The 1984 BYU college football thread

[_bcspace]

I knew that McMahon was Catholic at the time. We all (who followed football and BYU) did. Brings back great memories of the 1980 Holiday Bowl when I, going to junior high in Dallas Texas, predicted a "BY Who?" victory to all my classmates on Friday and came back to gloat after Christmas break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qBppfdcB4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b55Tn_YbLK8

[_palerobber]

they absolutely deserved to win it.

you can argue that they weren't the best team in the nation that year, but you can legitimately argue same about the national champion pretty much every year (e.g. Texas A&M was the best team in the nation this past year, not Alabama)

(by the way, your post contradicts itself -- you say they "didn't play any traditional football powers" and then go on to say they played Michigan)

[_palerobber]

Why didn't BYU play anyone good in the final bowl game? It seems to me that this was partially college footballs mistake for letting an undefeated team go unchallenged.

The MWC (where BYU played) probably had a contract to send their champion (who no one thought would be undefeated) to the Liberty Bowl which was contracted to play the 5th or 6th team from the Big Ten. The bowls decided who played in them. The major bowls (Rose, Orange, etc) were played by bigger teams (in name anyway).

you mean the WAC, not the MWC.

[_palerobber]

I was eight years old when BYU went undefeated. In my heart they were still the best, but in reality they were probably around the level of the last few Boise State teams more recently. You can't substitute Tongans for Negroes at the speed positions and expect to be the best [...]

how can it be that you're not even 40 but already sound like a racist old grandpa?

[_ajax18]

how can it be that you're not even 40 but already sound like a racist old grandpa?

Because I didn't believe in the liberalism that government school tries to inculcate in children. I do believe that blacks can run faster. Public school never admitted that because simple facts like that don't fit into what liberalism wants the world to be. But anyone with eyes not distorted by liberal spectacle lenses can easily see it. Your perception of reality is skewed in my opinion.

Trying to bully people into ignoring and not talking about inconvenient facts.. You, EAllusion, Graham... you all must have been great chapel Mormons back in the day. I guess the same old methods of suppressing the truth are working just as well with your new liberal religion.