The Crimson Tide return to the Rose Bowl for the first time since a stirring 34-14 shellacking of Southern Cal in 1946.
Fans share their picks for the gutsiest performances in college hoops and college football history.
Though USC whipped up on Penn State in its first game of the season, the Pac-10 still has much to prove after a lackluster 1999 campaign. Bear Bryant handled Joe Namath in a much different way than Joe Paterno is handling Rashard Casey. The weather, though, is about the only thing everyone agrees on about that night. Everything else, even the statistics racked up by the Trojans' ground attack, has been disputed or distorted by amateur sociologists and media alike. That's what happens when myth and reality collide.