1975 Nebraska at Arizona State

This is the 12/26/1975 Nebraska at Arizona State game. The Fiesta Bowl. The Sun Devils had dominated the WAC under Frank Kush but national respect was hard to come by. This game, more than any other put ASU on the national map before their departure to the Pac 10. Arizona State probably had a legitimate claim to a national championship after Ohio State lost the Rose Bowl to UCLA. Oklahoma already had a loss. Although a national championship didn't happen praise was heaped on ASU after the game. Nebraska was one of a handful of schools that stayed at the top of the polls throughout the 70's. Beating them in the 70's was a tall task. The end of the game is game film with radio audio which I did author. i claim no rights.

[@sashacougar]

I never thought this game would ever show up anywhere. Kudos.

[@jamesfields2916]

@@sashacougar in 49 years I've rarely seen highlights of this game.

[@bmboldt]

As someone who has uploaded many Nebraska games to youtube, I must say this is a great upload. Never expected to see this one.

[@brettrobinson2901]

THIS!....HAS BECOME MY FAVORITE CHANNEL!!!....I LOVE !LOVE! LOVE!...CLASSIC COLLEGE FOOTBALL!....NEVER , EVER THOUGHT I'D SEE OR HEAR MANY OF THESE GAMES FROM THE GLORIOUS PAST....👍 Thanks Mr. Chabot....awsome!

[@bradtaylor4765]

No need to yell about it, sheeesh.

[@brettrobinson2901]

@@bradtaylor4765 I COMPLETELY DISAGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😫

[@bradtaylor4765]

@@brettrobinson2901 well, you might be mentally challenged

[@johnmanning4097]

Me Too… I just found this channel. I am Oklahoma fan and I’ve already seen four old classic Oklahoma games. I love it.

[@brettrobinson2901]

@@johnmanning4097 Man seems to release a new never-before-seen blast from the past every few days...after all these years...kinda INCREDIBLE!... didn't think some of these even existed...👍

[@Lfg117]

Was living in Phx the day of that game. Local TV was blacked out - had to wait for local evening news to see the TV highlights.

[@dcaa62817]

I was living in Tempe and saw the game live on TV.

[@johnmanning4097]

This picture quality is absolutely gorgeous for this game to be almost 50 years old

[@Lew5461]

I was there in the South Endzone with my mother, father, brother and best friend. A fantastic game that went down to the wire. A great memory

[@kek3908]

I was there as well and for me, it still ranks as the most electric game in ASU football history.

[@Lew5461]

I agree. The Tony Davis fumble on that final Nebraska drive as they were going for the tie or win. It was right in front of me in the direction of the South Endzone is etched in my memory

[@Lfg117]

🔥

[@Lfg117]

The TV commercials & bowl promo video(s) r priceless. Thank u, @JC.

[@jeffbrowne1965]

Our first of many bowl games in the opponents' home stadium, followed by Miami in the Orange Bowl after 1983, 1988, 1991 and 1994 seasons. Still waiting for the Corn Bowl. If we ever make the playoffs, we may finally have our wish.

[@jamesfields2916]

Went out to Lincoln in 2010 for a game. Best fans I've ever been around. Just a class act.

[@Lfg117]

1974 Season ASU LB Larry Gordon, later excelled for the Miami Dolphins. After his NFL career, Gordon (#53 in the Fiesta Bowl) died young from a heart attack while out jogging long-distance near his Phoenix-area home.

[@jamesfields2916]

Star player at Phoenix Union High School.

[@kek3908]

For me personally, this is the holy grail of college football games and I have been waiting for EVER for someone to post this up, so THANK YOU. I was begining to think that I would never get to see a replay of this game. I was 9 years old when I attended this game with my father and mother, sitting in the middle of the Nebraska section wearing gold hard hats, jackets and having a ball. All of our family lived in Nebraska except for us, my parents got the hell out of there in 1960 and never looked back. My father actually traded tickets with some coaches from Creighton who wanted to sit with a mutual friend of my parents that also lived in Phoenix and was from Nebraska. Hence how we ended up in the middle of the Nebraska section. What a wonderful time that was and what great joy it brought me to watch this, so thank you again. Hard to beleive that 21 years later I lived half a mile from the campus and celebrated my son's 1st birthday with my parents while ASU "creamed the corn" 19-0. Still there and loving Tempe. #FEARTHEFORK

[@bradtaylor4765]

I don't see how anyone would love that heat. The air will boil your blood. It's an oven.

