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I had forgotten about Jack Mildren.

I remember him running the wishbone to absolute perfection against a really good Auburn team.

Auburn had a very aggressive defense which was just what the wishone performed best against.

You're right, it was Auburn. You still have to be able to back defenses out of nine or ten man fronts and in the mid 80s the Okies forgot how to throw the ball and couldn't do that. Mildren was able to do that by dint of inheritance having been a passing quarterback in a previous life and Bear Bryant's teams developed a passing game which was keyed to the wishbone and their offense became undefensible. What the Naval Academy is doing now is similar to the Alabama version of the wishbone, which strikes me as the best version.

Mildren should have had the Heisman trophy in 71. He was an absolutely super athlete and the most major figure in a game said to have been THE game of the 20'th century, despite the Okie defense having lost it. Mildren and leon Crosswhite ran roughshod over the Auburn squad whose quarterback actually was given the Heisman.