Word: nebraska
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Runner up number one: 1984 Orange bowl for the College Football national championship. Unbeatable Nebraska was losing to unheradled Miami by one point with just seconds on the clock...
...Nebraska, a heavy favorite, had come back from a 17-point deficit. Coach Dr. Tom Osborne had the choice of going for one and a tie--and in all likelyhood the national championship...
...went for two, and failed. As Turner Gill, Nebraska's brilliant, dexterous quarterback, rolled to his right, he had back-up I-Back Jeff Smith open for a split second. He unloaded, only to see a Miami player dive and break it up at the last second...
...given weekend during the school year, you can turn on the TV and find college sports. Representatives from athletic powers such as Nebraska and Arkansas flaunt their colors on the airwaves, satisfying football-and basketball-happy fans...
...sullying the January 2 scene further by splitting them apart. Instead, now we get three different undefeated teams playing none of each other, #9 Kansas State exiled to the Aloha Bowl, and even worse, Colorado--which, for my money, is better than all of them, one off-day at Nebraska notwithstanding--reliving a familiar rivalry at the expense of the nation's sanity...