The nineties were all the Florida teams and Nebraska

I'm a die hard FSU Fan but big respect to Nebraska... I wish all the legendary schools would come back up and conquer the college football world instead of everyone thinking Alabama and Clemson was so great... The country would never understand

At 38:58 an FSU player helps the Nebraska player up. There is a statue of this incident outside doak Campbell stadium with the engraving “sportsmanship”. That’s what Bowden always taught.

I was at this game. As a huge FSU diehard I had nothing but respect for Nebraska. They played a great game. Trev Alberts harassed CW all night. For Nebraska to hold FSU's offense to 18 points is very impressive. I still think this was FSU's best team ever. They played 7 ranked teams that year including the #1, # 2 and #3 teams at the time of the game.

A little trivia: This is the last National Championship game where both teams were wearing Russell Athletic gear. It was about this time that teams began to contract with apparel companies such as Nike, Adidas, Starter, Reebok, and later on, Under Armor. The following year, Nebraska would wear Adidas in the Orange Bowl vs. Miami, and #2 Penn State had contracted with Nike.

Lifelong FSU fan here - one of the best defensive NC games ever. Nebraska's game plan was way better than ours...I think Coach Bowden seriously underestimated their overall team speed. Great game, Huskers - classiest team in college football.

Celebrating 30 years (1994-2024) of my NOLES winning their very 1st ever national championship in Orange Bowl and ending Nebraska perfect season on New Year's Day I remember that game like it was yesterday when my brother and I took Florida State over Nebraska and it's been our favorite college football team since!! That game is SUPER CLASSIC!!!

Rip Bobby bowden one of the greatest

90s college football still to me was the best.

This was the 1st of 3 straight championship games in which Tommie Frazier was named MVP

Nebraska was so close to winning 5 straight chips 3 out of 5 not bad

NO quit in those great 90's Nebraska teams, and this is from a Hurricane fan.

God FSU was stacked back then. This team and the year b4 with Buckley, Amp Lee and Edgar Bennett. My 3 favorite FSU players

Correction! Lost to Iowa st in 92 as freshman so 33-3 record 2-2 in bowls and played 10-1 fsu, 11-1 fsu 10-1 Miami and 12-0 gaters. His bowl opponents were combined 43-3! Ranked #3 , #1 , #3 , and #2 respectively

RIP Brook Barringer RIP Lawrence Phillips

The infamous no call fumble on goaline and phantom clipping calls.

To this day my favorite all-time Husker game.

I was a big FSU fan when Coach Bowden was there. But it surprised me how good this Nebraska team was. Just think, a missed FG at the end of this game, and that ridiculous 4th and inches play by Texas in the 1996 Big 12 Championship game were all that stood between Nebraska and five consecutive National Championships.

Great game in spite of us losing. Go Big Red!

Nebraska had it in the end to win it, and he hooks it left!! Omg!! Wow. Helluva game by 2 great programs led by 2 great coaching legends, Bowden and Osborne. What fkin game, tho!!!!

I wish these two still commentated games,they were much better than Herbstriet and Fowler by far!

The Good ole days

These guys are wearing some huge shoulder pads... The receivers look like D Linemen..

Nebraska defense smacked Charlie ward so hard that he decided on a career with the New York knicks. He never recovered from this ass kicking.

Toddrick McIntosh is my cousin and made the very first defensive play of that game. RIP T-Mac.

When football use to be real..

Tom Osborne rocking the most 90s jacket of all time lol

This was the game I became a Husker fan.

The best era of Nebraska football, where the players were on drugs, or committing domestic violence, or both. Osborne really kept it classy. He even went and fished players out of jail so they could play in big games.

Boy if Nebraska had Kris Brown as their kicker two years earlier like in this game, that 45 yard field goal goes through at the end.

Charlie McBride had a great game plan. This was a great game low scoring or not

Charlie ward should have chosen nfl over nba...

Jeez this was a scary game lol. Glad we won.

Those Huskers used this disappointment to inflict as much pain as humanly possible against their opponents in the next 4 years.

