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00:05Welcome to another edition of Who's Number One, I'm Trey Wingo.
00:09You know, if you think about it, some cities really identified by the sports events they
00:13host.
00:14Examples are Louisville, Kentucky, the Derby, and Pasadena.
00:19...
00:491991, Iowa against Washington.
00:52It had broken the mold of a lot of...
00:54...which had been more close to the vest.
00:57Here he goes again.
01:00...and it's touchdown!
01:02It sort of introduced the idea that it's more a matter of scoring more than your opponent
01:07than keeping the other guy from scoring.
01:08...the end zone, touchdown Huskies!
01:12It was drag racing.
01:15In the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever, Washington's do-everything quarterback Mark Brunell passed for two touchdowns and ran for
01:22two more.
01:22I knew I knew somebody on this squad.
01:25Mark Brunell.
01:29Brunell wants to run it.
01:31Does.
01:31...has a first down, has a touchdown!
01:34...has a first down, has a touchdown!
01:34I turned it off in the third quarter.
01:37I just said, oh, this is over.
01:39This is preposterous.
01:41You really have to credit Iowa for making a game of this.
01:43They were down 33-7 at half, and they came back and scored three times in the fourth quarter.
01:50Crap.
01:52Iowa recovered two onside kicks.
01:54The Iowa man leaned over and cut it as he fell out of that.
01:58Unbelievable!
02:00If you let somebody recover two onside kicks, you might not be very good.
02:04You've got a man coming down with a tight team.
02:06The Hawkeyes exploded for 20 points in the fourth quarter, but still lost 46-34.
02:12I mean, it was a great game.
02:13Two teams who matched up really well against each other.
02:16That particular Washington team was one of a number that Don James had that were terrific,
02:20but that was by far the best.
02:2519.
02:2519.
02:2619.
02:28Stanford against Michigan.
02:30Another behemoth Big Ten team.
02:32Undefeated Michigan comes in.
02:33Stanford.
02:35Although much smaller, Stanford's defense played in a fury
02:38and trailed the unbeaten Wolverines only 3-0 at the break.
02:42As the day went on, Michigan got more and more frustrated
02:45because all the things that had worked for them all year long weren't working.
02:49Stanford had the very romantically named Thunder Chicken defense.
02:53They were smaller than the Michigan offensive line.
02:56They should have been dominated physically, but they were so...
02:59Frankly, Stanford had almost home field advantage.
03:03Stanford's not that far from Pasadena, I don't think.
03:08Quick.
03:11Stanford in that second half, after doing nothing in the first half,
03:16suddenly got everything going.
03:21Down 12-10 with just more than three minutes to go,
03:24Don Bunce drove Stanford within striking distance
03:27and left it up to Rod Garcia with 16 seconds on the clock.
03:31There was concern.
03:32There was a lot of pressure on this game.
03:34He had a real bad game against San Jose State.
03:37I guess he missed five field goals.
03:40But Garcia drilled the 31-yarder,
03:43and Michigan was no longer undefeated.
03:46Wow.
04:01Uh, Boreola.
04:04I think he was Nick Boreola or Greg or something like that.
04:06Mike Boreola.
04:08Maybe the worst Pro Bowl quarterback in the NFL,
04:11which is a compliment and an insult.
04:178-18.
04:21In the middle-late 50s,
04:23the game was heavily skewed in favor of the Big Ten.
04:27It got to the point where the Big Ten was almost expected to win.
04:311954, Michigan State against UC.
04:34It was one of the few times in the early going
04:37that the Western school was hurting teeth.
04:40You're not going to whip us up and down the road like you've been doing.
04:44Unawed, UCLA took a 14-0 lead behind Paul Cameron.
04:48But just before halftime,
04:50Michigan State's Ellis Duckett blocked a punt
04:52and ran it in for a score.
04:54Spartans coach Biggie Munn resorted to psychology.
04:58He walked in the locker room at halftime,
05:01picked up a note out of his pocket,
05:03and said,
05:03Off the floor in 54.
05:05And that was the rallying call for the whole second half.
05:11The clinching play came with five minutes left
05:13when Billy Wells returned to punt 62 yards for the touchdown
05:16that secured Michigan State's 28-20 win.
