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Filter Products. Refine Listing. Grid List Row. Product Line View All. Enter Uwe von Schamann. His successful onside kick followed by a yard field goal gave OU the win.

The Irish marched down the field to get in field goal range. The Vols' Jeremy Lincoln blocked it with his butt. The Bulldogs almost made it six. Time expired, sending the Tide back to the BCS title game. USC snapped the Fighting Irish's game unbeaten streak, and the Trojans claimed their first national championship.

Parseghian rode off on his players' shoulders after Reggie Barnett's interception of Tide QB Richard Todd with under two minutes left sealed it. Ole Miss QB Archie Manning had total yards passing, rushing and five touchdowns three rushing, two passing in the loss. FSU moved into field goal range, but Matt Munyon missed a yarder to tie.

It was wide right. Of course. Michigan State 41, at Northwestern 38 Oct. Two interceptions and a blocked punt for a touchdown fueled the point rally. Michigan State tied it on a 9-yard Drew Stanton TD pass with left and won it on Brett Swenson's yard field goal with 13 seconds on the clock.

Michel atoned for the miscue as his yard sprint in the second overtime sent the Bulldogs to the national title game. Kansas stopped the initial try but was flagged for having 12 men on the field. The Nittany Lions finished second in the final AP poll. George Teague's yard interception return for a TD in the third quarter effectively ended it. Arkansas finished the season with a share of the national title. Rocket Ismail took a punt back 91 yards for a score with 43 seconds left to jolt the Fighting Irish into the apparent lead, but a clipping call wiped the play out.

Pittsburgh 13, at No. The four-touchdown-favorite Mountaineers, who committed five turnovers and had only total yards, couldn't recover after QB Pat White was knocked out of the game in the second quarter. The Huskers celebrated on the field when Colt McCoy's pass sailed out of bounds and the clock ran to to all zeros on the previous play.

Navy 14, No. The Midshipmen limited No. Truman and , others in attendance. Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin threatened not to allow the Yellow Jackets to play in the game because Pitt's roster included Bobby Grier, who was black. The Yellow Jackets and Grier did make it to New Orleans for the game, but a very questionable pass interference call against Grier led to the only points of the game.

Alabama scored 17 points on its first three possessions. The Tide defense thwarted three Trojans drives inside the Bama yard line in the second half to preserve the win. Wilbur Jamerson caught and rushed for a touchdown in the first half, and five Oklahoma turnovers helped the Wildcats hang on for the upset win. But that just set the stage for a thrilling finish. Michael Crabtree caught a yard toss from Graham Harrell, shook off a defender and raced into the end zone for the winning touchdown with only one second on the clock.

Pat Haden tossed a yard TD pass to J. McKay with left. Haden connected with Shelton Diggs, who made a diving catch on the 2-point conversion, to win it.

The Trojans would claim a share of the national championship. At Columbia 21, No. As the game ended, reports say the Columbia fans waved white handkerchiefs at the Army side of the field, where many Cadets had tears streaming down their faces.

QB Bobby Lackey threw the winning score for the Horns. The win over the Sooners was the first of eight straight that Texas would win in the series under coach Darrell Royal. Quarterback Glenn Foley moved the ball to the Notre Dame 24, and kicker David Gordon nailed a yard field goal at the gun. The team that the Irish beat the week before, Florida State, went on to win the national championship. Wisconsin quarterback Ron Vander Kelen, who averaged passing yards per game, threw for yards.

The teams broke 11 Rose Bowl records. But the playing field leveled when Army's Thanksgiving meal included a course of food poisoning. Forty-two players became ill. They recovered to play, but a crowd of ,, including President Truman, Chief Justice Vinson and most of the Cabinet, saw a taut game that Navy tied with a touchdown with left.

When the Tide scored on a pick-six to go ahead with to play, head coach Gene Stallings chose to kick the extra point instead of go for two. Danny Wuerffel drove the Gators down for the win, scoring on a 2-yard pass to Chris Doering. In the fourth quarter with the score , on fourth down from the TCU 39, the Mustangs' Bob Finley went back to punt but instead threw a touchdown pass to Bobby Wilson. The usual hate had been replaced by love -- Texas held a campus blood drive and played the "Aggie War Hymn" on the carillon in the campus tower.

Ja'Mar Toombs led the Aggies back from a point deficit by rushing for yards and two scores on 37 carries. The Spartans' Jalen Watts-Jackson caught the fumble and returned it 38 yards for the winning points.

He suffered a dislocated hip when tackled in the end zone, and then his teammates piled on him. Watts-Jackson recovered; Michigan still suffers. Syracuse scored again, with left, but in those days, there was no 2-point conversion.

