1970 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

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Bill in Sinton

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Is the Longhorn Network channel going to honor out 1970 National Championship in 2020 like they did the 1963 and 1969 teams after 50 years?
 
LousianaHorn said:
probably not Bill I guess since they fumbled it away that day vs ND New Years Day 1971...........man that was a hard game to take!
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For sure.
That National Championship feels a little hollow and any LHN special on that team would for sure have an unhappy ending.
Maybe just win one this year and call it the strangest National Championship in college football history?
 
That ND team was the dirtiest team I ever saw a Texas team play, and YES I was there for:

!) Kenny Hatfield's cheap *** Arkansas team, which resulted in a 40 minute conversation and five page letter to Coach Broyles.

2) The convicts from Coral Gables

3) BYU under Lavell Edwards

4) TCU when they destroyed Kenneth Sims career and laughed about it

5) OU in 77
 
Can anyone list the teams that received the NC trophy when it was given prior to the bowl games, and then lost their bowl game?
 
Norte Dame has always had a dirty team and OU sucks in any given year. I thought tho that the UPI still had Texas #1 in 70?

And I still have a lump in my stomach from the 83 Georgia game.
 
Speaking of ND, they didn’t believe in bowl games nor play in them back then. They only came out because it was Texas and stated that was the reason. They also said they were going to go back into bowl hibernation after that first Texas cotton bowl game.

as bad as we’ve been, there’s probably not a school in the country that doesn’t want to beat Texas more than anybody else.
 
I_Dont_Exist said:
I doubt we're in the majority of teams top 10.
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Although it's been a while, Auburn AD specifically requested to open the "new" Jordan Hare with Texas. Texas was a "name". Texas was a blue blood. It also helped that we weren't worth a **** and they wanted a sure win in the first game at the renovated Jordan Hare.

The *** kicking that Rick Lantz put on us in Charlottesville ranks as a favorite of UVA fans because their program had only one win over a blue blood program in their history. It made no difference when I told Lantz, "No loss under Mackovic counts". He just looked at me and said. "It's still Texas"

USC, Texas, OU, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, ND.
 
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It’s the same with most everything regarding Texas in college football.

Highest rated and most watched college football game in history? Texas v USC
2nd highest rated and most watched college fb game in history? Texas v Alabama

you start to get the picture IDE?
 
SabreHorn said:
Although it's been a while, Auburn AD specifically requested to open the "new" Jordan Hare with Texas. Texas was a "name". Texas was a blue blood. It also helped that we weren't worth a **** and they wanted a sure win in the first game at the renovated Jordan Hare.

The *** kicking that Rick Lantz put on us in Charlottesville ranks as a favorite of UVA fans because their program had only one win over a blue blood program in their history. It made no difference when I told Lantz, "No loss under Mackovic counts". He just looked at me and said. "It's still Texas"

USC, Texas, OU, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, ND.
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Auburn-33 years ago
UVA- 24 years ago.
Yeah I'd say that qualifies as "a while".
 
Galvestonhorn said:
It’s the same with most everything regarding Texas in college football.

Highest rated and most watched college football game in history? Texas v USC
2nd highest rated and most watched college fb game in history? Texas v Alabama

you start to get the picture IDE?
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The picture I get is everyone cares about a game that determines the NC. That's different than being on everyone's team I'd most want to beat list.
 
The picture you should’ve gotten is that Texas is the most watched team in a game not once but twice. Not Alabama, not Clemson, not Ohio State, not USC, not another school.

which means that everybody wants to play Texas and everybody wants to beat Texas.
 
Galvestonhorn said:
The picture you should’ve gotten is that Texas is the most watched team in a game not once but twice. Not Alabama, not Clemson, not Ohio State, not USC, not another school.

which means that everybody wants to play Texas and everybody wants to beat Texas.
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I've already explained perfectly the difference once. You didn't get it the first time. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I'ts really not.
 
LousianaHorn said:
probably not Bill I guess since they fumbled it away that day vs ND New Years Day 1971...........man that was a hard game to take!
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I had seats on the 40 yard line. I was down low enough to catch a souvenir football thrown by the Texas Cowboys (I think). I just drew it from the barrel with my blanket tax. Best Texas seats I ever had.

ND just kicked our asses that day. They were bigger and faster than us. They crushed the Wishbone by knocking the crap out of Worster on every play, whether he touched the ball on not. Then they knocked Phillips out of the game. It looked like good hard nosed football to me.
 
Clean said:
I had seats on the 40 yard line. I was down low enough to catch a souvenir football thrown by the Texas Cowboys (I think). I just drew it from the barrel with my blanket tax. Best Texas seats I ever had.

ND just kicked our asses that day. They were bigger and faster than us. They crushed the Wishbone by knocking the crap out of Worster on every play, whether he touched the ball on not. Then they knocked Phillips out of the game. It looked like good hard nosed football to me.
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I was in the upper deck -press box side Jan. 1, 1970 when ND lost to UT 21-17. Worster and the Wishbone rolled to a 21-17 victory. ND could not stop Worster (155 yards rushing) or the Texas O that day.

Jan. 1, 1971 - what an awful game.

ND coach Ara Parsegian (or however you spell it) had comments after the game, something to the effect: ND coaches had plenty of time to breakdown the Wishbone prior to the re-match, they came up with a "mirror defense" to slow / stop it plus they keyed on hitting Worster on virtually every play.

It worked. Worster fumbled what 5-6 times? It didn't help IIRC he had an injury lingering from the aggy game in late November plus the rumor was he partied late into the morning the night before the game.

Only bad game I recall Worster ever played at UT... the guts & determination of Eddie Phillips was the lone bright spot that day.
 
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WorsterMan said:
Only bad game I recall Worster ever played at UT... the guts & determination of Eddie Phillips was the lone bright spot that day.
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Yeah, Phillips busted that big run on the first play from scrimmage. I wish he would have scored, might have changed the game, but that ND DB ran him down. I can't remember if we even got a FG out of it or not.
 
Clean said:
Yeah, Phillips busted that big run on the first play from scrimmage. I wish he would have scored, might have changed the game, but that ND DB ran him down. I can't remember if we even got a FG out of it or not.
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Yeah, I too thought if Phillips had scored on that run it could have changed the outcome of the game. We will never know....

I am fairly certain the Horns got a FG out of the Phillips run. That FG was the only points the Horns got that day. ND scored 24 points the first half to make it 24-3 at the half and that was the final score. It was a brutal loss.
 
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