I will NEVER forget that play when JC Watts is falling to the ground, you think he'd down but he pitches to Sims who goes in for the touchdown! One of my favorite childhood memories!!!

Remember when Nebraska was a powerhouse like OU, and the OU/Nebraska games were the biggest games in the country? Sure miss those days.

I truly wish this man's pro career was a few years longer. What a joy to watch.

Billy Sims was one of the greatest Running Backs I've ever seen in Collegiate Football still to this day . Powerful & Speed

Life was so good when we had just a few bowl games and they were all important and you could watch all of them on new years day!

that pitch from watts to sims in the fsu game was epic! i remember it like it was yesterday!

God I miss the days when great teams were built around the ground game! Passing is fine, and I guess that makes for more exciting games for today's fans. But to me there's nothing more fun to watch than hard-hitting, grueling rushing offenses.

Sims was a badass!

My dad has told me this story hundreds of times. He was in the same science class at Oklahoma with Billy when the local news came in and informed him about being on the some finalist list in college football. When they interviewed Billy, he thanked all the people who helped him get to where he was, including his teachers. The teacher heard him, turned to Billy and said "Im just glad you showed up to class today Billy".

So fluid, great spins, and booms out of the back. Miss Keith Jackson’s voice.

Was lucky enough to see him play in person three straight years in three different states. What a player!

Just had some Billie Simm's BBQ last night! It was delicious.

It's a shame that injury cut his career so short...

Gotta love that wishbone

I could watch footage of the old wishbone all day long. Great times.

Billy Sims,the original high stepper on college ball....I remember watching him as a kid, tge sooner were like a train at full speed....you just couldn't open them....When Sims wS drafted by the lions he immediately made an impact....does anyone remember when the lions started winning they played the song another one bites the dust by Queen....they were on their way to winning, then he got hurt....imagine all those years of playing football, then your beginning pro years you get a career ending injury.....he definitely would have been an all time great and HOF.

I was a young child when Sims was terrorizing Big 8 defenses. I've always thought about him as a speedy, elusive back: the cuts, the spins. But watching these highlights I'm impressed by his power. He had it all.

Absolutely amazing and wonderful to watch Billy Sims in his prime. What a beautiful edit and video for all of us who remember one of the best running backs of all time!

Billy Sims running back and Billy Sims BBQ both excellent!

When Sims was running with the football, that was the definition of smooth...

I am not from Oklahoma but as a kid I remember Steve Owens and Billy Sims being right up there with OJ as my favorite running backs.

there were only 3 plays in the Oklahoma playbook. Sims up the middle,Sims around the right and Sims around the left.A quote of his spoken truly.

Sims was incredible during his Oklahoma years.

I shook Billy's hand at an autograph session in OKC. In 2001, I thought I was shaking hands with a statue. His arms were like iron.

Watching Billy makes want to nick name him, "high flying Billy Sims". At times he seems to jump into the air to get past defenders instead of digging in low. At other times he shows lightning quick feat when contacted by defenders. It is an attribute other then his running speed, it is unique. All great backs seem have shared attributes, speed/strength/spin move/balance/stop on a dime-full speed again, plus a few unique to them. Billy fits that mold. Sorry to read about failed business ventures many years ago leading to bankruptcy, very glad to read he is doing well now with a chain of restaurants. If I had one in my area I would go. These players put their bodies on the line to offer us sport to watch and at the cost of moving on with other potentially lucrative careers in other area's. I hope you are doing well Billy, you gave it all to us on the field.

The best video ever!! Many respects and thanks! Long live the Greatest ...Billy Sims!

I know this a Billy Sims highlights , but look at the oline! That explosion off the line of scrimmage is deadly

That just might be the best thumbnail on KZfaq

Just a great back! Kudos to the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner.

The 2 greatest plays I've seen in college football, both from Oklahoma....JC Watts downfield pitch to Billy Sims in the Orange Bowl,..and Spencer Tillman's leap from the 5 yard line over 2 guys, into the endzone.

Lions fan here. Still remember Billy's first game in the NFL like it was yesterday.

The MOST UNDERRATED RB. EVER!!! As a 7 year old kid watching him was a bundle of joy and very enjoyable to watch his runs ( especially vs Oilers, lol) He represented that #20 as the main guy of that # and Barry Sanders and Natrone Means DID LOOK UP TO HIM when in HS of sporting his # (( Detroit insisted Sanders wear #20 and respected it......

Sims was great. He created a lot of great memories for me at a time when I was just starting to understand and enjoy OU football. But no one will ever convince me that wishbone QB's aren't the toughest players in football history. Watch what happens on nearly every pitch - the QB gets blasted and they're basically defenseless. Amazing.

'70s college football Keith Jackson Frank Broyles I believe, Oklahoma Sooners , Billy Sims and The Wishbone. That's the epitome

Man, that was some beautiful football.

Husker here. Billy Sims was the scariest player Nebraska ever faced. Forcing fumbles was the only way to stop him

Man the Big 8 was awesome!

Excellent video and thank you!

Billy Sims had so many good runs, far better than most of those shown here.

OH , BILLY, BILLY BILLY!!!....watching you explode outta that Oklahoma wishbone T..is my favorite sports moments...and those Sooner backs..will gallop through my memories until I'm no more...

I'm a born and bred HUSKER fan and we've had alot of great great players and running backs, Billy Sims was is my favorite running back.

Amazing Billy Sims!

