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| | Tuesday, December 14 College Football Game of the Year | |||||
| Now that you have voted for the college basketball game of the year, let's stay in the college ranks. It's time to pick the college football game of the year.
Check out a description of each game and let us know which you feel is the best. After you vote, you will be sent to the next poll. Enjoy!
The first season for the Bowl Championship Series produced a Fiesta Bowl matchup of Bobby Bowden's Seminoles and Phillip Fulmer's Volunteers. Most of the week the headlines surrounded Florida State's Peter Warrick but afterward everyone was talking about Tennessee receiver Peerless Price. Dwayne Goodrich's 54-yard interception return for a TD staked the Vols to a 14-0 second quarter lead and Price put the game out of reach with a 79-yard TD from Tee Martin late in the fourth quarter. Tennessee won the national championship, finishing 13-0. UNLV over Baylor on 99-yard fumble return for TD on final play of game (9/11/99): The formerly forlorn Rebels had snapped a 16-game losing streak the week previous. They followed that by returning a fumble 99 yards for a touchdown against the Bears on the final play of the game to lift first-year coach John Robinson to 2-0. Baylor was ahead 24-21 with less than 20 seconds left and UNLV without a timeout. A knee to the turf would have won the game for the Bears, but UNLV linebackers James Sunia and Tyler Brickell forced Darrel Bush to fumble at the 1. Thomas picked up the ball a yard deep in the end zone and scooted down the left sideline untouched, racing past a jubilant UNLV bench as 32,272 mostly Baylor fans stood in stunned silence. UNLV didn't even try the extra point. Louisiana Tech over No. 18 Alabama 29-28 (9/18/99): Trailing by six with only two seconds to play, its star quarterback out of the game and facing fourth down, Tech went to backup Brian Stallworth. He threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Sean Cangelosi to give the Bulldogs a 29-28 upset over then-No. 18 Alabama. Tech trailed 28-22 and was facing fourth-and-26 without Tim Rattay, the 1998 national total-offense leader who left the game two plays earlier with an injury. Rattay, who was being taken to the lockerroom on a stretcher with a sprained right ankle, made the trainers stop so he could watch the final seconds. Alabama lost in its final game of the century in historic Legion Field. It was also the Crimson Tide's second straight loss to Louisiana Tech. Oregon over No. 16 USC in three OT's (9/25/99): Someone had to lose this demolition derby of a football game. Not surprisingly, it was the road team that froze up in the late-night chill of Eugene, Ore. Josh Frankel, Oregon's third kicker of the game, nailed a 27-yard field goal late in the third overtime and Oregon walked, or rather, limped off with the wildest win in a Pac-10 season characterized by unpredictability. No. 16 USC was hurt by kicker David Newbury's three missed field goal attempts, most notably the two botched efforts in OT. Oregon lost its starting kicker to injury and the Trojans played without their starting quarterback for much of the night. USC committed a school-record 21 penalties for 178 yards. No. 22 Alabama over No. 3 Florida 40-39 in OT ends Florida home winning streak (10/2/99): Alabama overcame weeks of adversity at home with a road win of historic proportions. No. 3 Florida's 30-game winning streak at The Swamp dried up with Shaun Alexander's run in overtime and Chris Kemp's second-chance extra point. More importantly, the weeks of treading water for head coach Mike DuBose were over. Through the months of August and September, DuBose was straining under the weight of an off-field scandal with a university secretary and an on-field failure with a stunning loss to Louisiana Tech. Bear Bryant's shadow still looms large in Tuscaloosa, but the win brought the beleaguered program and its coach a much-needed day in the sun. It also catapulted Alexander into the Heisman race, a candidacy that was later sidelined by a nagging ankle injury. Army over Louisville 59-52 in double OT (10/7/99): In the first overtime game for either school, Louisville overcame a 45-17 halftime deficit, but couldn't get over the hump in the second extra period. The stars of the show were Army's Michael Wallace and Louisville's Chris Redman. Wallace rushed for a school-record 269 yards and four TDs and Redman completed 36 of 50 passes for 366 yards and a pair of scores. Impressive totals, but just a part of the final tally: 1,053 yards of combined offense. Louisville turned a rout into a thriller with 28 straight points after halftime after stopping the Cadets just once in the first two quarters. Predictably, the Conference USA opener for both teams was not determined by defense. But few in the crowd of 26,535 fans in West Point, N.Y.'s Michie Stadium cared to complain when it was over. They were just glad that it was. | ALSO SEE Poll: Games of the Year Poll: NBA Game of the Year Poll: College basketball Game of the Year Poll: Baseball Game of the Year Poll: Game of the Year Poll: Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year | |||||
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