1985 Orange Bowl #2 Oklahoma vs #4 Washington No Huddle

1985 Orange Bowl #2 Oklahoma Sooners vs #4 Washington Huskies

[@PoliticallyIncorrect90]

Don James was such a good coach and underrated.

[@omegamanGXE]

So sad he had to resign after his doctor diagnosed him with ligma

[@FatherFirst]

The Dawgfather. One of the greats in the game of college football!!!

[@RobStevenson24]

@@FatherFirst Absolutely! Hopefully we'll be saying the same about DeBoer 20 years from now.

[@organicallypoweredlife1417]

These teams were FLYING around the field, both were hitting SO HARD!! Yet, observe the sportsmanship as they would continuously help each other up after plays... much respect to both squads for their respect shown to each other :)

[@colacurciolaw7745]

I really wish we saw this more often.

[@organicallypoweredlife1417]

@@colacurciolaw7745 I thought it showed a lot of class/character when Hunter was taken out for a few games in the Rocky Mountain Showdown rivalry and when Buffs fans went after the CSU player for the hit, online Coach Prime came out STRONG in defence of the CSU player. Him and Hunter are even friends now!

[@rogerbrodniak5644]

BYU gets blown out by each of these teams head to head in 1984...watch this game and then the 1984 Holiday Bowl and you'll see why. Washington thumped Michigan in the Big House earlier in the season WITH Jim Harbaugh, and then BYU barely squeaked by them in the bowl game. The real game for #1 is in THIS video!

[@omegamanGXE]

Michigump

[@omegamanGXE]

@@christopherfoote4643 Brigham Old had ligma

[@rogerbrodniak5644]

@@christopherfoote4643 Washington THUMPING Michigan on the road is still the more impressive win than BYU squeaking by on a neutral field.

[@christopherfoote4643]

Bowl alliance national championship. That's probably fair as far as that aspect but it completely ignores NCAA protocol that prioritizes winning every game. Iowa would have been necessary to close the gap

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Washington wasn’t even #1 in their own conference. 7 points against a mediocre USC?! Sorry but you can’t be #1 in the country but #2 in your conference

[@orangehoof]

One of my favorite college games. Watching Barry Switzer lose a national title never gets old, especially with The Bozhole on the field. Love it!

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Hadn't the title already been lost?

[@rawn4203]

Pac10 went 3-0 in bowl games that year, it was disgustingly good and easily the best conference in America.

[@bluebirdconundrum]

The game that really hurt the Pac 10 in 1984 was USC-Notre Dame. USC played pretty well for most of the season and won the conference, but when the Trojans lost to a mediocre Notre Dame squad late in November it damaged the Pac 10's reputation. If USC had beaten Notre Dame, I think the voters would have been more likely to acknowledge the quality of the Pac 10, and Washington accordingly would have been awarded the national title.

[@marknan5352]

Watched this game with dad. The huskies were real good and don james , for the rest of his life , walked on water in seattle.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - That comment just shows how little you know. It was a certainty that OU would jump BYU and be number one if they won the Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl gave UW a much stronger opponent, bigger pay day and a better chance of earning the number one ranking. James made the right choice, the voters didn't.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Dude no one is going to take the time to read all that. You must really enjoy the sound of your own voice.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - My God buddy, you’ve been rambling on and on about this for a week straight. Don’t you have other things to do?

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Everything we’re talking about here is subjective. You can’t provide evidence for something that’s all a matter of opinion. You’re taking this way too seriously. And once again, UW did not back out of playing BYU last year. Trying to say that they did just shows how much of an unknowledgeable homer you are. Remember the games in 2018 and 2019? Why would they be afraid to play someone that they killed the previous two years? I’m not going to respond to you anymore from here on so don’t waste any more time than you already have. Take care.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - 3 months later and you’re back for more? My point about you needing to get a life has never been more relevant. I’m not doing this again. See ya.

[@WillBadley-zu9vp]

That washington vs usc game was one of the most powerful hard hitting knock down dragout I have ever seen

[@tonyatonya480]

Rick Fenney lead blocking for Jacque like a boss! I miss that old school fullback position

[@williamcooke6056]

Fenny was a beast!