[@kek3908]

@@bradtaylor4765 Honestly, it beats shoveling snow. 🙂

[@bradtaylor4765]

@@kek3908 as long as you have a great AC and never go out in the summer. My beef with the now is salted streets which screw up your cars body with tons of rust. I don’t feel like paying a 100 grand for a car and have it rust out in a few short years. Where you are is my dream classic car location because you can find a cool car in the old junkyard and fix it up. No rust because no rain. However, I’d have to summer in Flagstaff instead of Phoenix. I’ve been driving from here to California and stopped and got out for gas in Phoenix and thought I was baking inside. Haha. My wife grew up in Blythe on the Colorado river and it’s so dang hot there. It’s horrible here, too, but a good 20 degrees cooler than Phoenix

[@bradtaylor4765]

@@kek3908 there’s no way they’d have beaten the OU of 1975. No way and I’m a Texas fan. OU was awesome that year and most years back then with that fast wishbone offense and the Selmon brothers on defense. Texas invented the wishbone but OU perfected it.

[@kek3908]

@@bradtaylor4765 Double a/c units on my house along with a swimming pool, no complaints. Plus you sound familiar with the area, so we also enjoy the lakes on the Salt River. Flagstaff is nice, but we enjoy going up to Alpine in the White Mountains, little further but less crowded. Blythe is miserable to be honest, all the heat plus humidity and then add it all the bugs from the farming and river. I have driven through Blythe at night and it looked like it was snowing there were so many bugs, lol. Arizona is the best place in the nation to find a classic car, period. There are so many here you almost don't even notice.

[@firedbrass]

No idea this one existed and a great copy.

[@jamesfields2916]

Just marveling at the quality of a nearly 50 year old copy.

[@jamesfields2916]

#84 John Jefferson College Football Hall of Fame.

[@Lfg117]

Thank u for these videos. Out west, in Phx, we didn't get to see the 3rd-most cinsequential game in AzSt fb history (blacked out). U r making such a difference.

[@tonybunting1828]

I'd say their 1996 win over Nebraska was one of the other most consequential wins. What was the third?

[@elillc2036]

Definitely my favorite KZbin channel….I literally watch daily….thanks

[@jamesfields2916]

One of the college football games that made me a diehard college football fan.

[@ynp1978]

Another good one! Thanks

[@GhostOfMojoRisen]

Awesome! I've wanted to see this game for years! Thanks!!

[@tomandzack]

Great Memory of the Kush era!

[@michaeljohnson4361]

Wow, just Wow. Thank you for posting

[@doctorpepper3343]

crazy how "skinny" offensive lineman were back in the day...the Nebraska line looks like they are all 240lbs max, smaller than the average high school offensive line now a days.

[@bryanburnap4537]

I know right !! Lots of moustaches as well.

[@jamesfields2916]

​@@bryanburnap4537With a mustache comes great responsibility.

[@crgray1979]

The fiesta and orange bowl are the only two bowls to be broadcast on the four major network, abc, cbs,fox, and nbc

[@chrismalloy7960]

Only 3 non Nebraska offensive players. Total OL from Nebraska.

[@jamesfields2916]

One of the first I noticed. Literally could compete at the highest level with homegrown players.

[@tamalie2]

Arizona State was the Boise State of its day as the mid major school that could hang with the power schools when the opportunity to play them arose. Note that although the Fiesta Bowl was on ASU’s home field, Sun Devil Stadium was technically a neutral site for this game with Nebraska as the designated home team.

[@vimalmurthy3665]

Not sure I would agree with your assessment. IIRC, ASU earned a very high preseason ranking the following year and were on national TV to open their schedule, (on a Thursday night no less!) hosting Rose Bowl champ UCLA. The sun devils got trucked and never recovered. They would join the pac-8 just a couple of seasons later.

[@Lfg117]

​@vimalmurthy3665 You're right. '76, Tho, was a rebuild for AzSt, which didn't field a stronger team again till 1978.

[@Lfg117]

⬆️ This ⬆️

[@454Casul]

I can't believe this game is on youtube!! I'm a lifelong Sun Devil fanatic and I'm also an Alumnus. The Devils should have won the National Championship after this historic victory and season, but were robbed, because they played in the WAC. The legendary Frank Kush (whom I got to meet in the 90's), was a great coach! I actually live in Tempe, about 2 miles from Sun Devil Stadium, and am a season ticket holder. GO DEVILS!!

[@stephen1170]

God bless you for posting this. I can't watch games Nebraska loses but bless you.