Charley ward was a great football player and a great basketball player

I've enjoyed watching all 13 of Tommie Frazier's bowl games. He was a cheat code before the video games really blew up. What a talent. Miss Nebraska being what they were. Florida State was also so, so good. It was just better then than now. Every team today looks generic in their sets

Amazing game. Great to see two teams with such respect for the game and for each other. That's coaching. Osborne and Bowden were pretty good friends, so maybe that took a little bit of sting out of the loss for Dr. Tom.

The Cornhuskers almost had three straight.

We needed a playoff in 93…..FSU vs ND and Nebraska vs WVU

You know that was a good 25 years ago when Florida State and Nebraska ruled college football, unfortunately they have been mediocre at best for a while! Nebraska really misses Osbourne, no idea what's going on with the Noles. I thought young high school players would be lining up to play for a team like FSU!

Tommy Frazier , most unstoppable triple option QB in Nebraska and probably ncaa history? Tony rice was awesome but he passed like 18 times a game, low number but still double Fraziers output, Scott frost was great but in the 2nd tier with guys like Eric crouch, Craig Hagen , Halliway of OU , Tony rice, and few others I can come up with off top of head! But in the 30 years I been watching , I've seen not one guy better the Frazier running option!

I was 11 years old during this game and I remember my Dad going ballistic watching it due to the horrible calls by the refs going against Nebraska. We're Pitt fans but always enjoyed Nebraska's option offense, and hated to see refs decide a game between 2 very good teams. I imagine this loss doesn't sting as bad for Nebraska fans though since their team went on to become *the dynasty of the 90's* and basically overshadowed FSU. Their 95 team is one of the best ever in college football.

This video cut out 10 minutes of the TV announcers repeatedly replaying the phantom block in the back and couldn't find it. The fumble td and the late hit out of bounce with 45 seconds or so left. He never touched him he did make the jester out of frustration but never made contact. In the end Nebraska had the last play to execute and failed. To this day it just eats at me like it did in 1994.

Nebraska defense was so underrated at this time! What a team. Remember this one well.. heartbreaking.. but coach Osborne lost to the best teams for his whole coaching career until he got over the hump the next year. We lost this game. Lost to the great National Championship teams of Oklahoma. Great Penn State teams.. the best. Only way your going to be the best is beat the best and coach Osborne did that next 5 yrs.... i hope we get back to respectabillity soon. GBR

I wish Charlie Ward played in the NFL. He was a way better QB then he was a PG. But the NFL wasn't set up like it is today to complement his skill set.

When of the best games I have ever watched

Will florida state ever get back to this level?

My favourite bit, around 14:34 when the kicker tries to body check the run back, lol

I cried like a baby.

From 1993 through 1997 Nebraska went 60-3 with 3 National Championships.

The phantom block in the back on Dixon’s run back Td, and Floyd’s 4th down goal to go fumble that the referees gave them the TD and the National Championship. Floyd even admitted he fumbled. I’ve always like Bobby Bowden his team was beat in this game.

FSU Won the National Title in '93 but did not share with Notre Dame, or Auburn was on probation

3 Manatee High School grads were starters in this game, 2 for Nebraska and 1 for FSU

What is so strange is hardly any of these guys made much of a living in the NFL.

Florida state is my favorite football team but Nebraska cornhuskers is my team 2

The calls went against Big Red including the Punt Return and Lawrence Philips should of been the feature running back.

If not for a phantom clip, Nebraska would have won that game.

Crazy to think this kick was the only thing that kept Nebraska from 3 straight undefeated championships

I never did understand why Trev Albert's won the Butkus award when he clearly was a defensive end that year

1994 High School Seniors Class of '94 like Judy Funnie, Alyssa Carmichael, Olga Pataki, Kelly Generic, Tiffany Meeker, Amber Snerd, Andrea, Mai Valentine, Caitlyn, Buffy Shellhammer

39.40 still gives me nightmares.

That touchdown call on the fumble at go alone was a make up for the play before! 2 wrongs somehow made a right in this case.

I prefer to pretend this game never happened 😢 (GBR!)

I remember this game. Old Man.

Good lawd they had them pads popping in the game 🔥🔥

👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏 man definitely a good game

Back when college uniforms were cool!

