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Looking Around the Nation: Nebraska, Florida State have officially left the ‘Good Ole’ Days’
In 1994, these two duked it out in the Orange Bowl for a national title. In 2018, these two are just trying to get bowl eligible.
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One of the more memorable scenes from “The Office” happens in the series finale when Ed Helms’ character Andy Bernard says, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in ‘the good old days,’ before you’ve actually left them.”
For the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Florida State Seminoles, they both find themselves in uncharted waters. In the last 30 years, these teams have been staples of the college football scene. Especially in the 1990s, both were national title regulars. The 1993 season brought both teams together in the Orange Bowl, to play for the national title. Florida State was the No. 1 in the nation, despite losing on Nov. 13 to Notre Dame in a contest that was dubbed the “Game of the Century.”
In the Orange Bowl, Nebraska had the lead with 1:16 remaining. However, Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward marched his team down the field, and set up the go-ahead field goal with 21 seconds left. Nebraska, led by quarterback Tommy Frazier, got the Huskers down to the FSU 28-yard line—setting up a game winning field goal on the final play of the game. That field goal would sail off course.
Did I criminally skim that Orange Bowl? You bet I did. You could make a whole documentary based on the lead-up and outcome of the game. But for this purpose, getting the CliffNotes will suffice. The main point isn’t to talk about that game, but to remind ourselves what these two teams were capable of doing. Both have obviously had successes since, but they sure feel like a long time ago after the first few weeks of the season.
Today, both these teams will be lucky to make it to a bowl game. That’s a far cry from a national title game. This season, both programs have new head coaches steering the ship of their respective programs. Scott Frost is at Nebraska, and Willie Taggart is at Florida State. Both have taken some very bad Ls already in the early season.
After the season opener against Akron was scrapped because of weather, the Huskers are still winless after Week 3. Losses to Colorado and Troy hurt, especially when you have a 9-game gauntlet in the Big Ten still to come. Frost will have to lead his team into road matchups with Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio State. His team will be a massive underdog in all three of those games, with the OSU game having the potential to be close-your-eyes-and-turn-off-the-TV-at-halftime bad.
Next week, the Huskers travel to Ann Arbor, Mich. for the matchup with the Wolverines. This is a redeemer for UM quarterback Shea Patterson, who was stifled in the first game of the season against Notre Dame. A good game from him puts the Wolverines back on track. Unfortunately for the Huskers, a loss puts them into a freighting 0-3 hole with still another week to go in September. Making up the Akron game may have seemed like a bizarre idea at first, but the Huskers may actually need it if they want to make a bowl game; six wins is six wins, no matter what you have to do to earn them.
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To bring this conversation back home, Ohio State has seeming made every right coaching move (at least for the head position) when things began to look bleak. They got Jim Tressel after John Cooper, and they got Urban Meyer after Jim Tressel. At some point, the machine won’t spit out jackpot— but you ride the wave until it ends.
Just look at a Michigan. That program hasn’t been the same since the 2006 “Game of the Century” meeting with the Buckeyes. Since Lloyd Carr left, TTUN hasn’t found a coach that could live up to the expectations set during the Carr era; even Alabama had a run of Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and Mike Shula as head coach over a six-year period.
Winning games in major college football is hard; consistently winning games is even harder. And at some point, even for those programs that consistently won for decades, there will be pockets of time that take you out of the good ole’ days. You just hope it doesn’t last forever.
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...te-football-loss-deondre-francois-scott-frost
In 1994, these two duked it out in the Orange Bowl for a national title. In 2018, these two are just trying to get bowl eligible.
One of the more memorable scenes from “The Office” happens in the series finale when Ed Helms’ character Andy Bernard says, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in ‘the good old days,’ before you’ve actually left them.”
For the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Florida State Seminoles, they both find themselves in uncharted waters. In the last 30 years, these teams have been staples of the college football scene. Especially in the 1990s, both were national title regulars. The 1993 season brought both teams together in the Orange Bowl, to play for the national title. Florida State was the No. 1 in the nation, despite losing on Nov. 13 to Notre Dame in a contest that was dubbed the “Game of the Century.”
In the Orange Bowl, Nebraska had the lead with 1:16 remaining. However, Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward marched his team down the field, and set up the go-ahead field goal with 21 seconds left. Nebraska, led by quarterback Tommy Frazier, got the Huskers down to the FSU 28-yard line—setting up a game winning field goal on the final play of the game. That field goal would sail off course.
Did I criminally skim that Orange Bowl? You bet I did. You could make a whole documentary based on the lead-up and outcome of the game. But for this purpose, getting the CliffNotes will suffice. The main point isn’t to talk about that game, but to remind ourselves what these two teams were capable of doing. Both have obviously had successes since, but they sure feel like a long time ago after the first few weeks of the season.
Today, both these teams will be lucky to make it to a bowl game. That’s a far cry from a national title game. This season, both programs have new head coaches steering the ship of their respective programs. Scott Frost is at Nebraska, and Willie Taggart is at Florida State. Both have taken some very bad Ls already in the early season.
After the season opener against Akron was scrapped because of weather, the Huskers are still winless after Week 3. Losses to Colorado and Troy hurt, especially when you have a 9-game gauntlet in the Big Ten still to come. Frost will have to lead his team into road matchups with Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio State. His team will be a massive underdog in all three of those games, with the OSU game having the potential to be close-your-eyes-and-turn-off-the-TV-at-halftime bad.
Next week, the Huskers travel to Ann Arbor, Mich. for the matchup with the Wolverines. This is a redeemer for UM quarterback Shea Patterson, who was stifled in the first game of the season against Notre Dame. A good game from him puts the Wolverines back on track. Unfortunately for the Huskers, a loss puts them into a freighting 0-3 hole with still another week to go in September. Making up the Akron game may have seemed like a bizarre idea at first, but the Huskers may actually need it if they want to make a bowl game; six wins is six wins, no matter what you have to do to earn them.
.
.
continued
.
.
To bring this conversation back home, Ohio State has seeming made every right coaching move (at least for the head position) when things began to look bleak. They got Jim Tressel after John Cooper, and they got Urban Meyer after Jim Tressel. At some point, the machine won’t spit out jackpot— but you ride the wave until it ends.
Just look at a Michigan. That program hasn’t been the same since the 2006 “Game of the Century” meeting with the Buckeyes. Since Lloyd Carr left, TTUN hasn’t found a coach that could live up to the expectations set during the Carr era; even Alabama had a run of Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and Mike Shula as head coach over a six-year period.
Winning games in major college football is hard; consistently winning games is even harder. And at some point, even for those programs that consistently won for decades, there will be pockets of time that take you out of the good ole’ days. You just hope it doesn’t last forever.
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...te-football-loss-deondre-francois-scott-frost
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