[@jasonponto1032]

Weird. I can't watch games Nebraska wins......

[@jamesfields2916]

Win or lose Nebraska fans are the best I've come across.

[@nala3038]

@@jasonponto1032nice!

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Odd Arizona State was denied Natty 🤔 and Brigham Young got one in 84 with a much less impressive Bowl win.

[@user-bu7ko2or8e]

They were both undefeated, quit crying.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

@@user-bu7ko2or8e then both should have been 🏆 Champions. Otherwise Washington could have been crowned in 84.

[@user-bu7ko2or8e]

@nathaniellathy6559 I agree ASU should have been National Champs.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

@@user-bu7ko2or8e could have been 2 Champions in 75 and 84.

[@jamesfields2916]

​@@nathaniellathy6559my only complaint against Washington in 84 they didn't win the PAC 10. Loved them smashing Oklahoma though.

[@jamesfields2916]

Bruce Hardy was the first high school athlete to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Solid NFL career with Miami.

[@bryanburnap4537]

Wow

[@Lfg117]

🔥

[@Lfg117]

So much talent on that squad - I remember that SI cover.

[@jamesfields2916]

@@Lfg117 Yes. Probably even more the next year. Got blown out by UCLA and never recovered.

[@CDAFishboy]

I was there 50 years ago. Three things stand out. My first (and only) sighting of a road runner. Second the road from Phoenix to Tempe lined with junk yards and hub caps along the fences. Third, those dammed crossing patterns ASU ran over and over. Big disappointment going home and I think the loss carried over into 1976 when expectations were so high.

[@rjpsuh06]

Something you’ll never see again. A broadcast team calling the Super Bowl and a College Bowl game in the same season. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier a few weeks later would call Super Bowl X, which was the only NFL playoff game they did that season. Also, something you’ll never see again.

[@crgray1979]

Nbc has did the same thing were dick Enberg would do the rose bowl and super bowl

[@rjpsuh06]

@@crgray1979 yes he did and before that Curt Gowdy. Today, you’ll never see that, nor a #1 NFL team calling just a Super Bowl and no playoffs.

[@tommyparkerparker]

At 1:14:00, Don Criqui was at this game as a spectator. At the time, he did his first stint at CBS 4 years before he went to NBC and back at CBS in 1998. The day before this game, he called the CBS Christmas Day NBA game in nearby Phoenix between the Suns and the then Kansas City Kings.

[@crgray1979]

@@rjpsuh06 back in the 70s, CBS and nbc didn't carry any regular season college football games, so when they had bowl games, they used their NFL broadcasters

[@tommyparkerparker]

@@crgray1979 Yes they did. When Vin Scully was at CBS calling NFL games, he never called any of their college bowl games . Nor did Marv Albert at NBC.

[@johnm8096]

RIP Larry Gordon

[@jamesfields2916]

Gone 41 years. Hard to believe.

[@user-bu7ko2or8e]

ASU should have been National Champs.

[@jamesfields2916]

Tom Brookshier was a college teammate at Colorado with Apollo 13 pilot Jack Swigert.

[@Gold-oj8do]

This is the game where Vince Ferragamo said something very negative to Coach Osborne after his interception on the first series.

[@jameslannon38]

Do you have the 74 Cotton Bowl Nebraska - Texas?

[@Lfg117]

hcKush-run drills & practices were so brutal that SunDevil players said the games were far easier and felt like a break.

[@kek3908]

In 1978 I was able to spend a week at camp Tontozona at a weeklong ASU football camp for youth during the summer. Coach Kush and his staff ran 2 a days and to be honest, it was a little brutal for kids, but I loved every minute of it and cherish the pictures like a horde of gold. Many, many years later on Halloween night I was out with my children in our neighborhood here in Tempe near ASU when we knocked on a door and Frank himself answered, it was a real treat.

[@Lfg117]

NFL wr great John "JJ" Jefferson, #84, starred for AzSt vs Nebraska. Also, the dad of ex-Sparty qb Katin Houser(now at ECU), iirc, was OG for AzSt in that bowl game.

[@jamesfields2916]

Tom Brookshier commented that Frank Kush tackled him in college. Looked it up. Colorado played Michigan State in 1951 when both would have been playing.

[@Lfg117]

Rik Bonness - 🔥. "Tony" (Anthony) Davis. So many cfb legends in that game. Lfg!

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

Arizona State had to be the acting visitors at their own stadium (lol), so they wore white jerseys--and would then beat Nebraska! I remember this game!