05:20The National Championship is simply a headline on the paper in a handshake,
05:23whereas the Rose Bowl is a trip to California,
05:26visiting Hollywood,
05:28seeing all the celebrities.
05:29I mean, it was just an...
05:34First year in a conference to go out and win the Rose Bowl.
05:37A lot of Michigan State fans said,
05:39Hey, this is easy.
05:4217.
05:481995.
05:49Undefeated Penn State against Oregon.
05:52The setting was just perfect.
05:53You know, the blue skies,
05:55the traditional Southern California weather on January 1st.
05:57You see the Penn State guys like a wall of guys who...
06:01I know they weren't 6'8", all 400 pounds,
06:04but that's what it looked like.
06:05You knew right away what this game was going to be all about.
06:07The first offensive play of the game.
06:10Kajana Carter started, and he stopped.
06:13And an Oregon defender had him tackled,
06:15but he didn't wrap it.
06:16He took the blow,
06:17and that ran the entire Oregon football team
06:20to the end zone to start the game.
06:22He's gone.
06:22Goodbye.
06:23It'll be touchdown, Penn State.
06:25First play of the ball game.
06:28Penn State kept it simple.
06:30Run Kajana Carter.
06:31Then run him some more
06:33in Coach Joe Paterno's first-ever Rose Bowl.
06:36But Oregon's Danny O'Neal would not go quietly.
06:39Midway through the third quarter, it was 14-14.
06:43Danny O'Neal had a big day for Oregon as a quarterback,
06:45but they just didn't have enough to handle Penn State.
06:48Carter again.
06:49He's gone.
06:50Yeah.
06:51He looks so explosive.
06:52He looks so quick out of the blocks.
06:55Oregon just couldn't deal with him.
06:56And when he plants that cut foot, he comes hard.
07:00O'Neal broke five Rose Bowl records,
07:02including passing for 456 yards.
07:05But Penn State was overpowering in a 38-20 win.
07:09Touchdown.
07:10The Nittany Lions finished 12-0,
07:12but the voters made Nebraska national champions.
07:23It's a 51-yard chance by Jordan.
07:271985, USC against Ohio State.
07:29You don't normally think of a bowl game being dominated by field goal kickers,
07:33but you had three 50-plus-yard kicks in this game.
07:42In a game which would be filled with record-breaking field goals,
07:46Southern Cal led 17-6 at the break.
07:48Touchdown.
07:51Green throwing for Timmy Ware.
07:53Touchdown.
07:53I don't know how you keep SC from scoring,
07:56other than maybe if you just keep the ball.
07:58And you can't do that.
08:00This is when USC was really USC.
08:06It died off somewhere 20 years ago,
08:08but for those 80-something years,
08:12they were the SC.
08:16Very well because they're pretty good on defense themselves.
08:18Del Rio, second sack.
08:19Then you had Ohio State having to pass the ball
08:22behind Mike Tomczak to get anywhere,
08:24which probably had Woody Hayes rolling over in his grave.
08:26Under pressure, but wide open is Carter.
08:29All game long, I'm hearing Chris Carter.
08:32Throwing back and wide open is Carter again.
08:36And the clever freshman is to the 21-yard line.
08:39And I was like, oh man, we're in trouble.
08:41By the end of the game,
08:42he could have been the Rolling Stones.
08:44It was like seven different Chris Carters on the field.
08:50Little did Jamal Anderson know he'd be facing
08:54Chris Carter in the second biggest game of his life.
09:00Chris Carter had nine receptions for 172 yards,
09:04but Mike Tomczak and the Buckeyes ran out of time and magic.
09:08Three, two, one, it's USC 20, Ohio State 17.
09:13It was definitely one of those games in USC's history
09:15where they won the Rose Bowl or only.
09:2315, 15, 15.
09:28Ohio State was expected to get a answer.
09:321971, unbeaten Ohio State against Stanford.
09:36Ohio State only had one loss,
09:38one-on-one going into their ballgame.
09:39They did not test for lack of players.
09:42And no one expected Stanford to win
09:44the poor little Indians in those days.
09:47Except you thought Stanford had the counterpuncher's chance
09:50because of me.
