1997 Rose Bowl - game winning drive

[@anthonybrady8263]

7:18..."The officials should donate their check to charity for missing that call"!!! Still one of the best lines I've heard against the refs still to this day!!! Awesome!

[@michaeldillon8217]

The buckeyes won so who cares

[@rawn4203]

And OSU should donate some money to the ASU DC Phil Snow, who decided to play prevent D even though the bux got the ball at their own 40 due to the shitty kickoff by ASU and gobs of time left.

[@JackycClark]

Can't Cover This !!

[@Austin-ld6cv]

Jake Plummer and David Boston went on to be a pretty solid qb/wr duo for the Arizona Cardinals. Pretty cool how that worked out

[@JW0143]

Until Boston roided himself out of the NFL

[@hazelwood55]

RIP Pat Tillman.

[@TookyG]

Some say Arizona State is still committing PI in the 1997 Rose Bowl to this day.

[@DanielSong39]

The first PI was weak though (but to be fair, they missed a blatant one right afterwards)

[@crazysoulja]

The first one was meh, but he did prevent him from going to the ball which is pi, that was still legit call.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

GO BUCKEYES !!! checkout my youtube channel show BUCKEYE VINNIE please watch my videos and sub to my channel thanks brother.

[@jesusmejia8693]

😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@theavtomat8395]

All would say your an asshat. What you don't see in this video....the OSU O line being called for holding.

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

i love that jake plumber was all excited then little by little he started to frown more and more i was at the bowling alley watching this when the bucks scored some guys piled on each other and i yelled "how do feel now jackie"good times

[@foxbodyblues6709]

JHATDRUMMER1976 Hell yea!! He was stompin around like he bad at first and by the end he was sitting on his helmet just mumblin eating some grumble soup!!! Ha!

[@marymiller7960]

Seeing Pat Tillman.. makes my heart break

[@MargauxMachek]

Can you tell me more? I've never heard this before. Thanks.

[@sipesthebest128]

@@MargauxMachek You're kidding, right Ken?

[@donmarcum9944]

One of my proudest moments to be a buckeye!! They never gave up!!

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

Totally agree!!! GO BUCKEYES Checkout my youtube channel BUCKEYE VINNIE, please sub to my channel and watch my videos thanks don.

[@brendenoleary1453]

I was 3 in 97. Now I'm old enough to watch this and appreciate it wow what a game

[@jdoncbus1]

I was 24 at the time & just about to graduate from OSU, it was pretty awesome.

[@charleswachunas646]

I was just about to be 13 and so... so happy!

[@JAFFAWIRE]

@Curtis Rupp yup. I was 11. Watched it live on a shitty antenna set

[@Tolohtony]

All you youngins, I was 33. It was a great game! I loved watching Jake the Snake walking off the field like he was some badass, then watching him deteriorate. I don't remember it looking so pixelated though.🙄 It looks like it's from the 1970s. Man, TVs have come a long way.

[@lsubandtrumpet2014]

I was 6. So that means, I'm 28.

[@jrock2264]

Joe Germaine was poetry in motion. OSU has had a lot of qood QB's over the years (I've watched since the early 70's). Germaine was smooth as silk, never got shaken. He still holds a lot of records. He was second in the Heisman the following year...people forget that.

[@willievickers2318]

What was forgotten was that Joe was put in for that winning drive instead of Stanley Jackson. I knew something special was going to happen. Bucks win!

[@axjohn]

Two of my younger cousins played in that game for Arizona State: RB Terry Battle and DL Albrey Battle. I rooted for them to do well but since I earned my PhD at Ohio State in 1986, you KNOW who I wanted to win the game! BUCKEYES!!!!!

[@brianarbenz7206]

Lots of mixed loyalties in that game. Joe Germaine was from the Phoenix area. John Cooper had coached at ASU.

