Don't forget Notre Dame Alabama in one of the greatest bowl games ever!

@@jamesfields2916 True indeed. But I missed all but the last minute of it. Our family went out to a NY Eve dinner with friends and got back to their apartment and turned on the TV to see ND running out the clock with the one-point lead. Our friend was familiar with the Bear's coaching methods and said the Bama players were in for a rough time in the locker room.

@@brianarbenz1329 the last minute was huge when Clements hit Weber on 3rd and long from the 2.

NBC used that catch in promos for college bowl games for years to come.

Oops 🙊. My above comment was meant to be under Tate Sinclair’s post!

Same here, as soon as I saw the close up of John. That was a wonderful story! ❤️

I agree with both of you

i don't totally disagree with you. but after mc queary told him about what he saw in the shower re: sandusky and the kid having sex, he could have, and should have, done a lot more. paterno never cut off sandusky's access to the campus, even well after he was made aware that sandusky was hot, and never really cut ties with him. all he did was what he was legally bound to do; go to his superior (PSU's AD) with what he was told, and then it went up the chain. paterno was directly told that sandusky was using PSU's facility to have sex with boys (which was going on possibly as far back the 70s) and he did the minimum he could do, then kept right on with football.

@@shawnflanagan4995 your absolutely right. He handled it terribly!!!!

It was evil what they did to Joe Paterno. He did absolutely nothing wrong.

Doesn't matter what they did. Even if they were awarded that National Title, it still would've been judiciously taken back after Sandusky. They don't deserve a team, let alone any past glories. Period. There is no other argument to be made. It's disgusting this institution is still allowed to have a team. A disgrace. You are complicit in the pederasty if you still root for Penn State.

And it wasn’t even controversial-because of who the top 4 were. 1. Notre Dame (11-0): beat #8 Southern Cal 23-14, beat #4 Alabama 24-23 2. Ohio State (10-0-1): beat #8 Southern Cal 42-21, tied #6 Michigan 10-10 3. Oklahoma (10-0-1): tied #8 Southern Cal 7-7, beat #14 Texas 52-13, beat #17 Missouri 31-3, beat #18 Kansas 48-20, beat #7 Nebraska 27-0, on probation 4. Alabama (11-1): beat #19 Tennessee 42-21, beat #13 LSU 21-7, #1 before bowls 5. Penn State (12-0): no regular season games against teams ranked in final poll

And they probably would have beaten any of the four teams in front of them. This was their best team until 1982 (and was better defensively than 82).

​​@@sargeast1629 They were HEAVILY out gained by the Bengal Tigers....the slipping and sliding aside... I don't think they would've beaten ANY of those teams..having not beaten a ranked team all season..in fact Oklahoma ...who shut them out 14-0 in the Sugar Bowl the year before..and had a MUCH more explosive wishbone attack in 1973 destroying Texas and Nebraska... Add in the Salmon brothers on defense among other All-Americans...no this Penn State team woulda been TOAST versus the top 4 that year...even this Orange Bowl was against one of the lowest ranked opponent in Orange Bowl history....nope this Lion team was TOTALLY untested...

Cappelletti was suffering from the flu, so it severely limited his performance against LSU. PSU's defense could stop ANYBODY, as witnessed by what the 72 defense did to the mighty Texas wishbone in the Bowl game in 1972. I agree about Oklahoma, but the Selman Brothers were only sophomores and, as usual, they were VERY turnover prone. This team would have beaten both ND and Alabama at least 5 of 10, and OSU and OU 6 of 10. And most computer simulations agree.

boring boring

Reminds me a bit of the one Dotson made against Ohio St a couple of years ago

That was the difference on the score board.

Amazing

That goal line is pretty damn important. Wild.

Hard to believe that this New Years Eve was the same night that Notre Dame defeated Alabama in the Sugar Bowl to capture the National Championship. Greatest game I ever saw. Clement went back into his end zone and passed to a wide open Dave Casper to finish off the victory.

His forearm was down. This counts as down if you've been touched. Don't know if the same applies in college/HS, where you don't have to be touched to be down.

It's interesting to me that the same people who shit on football teams from the 70s will pretend that heavyweight boxers from that era can't be touched by modern boxers. Apparently boxing is the only sport that hasn't "progressed". Astounding.

I think the wet field had a lot to do with the sloppiness. Quite a few fumbles, little passing and lots of slips and falls.

They simply didn't have the athleticism to execute basic pass plays with any reliability or consistency. You look at the most basic passing plays at the college level back then and it often looks like the most exotic play in their playbook. The quarterbacks didn't have the accuracy, the wide receivers didn't have the route running precision or speed and the line didn't have the pass blocking strength or schemes.

The coaches were top old-fashioned. They had the athletes. They just didn't think passing was real football.

so you don't like having fun?

​@@bmoorehuncho2375....There is a big difference between fun and dumbness.

Is that why PSU had a punt return TD called back due to a penalty?

It was smash mouth back then…: knock your teeth 🦷 out… 😅

That era also had Tony Dorsett, Lynn Swan, Billy Sims Anthony Davis. Their athleticism and exciting play were as good as anyone's in any decade.

Athleticism is relative only to the other athletes on the field. These guys didn't have to compete with 21st century players. They were the elites of their time. And football with 'greater sophistication' doesn't necessarily mean better.

OP totally wrong. Look at Colo and USC this year, getting abused when they don't possess the ball.

Yeah I'm sure you'd of run circles around these players if you'd played in this particular game. Idiot.

Team rosters usually reflected the demographics of their localities and respective student bodies back then. Now, they're not. It's more of a revenue these days so the best high school athletes from anywhere in the world are lured ($$$,$$$) to whichever school has the deeper pockets.

The reason is because their parents were white.

@@brianarbenz1329 I'm not sure that is accurate... I believe Terry Robiskie #16 on the Tigers, is "biracial" if I remember right (?)

They changed football to focus on speed in order to favor black guys. If the game is more tilted towards strength and toughness then there's going to be a lot more white guys Social engineering

@@gary6754 The major division I programs began to add "Negroes" to win... PERIOD And I am not just referring to our lifetime (1950's, 60's and 70's) The introduction of "Colored" players in the collegiate ranks began before racial prejudice banned integrated athletics, sometime around 1932-33. Many colleges never instituted segregation so you have no break in the participation of "Colored" players, nor from many different races. So I can't agree with you, because that is almost an entire century of Black football players on the rosters of Ohio State, Iowa, USC and UCLA, Yale etc. (And they didn't act like clowns and dance and disrespect their rivals nor the game itself) I digress... As far as today's complexion of the game; it goes back to what I commented on earlier. Today's game, or product if you'd like, is fueled by money and the pursuit of more money = entertainment value. The game today sucks in comparison to these vintage games, but evidently the majority of the viewers, I'm going to presume that would be our Caucasian American brothers that seem to like it the way it is now. You can point a finger and rightly accuse a percentage of today's African American players for their shabby comportment on and off the field, but the blame lies elsewhere about how the game has deteriorated.

You are not the only one.

What he did..? Sandusky...yes....get your facts right....

@@johngetz8585 My facts are straight. He sent children into the the grip of a person he knew was a child rapist.

he covered for Sandusky

I know what you mean