09:53First pass in the Rose Bowl was for a touchdown,
09:55but it was a bad penalty.
09:57In a 10-lead, Ohio State punched in two touchdowns
10:00to take a 14-10 halftime lead.
10:02Ohio State had an option offense that just ran over everybody
10:06with Reckern leading the way.
10:08They had John Brockington and Leo Hayden
10:10to hand off to if he didn't keep the ball himself.
10:12They didn't all much instead of us,
10:13but they got to run that.
10:18The game sort of gets its own drama
10:20because you couldn't get rid of Stanford.
10:24When are they going to get crushed?
10:27Oh, they're not going to get crushed.
10:29We felt in order to beat them,
10:31we'd have to get the ball, you know,
10:33in the seams, over their head,
10:35keep them off balance.
10:37I just remember them hanging around
10:39and not getting run out of the building.
10:42Up 17 to 13 in fourth,
10:44it went from fourth and one at the...
10:47What the heck is she supposed to be?
10:49A mascot?
10:51That's not a card in Aurora Buckeye.
10:54Take that off.
11:01Ah.
11:03Whoa.
11:11Ah.
11:19And then Heisman Trophy winner Plunkett
11:21drove his team to a pair of touchdowns
11:23and a 27-17 win.
11:27Jim Plunkett was a big winner.
11:32Jim Plunkett knew how to pull things off.
11:35I just think they underestimated
11:37the heart of that guy.
11:39And they cost Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes
11:41a national championship.
11:45That's why we went to Stanford.
11:47We wanted to put Stanford back on the football.
11:49Eh, they won't miss it.
11:51They won't miss it in the winter.
11:54Later, too.
12:21That's why we didn't do that.
12:25Everything we did was based on very conservative football.
12:30In that game, we threw the ball seven times.
12:35Probably six too many.
12:37There was no doubt how you stopped Michigan State.
12:40The question was, could you do it?
12:42And for the Spartans, the question was how to stop Rodney Peet, who passed for two scores.
12:48Throwing deep for Henry. Touchdown!
12:50Not only could he throw the football, but it was like having another running back in the backfield.
12:57The Spartans answered with their own stars, Lorenzo White.
13:01Reminder, okay, not talking about Lorenzo, I heard a lot of Mike Tomback.
13:07And...
13:11...
13:12...
13:12...
13:13...
13:45answered with their own stars, Lorenzo White and Andre Risen.
13:50USC had a huge edge in yardage, but Michigan State just had something going for them that day.
13:57With the game tied at 17 in the fourth, quarterback Bobby McAllister improvised on third down
14:02to keep a Michigan State drive alive.
14:05McAllister.
14:06They had a really good pursuing defense.
14:08I'm really good, and I can hear these guys breathing on me.
14:10I gotta make something happen here.
14:12McAllister.
14:13McAllister.
14:14Throwing to Rice Hammonds.
14:16Caught it.
14:17Leaping in the air as he's going out of bounds.
14:21That sets up the field goal by John Langlowe.
14:23Michigan State goes ahead 20-17.
14:25Michigan State lead.
14:26And now here come the Trojans.
14:29Pete had just four minutes for the comeback.
14:33Rodney Pete underneath to his tight end.
14:38The Spartans' 20-17 win ended a 2-for-18 stretch of futility for the Big Ten.
14:45We wasn't just happy about just making an appearance in the world, but we wanted to win.
14:49The Big Ten has come to Pasadena and will go home a winner.
14:53That's something that I'll cherish for the rest of my life.
15:03He was the Robo quarterback.
15:09He was the guy who had never had a hamburger or a donut or a chocolate chip cookie.
15:13He's been trained his whole life to get to that point in his career, and there was so
15:16much anticipation of how he's going to do.
15:18Was his dad right in pushing him as hard as he did and putting him through the regiments
15:21that he did, or is this kid going to implode on national television?
15:24He steps away from pursuit and takes off.
15:291990, USC against Michigan.
15:32Bo Schembechler, in his final game as coach, found his Michigan team down by a touchdown to
15:37USC in the third quarter.
15:39And he scores.
15:41Touchdown, Michigan.