[@dougeverett4350]

I too had mixed family of fans . My brother in law graduated year before from ASU. Pat Tillman took over brother in laws position. That was when I lived in Ct. Born in Columbus. Eventually moved to AZ. Ended up doing work at Chris Finns house and meeting a bunch of other players from that team. Joe Germaine is hs football coach in Queen Creek,Az.

[@dougeverett4350]

O H

[@dcgravity7822]

@@dougeverett4350 I O!!

[@brucestro18]

I remember watching this game live back in ‘97! That was when I began liking the Buckeyes(Tarheels fan)

[@kennethzinke9168]

That game was played 20 years ago and it was very important.

[@discoweasel1977]

My brother, my dad, and I rooted for Ohio State because that game was the turnaround for the Gators’ National championship.

[@jdoncbus1]

I bet you love the Buckeyes now, eh?

[@johnjuhasz9125]

The game played about 5 weeks prior was more important. Cooper couldn’t beat Michigan. This could have been his national championship.

[@robreiner3527]

Coach Vermeil at 7:21 and 8:24. LOL. He liked the Buckeyes and the ole coach can still crap on the refs when they mess up.

[@kevinscottquinn]

The best part is that Joe Germaine is from Mesa AZ. I'ts about 15 minutes from the ASU campus. ASU didn't want him out of high school. They thought he was too small! Whoops...

[@swingset1969]

OSU passed on local RB Ryan Brewer, and he ran all over them in a bowl game against South Carolina a few years later. Gotta watch those spurned local kids. Germaine was held on a leash that whole season, I liked watching him finally get cut loose. Always felt that QB dual hurt him.

[@charleswachunas646]

How much bigger of a whoops was made by Coach Cooper...by not starting Germaine against Michigan...and even taking that long to realize Germaine was the passing QB Ohio State needed...Cooper starts Germaine against Michigan, Ohio State goes undefeated that year and win's the national championship

[@jeffflinn2053]

Love it when a team starts its self-congratulatory tone waaaaaaaaay too early. LOL. And just a G.R.E.A.T. look on Plummer's face at the 9:38 mark.

[@freeyourmindtc]

I remember this like it was yesterday, go bucks.

[@nonameanomaly3916]

9:10 i run the david boston route to this day. Im 40 and when i line up aginst nephew's and niece's it always results in 6 points. Go Buckeyes!!

[@MVuke84]

I remember being 12 or 13, bleeding scarlet and grey, born right down the road. Watching this clutch drive from Joe Germaine in the RoseBowl. Not known as a stud or clutch qb by any means, but always solid. Then made a moment in history.

[@hunterburk]

Dimitrius Stanley had some clutch catches in this game. People forget that focusing on David Boston’s winning touchdown catch.

[@conedx]

stanley did all the work. boston got all the glory. lollll

[@blutoblutarsky6529]

It was interference on almost every pass play that last Drive

[@johnjuhasz9125]

dirty dave to ASU’s defense they had to kind of like fouling on purpose in basketball.

[@DanielSong39]

@@johnjuhasz9125 Nothing dirty, you make the referee make the call. Sometimes you get away with it

[@rawn4203]

@@johnjuhasz9125 But why? Its not like OSU was scoring TDs on them all day long.

[@charleswachunas646]

Thank you! They couldn't keep up with Boston and Miller and it showed

[@DanielSong39]

@@rawn4203 They were gassed and they had no pass rush

[@donniesmith7213]

21 years later and the PAC 12 is playing the same defense.

[@ModelTrainOutsider]

We watched this when taking breaks at the funeral home during the showing for my sister who died at 38 from cancer.

[@cfgolfcf]

#42 Pat Tillman... RIP

[@ericmcgowan1993]

This is still awesome! Back when the rose and sun bowls were always entertaining. RB is usually the best bowl game. I wanted my 49ers to draft Plummer and/or Corey Dillon so badly. They got neither and failed to make another bowl for nearly 2 decades

[@adambear5720]

Go Bucks! RIP to an American Hero 9:02

[@hazelwood55]

Seeing him in a college football game made me think of all the grim things to come.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

GO BUCKEYES !!! Checkout my youtube channel BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my videos and subscribe to my channel thanks Adam.

