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Show B4 The SaltLakeTribune COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday, December 27, 1998 Missouri’s Joneses Too Much For UWV ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON,Ariz. — West Virginia couldn't quite keep up with the Jonesesin Saturday night's Insight.com Bow! Corby Jones rushed for three touchdowns and Julian Jones intercepted a pass and blocked a punt for a safety as No. 23 Missouri (84) held onto beat the Mountaineers 34-31 West Virginia's Marc Bulger completed 34 of 51 passes, both Insight.com Bowl records, for 429 yards and four second-half touch- The Stories Behind Brigham Young University's 20 trips to bowl games INSIGHT.COM BOWL West Virginia Missouri Fist Quarter Mis—Posey 70blocked. punt return ‘Long ick) 917 Mis-C Jones 9 run (Long bck), 303 od Quarter WV—FG Taylor 2814 Mis—Safety,J Jones blocked punt outofend sone, 617 Mi—C Jones run (Layman pass from Jones), 58 ‘Third Quarter WV—Saunders 9 pass from Bulger Taylor back) 8 Mis—C Jones 1 ru (Long Wie, 511 ‘WV ley 8 ps from Bulger Taslor kick), 28, Fourth Quarter WV—Zereoue $ pass from Bulger (Taylor kick), 1027 1974Fiesta Bow! |, OklahomaState 16, BYU 6 ; The Cougs took an early lead ontwo field goals before quarterback Gary Sheide sutfered a dislocated shoulder and left the game, never to Tetum, Behind backup Mark Giles, the Cougs could not do a thing 1976 Tangerine Bow! Oklahoma State 49, BYU 21 Dave Lowry retumed the second-half kickoff 102 yards for a Cougar downs to bring the Moun- & taineers back from a 21- pointdeficit. m, but it was not enoughto Bulger's four touchdown passes tied an Insight.com { Bowlrecord. His leading receiver, Sean Foreman caught an Insight.com record 11 passes for 18 yards. Bulger’s 9-yard scoring pass to Amos Zereoue cut Missouri's lead to 31-24 with 10:27 to play, andhis 1-yard touchdown toss to David Saunders made it 34-31 with 2:11 to play But Missouri’s Dwayne Blakley recovered the on side kick attempt andtheTigers ran outthe clock. West Virginia (8-4) lost its eighth consecutive bowl game, tying South Carolina's 1978 Holiday Bowl | Navy 23, BYU 16 , Sophomore Jim yard touchdown pass to Phi McConkey | 1979 Holiday Bowl Indiana 38, BYU 37 | Unbeaten, rankedninth and lea | eration in offense, the Cougs sour, Dausman 3-43, Wise 2 Layman 1-28, Bakley 1-1 Division I record. South Carolina's skid ended with a victory over West Virginia in the 1995 Carquest Bowl. Southern U. Vets Burst Wildcats’ Bowl Bubble 1980 Holiday Bow! BYU46, SMU 45 | Inthe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS flying high when they began their first post-season game in 21 years. Southern Unive sity’s Heritage Bowl veterans brought them crashing to earth Ryan Lewis ran 57 yards rer 84 interception return (Mattingly and 13 yards for third-quar wack),SU—Guye 1405, c ter touchdowns, and South 432955 Saturday in its fourth straight Heritage Bow! appearance in the Georgia Dome Bethuoe Cookman ti 2 BYUB2 final touchdor Southern Univenity vat kept the other Cougars out ofreach 1982 Holiday Bow! Ohio State 47, BYU 17 Steve Young passed for 341 yards, but the Cougs cor tun line, and the Buckeyes tumed each Williams. “They cameout too high.” Bethuneplayers had been talking big in the days leading upto the battle of historically black colleges. Southern senior running back Steve Wofford comparedthe Wildcats to a balloon that swells too big until it pops one into a score. Ohio State scored six rushing touchdowns. 