[@halfhawkhalfman]

It's amazing that the Huskies won, given how poorly Washington QB Paul Sicuro played. He had 3 INT, single-handedly gave up 1 fumble, completed fewer than half his passes and his only TD (and half his passing yardage) came from a blown coverage.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Washington and USC both had great defenses in 1984. Defense carried both teams to Bowl victories. Also some bad offense by the losing teams

[@tedmunson6686]

UW was the National Champs that season not baby BYU.

[@gynandroidhead]

From a despondent Husker fan, I concur.

[@gynandroidhead]

@@christopherfoote4643 Please type the message a 4th time so we get your point.

[@christopherfoote4643]

Bowl alliance national champion. Brigham Young would have been an NCAA national champion. Retroactively from the 1985 season. It's because Michigan began 5-0 which is what a tournament would have required if them to play in a title game. Brigham Young won a tournament retroactively from 1985.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

I think the Rose Bowl people were glad it was BYU. After all, it'd look bad for the Rose Bowl committee if the National champion was a team from the Pac 10 or Big 10 without playing in said game.

[@christopherfoote4643]

​@@stephaniegormley9982 It wasn't simply Brigham Young. There were other titleists. It was a strange season with multiple titleists. Brigham Young might have been the only team that could claim a team championship. There were other teams in the chase.

[@mikesweeney784]

That tough WAC schedule lol

[@aaronrider4051]

Washington was surprisingly very superior. Without a few mistakes in the 2nd quarter, they probably blow it out.

[@toddsands6000]

Growing up on the east coast, nearly every media outlet picked OU over Washington. I expected Wash. to win this game.

[@christopherfoote4643]

​@@toddsands6000 bowl alliance title probably means an AFCA team title.

[@steveprestegard5151]

Washington brought out the 2-5 defense for this game.

[@Papawill13]

You are the Man Sir!! Thanks A Lot!

[@SS-th9wz]

Washington capped off a perfect January 1 bowl day for the Pac-10 as all 3 teams (UW, USC, UCLA) won their bowl games.

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

All on NBC that New Years Day 1985.

[@SS-th9wz]

@@christopherfoote4643 - WAC didn’t do better...they only went 2-0 in bowls. In fact, no conference won more bowl games (3) than the PAC-10 that year and they went undefeated. It was absolutely criminal of the pollsters to give BYU the NC instead of Washington (10-1) who’s only loss was at USC (who won Rose Bowl). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984-85_NCAA_football_bowl_games

[@SS-th9wz]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Dude you’re on crack. Ohio State beat Michigan 21-6 and never trailed in the game. BYU struggled to beat a mediocre Michigan team and trailed or was tied most of the game. Michigan’s win over #1 Miami in week 1 proves nothing. Miami was 8-5 that season - played a very hard schedule but you can’t brag on beating a 5 loss team. Hawaii lost to 3-8 Colorado State that season - so no game Hawaii played in was a gimme win when you lose to a 3-8 team. BYUs 1984 title is a joke and nobody takes them seriously as a championship team.

[@SS-th9wz]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Meanwhile, Washington’s payout for playing in the 1985 Orange Bowl was around $3 million and BYUs Holiday Bowl was about $500K. Look it up dope. BYU beat 5 teams with winning records (Tulsa 6-5, Hawaii 7-4, AFA 8-4, Utah 6-5, Michigan 6-5). Wow so impressive! Washington beat 6 teams with winning records (Michigan 6-5, Houston 7-5, Oregon 6-5, Arizona 7-4, WSU 6-5, Oklahoma 9-2-1) and defeated Michigan by a larger margin (20-11 vs 24-17) at Ann Arbor instead of neutral San Diego. Washington played in much better Pac-10 than WAC. Why would the Huskies take $2.5 million less to play BYU? BYU is fake champion. We all know it.

