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In light of recent events I have to update my greatest UT Football top 5

 

1. Rose bowl. Vince.  National championship 

2. 1996 Big 12 championship vs Nebraska.  Totally unexpected against the Alabama of the 90s. 

3. 1990 Houston. If you were alive at that time, you get it. 

4. 2023 Alabama. Receny bias probably bumps it up some but I can never shake the memories of the games above it. It will be fun to see if it holds up. 

5. 2005 Ohio State. Unlike Bama,  I knew we should win in Columbus against a stacked Ohio state. Bama was a COULD win. 

Honorable mention: Tony Jones catch against Arkansas. Probably my earliest Texas football memory. I don't recall if I saw live or in highlights.

1995 vs aggy. Was in Austin at the time.  That evening after the game I was out on 6th with a cheerleader whom I was friends with that was also one of Ricky's girls.  Then i got to witness the awkward encounter when she saw Ricky and was trying to talk to him while everyone wanting a piece. 

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6 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

3. 1990 Houston. If you were alive at that time, you get it. 

My first specific memory of Texas football was my grandfather giving up on Texas at the end of the third quarter — “Well, Texas lost this one” —  in Fayetteville in 1969 and my running outside to tell him that Texas won. 

I was at that 1990 game and couldn’t really talk until the next Thursday or so. 

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1. Rose Bowl and National Championship

2. 1998 Ricky wins the Heisman against the farmers.

3. 1990 Houston Game - Still the best game I've been to crowd wise. "Get that idiot off the goal post" - Wally Pryor

4. 1989 OU - Johnny Walker beats OU

5. 1994 OU - Stoney Clark on the goal line

Added: 1984 Auburn - Jerry Gray chases down Bo Jackson and puts him out of the game

 

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1. Vince Young for the NATTY.

2. 1996 Big 12 Championship game. Ricky Williams, Priest Holmes, James Brown, Roll Left. This was my first season as a Longhorn fan so this game will always be very special to me.

3. November 27, 1998. Unranked Texas upsets #6 A&M and Ricky Williams breaks Tony Dorsett's 22-year-old rushing record with a 60 yd. touchdown run. (I was there in the student section.)

4. 2005 Rose Bowl. Terrific last second win against Michigan to cap off a great season and foreshadow great things to come.

5. 2023 Alabama. Instant classic.

Runner up: 1999 vs. #3 Nebraska - the first time we had faced them since the upset in '96. (I was there in the student section.)

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Based on what I've seen in person... (these are not ranked save for the obvious NC game)

  • UT vs USC in the Rose Bowl
  • UT vs Michigan in the Rose Bowl
  • 1990 UH game
  • 1994 Stonie Clark's goalline stop at TX-OU
  • 1998 Ricky's run against aggy

Honorable Mention:

  • Texas vs OSU, Vince Young comeback game 
  • 1996 Texas vs Mizzou.  Weather and lightning caused a game delay... those of us who stayed behind got drunker and louder.  Amazing experience.  
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Rose Bowl USC

Rose Bowl Michigan

Arkansas @ UT when cocaine Matt Jones styled on the longborns

Tech @ UT same season was one of the most exciting games i saw in person

UT @ Tech the 2008 heartbreak. I think i was on a business trip watching this thing in a casino as the only UT fan…

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Honorable mention...  Oct. 8, 1977 Red River Rivalry.

Unlikely Hero: Randy McEachern

 He was an unlikely hero for the University of Texas and it all began Oct. 8, 1977 in the Red River Rivalry.

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When Texas backup quarterback John Aune tore ligaments in his knee on UT’s fourth series of the Red River Shootout, as it was called at the time, the TV announcers scrambled to figure out who would be next to lead the Longhorns.

Starter Mark McBath broke his ankle on the third series and Aune lasted just nine plays before he went down. The trio in the booth had no quarterbacks left on their rosters.

The play-by-play man quickly threw the question to sports director Steve Ross of KVUE, channel 24 in Austin. “Steve, who would that bring in? We don’t even have him on the depth chart.”

Ross speculated about a pair of freshmen, but he really had no idea. Everyone was surprised when No. 6 trotted onto the field.

