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Better than '90 Big Game? - winflop - 09-23-2018

What an amazing comeback last night. Can't decide if it was more (insert superlatives here) than '90 Big Game but it ranks right up there. Factors to consider:
- "length" of comeback/extent of deficit
- magnitude of the game
- opponent
Others I'm sure as well. Look forward to others' thoughts.

RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - BostonCard - 09-23-2018

Depends on what this team accomplishes.  We are currently 4-0, which means that pretty much every outcome between losing season (very unlikely) and playoffs (unlikely) is possible.  It is entirely possible that this game will make the difference between a Pac-12 north championship or NY6 bowl, and a Sun or Alamo bowl, in which case the game will have wound up more significant.  Of course, we could also limp out to a 4-4 finish to the season and end 8-4 and going to the Foster Farms bowl, in which case, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

BC

RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - muiron - 09-23-2018

Yes, and no.

1990 was a different come back. That was a back and forth game and a great one - Glynn Milburn and their great runner (White?) were both around 300 total yards. There was a fight between the teams early, it was "revenge for the play," the Cal fans were absolutely stunned at the outcome. (Never I have heard such thunderous silence!)  And it was against Cal.  Oh, and I was there! 

OTOH, we were never 17 points down in that one. We were never getting blown out in that. We were not in a truly visiting atmosphere - probably 2:1 Cal fans as opposed to 50,000 to Terry last night. And in that game we only needed a blockhead passing play from Cal on third down to give us some more clock with the ball, a couple of 4th down conversions on the last drive, a moronic penalty on the Cal fans for rushing the field early II had forgotten - thanks d4cohn), a recovered onside kick, and a brain dead roughing penalty to pull it out. Last night we needed more.

Oh, and the Revenge of the Play teams weren't very good. We didn't go to a bowl, they sneaked into one IIRC. The two teams last night were quite good.

The other comparison for me is Greatest Upset. Hostile environment and had one great drive at the end, with a miracle 4th down conversion and an almost as miraculous fourth down TD, to win. 

But even to mention last night in the same sentence with those two says that something really special happened. Let's beat the Domers and keep it going!

RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - d4cohn - 09-23-2018

I know '90 was against Cal, but other than that, this game had the all-time mental error that '90 had (fumble by Verdell), but that was one of 10 incredible moments in this game. This game felt like a compilation of some of our greatest moments, all in one game: fumble by Verdell, reminiscent of all-time mental error (Cal fans storming the field or roughing the passer) from '90, 46 yard drive for tying FG to force overtime (including converting a 3rd and 10), that was reminiscent of 2015 Notre Dame. An all-time catch in traffic by Parkinson, reminiscent of Ertz catch in 2012 Oregon game. 

Then you add in Herbert's all-time performance in regulation (92% completion percentage), overcoming two moments in 3rd and 4th quarter where Oregon had a 99% chance to win, Oregon ran thirty more plays than us, won TOP by over 10 minutes, and utterly dominated both LOS (which is where 99.99% of games are won)...and we won. No one will ever be able to explain, looking at the box score or otherwise, how we won last night.

Btw, Oregon fans were just as stunned as Cal fans in '90 were last night. The stadium was nearly full during the Bryce Love/Costello interviews, because nobody in the stadium could fathom what they had just witnessed.

RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - martyup - 09-23-2018

It was priceless to see all those Duck tears.

RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - pokey - 09-23-2018

If there's any comeback game that last night's game reminded me of, it was the 1992 game @ ND.  Down 0-16 at the half, just to come storming back to win 33-16.  The end of the game didn't have quite the dramatics, but the never-quit mentality was just as crucial for that game as it was for last night.  I *think* ND was ranked #1 at the time, too.

(09-23-2018, 01:16 PM)d4cohn Wrote:  I know '90 was against Cal, but other than that, this game had the all-time mental error that '90 had (fumble by Verdell), but that was one of 10 incredible moments in this game. This game felt like a compilation of some of our greatest moments, all in one game: fumble by Verdell, reminiscent of all-time mental error (Cal fans storming the field or roughing the passer) from '90, 46 yard drive for tying FG to force overtime (including converting a 3rd and 10), that was reminiscent of 2015 Notre Dame. An all-time catch in traffic by Parkinson, reminiscent of Ertz catch in 2012 Oregon game. 

Then you add in Herbert's all-time performance in regulation (92% completion percentage), overcoming two moments in 3rd and 4th quarter where Oregon had a 99% chance to win, Oregon ran thirty more plays than us, won TOP by over 10 minutes, and utterly dominated both LOS (which is where 99.99% of games are won)...and we won. No one will ever be able to explain, looking at the box score or otherwise, how we won last night.

Btw, