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BU games decided on the final play

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whitetrash
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BU's last two games have been "walkoffs" decided on the final play. So I went back through my collective memory (and the BU football almanac) to try to recall how many other BU games in the past 50+ years went down to the final play of regulation, or were decided in OT on a "score or go home" play (i.e., not including OT games like WV this year, where they scored on 3rd down, or OU last year when we failed to convert 4th down but could have gotten a 1st down at the 15). Also excluded are games where the winning points were scored with time left on the clock (e.g., IowaSt 2019: 21 sec, KSt 2018: 9 sec, OkSt 2018: 6 sec, Lamar 1981: 3 sec). Using those criteria, only once before has it happened 2 games in a row, but more about that later. I came up with 14, in reverse chronological order:


2020 KSt (W 32-31, GWFG)
2020 @Tech (L 24-23, GWFG)
2016 @IowaSt (W 45-42, tiebreaking FG)
2014 TCU (W 61-58, tiebreaking FG)
2011 @KU (W 31-30, failed 2pt conversion in OT)
2004 A&M (W 31-30, successful 2pt conversion in OT)
2002 KU (W 35-32, tiebreaking FG)
1999 UNLV (L 27-24, no explanation necessary)
1999 @BC (L 30-29, BU missed PAT in OT)
1998 NCSt (W 33-30, Gary Baxter blocked FG that would have sent it to OT)
1992 LaTech (L 10-9, GWFG)
1986 USC (L 17-14, tiebreaking FG)
1983 @Ark (W 24-21, tiebreaking FG)

And the only other time it happened back-to-back was the first two games of 1999.

I couldn't recall one from the 1970s. Closest to the end was probably 1975 Michigan, when Bubba Hicks missed a GWFG with 6 seconds left and it ended in a 14-14 tie.
BellCountyBear
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What year did college football start having overtime?
whitetrash
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BellCountyBear said:

What year did college football start having overtime?
1996.

BU's first OT game was the 3OT loss to Mizzou 49-42 on 11/16/96, after we fought back from a 28-0 deficit in the 2nd half.

Other meaningless trivia: the last tie in D1 college football was Rice and Army 17-17 in 1995.
Grumpy
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I distinctly remember all of these except 1983. The USC game was particularly crushing.
Stefano DiMera
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I definitely remember 83..i was on sideline working for Frank Fallon and SWC Radio Network in a pouring rain..
gobears20
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Thanks for posting!

You remember the 86 game against USC when that freak storm hit as usc was going to kick that game winning field goal?
Jack Bauer
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1992 LaTech (L 10-9, GWFG)

Chris Boniol (later to be Dallas Cowboys kicker). I wasn't even mad b/c we played so bad we didn't deserve to win.
whitetrash
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Stefano DiMera said:

I definitely remember 83..i was on sideline working for Frank Fallon and SWC Radio Network in a pouring rain..


Rain was at the 86 USC game. Arkansas game was on a beautiful fall afternoon in Fayettenam. It was headed to a tie until Muecke hit Bruce Davis on a 40 yard pass to the Arky 15 with about 30 sec left to set up the game winner.
Grumpy
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USC game had Keith Jackson calling the game on ABC. Baylor was a top 10 team. They did cool features of Baylor and Waco during timeouts. It was great exposure for our school. But the first half ended with an attempted leap into the end zone on a one-yard play only to have the ball knocked out and run 99 yards the other direction.

We were the more talented team that day, but took the loss
wuzzybear
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whitetrash said:

BU's last two games have been "walkoffs" decided on the final play. So I went back through my collective memory (and the BU football almanac) to try to recall how many other BU games in the past 50+ years went down to the final play of regulation, or were decided in OT on a "score or go home" play (i.e., not including OT games like WV this year, where they scored on 3rd down, or OU last year when we failed to convert 4th down but could have gotten a 1st down at the 15). Also excluded are games where the winning points were scored with time left on the clock (e.g., IowaSt 2019: 21 sec, KSt 2018: 9 sec, OkSt 2018: 6 sec, Lamar 1981: 3 sec). Using those criteria, only once before has it happened 2 games in a row, but more about that later. I came up with 14, in reverse chronological order:


2020 KSt (W 32-31, GWFG)
2020 @Tech (L 24-23, GWFG)
2016 @IowaSt (W 45-42, tiebreaking FG)
2014 TCU (W 61-58, tiebreaking FG)
2011 @KU (W 31-30, failed 2pt conversion in OT)
2004 A&M (W 31-30, successful 2pt conversion in OT)
2002 KU (W 35-32, tiebreaking FG)
1999 UNLV (L 27-24, no explanation necessary)
1999 @BC (L 30-29, BU missed PAT in OT)
1998 NCSt (W 33-30, Gary Baxter blocked FG that would have sent it to OT)
1992 LaTech (L 10-9, GWFG)
1986 USC (L 17-14, tiebreaking FG)
1983 @Ark (W 24-21, tiebreaking FG)

And the only other time it happened back-to-back was the first two games of 1999.

I couldn't recall one from the 1970s. Closest to the end was probably 1975 Michigan, when Bubba Hicks missed a GWFG with 6 seconds left and it ended in a 14-14 tie.

I was at that Michigan game in 1975. We literally outplayed them the whole game really or at least 65/35. Hicks was not a soccer style kicker. I think it was from the right hash and it missed by about a foot.
Aliceinbubbleland
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whitetrash said:



2004 A&M (W 31-30, successful 2pt conversion in OT)

All time favorite.
Stefano DiMera
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Thanks..brain fart..i meant 86
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