We was the champs one of the best games ever❤

I remember this game, we were hosed by the refs

Watched this game at Max's bar in Scottsdale with a bunch of ND, FSU and NU fans. Some fists were flying at the end of the game. 🤣

The William Floyd fumble really could use a review. That was a robbery …

Calvin Jones and Damon Benning were nice players, but Nebraska wins this game by 10 if Lawrence Phillips is the starting I-Back and gets the majority of the carries. He was a once in a generation talent and had the talent to go down as one of the all-time greats.

Greatest game hands down

I remember feeling (NU) absolutely won this game, except for the 16-18 scoreboard. Somewhat redeemed in overcoming Miami and clouting Florida. Still, this is one that doesn’t sit well even now.

Charlie Ward shouldve went to the NFL. He wouldve been a All-Pro

This was the Death Knoll for Nebraska

I like

Was there in the opposite endzone to Bentley's kick. When the net went up all fucked up, I was sure that was a bad omen & he would miss.

Notre Dame gave away the championship by letting down and losing to Boston College after soundly defeating this Florida State that looked unbeatable and was having their best ever year. Before that loss, Notre Dame (#1) fans were screaming that they shouldn't have to play Florida State (#2) in a Bowl game after beating them. Nebraska was a massive underdog in this game. I think the line opened at something like 21 points but ended up around 17 to 18 points. The one common opponent was Kansas, Nebraska scraped by with a 1 point win while FSU beat them 42-0. Nebraska had two 1 point victories while FSU blew out everyone they played except Florida, whom they still beat handily and the loss at Notre Dame. The following year, Nebraska would finally beat a Florida team (Miami) in a Bowl game after getting beaten 6 straight times by FSU and Miami in the previous decade. Those losses resulted in 3 national championships even though Nebraska was not in the running for 1 of them (1991 against Miami). That win in the Jan 95' Orange bowl finally put Nebraska over the hump. The following year, Nebraska had the best and most dominant season, in my opinion, in college football history and beat another Florida team (Florida Gators) in dominant fashion. For the record, that wasn't the best college football team of all time, that honor probably belongs to 2000-2002 Miami, which had the most talent, even if there were other teams that performed better.

Trev Alberts

Good old fashioned punch fest. Love college football. Geaux Tigers!

After 1st and goal on Nebraska’s next to last drive, Osborne decided to just run up the middle and take the field goal, big mistake.

Nebraska was Steriods down. No player did anything after college. Trev Alberts stayed injured Tommy Frazier had blood clots. Nobody in the NFL wanted to risk it. They carried a weight room on a semi every away game.

37:22 Nebraska AD Trev Alberts lines up offsides on consecutive plays and the officials fail to catch it

Bobby was a genius,, went to,that no,huddle when every body said it couldn't be done. Ha now every body. Does it even in,the pro's,,,

Love how you can tell the bias of the commentary

They should have started Lawrence Phillips

I gotta give to Nebraska their defense had sec type speed.

@37:05 seriously?

No doubt Nebraska got jobbed! But it gave them major incentive the next 2 years. Cornhuskers team of the 90's!!

Darn, I was hoping Nebraska won it when I watched this time....

19:25 Did anyone else hear that guy howl?

Would an offense like Nebraska work in today’s era?

37:35 Toby Wright pass interference gives FSU chip shot winning field goal. You can't have a slow SS covering a fast FSU Wr. Wright gets released by RAMS after 98' season, 99' RAMS win SUPER BOWL with FSU Devin Bush replaced Wright!!

Terrible plays calls when Nebraska had it at the 5 at the end of the game. Florida State was All In on run for all 3 plays. Nebraska should have tried a couple play action passes. Also where was Philips in the first half. But a heck of a game & a lot of NFL players on both sides. As a Nebraska fan this hurt just as bad to rewatch it. Tom Osborne won 3 Natties, but he was inches away at least a half dozen other times.

A great game...that Nebraska won.

I really feel for Lawrence Phillips. He had such a promising future on the gridiron, if it was not for his misconduct away from it. As a result, he was serving a lengthy prison term until he committed suicide. What a waste.

They didn’t stop the clock when he’s down on the last play. Mistake like that would never happen today. Huskers 3 peat

Did Florida send thank you notes to the officials? I bet not.

If Lawrence Phillips starts this game I believe the Huskers win by 9.