15:44And I think his teams played extremely tight and were never comfortable in the paradise-like
15:53setting that was the hills of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl.
16:00Schembechler lost for the eighth time in 10 Pasadena trips when Ricky Irvin's 14-yard
16:06touchdown run with a minute and 10 seconds left gave Southern Cal a 17-10 triumph.
16:12I'll never forget the image of Bo Schembechler running off into the locker room, waving
16:18off all interviews.
16:20Coach!
16:22I think it bothered him.
16:25Twelve.
16:281966 Michigan State team.
16:30You don't say it bothered him that they lost the Rose Bowl.
16:36What kind of statement is that?
16:43Wait a minute.
16:49Lost the Rose Bowl or won the Rose Bowl by a slim margin?
16:53I don't know.
17:00National title contenders with Duffy Doherty at command.
17:03And Duffy had a carload of hammer throwers.
17:08I mean, he had some big guys.
17:111966 Michigan State against UCLA.
17:14Jim Murray, great columnist for the L.A. Times, said this game is not even fit to be played.
17:22These giants from East Lansing against these poor little California guys.
17:27I remember coming on the field and seeing those baby blue jerseys and thinking, what is this?
17:35But the unbeaten Spartans looked flummoxed by UCLA, a team they'd beaten in the season open.
17:41Michigan State fumbled a punt and allowed two Gary Beaven touchdowns.
17:46They just seemed to keep Michigan State off balance all day long.
17:50We could never get the momentum in the game.
17:52We weren't faking about fun.
18:06It ended 14 to 12 and Michigan State's national championship dreams were done.
18:12It's over.
18:14What happened?
18:15Where did this all go wrong?
18:17They're still scratching their head about how that happened.
18:21Somebody said once that's why they play the game.
18:27They're on paper, but games aren't played on paper.
18:3111-11.
18:35He keeps it.
18:36He rolls.
18:37He is in.
18:39Touchdown.
18:40Warren Moon.
18:41Before the advent of all this 24-hour cable coverage and internet and all that,
18:46there were great c***ing about getting one sh** bowl game,
18:48and that was Warren Moon at Washington.
18:511978, Washington against Michigan.
18:53The shock of that game was that Warren Moon was so pure of a passer.
18:58He just picked them to pieces that day.
19:03The 1978 game against Michigan was Warren Moon's coming out party.
19:06He passed.
19:07He ran.
19:08He dazzled.
19:08He's done it all, man.
19:09And at halftime, the Huskies had a 17-0 lead.
19:13Touchdown.
19:15Michigan at halftime said, hey, we have nothing to lose.
19:17Let's just go for broke and let it fly the second half.
19:20He's going to put it up.
19:22There's a man wide open.
19:23And Steve up there.
19:24Rick Leach.
19:25He was pretty good.
19:26Score!
19:27And Davis.
19:29That is it.
19:29It looked like they were going to go ahead and tie this game at least.
19:32Let's quote Rick Leach.
19:42Dazzling like this under the bright lights, national television, front of 105,000.
20:04Dazzling like this over the strong Um 679 p.m.
20:04.
20:34.
21:04.
21:34.
22:06.
22:06.
22:07.
22:12.
22:13.
22:13.
22:14.
22:28.
22:28And he fumbles as he goes down, it's picked up by the Trojans! Touchdown!
22:32.
22:36And a lot of people thought, there's just no way Northwestern should even be in the Rose Bowl with USC.
22:41Having Northwestern there, you know, after they had not been to that bowl game and not been to any bowl
22:47game for quite some time,
22:48makes that Rose Bowl very exciting.
22:50.
22:52A lot like the Mets when they won the World Series the first time.
22:56This was a team that seemed to be a team of destiny.
22:58.
22:59.
23:00.
23:00USC against Northwestern.
23:02We were blowing Northwestern out at halftime,
23:04and I think we were up by two touchdowns.
23:07He wants to go big with it.
23:09Down the middle of the field,
23:10but Wayne Bay to the corner!
23:12And they were catching up to us
23:14as we were celebrating in the third quarter.
23:16And it's Darnell Autry.
23:18Darnell Autry's third touchdown.
23:19Northwestern had the better record.
23:22Northwestern had no answer.
