Talk:Game of the Century (college football)

message: 1968: The Tie: In what has been known as "The Game of the Century," Harvard comes from behind to tie, 29-29, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds and leading to the headline in the Harvard Crimson, "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29." From the Worldwide Leader, http://sports.espn.go.com/travel/news/story?id=3017562. 
Both teams were undefeated- Yale (9-0), Harvard (8-0), so the winner would take the Ivy League Title. It featured a 16 point comeback in 42 seconds. 
Should cover both who called it that (ESPN), and why it is so (miraculous 16 point comeback with 42 seconds to spare to remain undefeated and claim a share of the Ivy Title." Alslammerz (talk) 19:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1968 Harvard-Yale

message: This article covers multiple notable games of the 20th century.
:Games of the century? --Jingofetts 19:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: how can there be SIX games called the Game of the Century? Four of them are in a 6 year span! Kingturtle 00:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More than one Game of the (20th) Century in the article

message: ===1987 Fiesta Bowl: #1 Miami vs. #2 Penn State===
This was billed by NBC as the true Game Of The Century and remains to this day the highest-rated televised game in the history of college football. --BroadSt Bully 00:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it was: OSU-ND 1935: "The Game Of The Century" (Scout.com) In a poll taken in 1950, it was voted by football writers as the Game of the Century., yes it should be.
===1966: Michigan State vs Notre Dame===
Definitely belongs in this list, as it was constantly being referred to as such by the media and others from weeks before the game up through the rest of the decade. It's historically noteworthy also for how it ended - with the ball on their 30 in the final minutes, Notre Dame made no attempt to break a 10-10 tie.70.123.216.219 02:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  it got removed at some point. I've re-added it. I'm sure this thing is a monster to maintain since it's common for fans to have the "mine and mine only" perspective CredoFromStart 19:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Games of the 20th Century

message: This was billed by NBC as the true Game Of The Century and remains to this day the highest-rated televised game in the history of college football. --BroadSt Bully 00:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 1987 Fiesta Bowl: #1 Miami vs. #2 Penn State

message: where is it?
==== Georgia Tech-Cumberland?  Is that a joke? ====
The most lopsided game in history does not belong with all the rest.  It's an interesting game for other reasons, but it's completely out of place here. Funnyhat 00:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Georgia Tech vs Cumberland College??? 

message: The most lopsided game in history does not belong with all the rest.  It's an interesting game for other reasons, but it's completely out of place here. Funnyhat 00:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Georgia Tech-Cumberland?  Is that a joke? 

message: Definitely belongs in this list, as it was constantly being referred to as such by the media and others from weeks before the game up through the rest of the decade. It's historically noteworthy also for how it ended - with the ball on their 30 in the final minutes, Notre Dame made no attempt to break a 10-10 tie.70.123.216.219 02:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  it got removed at some point. I've re-added it. I'm sure this thing is a monster to maintain since it's common for fans to have the "mine and mine only" perspective CredoFromStart 19:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[1966]]: [[Michigan State]] vs [[University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]

message: Moved this link to the discussion.
*Review: The Game of the Century - Michael Corcoran] (Review of the Book 'Game of the Century' about the 1971 Nebraska Oklahoma Game (cornnation.com)
There is a very strong case for this one being labeled The Game of the Century due to the existence of a book of the same name. Group29 14:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nebraska vs Oklahoma 1971

message: These are the games from the list in the book Rites of autumn: the story of college football from chapter 6 entitled VICTORY The Greatest Games
*Princeton-Yale, November 24, 1899
*Carlisle-Army, November 9, 1912
*Chicago-Princeton, October 28, 1922
*Stanford-California, November 22, 1924
*Yale-Dartmouth, October 31, 1931
*Minnesota-Northwestern, October 31, 1936
*Pittsburgh-Fordham, October 16, 1937
*Army-Notre Dame, November 9, 1946 "It was surely the game of the year, and many have said it was the college football game of the century" 
*Notre Dame-SMU, December 3, 1949
*Michigan-Army, October 8, 1949
*Purdue-Notre Dame, October 7, 1950
*Oklahoma-Notre Dame, November 16, 1957
*Notre Dame-Michigan State, November 19, 1966
*Texas-Arkansas, December 6, 1969
*Nebraska-Oklahoma, November 25, 1971
*Alabama-USC, September 23, 1978
*USC-Stanford, October 13, 1979
*Penn State-Nebraska, September 25, 1982
*Notre Dame-Miami, October 15, 1988
*Florida State-Notre Dame, November 13, 1993 and Boston College-Notre Dame, November 20, 1993
*Nebraska-Missouri, November 8, 1997
 (bolded ones already part of this article) Group29 (talk) 15:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lists

message: Michigan-Chicago 1905: The First Greatest Game of the Century  
Chicago Maroons 2 - Michigan Wolverines 0, Thanksgiving day 1905 at Marshall Field in Chicago. Michigan halfback William Dennison "Denny" Clark made the mistake of running out of the end zone with a punt and was tackled for a safety. He committed suicide 27 years later. In 1904, the Chicago Michigan was one of the first games to be recorded on film. Group29 (talk) 15:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1905 Michigan at Chicago Thanksgiving day

