Posted on 01/03/2009 6:26:15 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
I think this post includes my first important New Mexico related story. Sorry, Cougar - The Lobos were shut out. But they must have had a good season to make it to a major bowl and have the opportunity to play before a capacity crowd of 13,500.
You traditionalists will be glad to know that the rules committee will not do away with the PAT, despite some lobbying for that change. I don't know what they mean about "permitting forward passes anywhere from behind the line of scrimmage." I thought that was already legal.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
As A Texas Tech fan I could have done without that last clipping - 70 years apart and a similar result
Congratulations, Trojans!
Having won five Rose Bowls and the Christmas Festival game of 1924, USC maintains its post-season unbeaten streak.
The St. Mary’s Gaels certainly played like champions. The boys from Moraga can be tough customers, having upset us in the Coliseum in ‘31, our our only loss in a season that saw us win the National Championship—but we won the rematch in ‘33. St. Mary’s is a rather small school. Will they still be playing competitive football on the national level in 70 years?
Maybe not. But their hoops squads will make an impression now and then.
As a Lobo fan I’m pretty used to Utah beating us. Guess it is a long standing tradition for UNM.
Check out the Sun Bowl results. Something about a “football juggernaut”...
Little know bowl factoid: The Sun Bowl is the second oldest bowl game in the nation. However, the game sucked this year. The weather’s good, the payout is great, kids love the party, but the conference tie ins need to be changed.
Oh yeah, that Ute team from 1930 was, up until about 2003, regarded as the best team in school history.
Last season, one of the posters at one of the message boards I peruse counted down the 35 greatest games in Utah history. The game in 1930 against Utah Agricultural College (now known as Utah State) is in the countdown.
http://2007utahfootballcountdown.blogspot.com/
Since this was about the ‘39 team and not the ‘30 team, the run the Utes had during the depression was up until now the best in school history.
D’oh!
Is the Rose the oldest bowl?
BTW, I did see the Brut Sun Bowl this year and it was like watching paint dry for 3 hours. Pitt could not do anything right, OK SU was trying to slow things down. No wonder the final outcome was 3-0 OK SU.
Up to last week, when the Utes crown a perfect season with its win. I was impressed that the Utes were able to take down the Crimsion Tide.
One thing is certain, the USC Trojans are regulars to the Rose Bowl, they just about own it. Ask Papa Joe. :)
Talk about football juggernaut, that is to be found with the Rose, the Trojans OWN that bowl.
Changing taglines. :)
Speaking about the Trojans, any updates on the colisum issue, last year it was a big issue talked on a thread. Thanks. :)
I think I was about as shell shocked as ‘Bama was, maybe I’ll have to watch it again just to make sure it wasn’t all a really lucid dream. :)
It was a suprise considering Bama was number 1 for a time. The Utes are the best kept secret or should win an award for such for college football, 20088-09.
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