Redshirt junior Randy McEachern entered the game in a situation that was becoming more desperate by the minute, and it was still only the first quarter. He had been an afterthought for two seasons and had only handed the ball off during mop-up time of three games in 1977.

The announcers knew so little about him that Ross actually called him a freshman on the broadcast before finding the correct information.

The story goes that it was Earl Campbell who broke away from the huddle to give McEachern a vote of confidence as he ran onto the field in Dallas. Campbell did take a step or two away from the team and clapped twice, but it was offensive lineman George James who jogged out to meet McEachern.

Campbell did give the wide-eyed quarterback a pep talk when he reached the huddle, in his own way.

“He said, ‘Let’s go, little man,” McEachern recalled for Texassports.com in 2007.

Though they stood the same height, 5-foot-11, Campbell outweighed McEatchern by 60 pounds. But size didn’t matter. They would become a good pair.

Both teams were unbeaten that year and riding high coming into the showdown. No. 2 Oklahoma had survived a massive game in Columbus two weeks earlier when Barry Switzer’s Sooners upset Woody Hayes’ Buckeyes 29-28 on a last-second field goal.

OU had been No. 5 at the time and OSU had been No. 4. The Sooners moved up to No. 3 after the win and then took over No. 1 after beating Kansas the next week.

Texas had crushed Boston College, Virginia and Rice to open the season and had climbed steadily in the ranks until it reached No. 5 at the time of the rivalry matchup.

Darrell Royal was not at the helm of the Longhorns for the first time in 20 years. He retired as the coach and became the full-time athletic director after the 1976 season.

Royal’s offensive coordinator Fred Akers ascended to head coach and was about to get his first real test as chief decision maker. 

Texas won 13-6, and solidified Earl Campbell as the front runner for the Heisman Trophy.

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1. 1969 Arkansas. Went to the Pep Rally in Austin that week, age 13, the most people I had ever seen at one time.  Texas football dominated Austin back then.  Watching DKR, the man, go off script, and winning in Fayetteville on the 100th Anniversary of College Football, in the "Game of the Century" about covers it. 

3. 1977 OU. Earl's TD run before the half was like watching a spooked white tail, beating OU for the first time in 7 years.  The '74-'75 OU National Champions were among the best teams in the history of CFB. Pinnacle of Texas HS running backs; Joe Washington, Roosevelt Leaks, Earl Campbell, Billy Sims. "Hello, Heisman!" The ocean of fans on the Drag that night ...❤️

3. 1998 A&M. "Run, Ricky, Run!" "If you want to play football, Go to Texas!" What's this "Little Earl" shit? Oh...okay. Following a coaching change, Ricky came back for his senior year. Winner. Being in DKR as the volume went from 3 to 11, ... straight to the veins. 

4. 2005 USC. VY.  I watched VY in HS for 3 years. Told my brother to come watch the HS Playoff game against Katy his senior year. Man amongst boys doesn't describe it properly.  Glad Mack finally let him play his game. Long time coming after having our hearts ripped out over 30+ years. 

5. 2023 Alabama. Given how good Texas was when I was young and how bad we have been for the past 15 years, this was a defining moment on the eve of joining the SEC. Texas drove a STEAK though the heart of so, so many doubters (Yeah! YOU!!!), crushing the GOAT in the process.  So many good people deserved this.

 "... the Ox is slow, but ...the earth is patient..." - Tibetan proverb

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25 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Rose bowl
Ricky's run
2005 Ohio state
2008 shootout
Tucker's kick silencing aggy

1) 05 Rose Bowl- obviously the GOAT

2) 04 Rose Bowl

3) Tucker FG game winner against Aggy

4) 2022 Shootout 49-0

5) 2008 TX/OU game.

I quoted you because I saw you shared that; my favorite Shoutout game to have attended with a team who was better than any Texas team I've ever seen except the 2005 team, and there was a tangible magic that occurred that I felt when Shipley ran the kick back. And remember that was a VERY good, #1 ranked Sooner team.

It was like an aether in the air, a heavy element, that magic and it crescendo'ed with the crowd as he crossed the 50 into the Sooners territory.
 