1983 Holiday Bow! BYU21, Missouri 17 Eddie Stinnett took a handotf from. That's what we did — we have to fill those shoes and curries, including an 11-yard Southwestern Athletic Con: ferencerepresentatives, for the fourth timein five HeritageBowls Young at the Missoun15 in minute, faked a sweepright, threw a pass back to Young that ust cleared the outstretched hands 's Bobby Bell and gave ne game-winning touchdown the Unlikely Pair of Teams Meetin Title Showdown BY BILL VILONA PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL TEMPE, Ariz. — After a college football season filled with amazing upsets, enthralling moments, and confusion about computerrankings, maybe the 1984 Holiday Bow! BYU 24, Michigan 17 Playingfor thenational ‘championship. quarterback Robbie Bosco shook off knee ted a Michigan pass, however, did the Cougs secure their 13-0 seasonand the disputed spot atop thepolls 1985 Citrus Bow! OhioState 10. BYU 7 gars committed six hich — an quarterback }osco — wasretumed for inning touchdownby OSU nose guard Lary Kol. BYU managedjust 261 passingyards, 23 keep it going. The Jaguars (9-3), ter. But he was upstaged in his last gameby his heir-ap: parent, Lewis, The Wildcats (8-3), the “Southern has a tradition Mid-EasternAthletic Confer of great running backs,” said ence representatives, had Lewis, who finished with 84 seven fumbles and four interyards on seven carries. “I just ceptions mass the 1981 Holiday Bowl BYU 38, WashingtonSt. 36 “They came out sky high § popped'em,” Wofford said Hetotaled 119 yardson27 2 Jim MeMahonto Clay Brown. and we were calmand cool, said offensive lineman Chris 5248 scoring run inthe first quar- legendary “Mira points in the final2 minutes of a game otherwise dominated by SMU ATLANTA — BethuneCookman's Wildcats were sou Jim McMahon is easily the most successful quarterback in the history of BYU bowl games. He played in three — the 1978, '80 and ‘81 Holiday Bowls — and Won two, while completing 75-0f-126 passes for 995 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions. The only BYU quarterback to play in four bowl games was Detmer, who was 93-of-145 passing for 1,175 yards, six touchdowns and five interceptions — and had a 1-2-1 record Devil Stadium The countdown tothe Jan, 4 showdown — billed as the first unified national title game in major college football — begins today, whenthe Volunteersarrive rations in Tallahassee before leaving Monday after noon To play for a national championship, number one, youhaveto havesome luck,” said FloridaState Coach Bobby Bowden. “I think both teams can say that. But you haveto bepretty darn good, too." Neither team was favored to bein this position in September. The Vols started the year ranked No. 10, beforea Sept. 19 upset of Florida(20-17) in overtime — their first in six years against the Gators — vaulted their fortunes. Tennessee (12-0) also survived a major scare against Arkansas to complete its first undefeated regular season in 60 years. The Vols won their last national title in 1951 I forgot totell the kids they weren't supposed to be this good,” said Tennessee Coach Phil Fulmer. “There were alot of ifs going into this season.” Florida State (11-1) seemingly dropped from sight on Sept. 12, following a shocking 24-7 loss at North Carolina State, a 19-point underdog But the Seminoles reeled off 10 straight wins, ben- efiting from other teams’ upsets to climb in the polls. The ultimate good fortune came on Dec. 5, when UCLA and Kansas State stumbled, opening the way for Florida State. ‘Playing in a game like this is like living every college player's dream,” said Florida State quarterback Marcus Outzen. “It’s one of the most prestigious eventsin all college sports. The Fiesta Bowl, staged on Arizona State’s cam- pus, is the headline game of the newly-created, albeit controversial, Bowl Championship Series. Forthefirst time, the Big 10 and Pacific 10 confer- enceswereeligible to send teamsto a non-Rose Bow! title game. “Certainly, I believe the winnerofthis game deserves the national championship,” . , said Fulmer. Quarterback Jim McMahon convinced Edwards not to punt late in the game — “You're going to give up?” he screamed — then led the Cougs on one of the most remarkable comebacks in college football history. They scored 21 points in the final 2 minutes and won 46-45 on a last-second Hail Mary touchdown pass from McMahon to Clay Brown, ONE SHINING MOMENT Bybeating Kansas State 19-15 in the 1997 Cotton Bowl, the Cougars finished 14-1 and rankedfifth in the nation — their highest ranking since winning the national championship in 1984 The victory also gave the Cougs