23:23And his 12 catches for a Rose Bowl record,
23:26216 years.
23:27To Coach Robinson,
23:30to Coach Robinson,
23:32to Coach Robinson,
23:38to Coach Robinson,
23:39to Coach Robinson,
23:45Are you serious?
23:5041-32 win.
23:52I wanted to win that game,
23:54like no game I've ever won.
23:55It was a big hurt.
23:57Washington over the top.
23:58It was one of those games that as a coach,
24:00you think about a lot.
24:069-9-9.
24:089-9-9.
24:101925,
24:11Notre Dame against Stanford.
24:13To be on the football field, to be dominant,
24:16you had to play multiple positions.
24:17You had to run the ball.
24:19You had to catch the ball.
24:20You had to kick.
24:20And then right after that, come on.
24:23You gotta go play defense now.
24:25But don't forget,
24:26we're gonna get them on the run.
24:27We're gonna go, go, go.
24:29This was the final ride
24:31of the fabled Four Horsemen of Notre Dame,
24:33which was undefeated and coached by the legendary Newt Rockne.
24:36The opponent was Stanford, also unbeaten,
24:39and coached by the celebrated Pop Warner.
24:42You've got Newt Rockne and Pop Warner, for goodness sakes,
24:45coaching in this game.
24:47You got Ernie Nevers, who's a legend.
24:48Ernie Nevers, in that ball game, played all 60 minutes.
24:51He played both ways, as they all did back in those days.
24:54But Ernie never left the field.
24:56And by the fourth quarter, he was playing on two sprained ankles.
25:00Notre Dame's Elmer Layton had three touchdowns,
25:02two on interceptions.
25:03Stopping Ernie Nevers just short of the goal line late,
25:06the Irish prevailed 27-10, securing a national championship.
25:12But it was the Rose Bowl, thrust onto the national stage,
25:16that was the real winner.
25:18People who never dreamed of going to college,
25:20had no interest in college football,
25:23suddenly embraced Notre Dame.
25:25From that point on, I think the Rose Bowl
25:27really captured the national consciousness.
25:34Eight, eight, eight, eight.
25:37Eight.
25:38There's a rollout.
25:40Right down the middle to Abradovich.
25:42He's got him at the point.
25:43That game had star power, Hollywood star power, and fire power.
25:491975, USC against Ohio State.
25:54Pat Henson, and he's over.
25:56Ohio State has gone ahead.
25:58Pat Hayden would step into center stage in that ball game.
26:04Now here's Hayden setting up.
26:05Trailing 17-10 with two minutes left,
26:08Pat Hayden hooked up with J.K. McKay, the coach's son,
26:11on a 36-yard touchdown pass.
26:13And now they can go for it.
26:15Or he wins.
26:17Then the Trojans gambled on the conversion.
26:19They're going for two.
26:21They could win it.
26:23If they blow it, they could lose it.
26:25Hayden throws, and he hands it.
26:28Hilton Diggs hands it.
26:30And USC has the lead.
26:32They're on the 45-yard line.
26:35And they're going to try a field goal.
26:37The kick is up.
26:38When the Buckeyes' Tom Skladaney missed his 62-yard field goal attempt,
26:43the Trojans had an 18-7 win and a share of the national title.
26:4762-yard field goal attempt in the 70s is ridiculous.
26:51With Oklahoma.
26:52There's a pattern here in the 70s, Big Ten fans,
26:55and I'm sorry to tell you that it was another national championship
26:57lost on the turf in Pasadena.
27:03Seven, seven, seven, seven.
27:061993, Michigan against Washington.
27:09This Rose Bowl was really prototypical
27:11of what the two conferences represented.
27:13You had the Pac-10, which was the finesse,
27:15the wide-open offense, the passing.
27:17And with Mark Brunel pulling the trigger, it was like,
27:19it's going to be an aerial assault.
27:22Going against Michigan, who would just pound and pound and pound.
27:27Washington was gunning for a third straight Rose Bowl win,
27:30but undefeated Michigan rode to an early 17-7 lead
27:34on the pounding runs of Tyrone Wheatley,
27:37who'd finished with 235 yards and three scores.
