Cam's Classics - Week 2: 2006 Rose Bowl

Peyton Manning

Week 2:


2006 Rose Bowl
(serving as the National Championship)

Texas vs USC

Background

One of the most widely anticipated games in college football history, the 2006 national championship was between USC and Texas, who went the season undefeated and were the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the country throughout the whole year. College Football's brightest starts were in attendance - all three Heisman finalists took part in the game (Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart, with Leinart having also won the previous year's Heisman). It was as blockbuster a match up that college football could throw at us, and the game did not disappoint. As football often does, this shootout came down to one play, and one man - and one of the most famous lines of commentary in football history...

"4th and 5, the National Championship on the line...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWkmmTzK1VM

eagle eye

Couldn't you just put them all in one thread?

Edit: Any maybe call it classic football games. Why you are attaching part of your own name on here to it is confusing tbh.

Peyton Manning

eagle eye wrote: »

Couldn't you just put them all in one thread?

No

eagle eye

Fair enough then, sure I'll just start Eagle's classics.:D

Peyton Manning

eagle eye wrote: »

Fair enough then, sure I'll just start Eagle's classics.:D

Hotel California first up surely?

Paully D

eagle eye wrote: »

Couldn't you just put them all in one thread?

Edit: Any maybe call it classic football games. Why you are attaching part of your own name on here to it is confusing tbh.

Seriously, what difference does it make FFS? Personally I think it's great that he's bothered to take the time out to post stuff like this. This sort of stuff is what makes this forum so enjoyable IMO.

frostie500

Ive no problems with Cam naming the thread like this one one proviso:that if we do get a series of these types of threads from other users then we would have to look at bringing them together into a single thread. As it stands Cam is the one looking after it Eagle Eye so I dont see any reason to change the structure at present but I'll be keeping an eye on it over the next few weeks to see if it would benefit from having all the threads combined etc. As things stand though there is no changes that I will be making to this thread

frostie500

THis is one of the greatest games Ive ever seen. The performance of Vince Young throughout is truly amazing and shows to the fans who only know as a petulant NFL player the reasons why he was the most dangerous play in college for two years. He put the Longhorns on his back the year before to beat the Michigan Wolverines for the Rose Bowl crown but that night paled into insignificance compared to the National Title game.
Two powerhouse teams with explosive offences that both had players that could score from all over the field...this is what football is all about! When we see the National Title games that have followed this its clear to me that for sheer talent level we reached an apex that night at the Rose Bowl.
Ive a collection of about 20 BCS games on DVD and this is the one that I can watch again and again

Benny Cake

Cheers Cam, I'm off work at the mo with a broken leg so filling time watching 3 hours of football is time well spent!! Cheers

Frisbee

Easily my favourite game of football I've ever watched. Was in the US at the time and the whole week it had basically been billed as Bush v Young. Was a brilliant shoot out throughout and that last play for the Longhorns where Young just did it all himself (again) was awesome.

Also spawned one of my favourite sporting images. After the game there's a camera behind Young and he's pointing at the sky with orange and white confetti falling all around him, just looks quality.

D3PO

yeah this was a great game of football.

for week 3 Id like to nominate the 2007 season opener between #5 Michigan and Div 1AA side Appalachian State.

A Michigan team at home gearing themselves towards a national championship tilt with big talents like Jake Long, Chad Henne & Mario Mannigham against a team outside of Div 1 college football which apart from Armanti Edwards now of the Carolina Panthers at the Big house had no supposed talent at all.

This game ebbed and flowed and ebbed again.

also Cal v John Elways Stanford team from 1982 if that can be found would be a classic game to add including the historic memorable "The Play"