[@dwaynecoy1871]

@@christopherfoote4643 - how does it feel to be dumber than a bag of rocks? It's embarrassing to even try to argue the case for BYU in 84. No, they didn't play a lot of good teams in 84. They played a long list of mediocre to poor teams, including Colorado St. They barely escaped a 3 point victory against Wyoming at home? And they were lucky to beat a 6-5 Michigan team in their weak ass bowl game played almost two weeks before the real bowl games were played on Jan 1. The fact that the Holiday Bowl was played on ESPN, on a Friday night meant most college football fans didn't even watch the mediocre game between two mediocre teams. And the only BYU wins that game is because of the horrible officiating by the homer refs in the Holiday Bowl. Beau Schembechler commented after the game - BYU "should be outlawed" because it was "the worst holding team in the United States of America" (BYU had no holding penalties during the game). embarrassing

[@RobStevenson24]

Great memories. Go Dawgs!

[@jasonc6812]

Maybe one of the greatest travesties in CFB that this UW team wasn't named National Champion.

[@jasonc6812]

@@christopherfoote4643 ok "sure"

[@jasonc6812]

@@christopherfoote4643 zappa makes an appearance

[@jasonc6812]

@@christopherfoote4643 Frank and Moon obviously

[@jasonc6812]

@@christopherfoote4643 not on that track

[@michaelnewton1332]

If they had only gotten the job done against the Trojans, we’re not having this conversation about BYU

[@nerdsworthpoindexter6661]

I was at this game.

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

Busta rhymes got his name from George buster rhymes ! Someone else picked it for him but i can't remember who it was !

[@michaelnewton1332]

If Washington had gotten the job done against USC, they’d have doubtless been national champs in 1984.

[@cherylparke593]

Lost by 3 dumb points to usc or would have been officially National champs….. Huskies we’re in most minds

[@anthony0358]

oh wow I remember this night, With the Shadow of BYU over this game all week. This was a landmark game, thank you for posting it. I think Washington lost to USC during the regular season, that put USC in the Rose Bowl and Washington with one loss got to play in this game against Oklahoma who had a loss and a tie, going in but won a huge game vs. Nebraska to get the Big8 Title

[@marshalljankins4526]

Yes Sir. Boomer!!

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@christopherfoote4643 : BYU beat a 7-4 Michigan team to win the title. I thought is was a bs matchup and a gift national title. They were not the best team that year.

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@christopherfoote4643 : Ok

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@christopherfoote4643 :Interesting take. Respect.... 2021 will be very interesting...

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@christopherfoote4643 : Your team did what they were supposed to do..

[@floridapmi]

R.I.P. Derrick Shepard

[@omegamanGXE]

Ligma claims another life :'(

[@FatherFirst]

Go Dawgs!!!!! I love my Huskies!!!!!

[@roberttrout3588]

Lol another “white Jersey” game 😂🎉 I had forgotten about this game, thanks for posting 👍

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

At 27:35, Jacque Robinson was so tired he thought he was in Canada. Because his work ethic was poor he was often winded. Those were the only knocks on him. Truly a wasted great talent. But when he was fresh, he was a top 5 RB in the country!

[@AaronStark1993]

Still the only guy to be MVP of both the Rose and Orange bowls.

[@cat6cableguy81]

He’s actually Nate Robinson’s father.

[@jeffgarberding4499]

Mvp of a Rosebowl, and a Orange Bowl.. Plus he played in 2 Aloha Bowls in between those other 2. Brought us Nate the Great! He was never going to be in the NFL what he was at Wash. Wasn't fast enough. He was like Greg Lewis. Good speed. 4.6 soph but lost 10 to 15 lbs for junior yr. 4.5. He was fast enough to turn the corner. only thing was, at that weight his body wouldn't hold-up. He was gone .

[@marshalljankins4526]

I remember that one.. Boomer Sooner got them back in their own house the next time the two met..... Great channel..Boomer!!

[@TheJpep2424]

Got their arse kicked in this one though.

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@TheJpep2424 : Yes we did..

[@rinohunter6190]

Epic battle!

[@gynandroidhead]

A 10-1-1 Oklahoma team leaves BYU in the dust, as would a 10-1-1 Nebraska squad if they hadn't lost to Oklahoma.

[@gynandroidhead]

@@christopherfoote4643 Chris, it's been a while. How have you been?

[@gynandroidhead]

@@christopherfoote4643 At least one of is! Best of luck to BYU this season.

[@gynandroidhead]

@@christopherfoote4643 I've no family in Nebraska. Just got hooked watching them at the end of the 1981 season.