[@Lfg117]

Greatness. Thank u.

[@Lfg117]

Brookshier: called AzSt the "ArizonaSt Wildcats," then mispronounced last name of ASU SunDevils' qb ("Sprole," phonetically). Tom B. said "Sprowl," instead. Legendary Brookshire, a Roswell, NM-native & CU grad, should've done better. 🙄

[@brianarbenz1329]

I believed then that ASU should have been voted national champion after this win and the undefeated season. The Sun Devils were a team much more talented than the nation knew. Then, with everybody back next fall, they proceeded to lose their first four games. The '75 Fiesta Bowl win was a shining moment in time, and not indicative of things to come.

[@chuckrawlings9518]

38:21-Future Fiesta Bowl Title Sponsor

[@jamesfields2916]

#40 MIKE HAYNES College Football and NFL Halls of Fame.

[@jamesfields2916]

Two things I was ever bummed about going to a college game. Going to my first ASU game in 77 the stands were built up so much you couldn't see people on the mountain and going to a Georgia gane in 90 the stadium had been enlarged do much you couldn't sit on the railroad tracks and watch the game

[@mr.g1758]

After New Year's Day I thought Alabama might have had a chance to win a title after beating Penn State in the Sugar Bowl. But the polls gave it to Oklahoma after a sloppy win over Michigan. They also jumped ASU to #2 over Bama. That Tide team was a veteran unit and would have beaten ASU and was as good as that OU team in my opinion.

[@jamesfields2916]

Just that opening loss to Missouri.

[@williamisenberger1073]

Was ASU still in the WAC in 1975?

[@kek3908]

Yes.

[@dcaa62817]

Yes, they were in the WAC until 1978 season.

[@Lfg117]

Yes. The 2 Az schools, 1970-1975, ran the WAC. Note: hypey L. Edwards fb dynasty at BYU jumped off in the 1st season after the 2 Az schools left the WAC. "'Things A BYU Fan Will Never Write' for $1,000, Alex." 😂

[@williamisenberger1073]

That cracked me up. I went to SMU so ive had my experience with the Mormon hordes​@Lfg117

[@bayousmackerdixford3389]

BIG RED MACHINE BABY OLE DR OSBORNE HAD THAT BIG RED HUSKERS ROLLING

[@FlintyCobblestone]

WOW!!

[@darylevrba6705]

great work...can you get a hold of the 1976 ucla/arizona st. college football game?

[@kek3908]

That game really, really sucked as an ASU fan.

[@Lfg117]

Those Donahue-led Ucla squads were great. I hope hcFoster channels some of that in b1g play, starting in '25.

[@scottl.1568]

My uncles were at this game 😅

[@carseye1219]

ASU used to have great uniforms, through the Snake, Tillman era. Maroon & Gold are good colors. Then they started messing with all-black, all-white, oversized logos, etc. Ugly stuff.

[@jamesfields2916]

Loved these Sun Burst logos. Love seeing the stadium in this configuration. ASU started expanding in 76 and reached 74,000. Now it's back to what it was in 1975.Arizona Wildcats uniforms in 80s and 90s were near perfect.

[@Lfg117]

I liked the 1980-1986 AzSt uniforms and helmets. So stupid that the university won't restore the Sparky logo.

[@jamesfields2916]

@@Lfg117 I loved those too.

[@jamesfields2916]

@@carseye1219 Yes.Even the Wildcats turned away from those awesome uniforms they had through Desert Swarm days. I'm an Ole Miss guy and luckily they haven't f*cked with the uniforms much over the years. The best are the powder blues

[@carseye1219]

@@Lfg117 Sparky was a great logo.

[@Lfg117]

NFL hof CB Mike Haynes, #40 for AzSt that day.

[@jamesfields2916]

Damn he was good.

[@454Casul]

Both of the announcers have referred to ASU as "Arizona" multiple times. This is one of the worst things they could do to the Devils! This mistake has been repeated many times thru the years, by various announcers.

[@glacour]

Did Brookshier say what I think he said at 1:04:39? 😮😮😮

[@Lfg117]

🔥

[@robertbuck5235]

Do you have OU vs Wyoming, 1976 Fiesta Bowl?

[@jamesfields2916]

I think I've seen that on KZbin.

[@jamesfields2916]

He has it. Just checked.

[@davidfisher462]

San Diego Chargers John Jefferson

[@kareemmoreland9119]

Heard that the ASU coach was.such a pr!ck John Elway didnt want.to play for.the Colts when.that guy was their coach.