1985 Orange Bowl Post-Game

AtomicPiss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04wP_c9bQA

Tequilla

Bow Down Bitches

Fire_Marshall_Bill

SUCK IT OKIES

haie

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

AtomicPiss

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.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

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.

Baphomet

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).

HeretoBeatmyChest

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.

puppylove_sugarsteel

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

AtomicPiss

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

TTJ

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.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

DerekJohnson said:

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

Back then, the SEC was punished for that kind of thing.

Southerndawg

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.

This.

sarktastic

TTJ said:

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.

of course UW was better than Oregon that year... Duh

AtomicPiss

sarktastic said:

TTJ said:

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.

of course UW was better than Oregon that year... Duh

joking aside, uw wasn't really better than Oregon when they played. uw had 109 yards offense and 3 first downs. won 17-10 on a blocked punt for a td and ron milus punt return for a td.

Dennis_DeYoung

haie said:

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

Share of the title, my ass! We deserved THE TITLE. I still count it as a Natty (YES I LIKE TO CALL THEM THAT. COME SAIL AWAY WITH ME). Fuck 'em. There was one poll that had us #1 and I roll with that one because it was obvious to anyone who didn't want to kiss the white choir boy funderwear wearin' Mormies' asses that we would've stomped on BYU.

Honestly, I probably didn't give Pete enough credit at Boise from that very turn of events. After that I hated all 'mid-major' programs.

We got fucking hosed. It was a goddamned travesty. Fuck BYU and fuck Sark. FMFYFEFBYU.

PurpleJ

The 80s sound like they were a good decade.

Dennis_DeYoung

PurpleJ said:

The 80s sound like they were a good decade.

Only if you like cocaine and Wham!

For Husky football, it was pretty fucking good.

Dick_B

I remember it well, and have that game on DVD. We would have kicked BYU's ass that year.

TierbsHsotBoobs

haie said:

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

Yes and no.

BYU didn't deserve shit, but UW didn't win its own conference.

topdawgnc

Dennis_DeYoung said:

PurpleJ said:

The 80s sound like they were a good decade.

Only if you like cocaine and Wham!

For Husky football, it was pretty fucking good.

Any decade that gives you cocaine, Ronald Reagan, Motley Crue, and wine coolers ...

Is A. OK. in my fucking book.