message: === USC vs. Texas (and other games of the 21st century) ===
That wasn't considered a game of the century before, and it wasn't after, by any coach or other professional. It was a good game, no doubt, and it did have a 1 ranked and 2 ranked team against each other, but it wasn't thought as a game of the century. If that qualifies, then the 2003 Fiesta Bowl and the Catholics vs. Convicts game should be.
:I would certainly nominate the 2006 Rose Bowl with USC vs Texas as a candidate for the first 21st century game of the century. It featured two Heisman winners vs the runner up. The teams were ranked #1 and #2 all year. It was at the Rose Bowl, with the greatest pageantry of all the postseason bowl games. And it all came down to a 4th down make or break play by Lendale White of USC.  Obviously there is a lot of football left to be played in the 21st century. However, this is  one rare time when all sports pundits seemed to be in agreement about the best two teams playing at the end of the season. One point might be that Games of the Century do not seem to occur in bowl games. Group29 21:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Games of the 21st Century

message: That wasn't considered a game of the century before, and it wasn't after, by any coach or other professional. It was a good game, no doubt, and it did have a 1 ranked and 2 ranked team against each other, but it wasn't thought as a game of the century. If that qualifies, then the 2003 Fiesta Bowl and the Catholics vs. Convicts game should be.
:I would certainly nominate the 2006 Rose Bowl with USC vs Texas as a candidate for the first 21st century game of the century. It featured two Heisman winners vs the runner up. The teams were ranked #1 and #2 all year. It was at the Rose Bowl, with the greatest pageantry of all the postseason bowl games. And it all came down to a 4th down make or break play by Lendale White of USC.  Obviously there is a lot of football left to be played in the 21st century. However, this is  one rare time when all sports pundits seemed to be in agreement about the best two teams playing at the end of the season. One point might be that Games of the Century do not seem to occur in bowl games. Group29 21:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  USC vs. Texas (and other games of the 21st century) 

message: The whole media called this game another "Game of the Century" (although for the 21st century, I suppose). I think it should be included in this article.
--RNJBOND 01:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  OSU - Michigan 2006 

message: It has never been referred to as "game of the century" although if constructed as a separate article would be under category of Notable Upsets in college football. Group29 18:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed 2006 USC UCLA

message: FYI: I made a small correction to this section. It stated that since neither team accepted bowl bids during this time, neither risked their undefeated season by going to one and thus their status as national championship. This is incorrect. In the 1940s, the final rankings were posted before the bowl season. The final rankings did not come after the bowls until 1965, I believe. Thus, I changed the article to read:
:"Neither school accepted bowl bids during that era, although a bowl loss would not have affected the national championship outcome since these were named before the postseason at the time."
Strikehold (talk) 22:05, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Army-Notre Dame correction

message: I see on the talk page here several people have said the GT-Cumerland game doesn't belong. I'd tend to agree, and don't see it citing any sources referring to it as such. I'm going to remove it.
Also, the Washington Post called the 1952 Sugar Bowl between Jim Tatum's #3 Maryland and Robert Neyland's #1 Tennessee the "second game of the century", after the Army-Notre Dame game. I may add this one later, but if anyone else is so inclined please go ahead. Strikehold (talk) 16:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cumberland and another "Game of the century" 

message: Why isn't this on the list? It meets many of the qualities. It was #1 vs #2 and many articles and news reports called it the Game of the Century before it even started. It was the first time in history the rivals were #1 vs #2. The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is one of the most intense in the game. It was a very close hit for hit game between two awesome quarterbacks. Is this not enough? Please discuss.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.20.193.252 (talk) 00:10, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 Ohio State (#1) vs Michigan (#2)

message: Michigan came into the game, undefeated, untied and unscored upon. Minnesota came into the game undefeated and untied, having given up only 6 points all year. The game ended in a 6-6 tie, and spawned the Little Brown Jug, the oldest trophy game in college football.--RLent (talk) 15:15, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1903 Minnesota-Michigan 

message: This game should be added. It was two of the greatest powerhouses of that time period, #1 against #2, and ended up with TCU losing at the last second. This sent SMU into the Rose Bowl, and TCU into the second Sugar Bowl. This game is also often referred to as the "game of the century", so why was this left out?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.80.157 (talk) 01:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1935 TCU-SMU 

message: This game rocked a LOT of peoples' worlds.  This wasn't the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, with Urban Meyer toying with a hapless Big East team in the middle of the desert.  This was Kyle Whittingham taking out the 12-1, #2 in the SEC Alabama team -- in New Orleans.  This was HUGE and made a lot of people sit up and start asking questions (including government officials -- queue Orrin Hatch, <sigh>). Nusumareta (talk) 06:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[2009 Sugar Bowl]] 

message: The LSU Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide will be playing on Week 10 - November 5th, 2011 and besides being a matchup of the #1 and #2 teams in the nation it will be a game that will more than likely decide one of the teams that will play for a National Championship at the end of this year. It has been hyped since the first couple weeks of this season and has already been compared by some media to be as big as the 1993 FSU-Notre Dame game and 2006 Michigan-Ohio State. Should it be on this list?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libalaustin1990 (talk • contribs) 02:11, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2011 #1 LSU Tigers vs. #2 Alabama Crimson Tide 

message: Do we want to add A&M vs. Bama to the list given all the hype it has gotten and the national title implications it has? --174.46.190.10 (talk) 20:33, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2013 #1 Alabama at #6 Texas A&M 

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