a |2-game winning streak, the longest in the nation. The streak ended, however, when BYU lost to Washingtonto open the 1997 season THERE WHEN YOU NEED HIM LAVELL WOULD’VE BEEN NEXT By the time Tom Youngstarted his first game for BYU in the 1992 Aloha Bowl, the Cougars had gone through three quarterbacks. John Walsh, Steve Clements and Ryan Hancock all had been hurt that Season, so it was left to Young to guide BYUagainst Kansas. Hedid a respectable job, too, throwing for 262 yards, The Cougs even led going into the fourth quarter, but gave up I! unanswered Most Cougar fans remember Kyle Morrell for his game-saving, over-the-top tackle against Hawaii that preserved BYU's undefeated 1984 season. But the year before, Morrell had a huge hand in the Cougars’ Holiday Bowlvictory over Missouri. He intercepted a desperation Tiger pass at the BYU JimMcMahon 2yard line in the final seconds to clinch the 21-17 win HISTORY REPEATING? The Cougars played in seven consecutive Holiday Bowls until meeting Ohio State in the 1985 Citrus points to lose, 23-20. Bowl because the Holiday Bowl wanted to UM, HONEY? Miracle Bowlof 1980 choose an at-large teamthat year Attending the 1986 Freedom Bowl not rather than take the WACchampion again. only as Coach LaVell Edwards’ wife, but as a reporter for the Sound familiar? This year, the Holiday Bowl Daily Herald newspaper in Provo, Patti Edwards had a chanceto canceled itslongstanding arrangement to invite ask UCLA Coach Terry Donahue a the WAC champ because of tough question during the press re uncertainty over the pending Bowlin’ Record conference after his Bruins plowed breakup of the league. over BYU 31-10, Here's how BYU has fared in bow!games against various Did Donahue think it was “kosher, C'MON SUNSHINE conferences, based onaffiliation Patti wanted to know, to attempt a The last (and only) time the halfback pass in the secondhalf of the Cougars have played anywhere blowout? close to Memphis, where they will nee Loe Donahue answered, rather meet Tulane in the Liberty Bowl, Wins Losses Ties embarrassedly, and so did Patti. She was in 1987 when they played was later seenin the hallway outside Big 8 3°93 «0 Virginia in the All-American Bowlat theinterview roomspeaking quietly to Birmingham, Ala. And though the Big 12 he30) 30 her husband weather down South is typically Pac-10 FD 10 The topic? Bet you can guess rather mild, even during the winter, the Cougs and Cavaliers clashed at Southwest 1 1 0 YOU REMEMBER HIM night with temperatures only in the Big Ten 144 Former Utah State Coach Charlie mid-40s, The Cavaliers won, 22-16. Weatherbie was the quarterback for AtlanticCoast 0 1 0 Oddly, that victory marked an Oklahoma State in each of BYU's first anniversary for Virginia Coach Independents 0 2 0 two bowl games. Weatherbie led the George Welsh; precisely nine years Cowboys to victories over the Cougs earlier, he beat BYU 23-16 in the in the 1974 Fiesta Bowl and the 1976 Tangerine Bow! inaugural Holiday Bowl as the head coach at Navy. HE WENT BACK THE NEXT YEAR As the Cougars BIG TEN, BIG TROUBLE were getting The Cougars have played Ohio pummeled by SMU in State three times in bowl games, the 1980 Holiday and lost all three while scoring Bowl, apparently on just 45 total points. BYU is Itheir way to a fifth 4-1 in bowl games against straight bowl defeat teams from theBig Ten. without any victories, The Tulane Green Wave CoachLaVell Edwards play in Conference USA, a could not help but relatively new league whose think, “I hope | never members have never played have to go to another BYU bowl game."Turned out they weren't so — Compiled by bad, after all. Michael C. Lewis Injured Boscois helped off thefield 1967All-American Bowl Virginia 22,BYU 16 Quarterback Sean Covey threw 61 passes and compiled 394 yards, but the Cougars failed twice from inside the Virginia 10 and kicker Leonard Chitty missed two field goals aftersetting a singleseason schoolrecord with 18. 