[@superood1]

Listening to Keith Jackson call the Rose Bowl was special. Miss those days…….

[@Lordofthepringless]

That’s not Keith Jackson. That’s Brent Musberger and Dick Vermeil.

[@82petejohnson]

I'm a Sooner, but grew up in Buckeye country and this game was my all-time sports highlight until going to college.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

Checkout my youtube channel BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my videos and sub to my channel thanks Pete.

[@Jdub14000]

I remember watch this game when I was 14.

[@bayarea510]

pat tillman @ 7:33

[@rawn4203]

The MVP of this game wasnt Joe Germaine or David Boston, it was ASU's defensive coordinator, Phil Snow, who decided to play prevent even after the crappy kickoff gave the bucks the ball at the 35 yard line. Boston was so wide open my grandmother could have caught that pass and crawled into the endzone. A colossal choke by ASU. How many games have we seen the prevent D snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? RIP to coach Snyder, who passed on 4/13/09.

[@kristaj19]

@07bballking Um, OSU led or was tied the entire game until ASU went up prior to that drive.

[@kimber1911]

I was at this game as senior at OSU. What an amazing experience!

[@wilthomas]

I remember being 17 watching this in my kitchen! For some reason, I really liked Arizona State back then. Too bad, they had a great team this year. Almost won the "national championship."

[@JSSTyger]

"And remember, because the overtime rules, a field goal puts us in to overtime" Dam this was a long time ago lol.

[@hazelwood55]

7:03 "pass interference , pass interference, yea i'd say that too damn it. Don't hold back Dick, tell us what you really think. I love it.

[@brucestro18]

Not only #42 but “Old Spice Guy” is on the ASU somewhere.

[@gerald4133]

Both teams played their butts off. The secondary of ASU was tired & just hanging on so they had to hold the recievrrs. Two Excellent teams. Sad that someone had lose. Great Game. One for the Record books. Rose Bowl games are almost always fantastic games IMO.

[@lionsfan7500]

What a game! When Ohio State scored the touchdown and missed the extra point that won me my football square for the final score which was a trip for 2 to Vegas and it was awesome. When Ohio State was driving to score I felt guilty rooting for them being that I live in Detroit and that's a no no here rooting for them. But after they scored I then needed them to miss the point after which in those days never happened but someone was looking out for me cuz somehow the kick missed and I was running around my house like a madman lol

[@1outta330]

Been secretly rooting for them ever since lol

[@paulgaier4525]

"College football. No better game."

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

@7:30 Pat Tillman

[@rapiddominace]

ASU's d-line was lined up in the neutral zone on every freakin play of this drive

[@anthonypaul1562]

The David Boston touchdown strut!

[@rawn4203]

Another reason no bowls are going to come to those locations, aside from the cold climate, is that we already have about as many bowls as you can possibly have, the only way to have more is to create bowls for teams that 5 or 6 games. So for those locations to get bowls,some bowls where they are being played now will have to be closed down. No way is the orange bowl going from Miami to NYC, the rose from Pasadena to philly, or the gator from Jacksonville to Chicago. Just simply aint happenin.

[@toddlee933]

I was at this game, I can’t bare to watch it again.

[@TheFJSJ12]

I've been an ASU fan my whole life and this one hurts.

[@don64]

Cooper's shining moment at Ohio State.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

Cooper didn't have too many big wins, but this was his biggest.

[@anthonytaylor7928]

​@@afridgetoofar1818I think he had some of best teams in Ohio State history

[@afridgetoofar1818]

@@anthonytaylor7928 he did, but they always choked against Michigan teams

[@chvez3754]

Miss watching Tillman on the field.

[@waydel4]

John Cooper was coach at Arizona State went to the Rose Bowl and beat Michigan. Hired to coach Ohio State and was 2-10-1 vs Michigan.

[@ryanciantar]

what's even worse for ASU is Joe Germaine was a local kid from Mesa Mountain View High School.