27:43Tyrone Wheatley dominated the running game all day long.
27:48This is a game where I want to watch this guy
27:50and see if he's the real, real deal.
27:52Here's Wheatley.
27:54Oh, on the left side.
27:56Wheatley, for the first down.
27:58He was a big back with speed, and at the end of the day,
28:01I think he wore him down.
28:05But it was Mark Brunel who brought Washington back and into the lead.
28:09However, late in the third quarter, Michigan's defense would come up big.
28:13Bumble!
28:15Michigan indicated they've got it!
28:17And on the play after that...
28:18Now it's Wheatley.
28:19Wheatley breaks the first tackle.
28:22Number five! Touchdown Michigan!
28:25With five and a half minutes left in a tie game,
28:28Michigan's Elvis Gerbach's 15-yard touchdown pass to Tony McGee
28:31gave the Wolverines a 38-31 win.
28:35Brunel just kept putting up the air,
28:36and Michigan kept coming back with their running game,
28:38and in the long run, it was the running game that won out.
28:43Six.
28:45Six.
28:46Six.
28:47Six.
28:48This ball goes to the outside,
28:51and on the way, it's Ron Dain.
28:53The back pass in trouble, and touchdown!
28:56Ron Dain just battering rammed UCLA that day.
29:011999, Wisconsin versus UCLA.
29:04UCLA had a great defense that year,
29:06but they never faced anything quite like what they got in Ron Dain
29:09and Pasadena on that day.
29:11Ron Dain's an 18-wheeler.
29:13He's going around the corner.
29:15From the 35, all the Bruins.
29:18Cade McNown and the high-powered UCLA offense fired back
29:22and took a 21-14 lead in the second quarter.
29:25He's got a man wide open.
29:27And here's Eric Price.
29:28And Price is on his way.
29:30Touchdown!
29:32But the Ron Dain train kept on steaming.
29:34He would rush for 246 yards and four touchdowns.
29:39There was a sense that Wisconsin was sneaking their way
29:43through the Big Ten and making it to the Rose Bowl,
29:45and a lot of people thought when they went out there
29:47and were going to play UCLA, it was not going to be pretty.
29:49I mean, everybody talks about Michigan and Ohio State.
29:53And everybody forgot about the Badgers.
29:56I
30:31I was mesmerized by that game.
30:34That was one where I couldn't take my eyes off it.
30:36Young keeps it.
30:37He faked everybody, me, and the defense.
30:39It was a type of game no one predicted.
30:42In fact, I'm pretty sure this game might not have actually been played by humans.
30:46I think it was a video game.
30:492005, Michigan vs. Texas.
30:52There was a lot of controversy coming into that game.
30:55You know, Cal should have been in the BCS.
30:57You know, Cal had this tremendous year.
30:59It's the Rose Bowl.
31:01Traditionally, Big Ten, Pac-10.
31:04Quarterback draw, Young.
31:05Inside the 15.
31:06Far side, touchdown!
31:08But from...
31:09Insanity, they gave them a better game.
31:12The opening kickoff, Texas showed that they belonged.
31:16Any back throw it.
31:18Going deep.
31:20Edwards is down there.
31:23And...
31:23Touchdown!
31:25And I knew the kind of talent that Braylon Edwards had.
31:27I knew he could take over games because I'd watched him do it all year.
31:30If he's throwing again, no better hurry.
31:32Gets it off into the end zone and...
31:34Edwards would make the unthinkable play, and then Texas would answer.
31:37Michigan, as good a football team as they were, could not stop.
31:42Chee-back.
31:43Young up the...
31:43Vince Longhorns.
31:44The sophomore threw for one touchdown and rushed for four more while piling up 372 yards.
31:50He just put on a show the likes of which I have never seen.
31:54An electrifying play by an electrifying player.
31:59And he throws to the end zone.
32:01Touchdown!
32:02There was three ties, five lead changes, offensive football back and forth.
32:07Vince Young had a career in one game.
32:09You could make a movie of that.
32:10The run's inside the five.
32:12Outside!
32:13Touchdown!
32:14Unbelievable!
32:15With just more than six minutes left, Michigan kicker Garrett Rivas extended the Wolverines' lead to 34-28.