TCU scored all four touchdowns off turnovers. At Miami 49, No. The Miami at season's end played much tougher than the Miami of September. Both set school records. At LSU 7, No. The fan celebration literally shook the ground, as registered by a campus seismograph. Both teams finished at in the league. All Georgia coach Vince Dooley wanted was a first down on a third-and play. Quarterback Buck Belue found wide receiver Lindsay Scott in the middle of the field.

Scott spun to the left sideline and won a footrace to glory. Did he ever. On fifth down, Colorado quarterback Charles Johnson ran in for the touchdown. You heard me. Fifty years earlier, Cornell beat Dartmouth, , by scoring on fifth down. Upon reviewing the films, Cornell forfeited the game. Colorado coach Bill McCartney would hear of no such thing. The Buffs went on to share the national championship with Georgia Tech.

Columbia 7, Stanford 0 Rose Bowl, Jan. Columbia used the play, a hidden-ball reverse, in which Cliff Montgomery handed off to Al Barabas in the first quarter and gained 25 yards.

They tried it in the second quarter, and Barabas went 17 yards for a touchdown. Twice in the second half, Stanford drove inside the Columbia 10 and came up empty. Riegels stunning move created a big head start, but his teammate Benny Lom chased him down and tackled him.

Cal had the ball on its 1. When Lom tried to punt the ball out, Georgia Tech blocked it for a safety. Riegels graciously acceded to being called "Wrong Way" for the next 64 years. Stanford 24, at No.

He threw four second-half interceptions, one a pick-six. In the final minute, on fourth-and-goal from the USC 10, Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard, making his first start, threw a perfect fade to a leaping Mark Bradford for the winning score.

Alabama 25, No. The Tigers went for two and failed, which left the door open a crack. QB Mike Shula drove the Crimson Tide 45 yards to the Auburn 35 in six plays, converting a fourth-and-6 along the way, and Van Tiffin split the uprights from 52 yards out. The Buckeyes grabbed a lead in the second quarter. Head coach Woody Hayes stuck to his grind-it-out playbook even as the Wolverines put nine men in the box. Michigan tied it in the fourth quarter; the Wolverines' Mike Lantry missed field goal attempts of 58 and 44 yards in the final They played before ,, who saw a tense, taut game.

Both teams scored their touchdowns in the first quarter, then settled into a war of attrition. USC thought it went ahead, , late in the third quarter when Notre Dame back Charles Riley fumbled an interception near the Irish goal line and the ball rolled out of the end zone. The officials ruled he didn't have possession of the ball. The films disagreed. With the score tied at 21, the momentum tilted toward the Gators.

Langham snatched it and returned it 27 yards for the winning score. Conference championship games would live to see a healthy life.

His momentum carried Bauman into the Ohio State sideline, whereupon legendary head coach Woody Hayes set upon him. And threw a right cross at Bauman's neck. Hayes, 65, was fired the next morning. The Midshipmen, , started their final drive at their 33 at the midway point of the fourth quarter. It ended at the Army 4 when Navy, out of timeouts, frantically tried to get off a final snap to win but failed.

Army won the game but lost any chance at the national title. At Iowa State 37, No. The Cowboys went ahead by 17 points in the third quarter. But Iowa State scored a touchdown with left to tie it.

In the second quarter, Trojans tailback Charles White took off on a leap toward the goal line from the Michigan 3. About halfway there, he fumbled the ball. The officials signaled touchdown, anyway.

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden called the "Puntrooskie": The snap went to one blocker, who handed it forward between the legs of LeRoy Butler, who took off running 78 yards around left end. Four plays later, Florida State's Richie Andrews kicked the winning yard field goal.

Down to its last prayer, on fourth-and on its yard line with 36 seconds to play, Auburn sent Ricardo Louis deep. Rather than bat down Nick Marshall's pass, Georgia defensive back Tray Matthews tried to intercept it. Teammate Josh Harvey-Clemons got a hand on the ball, which bounced out of Matthews' grasp into the waiting arms of Louis, who ran in for the score.

The last prayer -- the Prayer at Jordan-Hare -- was answered. The Wolverines nearly rallied to win a day after legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler died.

The Gators had the last laugh, however, when they routed the No. Great Lakes Navy Training 19, No. The Irish scored on Creighton Miller's 1-yard run with left, but then Great Lakes threw a yard touchdown only 38 seconds later. The Pokes trailed by 10 in the fourth quarter but took the lead before the Sooners went ahead for good with to go. OU survived one last drive when Brent Parker dropped a fourth-down pass in the end zone.

Sanders ran for yards with two touchdowns. Wildcats quarterback Michael Bishop had yards of offense with four touchdowns, and Jeff Kelly's yard TD return of an Eric Crouch fumble with three seconds left sealed it for Kansas State, which improved to under Bill Snyder.

Louis, Dec. The Wildcats led by 15 going into the fourth quarter of the Big 12 title game, but the Aggies rallied late to tie the score. Carlisle 23, at Harvard 15 Nov.