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but Billy Sims win the Heisman Trophy in 1978. Charles White of USC won it in 1979.

2:24 OMG look how fast those runners were off the snap of the ball.

Not a Oklahoma fan. But love Billy Sims. He’s my all time favorite football player. I was fortunate to watch the 1980 classic on tv at my aunts house as I was in route from Tampa to San Juan. And that Orange 🍊 bowl classic was special! At Halftime KC and the Sunshine Band rock the house by playing “Boogie Shoes” and ‘Give it Up” Billy Sims was magnificent! He ran all over the Seminoles. FSU didn’t stand a chance against the powerful running game the Sooners had. Billy Sims was a one man wrecking crew!

I just bought some Billy Simms barbecue sauce...it was awesome!

So much fun to watch. Full speed by his 3rd stride...

I’ve said it before and will say it again, Sooners vs Huskers, best respectable, hard-hitting, talented (both sides), and rivalries that’ll ever be; 1970s thru 1990s.

That burst of speed and power was amazing

Sims won the Heisman in 1978, his junior season. He and Charles White were considered the favorites the following season, and White wound up winning it.

Simms was the coolest running back his style

Best back I've ever seen.

The pride of Hooks Texas.

I remember the good 'ole days of the Wishbone. NOBODY ran it like the Sooners did and Sims was as good a runner as I've ever seen.

The sounds of Saturday afternoon.

I could watch the old wishbone all day long. Great time to be a Sooner fan.

Best option play ever @ 6:06 of this video. JC WATTS TO THE MAN...BILLY SIMS

The info up top is wrong. He won the Heisman as a Junior and stayed at OU for his Senior year. That year he placed second in the Heisman voting.

billy sims had the rare combo of power, speed and agility. similar to bo jackson.

Its great to hear Keith Jackson, Sims had greatest career at OU at RB

Pretty sure it was Frank Broyles who said of Sims: ‘The strength of Earl Campbell, and the speed of Tony Dorset’!

THE BEST OKLAHOMA RUNNING BACK EVER I MEAN EVER

I miss Keith Jackson’s voice on Saturdays in the fall

I agree. You definitely have to be in the right system in order to flourish especially in today's league.

Awesome

He is the reason I am a diehard OU fan from east Texas

Texas also ran the bone. They had a 5 10 230lb back who was ok. Not the quick 3 steps like sims but i remember him taking a pitch turn the corner a hurdle a guy 10 yrds later. I think his name was Campbell. Bone also had cribbs from auburn,, andrews,brooks,james. Ucla veer owens,, wendell tyler a tough little shit. Theotis brown.

Sims should have had two trophies in 19 78....... the Heisman Trophy and the national championship trophy.

Billy was a great tailback Lit up the NFL for a few years too, for a poor team and paid the price Very exciting runner

6:08 This is how the outside veer was made to look like, pure beauty!

No better play than the Lead up the middle from the wishbone….

The years of astro turf took its toll on his knees....I still consider him the best OU Sooner RB Ever!!!! He has some good BBQ too!!!!! #boomersooner

Billy sims was a good back..He could've rushed for twice as many yards in a i formation 💯

electrifying

He won the heisman in 78

Funny watching Oklahoma running the Wishbone all over Texas, who's coach Darrell Royal invented it.

THIS IS WHY IM A OU FAN,JC WATTS,BILLY SIMS,AND THE WISHBONE

College coaches, except at AFA and Navy, can't recruit to a wishbone offense; too bad, when it's run to perfection like this was, it's a thing of beauty and difficult to stop.

The great one

i am proud to be a Sooner! what memories

Injuries claim Billy Sims' career in the NFL.

Classic! Simms! Damn!

I'll give Sims his credit, but that offensive line is pretty amazing itself. They.re three yards downfield before Sims ever gets the ball.

Crazy Runner!

that pitch at the last second is what makes an option qb a real option qb...........

Billy took FULL hits...unlike Marcus Allen who seemingly never took a square on shot...FULL hits shorten carrers see Earl Campbel

Dude could get outside.

ONLY RB IN HISTORY who used the LEG STIFF vs Oilers!!!! That was a hell of a move, lol, hi yah all doing now.?> lol..

As a Nebraska fan, painful!

6:05 Clearly a forward lateral, by about a yard, but no replay at that time of course.

This guy could never make it today. He doesn’t thump his chest or dance in the end zone or talk trash to his opponents….oh and he doesn’t pop up and signal first down either.

Runs hard no fear

Billy's 7.0 yards per carry (mostly as a Junior or Senior) was better than even OU's Adrian Peterson, and Auburn's Bo Jackson. Wow! Pop quiz: Switzer sent Billy, by private jet, to recruit a high school player, and that player, as an OU FRESHMAN. averaged an incredible 8.5 yards per carry, putting Billy's numbers to shame. Can you name him?

Just think, Billy Sims at that time in Sooner Lord was one of many great running backs at OU. Most of the highlights were from Nebraska and Texas games because TV limit the viewing of teams back in the day. JC Watts later on became a Republican Congressman for Oklahoma.

Billy Sims!

He won the Heisman in 1978.

Can u imagine trying to stop Billy Sims? LOL Hi mind and will were as powerful as his amazing body!

Charles White USC won Heisman in 79 Sims in 78 even though I thought Sims would pull a Archie Griffin and go back to back

Ou is my favorite team and Billy simes is great

The Great One, Go Sooners!!!🏈🏈🏈