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1985 Orange Bowl Post-Game

DerekJohnson
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,248
    Bow Down Bitches
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,227 Standard Supporter
    SUCK IT OKIES
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,660 Founders Club
    Question for poasters who were alive during this bowl: did it feel like UW deserved a share of the title?
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,227 Standard Supporter
    edited August 2014
    haie said:

    Question for poasters who were alive during this bowl: did it feel like UW deserved a share of the title?

    I was real young, but I remember my dad talking about how the Huskies were screwed probably up until the '91 NC. BYU was the Boise State of the mid 80s I guess, except the idiotic voters gave them credit for beating WAC crap.

    I remember watching BYU kill us the next September, but it was a different year obviously.
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  • Baphomet
    Baphomet Member Posts: 1,511
    DerekJohnson said:

    haie said:

    Question for poasters who were alive during this bowl: did it feel like UW deserved a share of the title?

    Absolutely. BYU did not play a ranked team the whole season. They struggled to beat a 6-6 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl. It was a travesty.
    Agreed 100%

    Though we have ourselves to blame for losing a game to USC that year... man, what could have been.

    It also didn't help national perception the following year when we lost to BYU 31 to 3 -- the weak after losing to Oklahoma State at home (the '85 team took a big step back from the '84 team).
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  • HeretoBeatmyChest
    HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295
    I wasn't old enough to remember but I've looked at the historical research.

    This guy who fixes all the polls said it should have ben UW/Florida as a tie for #1

    http://www.tiptop25.com/fixing1984.html

    It really taints our history. We hear this shit about half a NC or a share of the NC. Its BS. The 91 team as per SRS is the second best team of the last 40-50 years. That is the 2nd best team out of over 4000 teams. There is a 50-50 chance that we will never see another team (from any school) that special in our lives.

    The 84 team should at least have won half or the share as they say.
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  • puppylove_sugarsteel
    puppylove_sugarsteel Member Posts: 9,133
    WHAT? Dawgs got hammershafted in '84. Everybody knew how good UW was that yer. SOS proved everything. UW was gutted in 85. BYU would have scored 3 points on UW in '84
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,031 Founders Club
    Florida was on probation in '84 for paying cash to players.
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  • TTJ
    TTJ Member Posts: 4,827
    DerekJohnson said:

    Florida was on probation in '84 for paying cash to players.

    UW was clearly better than OU and BYU. Would have been fun to see a UW-Fla matchup in '84. The Gators were absolutely loaded, with Wilber Marshall, John L. Williams, etc.
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