[@bdmcfarland7]

Vermeil says it all at the end. "Wow! College football...no better game."

[@RoccoThomas8004]

Great game. Love them Bucks. I remember Coop said I love the Buckeye fans, they are behind you win or tie. Haha. Rip Pat Tillman 🇺🇸✝️

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

GOBUCKS !!! Checkout my youtube channel BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my videos and sub to my channel thanks.

[@knowyourenemies7]

The pro form offense is really hard to watch

[@MVBuckeye]

I was at that game. Before the game the ASU fans were the most obnoxious and belligerent I have ever encountered. Afterwards, they disappeared completely. Classic win for OSU.

[@leonzaduncan2438]

every fanbase says this.

[@MVBuckeye]

@@leonzaduncan2438 They all say that about ASU? Figures.....

[@leonzaduncan2438]

@@MVBuckeye About other fanbases

[@catfan5756]

I actually only know one OSU fan and he is dumb ASF. Who in there right mind would voluntarily live in fn ohio. I would rather live in tijuana, Mexico. Is there anything else in columbus other than OSU and a bunch of drunks at all the bars they have there. I guess if I had to live in Ohio, I would be a drunk too. Have a good morning. Lol.

[@MVBuckeye]

@@catfan5756 Only trophies......

[@abdulsmith1569]

Me and my daughters rolled down the ASU campus and screamed lets go BUCKEYES. THAT WAS A FUN DAY

[@catfan5756]

We all were wondering what you were talking about, we thought you were from the buckeye chamber of commerce asking people to visit the small town 20 miles outside of Phoenix.

[@rich_buckeye]

Watching Plummer getting more and more nervous is more entertaining that the drive itself!

[@slobbernuckle]

ASU would have been national champs if it got the stop

[@jrock2264]

Oops...it was the 1998 season that Joe Germaine in runner-up for the Heisman...not 1997.

[@zaius316]

I think this is the last college game called by Dick Vermeil. He will take the Rams’ job later in the year.

[@deltgen1]

I don't know why I keep putting myself thought the pain of watching this. I was an ASU student that year, so it was bigger for us than the outside fan. I guess I keep waiting for the results to change. Three 3rd-and-10s on that final drive.

[@robertwilhelm2298]

I think AZ State was poised for the national title and lost it in the last minute and a half. Maybe I'm wrong...But what this game doesnt portray was just what an amazing season Jake Plummer brought to Az state. I think it was quadruple overtime with USC. A couple other overtime games that were thrillers over top 25 teams that elevated Az state almost to the top. What a year..

[@DevilzDance81]

Feel ya brother...

[@sirfin44]

Whose a Gator fan watching this? Thank you Ohio State for winning this game...gave us our first National Championship! At the end I remember OSU players screaming "Go Gators!" I'm forever a little bit of an OSU fan cuz of this game.

[@dwcushman1]

This was one of the first times that a big 10 team won a close Rose Bowl game. So many times the close games went to PAC 10’s way. Hmmm…

[@drnantz]

I was trashed and wasn't sure we won until the next day. "We won, right?"

[@duganfry3]

Was a great game and such a rarity bowl win under Coach John Cooper whom I found to be a nice guy but a below average field coach. Normally he blew these bowl games and always blew beating Michigan. We Ohio State fans celebrated like we won the National title because it was such a rarity to win the bowl game under him.

[@JSSTyger]

I remember John Cooper getting carried off the field after a victory over UM, crazy.

[@hermanblume275]

Cooper's best win at OSU. His only "big win" as far as Buckeye fans are concerned. He shit his pants every time he played Michigan. That's no way to be if you are a Buckeye. Tressel embraced the rivalry, just like Woody did. And Urban knows that the Big 10 Championship goes through Ann Arbor. That's why we own that team up north now. "We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan..."

[@GarrettSchräge]

we have a total of 136 national championships ranging in 20 college sports so lol at that. our football team won the rose bowl in 87 and the fiesta bowl 71, 72, 73, 75, 82 again lol.