 

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Stuff I was old enough to remember in the 20th century:

1982 Cotton Bowl against Bama

1989 against OU (I cannot overstate what a fucking miracle this seemed like at the time, and then we got another miracle against Arkansas the next week. TEXAS WAS BACK BABY! And then we completely collapsed the rest of the season)

1990 Houston (thought 1990 Penn State, OU, and A&M are up there)

1994 OU

1995 A&M

1996 Big 12 Title game

1998 A&M, the last time A&M wasn't a joke.

In the 21st Century:

2005 Rose Bowl

2005 Ohio State

2006 Rose Bowl

2008 OU

2011 A&M, but mostly for the LOLs.

2019 Sugar Bowl

2023 Alabama

 

I guess the top five are:

1. 2006 Rose Bowl

2. 1996 Big 12 title game

3. 2008 OU

4. 2005 Rose Bowl

5. 2023 Bama

But it pains me to leave out some of the others.

 

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1991 Cotton Bowl V. Miami

Any game v. BYU

2000 and 2003 OU

1987 and 1988 U of H.

1989 Baylor seemed like as bad as it could get. Yet it didn't even make the list.

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I graduated high school in 2006, and although I watched games like the Rose Bowl rooting for my future school, I wasn't really a huge fan at the time (dad went to Tech, mom was a 2% aggy).  So, I'll omit everything before I got to UT.

1. 2008 OU - The game that kick started the obsession (so I can blame this game for an extreme amount of heartbreak, money spent, and time wasted over the past 15 years).

2. 2023 Alabama - I reserve the right to bump this down if we finish this season 8-4 or worse (but see 5 below). 

3. 2009 Big 12 Championship Game - in retrospect that season was kind of a slog without a ton of excitement. This game was grueling to endure, sure, but pure jubilation/relief when the kick went through.  

4. Last aggy game. 

5. 2016 Notre Dame - fuck it, I remember thinking we were in fact back. What a fucking idiot. 

Other nominees include 49-0, 2018 OU, 2019 Sugar Bowl, 2008 Missouri, 2009 Tech. 

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1) VY 4th down with the National Championship on the line-2006 Rose Bowl

2) 4th and 2 for USC- when we stopped White, everyone in our watch party knew that VY would lead us to victory.

3) VY dominating Michigan in the 05 Rose Bowl

4) 1998 Texas vs Aggy. Ricky busting free for 60 “Hello Record Book!”

5) 2004 the comeback vs OkSt

 

honorable mentions:

2005 In the HorseShoe AT NIGHT.

1999 comeback vs OU

1999 Cotton Bowl (Ricky clobbering Miss St)

2003 VY and Ced wrecking Aggy

2003 Cotton Bowl, Roy Williams destroying LSU

1996 Texas beating Nebraska Roll Right

1995 James Brown and Texas destroying Aggy

2008 Texas destroying Mizzou

2016 Texas beating ND

2022 49-0

2018 Texas physically wrecking UGA

2023 Texas Bama

Lots of other great memories, but those really stick out.

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2 hours ago, TexasBeta said:

1. Rose Bowl and National Championship

2. 1998 Ricky wins the Heisman against the farmers.

3. 1990 Houston Game - Still the best game I've been to crowd wise. "Get that idiot off the goal post" - Wally Pryor

4. 1989 OU - Johnny Walker beats OU

5. 1994 OU - Stoney Clark on the goal line

Added: 1984 Auburn - Jerry Gray chases down Bo Jackson and puts him out of the game

 

How is it possible that the black and white film from the 1930's is much sharper and better than the pre-hi-def video from the 1990's? 

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How is it possible that the black and white film from the 1930's is much sharper and better than the pre-hi-def video from the 1990's? 

film grain is way higher resolution than pre-HD video, so modern scans of it look great. That's why some old TV shows look fantastic still and some look like dogshit

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Just want to toss in the 2003 Tech game where Chance Mock came in to win it. Start of the game had a flyover as I was getting to my seat. Look up and all I see are two bright blue afterburners and then the roar.

I was in the south endzone and everyone could see Roy get wide open for a 50-yard+ pass on the winning drive.

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

film grain is way higher resolution than pre-HD video, so modern scans of it look great. That's why some old TV shows look fantastic still and some look like dogshit

Thanks. I am aware of why. I just find it so stupid that we somehow moved to a less evolved video state. Heck, black and white footage from the 1930's is often sharper than color film from the 60's and 70s. I think Martin Scorsese shot Raging Bull in black and white partly as a protest against the lack of preservation of color in movies.  

