NBC has got the rights to Big 10 beginning next season, they should bring back this theme.
Sports TV themes today suck, they'd rather promote their lame ass sponsors.
I have missed that theme music for 34 years, when you heard it you knew it was college football and it was an alarm to let you know on 1 January the rose bowl was about to get started then the Orange and the fiesta after that.
When ESPN didn't have a monopoly on College Bowl games.
I’m watching the Rose Bowl and started playing my video in the living room. It just fits perfectly instead of the boring and redundant theme (Da-Da-Da-Da….Da-Da-Da-Da) that ESPN uses. One day NBC will pay to dethrone ESPN for the rights to some of the New Year’s Bowl games and playoffs.
But also when there wasn’t 50 zillion bowls.
The National Broadcasting Company presents the best in college football...the Big Ten Conference! Today, from Michigan Stadium, it's the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
That game would have been on ABC.
I hope y’all will reply to this RIP Charlie Jones I liked him also who else liked Charlie??????
I loved Charlie Jones.
Agree with Julian Smith. This was it . Put enberg and gowdy, no comparison
I hope y’all will reply to this RIP Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson…….. I hope y’all can answer this question is Don Criqui still working as an announcer?????!!!!
No he did one work one game in 2013
Jim Nantz got stuck in a snow storm
The last time I heard Don Criqui, he was the radio play-by-play announcer for Notre Dame football. That was at least five years ago.
Oh wow, I was hoping someone would post this. Thanks.
Do you have a link to the nfl theme this mimicked?
Knightmessenger I do. I’ll have to make a new video for it. Look for it soon!
Do you have the one in the 90s its very good too🤔
I do not.
Do you have the NBC college theme that started in 1990?
Ciccone39 I do not. That’s probably the only NBC Sports theme that I don’t have a clean cut of.
@@jerseyfla It seems to be a difficult piece to find. I've contacted an NBC composer named John Colby and he didn't make that one. I also got through to former NBC football director John Gonzalez and he had no idea who composed that music either.
You mean for Notre Dame games or bowl games?
@@Knightmessenger Bowl games like the 1990-95 Orange Bowls. All those years had that theme.
@@ciccone39 Check out the 1991 Orange Bowl video on UA-cam and you’ll hear that theme you’re talking about.
I hope y'all will reply to this a year after the Orange Bowl victory Jimmy Johnson would coach my Dallas Cowboys and restore them to their winning ways
Michigan should have beaten Arizona State.