Here are some of the best games of the last decade.
1.January 4th, 2006 Texas defeats USC 41-38
USC was supposed to easily beat Texas in the National Championship in 2006 and with 6 minutes left in the fourth quarter it looked like they would beat Texas. But the Longhorns wouldn't go away. With 19 seconds to go in the game, Texas was down 38-33. Texas QB Vince Young made a heroic play being chased out of the pocket and running in for the score. Texas ended up winning 41-38 coming back from a 31-23 deficit with late in the fourth quarter.
2.September 29th, 2007 Auburn defeats UF 20-17
Many Florida fans would like to forget this day in history. They were the defending National Champions and were considered unstoppable. But at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium that night, their opponents the Auburn Tigers walked in as underdogs and out as winners. Florida going in to the final minutes of the fourth quarter had all the momentum, coming back to tie it up 17-17 after losing 17-3 at the beginning of the fourth quarter. But Auburn came back down the field and in the final seconds kicked a 45 yard field goal to win it.
3.September 1 2007 App St defeats Michigan 33-32
This was provably the biggest upset in college football history. Appalachian State entered the Big House, full of excited and happy Michigan fans. But after the game, the Big House was full of heart broken and sad fans. Michigan was losing most of the game but came back and got it to 32-34 only down by two. But Michigan got the ball back got to the App State 27 and attempted a 37 yard field goal in the final seconds to win. Everyone expected it to go in but App State blocked it to win! Everyone was shocked. WOW!
These were the best games of the last decade.
The decade of the 2000's was a great decade for college football. Let's look back at the best of the last decade. Over the rest of Janurary, I will look at the best games, teams, and players. First let's look back at the best teams of the last decade.
1. 05 Texas team
This team was led by future NFL star Vince Young who led Texas to a huge upset at the National Title game against the powerful USC Trojans. This team went undefeated and in my book, is the best team of the last decade.
2. 01 Miami team
This team was packed with future NFL stars like Ed Reed, Andre Johnson, Jeremy Shockey and Clinton Portis. This team won the 2001 National Championship and almost repeated the next year.
3. 04 Auburn team
This team was jipped out of a National Championship chance and ended up in the Sugar Bowl where they beat Virgina Tech and went undefeated. This team had future NFL stars like Tampa Bay HB Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, Dolphins HB Ronnie Brown and Redskins QB Jason Campbell. These were in my opinion the best teams of the decade.
January 6 was a huge night for not only for the college football universe, but Texas QB Colt McCoy as well. He had his final chance to shine after getting robbed from the BCS National Championship Game last year, and being runner up for the Heisman two years in a row. But after driving down the field on the second possession, McCoy who had been waiting for this moment for 5 years, injured his shoulder and would no return. Alabama took advantage. With a freshman QB playing for Texas, Alabama's defense took advantage and clobbered the Texas offense while the Alabama offense tacked on 37 points and won the game. The Alabama Crimson Tide had just won their first National Championship sense 1992. Although Alabama head coach showed no emotion, you could tell he was happy. After three short years in Tuscaloosa, he turned a program that was about to fall from greatness and turned it into to a powerhouse. Congrats Alabama. Your the 2009 national champs!
Arizona will sqaure off against Nebraska in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl. This bowl game shoul be on New Years day because this is one of the best bowl games out there. But it's not. Both teams are evenly matched with Nebraska's firey defense led by star DT Ndamukong Suh who has 212 total tackles and 4 interceptions and Arizona's pass attack offense led by star QB Nick Foles who has passsed for 2,495 and 19 TD's. Arizona is coming off a hudge win against rival USC and Nebraka is coming off a heartbraking loss to Texas in the Big 12 Championship game. Both teams were runner ups in their conference to. But they have differences. Nebraska has a storiedhistory of National Championships and conference titles while Arizona does not have a good history a until this year, was a push around in the Pac-10. Me and the rest of the staff lov this bowl and hope you wach on ESPN at 8:00. Enjoy this great bowl game!
After beating rival opponents, Texas, Florida and Alabama all look to go to the National Championship. We know that the winner of the SEC championship game will go to the National Championship but what about Texas. After barley beating Texas A&M, Texas will have another tough task against Nebraska. If they lose, that opens doors for Cincy and TCU and Boise State. I think the Gators will win in triple overtime against Alabama and Texas will beat the Cornhuskers 21-20 in the last seconds. But for Mark Ingram, Tim Tebow and Colt Mcoy, this will be their final chance to impress the heisman voters before the award is given. This should be the best college football Saturday in more than a decade. So don't plan much for Saturday!
Last Saturday night when Texas killed Oklahoma State, I thought that Texas would jump over Alabama in the BCS rankings. Well, I was right. After looking the paper this morning, I was so excited to see Texas in the number two spot in the BCS. Texas is my favorite team (besides Florida State and Auburn), but sense I picked them to win the National Championship, I'm cheering for them even more. But what about the Crimson Tide? They are the best team in the SEC but even though they have a great RB in Mark Ingram, we won't know if they deserve to be ranked this high until after they play LSU and Auburn. Those two games will define this team. Before their game against Tennessee a couple weeks ago, I thought they would snap LSU and Auburn in half. But after having to block two field goals to beat Tennessee, forget that. But don't get me wrong, Alabama is good but not Texas or Oregon are good Texas jumping Alabama in the BCS was expected but these two teams have lots of talent so don't be surprised if they both end up in a BCS bowl game.
Last night, was not a very good night for Nebraska, even though they won. Losing 12-0 going into the forth, Nebraska QB Zac Lee connected to Niles Paul for a touchdown. That TD led to three more in the fourth which ended in a 27-12 Cornhuskers win. But even though they won, they still played a bad game. Nebraska only got 86 yards of offense in the first three quarters and got 155 yards in the 4th. It was two good teams that had bad offenses and okay defenses. If Nebraska plays like that vs teams like Texas and Oklahoma and Colorado, then they will be out of the AP poll in a flash. Although I think they deserve to be respected, you can't play like that against Big 12 teams. Congrats Nebraska, you won but it wasn't a good win.
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