 

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3 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

In light of recent events I have to update my greatest UT Football top 5

 

1. Rose bowl. Vince.  National championship 

2. 1996 Big 12 championship vs Nebraska.  Totally unexpected against the Alabama of the 90s. 

3. 1990 Houston. If you were alive at that time, you get it. 

4. 2023 Alabama. Receny bias probably bumps it up some but I can never shake the memories of the games above it. It will be fun to see if it holds up. 

5. 2005 Ohio State. Unlike Bama,  I knew we should win in Columbus against a stacked Ohio state. Bama was a COULD win. 

Honorable mention: Tony Jones catch against Arkansas. Probably my earliest Texas football memory. I don't recall if I saw live or in highlights.

1995 vs aggy. Was in Austin at the time.  That evening after the game I was out on 6th with a cheerleader whom I was friends with that was also one of Ricky's girls.  Then i got to witness the awkward encounter when she saw Ricky and was trying to talk to him while everyone wanting a piece. 

The Tony Jones catch solidified my love for TX.  Listened to the game on the radio.  When we went to pick my mom up from the airport (not game related), a bunch of the TX cheerleaders were switching flights and hooping and hollering throughout the airport.  They were all giving me the Hook 'Em for my TX shirt.  Pretty big deal for a 10 year old.

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In my time as a Longhorn fan (since I moved to Austin in 1994):

1.  2005 National Championship game v. USC (duh).

2.  1996 Big XII Championship Game v. Nebraska (the beginning of the end of that program's relevance).

3.  2005 win at Ohio State (biggest regular season win since I've been a fan).

4.  2008 v. Oklahoma (most thrilling game I've seen in that series).

5.  1998 v. aggy (solidifying only our second Heisman winner).

Honorable mentions:  2005 Rose Bowl v. Michigan; 2019 Sugar Bowl v. Georgia; 1998 win at Nebraska.

I can't put the 2023 Alabama win on the list because I can't fully judge that game until the season is over.  Many people thought Texas was "back" after a thrilling double overtime win to open the 2016 season against Notre Dame.  But Texas finished 5-7 and Notre Dame finished 4-8, so looking at it now, it was just a really exciting game that opened a shitty season for both teams. 

Do I think Texas and Alabama are headed for similar results this year?  No.  But based on the last decade plus of data, we can't rule out an 8-4 or 9-3 season for Texas, and Alabama might very well have a down year.  In that event, Saturday's win in Tuscaloosa will have much less meaning for me and many other Longhorn fans than it does right now.

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I'll take the liberty of making two categories:

In Attendance:

1. 2006 Rose Bowl

2. 2005 Rose Bowl

3. 1990 UH

4. 1989 OU - (Gardere to Jonny Walker)

5. 2008 OU

Watched on TV:

1. 2023 at Alabama*

2. 1996 Nebraska Big XII Championship

3. 1995 at A&M

4. 2005 Oklahoma State

5. 1983 A&M (Rick McIvor)

Honorable Mention: 1998 at Nebraska

 

*Reserve the right to amend if the season somehow goes into the shitter, but as of now, that's the most fun I recall ever watching a game on TV, start to finish.

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Texas USC 2005 - there. Greatest player of all time  

Texas OU 2005 - there. Sweet sweet beat down.  

Texas OU 1983 - there. Edwin Simmons  

Texas A&M 1998 - had tix, but was hunting. Wife and SIL saw it live. Grrrrr 

Texas vs Ohio St - thank god. It almost all went up in smoke 

Texas Neb 1996 - TV. Heart attack  

Texas Michigan 2004 - TV. Superman  

Texas OU - 1977. 4th strong QB  

Why can’t I remember the Houston game? I was there!!

 

 

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2005 national championship of course, though that whole season could fill up all the remaining positions. But for diversity's sake...

2011 a&m game...watched it at home with my parents, which rarely happened and was really special. We were yelling and cheering all night.

1995 a&m. Was in attendance in college station to see Texas beat them in the original "last game." The look on my smack-talking friend's face when we met up later was priceless.