[@toddsands6000]

I remembered watching this game. The 1984 college football season spurred the controversy over who was the real #1 team in the nation? It was a strange college football season. What pushed BYU into the discussion after they were ranked #1 in both polls was their impressive victory over Pitt to start the college season and remaining undefeated. Meanwhile Oklahoma inexplicably lost to Kansas (a basketball school), and a tie against Texas (not good). And the so-called college experts fell asleep on how good the Washington Huskies were. Washington had a bad habit of inexplicably losing games they should have won throughout the 1980's, Washington was indeed one of the best college football programs in the 1980's, just like OU and UM. It's just that east coast media bias favored teams such as OU, Nebraska, and UM which often set the tone for ignoring how good some west coast college football programs truly were such as Washington. The 1985 Orange Bowl was a good competitive game, but I saw this game as a Washington victory from a mile away. Washington was more of a complete team with a pro-style system. OU was a great program too, but they were totally outclassed in the 4th quarter which made the difference in this bowl game. The good news about this bowl season was that college football doesn't have a playoff system if it weren't for the controversial 1984 college football season. I know 2003 was just as controversial too, but this was the game that started serious talks about a college football playoff format.

[@toddsands6000]

@@christopherfoote4643 I have a question for you. Not a biased question, but a methodically thought out one. I will not deny that BYU deserved to be ranked No. 1 because they were undefeated that year. And BYU defeated a PItt team, a perennial national power at that time and ranked No. 3 to start out that 1984 Season. If you were the AD of the University of Washington, would you choose a Holiday Bowl game pitting a bragging rights game against BYU? Or would you pick the Orange Bowl, a New Year's Top Tier Bowl game which paid out millions of dollars to each team.? Let's be real, when it comes to big business which college football is, the UofW would be foolish choosing the Holiday Bowl (a low tier Bowl invite) against the Orange Bowl (a major New Year's Day Bowl Game). BYU could not help but play in the Holiday Bowl. The conference BYU was affiliated with was contractually obligated to participate in that game. Whereas, UofW had options on top of the fact that the PAC10 regardless of opinions, was a major conference (still is renamed the PAC12). It was a strange Bowl Season that year and the perfect scenarios occurred, OU lost a game. And the UofW lost a game late in the season to I think USC which denied them winning the PAC10 conference and playing in the Rose Bowl. Despite that, the UofW was still very highly ranked due to many top ranked college football teams losing one or more games with the exception of BYU remaining unbeaten throughout the season. The UofW may have been ranked no. 2 in some polls. But UofW was consistently ranked No. 3 in most polls. And of course, BYU was ranked No. 1 due to them as I already said being undefeated. Yes, the age-old argument stated that BYU played in a weaker conference. I'm not knocking that because BYU also played major schools every year. BYU earned a reputation as a respectable national power during the 1980's. Don't let this fall on UofW because Barry Switzer was the head coach that made the argument that BYU wasn't worthy of being considered national champions that year. I remembered that the AP and UPI (coaches' poll) presses made an ultimatum to OU after Switzer's rant in which for OU to be considered national champions, they had to beat the UofW by at least a minimum of two touchdowns or more. Which of course didn't happen. After UofW won, Barry Switzer stated that he would endorse UofW to be considered No. 1 that year. Of course, it wasn't enough as both polls declared BYU national champions. In the end, the UofW made the right choice. It's a no brainer considering the Orange Bowl over the Holiday Bowl every single time. Only die-hard fans wished that BYU and the UofW played against each other that year. Would BYU have won that game? Maybe. BYU was most certainly not a push over that year. But we'll never know. In the end, like we see it today, major college football is big business! Let's state facts, the Holiday Bowl would have been a losing situation for UofW. Because if somehow UofW beat BYU, OU would have heavily lobbied to be considered national champions if they beat their Orange Bowl opponent. College football and politics have always had similar ingredients. It's still like that to this day.

[@drewwilliams662]

Do you have East Carolina vs. Pittsburgh 1991?

[@chrisuncleahmad]

The UnHORSEmanlike Conduct game

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Been a good year for a Playoff. Interesting if Florida could have participated

[@yeildo1492]

6:53 UW brings 8.... that takes some cojones... 7:53 watch #88 come in and kill OU's OLB... You can hear the Husky bench react! Both teams handled the ball like it was a live hand grenade.... Like a lot of other commenters, I am convinced that UW should have been the Nat Champ. Only a loss to #9 USC kept them from being undefeated.