32:22Even when it looked like, oh, Texas has finally run out of bullets, here comes Vince Young again.
32:26He's going to run it.
32:27He's across the 20.
32:28Inside the 15.
32:29Here he goes again!
32:31Touchdown!
32:32But the Wolverines...
32:33His voice cracked.
32:34...back and Rivas drill a 42-yarder for a 37-35 Michigan lead.
32:38But the Longhorns weren't done either, driving deep enough to give Dusty Mangum a 37-yard attempt on the game's
32:45final play.
32:46Snap down, kick up.
32:47It is long enough.
32:48It is good!
32:51Good!
32:53Texas wins an amazing Rose Bowl!
32:56In that game, Vince Young beat them with his legs and his heart.
33:02It just proves that one day, that one moment can last a lifetime.
33:11Four.
33:12Four.
33:13TSC against Ohio State.
33:15In this battle, teams, the Progents' highest trophy winner would roll up a record 247 yards against OSU.
33:23Fourth and goal.
33:24This is it for the Buckeyes.
33:25But it was the USC defense that prevailed early in the game.
33:28Schleister keeps it.
33:29And he...
33:35Schleister play action.
33:36Looking deep, he has Williams...
33:38Art Schleister passed the Buckeyes into a 16-10 lead.
33:41A two-yard line!
33:43USC had 83 yards to go and five and a half minutes to do it in.
33:47Now, San H, you're back on the ball.
33:49Robinson, do that.
33:50Charles, he's running like an assistant.
33:52He just started handing the ball off.
33:5345-40.
33:55Charles White left.
33:56Charles White right.
33:57He's all the way to the...
33:59On that drive, he single-handedly won the game for USC.
34:03White accounted for 70 yards in that drive.
34:06And Eric Hipp's extra point kick gave the Trojans a 17-16 win and deprived Ohio State of a national
34:13championship.
34:14It was a great football game.
34:16And I don't know what they charged to get in this damn place, but it's worth it.
34:20Three, three, three, three, three, three.
34:23Suck it down.
34:25Humpbaked the plumber.
34:26Now it goes in zone.
34:28Great catch!
34:29Touchdown!
34:311997 unbeaten Arizona State versus Ohio State.
34:34Arizona State almost unstoppable.
34:36On their way to winning a national championship, and they get there and they run into a team like Ohio
34:40State.
34:41with Boston and Jermaine, Jake the Snake Plummer should have no problem with it.
34:45But Ohio State, usually known for its running attack, had a new weapon that year, a passing game.
34:51Backup quarterback Joe Jermaine's touchdown pass in the third quarter
34:54gave the Buckeyes a 14-10 lead.
34:5772-yard touchdown.
34:59It looked like Ohio State had killed them and killed the team's prospects for a victory.
35:05The Sun Devils rallied late, and when Plummer scored on an 11-yard run,
35:09Arizona State had regained the lead at 17-14.
35:13This team won't die!
35:15A minute 40 to go. Arizona State is going to win the national title.
35:19The Buckeyes have only one timeout left at 133.
35:23Joe Jermaine is not going to be taking Ohio State against a national championship defense down the field.
35:30Got it to Stanley, that's a first down.
35:32Well, they're moving, but...
35:34Jermaine, got him again.
35:36They're down to the 20, but Joe Jermaine's not going to...
35:39Jermaine's going to throw it wide open.
35:41Got him!
35:42Oh, yes he is. Ohio State wins 20-17.
35:45When it counted, Joe Jermaine stepped up and showed the leadership that made the difference.
35:51That's what big games are all about.
35:54That was good stuff, you know.
35:55I mean, that's what the Rose Bowl is all about.
36:02Two, two, two, two.
36:061963, number one USC versus number two Wisconsin.
36:10The 1963 game is a book all by itself.
36:15Ron Vanderkellen and Pete Bethard hooked up in the dadgumdest gunfights you've ever seen in your life.
36:21Just mano a mano, wide open, throwing it every down in a way I don't think we'd ever seen before.
36:30Nobody threw for 400 yards in 1963.
36:33There were teams probably didn't throw the ball 400 yards in a season.
36:36This was the first matchup in a bowl game between number one and number two.
