Best college football game you've ever seen?

I have a top 3 that’s gonna be pretty tough to beat:

1. Texas-USC, 2005 National Championship
2. Georgia-Oklahoma, Rose Bowl, 2017 Playoff Semifinals
3. Georgia-Alabama, 2012 SEC Championship, or Georgia-Alabama, 2017 National Championship, or Texas-Michigan, 2005 Rose Bowl

Eta: thought we were talking about in person.


On TV, the first 3 I thought of:
Boise St - Oklahoma
Bush Push (USC-ND)
App St-Michigan

Those two are it for me too. That Bama-LSU was a pressure cooker, best game.

Flutie Hail Mary game against Miami gets an honorable from me.

I’ll give some off the radar ones I remember well.

2007 Arkansas-LSU
2015 Michigan-Michigan State
2008 Texas-Texas Tech
2014 Baylor-TCU
2019 SMU-Tulsa

To answer OP's question. 2019 LSU vs Alabama

1984 Georgia Clemson in Athens

Dogs won it 26-23. Clemson came in ranked #1. Kevin Butler kicked a 61 yard field goal to win it right at the end. Hardest hitting game I've ever seen to this day. Looking back on it, I don't see how Georgia scored 6 points, much less 26. I don't think the ticker could take it today. lol

Texas vs USC National Championship
Texas vs Boise St Fiesta Bowl
LSU vs Florida 2007
LSU vs Alabama 2012

Miami vs Ohio State for the title with the pass interference call is up there.

Boise vs OU is up there

And of course the Jacob Hester vs UF game.

2005 Rose Bowl

Michigan vs Texas

A little underrated but was a hell of a game.

Texas-USC almost can't be beat because of the stakes at the time (USC going for a 3-peat and approaching Oklahoma's 44 game win streak and two Heisman winners on the field and a Heisman runner-up) - Rose Bowl, Keith Jackson's final call...and the game was played at such a high-level and lived up to the star power on the field and bright lights big city, celebrities galore.

I've never seen such hype for a game (Texas and USC were #1 and #2 all year) that lived up to the hype. That was a blue blood masterpiece. The stars aligned and gave everyone an epic game.

The 1980 Holiday Bowl was amazing.

It was a game that matched contrasting offenses - SMU's Pony Express - led by Eric Dickerson and Craig James - was the best rushing attack in the nation and had 350 yards rushing. LaVell Edwards passing attack, led by Jim McMahon, was a rarity in college football in those days and also the best in the nation and had 450 yards passing.

The game had tons of big, exciting plays and with three minutes left in the game, SMU had a commanding 45-25 lead. The BYU fans started filling out of the stadium and McMahon cussed them out from the sideline yelling that they were going to comeback and win the game.

McMahon then went out and scored a quick TD. BYU recovered the onside and McMahon hit another long TD pass. BYU failed to get the next onside, but they forced SMU to punt from midfield with under 30 seconds left. SMU blocked the punt and McMahon threw a last second 50 yard hail mary that was caught by a BYU receiver who was sandwiched between 5 defenders. Final score 46-45.