[@markofly76]

The Washington Huskies Football Program: Have won many Rose Bowls Have won the Orange Bowl Have won the Sugar Bowl USC can't say that.

[@edubb7774]

2 blue bloods rockin it..

[@notyourpuppet5975]

Oklahoma should of used Keith Jackson more in the pass game

[@johnmanning4097]

AGREED

[@Focusyn]

31:29 God bless the Sooner Schooner.

[@AaronStark1993]

BYU being #1 was such a joke. Both these teams would have killed them.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Washington was very senior laden in 1984 and were not nearly the same team in 1985. The fact that BYU beat them the next year is irrelevant. If you want to point that out then I guess it’s also fair to point out that Washington killed BYU in 1986. And Washington also beat Michigan by a wider margin in their own house than BYU did on a neutral site. BYU still to this day is the only national championship team to not beat anybody that finished the season ranked in the top 25. There’s all the proof you need that it was a complete joke.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Enjoy your title I guess. Everyone who doesn’t live in the state of Utah knows full well that BYU would have gotten smacked by Washington. What happened in 1985 is irrelevant. If you really want to go there again then I’ll again point out that UW annihilated BYU in 1986.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - And be honest, you had no idea that Washington played Michigan.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Whatever you say buddy. Keep on living in a fantasy world.

[@AaronStark1993]

@@christopherfoote4643 - Dude you just don’t get it. What BYU did in the years before and after 1984 is irrelevant to this discussion. Just stop before you make yourself look even more foolish. And I’d be willing to bet that you have dyslexia or something because you have had a really hard time comprehending my comments.

[@sinerge2832]

Busta Rhymes played football?!

[@mongoslade277]

😂😂. I was waiting on this comment

[@user-rn6hr1qw3l]

I remember watching this game and knew james purple gang would handle overrated OKIEZZZ 😂😂😂

[@raidersacdc4892]

Lol Busta Rhymes

[@marshalljankins4526]

The Original Bust'a Rhymes.. He was a Great Sooner too..

[@kvinche8120]

The Rapper actually got his name from this Man

[@marshalljankins4526]

@@kvinche8120 : We don't really know but This Bust'a was the first I knew..

[@michaelnewton1332]

WHOOOOOHAAAAAA!!! He’s got ya all in check!!!

[@kvinche8120]

I do not remember Danny Bradley

[@DirtyDanSooner]

Wait didn’t OU win a National championship that year how did they vote before the bowl game?

[@core76man1]

OU won the next year. This is capping off the 1984 season

[@jeffgarberding4499]

No they didn't win anything official They probably were voted #1 in some obscure magazine. Then somebody digging around found it and maybe pushed it through without anyone noticing. Washinton has 1 of those too, somewhere.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

1973 was last year a team could win a consensus Natty based on regular season

[@steveprestegard5151]

31:30

[@ianroche5807]

BYU clown show now clown show then.

[@TheJpep2424]

Washington would have destroyed BYU. BYU was a joke then and a joke now.

[@jeffgarberding4499]

They were completely intolerable back then. All the networks that carried college football, treated them like Notre Dame. Also the players were cheap shot artists

[@darrenpeterson1092]

It was what it was. NCAA football was a flawed system then.

[@christopherfoote4643]

​@@darrenpeterson1092 not necessarily. Brigham Young won an NCAA title. That's partly because Michigan went 5-0 to begin 1985. Admittedly it's retroactive. But it's a legitimate title claim. Shared with Iowa. Iowa and Brigham Young played in a Holiday Bowl. They tied. Brigham Young and Iowa were comparable programs. In 1984 Iowa was 8-4-1 and Brigham Young went 12-0-1. That's comparable because of SOS. Collectively Brigham Young was 12-0-1 (1984 & 1996). That's a co-championship. Washington was 10-1-1 collectively. Tied Brigham Young. They're co-champions. IMO

[@user-bu7ko2or8e]

BYU would have whipped both of these teams. Both of them had weak pass defense.