[@jeeperp3926]

My wife and I were at the game. Heartbreaker for sure. Sloppy defense on ASU.

[@rawn4203]

2 reasons: Shitty kickoff by ASU gave the bux the ball at their own 40, and the prevent D chosen by Phil Snow, sealed ASU's fate. Such a shame they couldnt make that incredible TD by plummer hold up. ASU hasnt sniffed the RB since. Have to take advantage of those opportunities.

[@baco62]

Thats because of the BCS. The Pac Ten has either played the runner-up or another team has played in place of the Big Ten champion. Must be tough playing in your home field for the Rose Bowl every year. How do you do it getting up in your own bed in the morning and going out and playing the biggest game of your life in front of your home crowd?

[@mackavelli8872]

Cooper would’ve been a legend if he could’ve beaten the team up north. Regardless, love them or hate them, winning is what the Buckeyes do! Go Bucks!

[@gmen2006]

After the play that began at ASU's 20 and resulted in pass interference on RJ Soward, the ball was moved 15 yards to the 5 yard line instead of half the distance to the 10. WTF?

[@u2mister17]

Umm, half the distance is used for backing up against the offense. wtf How many times do you need to edit?

[@catfan5756]

Not true. I read the rules, but it maybe different in college and I read the pro rules. It says half the distance to the offending teams endzone. Not the offensive teams endzone.

[@HandsomeJimK]

David Boston before the HGH

[@rawn4203]

Spare me the home field advantage stuff. Didnt you see Oregon go into Michigan 2 years ago and leave with a 39-7 win, a michigan team that would go on to beat defending champ florida in a bowl? Did you not see USC just 2 months ago walk into the Shoe with a freshman qb with all of one game under his belt lead SC to a victory there too? You wont have that home field advantage excuse this year because the pac10 will be represented by either Oregon or Stanford.

[@carseye1219]

Don't know why they kept having the back helping out on Pace's side. The Big O needed no help.

[@Jrdives]

Joe germain is the head owner of my team

[@brianarbenz7206]

Arizona State had for all purposes arrived as a great athletic power in the NCAA right at that time. Then the Sun Devils just disappeared. A massive football scandal with huge numbers of players being arrested. Then Lute Olson out recruited the once excellent ASU basketball program and won an NCAA title at Arizona. The ASU baseball program faded fast after wining several college World Series.

[@eviekaykes]

RIP DIMITRIOUS STANLEY

[@24kGoldenRocket]

Really painful to watch this as an ASU Fan. The most painful memory is watching Pat Tillman who would be killed by "Friendly Fire" over in Afghanistan. War sucks. Especially unjustified War. Pat bought into a lie that they were "the Enemy". He found out whom the enemy was and paid for it with his life. No. The Afghanis did not blow up the World Trade Center, or the Pentagon, on 9-11. There was nobody from Afghanistan, or Iraq, on those Planes. Mainly they were SAUDIS...our "friends", FIFTEEN OF THEM.. There were two from the United Arab Emirates, one Egyptian and one Yemeni. Iraq had no WMDs. Even GW Bush had the audacity to joke about that. Many Americans DIED needlessly for that. IT WAS A DAMNED LIE!!! Tillman gave up his NFL career, and his life, by buying into a lie. This is a very painful video. RIP Pat Tillman.

[@pingdrop9279]

I think Pat Tillman would disagree with you.

[@24kGoldenRocket]

I guess that I will find out on the other side. I know that he was doing what he believed in doing. It was tragic that he paid for it with his life. I am very sad about that. I was rooting for him at ASU. Watching him sack that Washington Cougar QB live the next year was worth every dime I spent on that game. (What was that prima donna's WSU QB's name anyway??? For the life of me I just cannot remember. I know that the San Diego Chargers washed him out. I could look it up...That just shows to go you...) (Edited...Yeah...Now I remember...Ryan Leaf I guess I am getting CRS Disease.) I was happy that the NFL analysts were wrong. I was happy that both he and Jake Plummer played for the Arizona Cardinals. I was able to enjoy them more. I did not want him dead for the quagmire of Afghanistan that we are buried in currently. I do not think he would agree with it now. Most soldiers do not. It is very sad when ANYBODY dies young, needlessly, when they have so much talent to offer.