1988 Freedom Bow! BYU 20, Colorado 17 Future Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, a freshman, came off the bench to complete 11-of-19 passes for 129 yards and a touchdown and win MVP honors, while Jason Chatfetz kicked two fourth-quarter field goals to lift the Cougs to victory. 1989 Holiday Bow! PennState 50, BYU 39 Quarterback Ty Detmer threw for 576yards — the most everina bowi game — but was stripped of the balllate in the game by Penn State's Gary Brown, who ran 53 yards for a clinching touchdown 1990 Holiday Bowl Texas A&M 65, BYU 14 Only weeksafter Ty Detmer won the HeismanTrophy,the Aggies separated both of his shoulders and knocked him out of the worst bow! loss in BYUhistory, Texas ‘A&M poured it on plenty, 100, scoring 21 pointsin the fourth quarter. 1991 Holiday Bow! BYU13, lowa 13 inhis final game at BYU, quarlerback Ty Detmer threw for 350 yards and two touchdowns, but had a passinto the end zone tipped and intercepted with 33 seconds lett to prevent a BYU victory. 1992 Aloha Bow! Kansas 23, BYU 20 Wth Ryan Hancock out with a knee injury, quarterback Tom Your made hisfirst start and threw for 262 yards and a touchdown, But Young also was sacked six times, and BYU missed two field goals and blew anextra point 1993 Holiday Bow! Ohio State 28, BYU 21 Quarterback JohnWalsh threw four straight incomplete passesfrom the Ohio State 6-yard linein the final 32 seconds, and the Cougars lost to the Buckeyes for the third straighttime. 1994 Copper Bow! BYU 31, Oklahoma 6 With the Sooners listless in their final game underfired Coach Gary Gibbs,the Cougars feasted, Junior quarterback John Walsh threw for 454 yards and four touchdownsin his final game for BYU;he tumed pro a few monthslater. 1997Cotton Bow! BYU 19, KansasState 15 Atter being left out of the controversial Bow!Alliance, despite a No, rankingin the polls, the Cougs scored two fourth-quarter touch- downs and used Omarr Morgan's interception deep in Cougar temitory to clinch a win in BYU's first New Year's Day bow! game. odd Adams The Salt Lake Tribune Cougars Expect Few Changes From Tulane tspecially now that cornerback Heshimu Robert- son has been suspended. Inexperienced Rob Warcup art in his place, and could bein for a longday.) Seldom do coachestake a job with a new team and stick around to coach a bowl gamewith their old one, if in Arizona ‘The Seminoles are completing thebulk of prepa- efense enough to stop the Bruins om rushing for 423 yards, while the offense suffered an anemic performance for the second season inarow. Historically, BYU always seems to wind’ up Playing teams that run theball as often as the Cougs throw it Oklahoma State rushed 70 times in a victory over the Cougs in the 1976 Tangerine Bowl, and five other bowl opponents have rushed at least 60 times against BYU. On average, opponents have run 52.8 times in each of BYU's 20 bowl appearances. ONLY ONE IS STILL ON TV Three running backs have gained 200 or more yards against BYU in a bowl game, UCLA's Gaston Green ran for 266 in the 1986 Freedom Bowl, Ohio State’s Raymont Harris had 235 in the 1993 Holiday Bowl, and SMU's Craig James gained 225 in the 1980 Holiday Bowl finality is only fitting Florida State and Tennessee, once unlikely title contenders, will test similar strengths and resolve whenmeetingat the Fiesta Bowl ineight days at Sun ‘ven Outland Trophywinner Jason could not fority the Cougar GROUNDGAINERS McMahonthrew for only 181 yards the inaugural Holiday Bowl, and the Midshipmen broke a fourth-quarter tie with a 65: Jones 18:51, Daus- a, GETREDESE only becauseso fewget the opportunity, John L. Smith @ Continued from B-1 coachedUtahState in the Humanitarian Bow!last sea. sonafter accepting the head coachingjob at Louisville while Dennis Franchione led New Mexico into the InWe're a maturegroupof guys. We'll beready. Bowlafter agreeing to take over at Texas The9-4 Cougars hope tobe, too; that’s why they left sight.com Christian. for Memphis last Wednesday — eight days beforethe Neither won, however. game. They hoped toget in some good workouts in UtahStatelost to Cincinnati and New Mexicolostto warmer weatherafter taking last week off for final Arizona, perhapsexplaining