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1984 Orange Bowl National Championship - "NEBRASKA GOES FOR TWO"
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2010
- Golden Game for Hurricanes
Miami, Fla. 31
Nebraska 30
January 2, 1984
Orange Bowl Stadium
In arguably the greatest college football bowl game ever played, Miami won its first national championship, 31-30, after Nebraska missed a two-point conversion attempt in the 50th anniversary Orange Bowl Classic.
The Huskers had pulled within one with 48 seconds to play, but Miami strong safety Ken Calhoun stepped in front of a Turner Gill attempted two-point conversion pass to preserve the win. Coming into the game, the 11-0 top-ranked Huskers were the favorites, but they quickly found themselves on the short end of a 17-0 score after UM freshman quarterback Bernie Kosar, who passed for 300-yards threw two touchdowns to his tight end Glenn Dennison.
The first Husker points came on a second period Dean Steinkuhler's controversial 19-yard "fumblerooskie" play. Gill took the snap from center and dropped the ball on the ground, an intentional fumble. The offensive line went to the right except for Steinkuhler, who pulled to his left, picked up the ball and rambled around left end for the score. The Huskers added a 1-yard Gill run to close the gap to 17-14.
A Nebraska field goal tied it at 17 in the third, but Alonzo Highsmith and Albert Bentley scored touchdowns at the end of long Kosar-led drives. Nebraska responded at the close of the third with a Jeff Smith 1-yard run and, after UM missed a field goal in the fourth, Smith ran it in from the 24 with :48 on the clock. Then, the Nebraska comeback hopes were dashed when the conversion pass was batted away.
I was there! I didn't actually get to see that play because I was sitting in the opposite end zone, and everyone stood up when the play started. I was 8 yrs old!
Greatest sporting event I ever saw in person. The electricity was crazy. The Orange Bowl was going to explode.
How do you post this without showing the Jeff Smith option TD on 4th and 8 that setup this play??
Tom Osbourne going for two and the 84 orange bowl will always go hand and hand. If he kick the field goal the game would have ended in a tie and it would have been a split nation title for Nebraska. How many people remember that part.
Kenny Calhoun #2 deflects the ball on defense. What a play!!!
I was there...Sophomore at the U...what a night!!!
Tough to go for the tie when you're more likely to win going for it. Yeah, you guarantee a national title kicking it, but what message does that send. Totally a coaches call, and I don't fault Osborne for going for it.
A defining moment in Nebraska football history
@LibraryUser61 Osborne and the players didn't want to back in to a title. They wanted to win it on the field by winning the game with no questions. None of them could have lived with themselves if they didn't try to win. In that situation I would consider all the blood sweat and tears the coaches and players poured out in the season. coming back from 17 and 14 point deficits, having a chance to win the game I would say my players earned that last chance. I couldn't deny them at that point.
That was a hell of a play by Calhoun.
One of the greatest games I have EVER SEEN or heard called. I'm old as dirt. God I LOVE Bernie.
The overtime rule change makes this irrelevant Today. Enough said
I always felt that going for it was the right call. I thought running it would have won it though. Yes, easy to say in hindsight as a pass play didn't work. But this team averaged 6.7 yards per rush all year. That's unheard of. Part of the decision to throw has to be because Mike Rozier was unavailable. But Jeff Smith was doing just fine and all five of those mammoth OL were all out there. It's your bread and butter. Go out, get your two yards, which is about five yards below your per rush average and win the title.
And I say this as a Miami fan who desperately wanted the game to just be over. This '84 game was a lot like that '95 game that Nebraska came back and won. Miami lead for three quarters but really had little depth that year. Nebraska came back and won by seven. Had the game gone longer, they probably win by 21. We were gassed. This '84 game was a lot like it but Miami had enough to get to the onside kick, recover it and run out the clock. A few more minutes probably results in a defeat. Miami's depth became much better once they became a more established team in the mid-80's. In this game, it was still a bit of an issue for them.
Interesting insight, but this late in the game, the running back is usually tired, especially since I believe Rozier got injured in the first half. The Huskers, having averaged 52 points per game, should have been able to convert with either pass or run. I personally think the QB sweep might've been their best move.
The pass was right in his chest. Gill did what he had to do. Make the catch, man. The Huskers dropped too many important balls in this game to win it.
Nope. Gill admitted that it was a tad to the inside and needed to be placed just outside the RB to guarantee no one else would get to it. Because of this Kenny Calhoun got a finger in on it and deflected it away. That's all that kept it from being a catch. Not the RB's fault.
Ken Calhoun, Titusville, FL
Byu cougars went undefeated in 1984 and would have split the national championship title with Nebraska if Osbourne would have kicked the field goal.
Kenny Calhoun's name was never mentioned !
estilkind. I just was talking 2 Kenny 2 day at the barber shop
RIP Dick Enberg!
Sad that Dick Enberg passed away, but FWIW, he didn't call this game. This was Don Criqui and John Brodie in the booth.
Should’ve kicked the extra point. Five years later, nobody would’ve cared except that Nebraska would’ve had the national title and Miami wouldn’t
Go to 0:29. How does that Miami lineback know that the play is going to the right (to his left)? When you defend the option, you don't guess. You read and react. How could he be "reacting" if he was moving before the ball was even snapped?
The linemen were blocking that way.
Well, obviously there must have been some indication that the play was going to the right.
Nebraska had them place the ball on the left hash mark for the conversion attempt. When a team sets up on the hashmark instead of the middle they generally run the play to the wide side, which Nebraska did here.
TOM ~Hide the guns~ OSBORNE made the right decision. If anyone cares to recall, EVERYONE was calling this Neb. team the GREATEST TEAM EVER (no exaggeration)... IF you're supposedly the GOAT, then at least win a Bowl game. Now, as for Irving Fryar fixing the game w/ obvious dropped pass, well, you deserve to lose for recruiting criminals.
I never have agreed with the decision to go for two points here. Kick the extra point and win the national championship in the polls. I have always felt that a tie is a perfectly good outcome in a game, unless it is a championship game in a tournament.
Osborne made a tactical blunder by not going for 2 after Nebraska scored to make it 31-23. If they make it, they merely kick the PAT after Jeff Smith's TD in the final minute to win, 32-31. If they DON'T make it, they still get ANOTHER shot at making a 2-point conversion after Smith's TD to earn an honorable 31-31 tie, which still would've given Nebraska the National Championship.
As it was, Osborne only gave himself 1 chance at making a National Championship-winning 2-pt. conversion instead of 2 chances. Gutsy call, no doubt. But worse odds than Nebraska should have faced.