[@michaeloedy1568]

The middle and lower class always pays. Pat just paid up front. The rest of us are on payments. That war was $ expensive and so was the bank meltdown.

[@victorhamilton1622]

You are an idiot!

[@deeplorable8988]

Why is that Vicky? Do you believe in wars based on lies?

[@26michaeluk]

As a Florida fan, thank you.

[@sliceofcheese3890]

"There's no way you can get away with that anywhere... unless you're on the other side of the field." he was ruthless

[@bennyrobinson1935]

Just incredible

[@dlmast87]

how the hell did we steal it???

[@zachrizzo6525]

My grandparents were at this game! Go Bucks

[@franklinbumgartener1323]

Geez... It's like OSU had no idea what a running back was.

[@CoachMT4000]

The David Boston strut!!!

[@jay-rock6627]

David Boston was so talented he should've stayed @ that weight right there & left the steroids & weed alone. I remember this game like yesterday Wow 21 years already !!!

[@davidmendez5933]

Jay-Rock weed?? I think it was cocaine 🤔

[@azzurrin889]

I was at this game and sat right where David Boston caught the game winning catch. It was crazy!

[@lanceatkinson9317]

You sat in the end zone?

[@StFidjnr]

can you post asu last chance drive at this game here.

[@wilchambers1401]

Why didnt Joe Germain run the ball in he had a clear open field?

[@kenp7814]

He was coached by John Cooper?

[@DanielSong39]

Where is the pass rush?

[@silbergrau1]

I sure would love to trade Joe Bauserman for Joe Germaine right about now. :(

[@BarrettMarvin]

As a Florida Gator fan... Thank you to The Ohio State University for winning this game. The Gators beat up the #1 Seminoles the next night in the Sugar Bowl to win their first National Championship.

[@daffyduck612]

That's rare.

[@jameswattson1943]

what does oregon have to do with this vid?

[@thescatman5029]

I remember calling this one of the most poorly officiated college games, I've ever seen. Was my memory deceiving me?

[@rawn4203]

Actually the pac10 has not done well against Wisky, losing 3 rose bowls against them from 1994-2000. The first 2 were by UCLA (so much for that home field advantage theory eh?) and then the most recent one came following maybe the weakest season ever for the pac10, 1999, when Wisky beat Stanford 17-9. In 2k, UW beat Purdue and Drew Brees by 10. Oregon beat Texas in the holiday bowl, and Oregon state beat ND in the fiesta. OSU and UW both finished 11-1.

[@rawn4203]

Tell me the last time the awesome big10 beat the pac10 in the rose bowl......it's been a long long time.

[@foxbodyblues6709]

rawn4203 this didn’t age well

[@billyperry7991]

Did anybody ever wonder why Cooper went for two after this td?

[@markangelou9368]

Blocked XP

[@billyperry7991]

@@markangelou9368 why did you block me?

[@markangelou9368]

Billy Perry blocked extra point lol

[@billyperry7991]

@@markangelou9368 alright

[@timfleming3083]

Cooper initially went with QB Jackson for "political reasons" in this game. He wasn't getting it done and brought Germaine off the bench to pull it out for them.

[@mr.nibblenips4231]

Haha! Jake the Snake was so confident that they won.

[@cfbfanatic]

plus this is arizona state-ohio state not SC-ohio state

[@MargauxMachek]

Did DJ Jones drop 2 passes in a row?

[@CM-rg9zg]

Announcers pretty solemn over very big OSU plays

[@vjlou7857]

This was Cooper's 2nd bowl victory at Ohio State. Ohio State won the Holiday Bowl in 1993.