36:40John McKay's Trojans built a 42-14 lead, sparked by Pete Bethard's four touchdown passes.
36:47But Wisconsin was rallied by Ron Vanderkellen, who would throw for 401 yards.
36:53It was kind of a murky, gray day.
36:56The haze was coming down off the San Gabriels, and the footing wasn't all it could have been.
37:01They didn't have any lights.
37:03And as the game got darker, darker, Wisconsin kept coming and scored and scoring and scored.
37:08Ron Vanderkellen brought Wisconsin back.
37:12Momentum, momentum, momentum.
37:14USC had allowed 55 points in 10 games, and these guys scored 23 in one quarter.
37:23When Vanderkellen hooked up with Pat Richter late in the fourth quarter, the Badgers were
37:27down 42-37, but USC held on and won the national championship.
37:34The clock just ran out on Wisconsin, and Vanderkellen had another chance.
37:37We might be talking about the greatest bowl game ever.
37:43Welcome back to Who's Number One and the 20 best Rose Bowls of all time.
37:47Here's the list so far.
37:4920-20.
37:511991.
37:52Washington, 46.
37:53Iowa, 34.
37:5419-19-19.
37:571972.
37:59One.
38:03The 2006 Rose Bowl, without a doubt, one of the greatest.
38:08It's probably recency bias, but yeah, it's probably the greatest Rose Bowl.
38:14They're talking about Texas UFC?
38:16Undefeated versus undefeated?
38:18I believe.
38:20Games in any sport you'll ever see.
38:232006.
38:23When this came out, this was the most recent Rose Bowl.
38:27Number one, USC versus number two, Texas.
38:30In for the 40-45.
38:32Young, I'm in for the 30.
38:33He's right, close down the drive line.
38:34Six for the 30.
38:35And he's tied for 25 and down to the 20.
38:38That game transcended college football.
38:41Because here was USC coming off the two straight national championships.
38:46If they beat Texas, they are the greatest college football team of all time.
38:51Entering the game, USC and Texas held the two longest active win streaks at 34 and 19, respectively.
38:57The Trojans featured back-to-back Heisman Trophy winners Matt Leonard and Reggie Bush,
39:01while the Longhorns had the 2005 runner-up, Vince Young.
39:05We definitely felt like, you know, if we came out and played like we knew it.
39:13Instead, the first half was a whirlwind of turnovers and controversial plays as Texas led 16-10 at the break.
39:28Looked like he might have been down, didn't it, Keith?
39:29Yeah, he did to me. I thought he was.
39:32In a back-and-forth second half, the Trojans took a 38-26 lead with 6.42 to play.
39:38Jared, touchdown!
39:41I think that's when we let our guard down.
39:43Once we went up by 12, we just said, okay, that's the way it's supposed to be rolling.
39:46The game's over.
39:47No one on our sideline thought that 12 was too much.
39:51We just had to score.
39:55Young slips a little, coming back.
39:57There's daylight.
39:58Here you go.
40:00Touchdown!
40:01It seemed like he was the only player on the field at times.
40:04He was just able to do whatever he wanted that night.
40:07Young's touchdown pulled Texas to within five.
40:10Lindell White's in there.
40:12He's the power back.
40:14He didn't get it.
40:17After a defensive stop on fourth and two, Young drove his team down the field.
40:21And with 26 ticks left on the clock.
40:24Fourth and five, the national championship on the line right here.
40:31He's going for the corner.
40:33He's got it.
40:35I think we underestimated what, not what Texas can do, but I think we underestimated what Vince Young can do.
40:41Texas has defeated Southern California 41-38.
40:47The MVP ended the game with 267 yards passing, 200 yards rushing, and three scores.
40:55I think Texas deserved it.
40:57Hands down, they beat us fair and square.
40:59Vince Young single-handedly beat us.
41:01I wanted to do my best and my will to give it all I got for my teammates and my
41:07coaches and fans to get a victory.
41:09You want to call it athletic, you want to call it great quarterbacking, call it whatever you want to call
41:14it.
41:14The guy played one of the best games anybody has ever played in the history of a game.
41:21Among the many reasons the Rose Bowl is...
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