1996 Texas Nebraska. Watched in disbelief in West Campus and then went to the drag and celebrated.

1998 a&m and Ricky breaking the record against them in perfect fashion. Incredible.

I should probably list some OU games but my friends were Aggy, and loud about it, so anything against them was extra special.

 

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2003 Cotton Bowl: Roy Williams willing Texas back into that game was a great way to end frustrating season.

2004 Rose Bowl- Was so surreal that Texas was playing in a Rose Bowl after all of the politicking and message board BCS formulas. Was down low in the corner of the opposite end zone from where Magnum made the kick and could only tell he made it from his celebration.

2005 Rose Bowl- Felt like the culmination of a crazy two year run with Vince. Was 60+ rows up in the Texas end zone and couldn't have been happier to have gotten lucky enough to get tickets. This won't ever be topped because I was lucky enough to go with my dad who passed recently. 

2008 Mizzou- After Roy Miller blew up Maclin on that first play it felt like we had won already and DKR was wild from then on.

2009 Big 12 championship- Walking out of Jerry World it felt like after getting lucky in that last sequence we were a team of destiny. Not to mention the upset Nebraska fans were pretty amusing. 

 

 

 

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Ripped Out My Heart Moments

Texas Miami Cotton Bowl 1990 - There. Never more embarrassed on my life as a fan. 

Texas Alabama 2010 - TV. Why Colt why.

Texas Georgia 1983 - TV. Field the fucking punt  

Texas Colorado Big 12 Title 2001 - There. Was so pissed at Brown and Simms. 

Texas Notre Dame 1977- TV. Hurt so bad. My first sports big disappointment. 

Texas Tech 2008 - TV. Ugh. 
 
Texas vs OU 2000 - There. Total beat down  

Texas vs OU 2093 - There. Another beat down  

Texas vs OU 1982 - There. First Tx OU game. Ruined my buzz. 

Texas UCLA 1997 - There. Really?

 

 

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Was this the heat stroke game? 

I don't know about that. The game was played in mid-October and I watched at home. What I do remember is a friend who did go and sat even with the back of the south endzone and that Dawson's kick was practically vertical at the end because of how hard the wind was blowing that day.

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1964 Cotton Bowl/Texas vs Navy-Roger Staubach, DKR-We're Ready!

1969 Texas vs Arkansas-Street to Peschel on 4th down to set up the game winner

1970 Cotton Bowl-Texas vs Notre Dame

2006Rose Bowl-Texas vs USC-"VINCE YOUNG SCORES!! Keith Jackson

2023 Texas vs Alabama-perhaps a game where the whole season was defined

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5 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

In light of recent events I have to update my greatest UT Football top 5

 

1. Rose bowl. Vince.  National championship 

2. 1996 Big 12 championship vs Nebraska.  Totally unexpected against the Alabama of the 90s. 

3. 1990 Houston. If you were alive at that time, you get it. 

4. 2023 Alabama. Receny bias probably bumps it up some but I can never shake the memories of the games above it. It will be fun to see if it holds up. 

5. 2005 Ohio State. Unlike Bama,  I knew we should win in Columbus against a stacked Ohio state. Bama was a COULD win. 

Honorable mention: Tony Jones catch against Arkansas. Probably my earliest Texas football memory. I don't recall if I saw live or in highlights.

1995 vs aggy. Was in Austin at the time.  That evening after the game I was out on 6th with a cheerleader whom I was friends with that was also one of Ricky's girls.  Then i got to witness the awkward encounter when she saw Ricky and was trying to talk to him while everyone wanting a piece. 

Good choices.

1. Rose Bowl

2.  1969 Big Shootout.  Guess you are too young to remember that

3.  1996 Big 12 CCG

4.  1990 Houston

5.  1998 Ricky breaking the record vs. aggy

Lots of other good memories mentioned.  That Tony Jones late TD vs. Arkansas early 80s, Stoney Clark's stop of OU, this year's Alabama game, Bevo going after UGA at the Sugar Bowl, 1977 OU, 1976 OU where Russell Erxleban carried the team with long punts and long FGs (6-6 tie), and don't forget 1995 Brackens hit on Tech punter after fake kick-ranks up with 90 UH and 98 A&M for loudest game.

 

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