whycoaches moreoften exams. The Cougspracticed just twice the week after are either requiredby their new tostart immedilosing the WAC championship gameto Air Force, and ately andget going onrecruiting, team or asked by their old will haveto get ready for a team that throws almostas teamtobeat it, already, if they don’t want to be there often as the Falcons ran. The Cougars haveneverplayeda team whosecoach “It will bethe biggest challenge for the whole sec- had taken anotherjob. They have, however, played a ondaryall year long,” said cornerback Brian Gray team whose coach hadbeen fired. That happenedin 1994, when Gary Gibbs and hisstaff at Oklahoma had been canned but were allowed to work through the Copper Bowl in Arizona. BYUpromptly whipped the Sooners, 31-6. ‘That team played with no emotion,” recalled BYU offensive coordinator Norm Chow. The Green Wave, he suspects, are different. Not onlydothey have a lotto play for, but they have three weeksto shake anylingering malaise and a coach who — if he was worthyofbeinghired in thefirst place — surely must be smart enoughto keep his hands off the playbook until 1999 “He'd be foolish to tinker with that offense of theirs,” said Chow. Andthat meansthe Cougars can goright on preparing for the Tulane team that has won 11 straight games, and not some once-dangerous squad rendered suddenly impotent by the upheaval of the past few weeks, Corporate Title Sponsorship Has Become Nameof the College Bowl Game BY ALAN SNEL SUN-SENTINEL FORT LAUDERDAL Fla. — In 1986, Sunkist stunned and even appalled college football purists by paying $1 milliontofuseits monikertothe Fiesta Bowl Thenamesofcollege bowl games have never been the same. Whilesportsfans cringe over the corporate names plasteredonstadiumsandarenas, title sponsorships for the holiday seasoncollege games have spawned some real whoppers during the past dozen years, including the Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl and the Outback Steakhouse Gator Bowl This year’s crop includes the Jeep Aloha Bowl, Insight.com Bowl. Builders Square Alamo Bowl. Culligan Holiday Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl For years and yearsand years, there were no title sponsorships,” said Mare Kidd of Lexington, Ky based Host Communications, which works with coi panies on college sponsorship deals. “In the early days, the decisions to give corporate titles were con- troversial. But the marketplace has changed. The public has cometo accept the commercialism Thesedays, the going rate for a companytohitch its name to a bowl game andtreatits clients and suppliers to a few fun-filled days is $750,000 for the lesser-known gamesand $8million for the Big Four of the Bowl Championship Series: the Tostitos Fies- ta, the FedEx Orange, the Nokia Sugar andthe Rose Bowl presented by AT&T. morphedinto the Carquest Bowl in 1994. It became the Sunshine Classic last year when there was no title sponsor. Because the Micron PCBow is considered a minor bowl among many ofthe same caliber, the risk the corporateaffiliation will get lostthereis in the clutter of the more than 20 post-season games, said Craig Tartasky, sports division executive director of Washington, D.C.-based E.J. Krause & Associates. While Micron is a new playerin the college bowl as the Orange Bowl’s title sponsor. landscape, Federal Expressis marking its 10th year South Florida offers the newest naming rights deal and one of the oldest: the Micron PC Bowl at Pro Player Stadium on Dec. 29 and the FedEx Orange “You can't watch the gamefor a couple of minutes without seeing the logo,” said Jim Lyski, Federal Expressvice president of marketing. He noted Federal Express’s orange-and-purple color schemeis a perfect Idaho-based Micron Electronics is the latest com- team with orange as its primary color — Syracuse Bowl at the Orange Bowl on Jan 2. panyto payfor thetitle sponsorshipof a gamethat debuted as the Blockbuster Bowl in 1990 and touch for a gamethat this year draws one University — and another with orange and blue its primary colors — the Universityof Florida ' |
