re: Best college football game you've ever seen?

The 2017 semifinal between OU and Georgia and then the final between Georgia and Bama were both unbelievable games. That Rose Bowl was particularly awesome. Most purely entertaining games I’ve ever seen might be UCLA/Washington State in 2019 or Texas Tech/OU in 2016.

The very first SECCG, wow. Final answer.

In person?

Just because it was a great game our 2002 or 2003 game against Arkansas that went 7 OT. It was raining most of the night, but the atmosphere was great, and only got better when OT started.

2007 vs LSU and Louisville. Games at home we both won. Both great games.

USC/Texas and Georgia/Oklahoma are as good as any I've ever watched.

2014 Miami Beach Bowl - Memphis vs BYU - A very wtf match up (novel below)

Most people just remember this game because of the brawl at the end but there was so much more to it than that.

So its Fuente's third year as head coach and the Tigers have a great season. Get a share of the conference championship and go to their first bowl in a number of years. Not only that, its against BYU so a name opponent.

Let me preface this by noting that I was not there so most of this is second hand account info or watching the game or what came out from the local media.

So, apparently the chippiness started well before the coin flip. As with most bowl games, the sponsoring company set up all kinds of events and fun activities for the teams to do and compete against each other prior to the game. Silly stuff like limbo contests and eating competitions and the like. Well, as noted, this was Memphis' first bowl game in years so the players are having fun with it but apparently the BYU players were not amused. Their attitudes seemed to suggest the whole thing was beneath them. Maybe, maybe not. Not for me to say. If I am not mistaken their were quite a few words thrown around, but nothing physical, which led some to believe what happened at the end of the game was inevitable.

One thing that seems to get lost in the Miami Beach Bowl story is that it was actually a really fun game. Neck and neck the whole time. Very physical game (typical BYU style started very early, Tigers were pissed but BYU even more so because it didnt seem to be affecting the opponent) high scoring etc. I honestly think the wheels fell off for BYU in that first overtime. BYU is up by a field goal. Memphis screws up their possession and has to kick a 50+ yarder, which for Jake Elliot wasnt a huge deal but still a long one. Ball gets snapped, Elliot misses and the BYU bench erupts. Not in cheers and hoots and hollers but more of a laughter. Hold on though, Bronco called a time out. Retry and Elliot nails it. No question, absolutely kills that ball. BYU side line is crushed. The realization that they are about to lose to Memphis is quickly setting in. 2nd over time Tigers score a touchdown to seal the win, game over.

What happened next is history and you can draw your own conclusions from that. I wont get in to who started it, who did what or who was in the wrong. F it, it was a cool fight.

After that though, is interesting to me. Generally, when Memphis makes national head lines for something like this it is a very "shame on Memphis" affair. But not this time. To this day the perception of that brawl seems to be "well, why did you try and fight a team from Memphis? Seems like a you problem to me". What I find even more interesting is that Fuente really didnt care about it. Sure, he gave the typical coach speak about a great game ending like that etc. But end of the day, it was more of a "shite happens and we took care of business on and off the field" approach which i loved.

Memphis has had a bunch of great games (and a lot more terrible games) in my 30+ years of fandom but this will always go down as my favorite Tigers game of all time.

Im gonna go obscure and say 2016 ULM - South Alabama. Hawks won 42-35 in OT. Was a fun game.

In person as a fan: Houston vs Arkansas Andre Ware and Quinn Grovey duel in Little Rock, Coog High was on probation so no television

In person as part of team: Illinois St @ SMS, we were down 21 start of the 4th, scored 28 to win it, switched our offense that 4th quarter from Flexbone to Run n Shoot basically, Phil Johnson threw for 5 TD in 2nd half. We moved the ball all game just would fumble in red zone, had 3 fumbles and 2 missed FG

On Television: UCLA vs Wazzu as already mentioned earlier in the thread in a SAD game


Worst game was Baylor vs Washington Alamo Bowl I mean it got comical how each team would score. Keith Price looked like an All American, RGIII got hurt, Shock Linwood had it seemed 300 yards rushing, just ripping off runs. I felt bad for Chris Spielmann calling that game

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2007 Fiesta Bowl
Boise jumped out to an early lead and you started to believe. Oklahoma comes back with AD. Hook and Lateral and the freaking Statue of Liberty to end it!!

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Boise vs Nevada the next year was better. Kaepernick's first start it went to 4 OTs

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Check out the Ting Bro misplay on VYs final drive.

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Pretty sure he committed a 5 yard face mask, but no idea where the pick was you’re talking about.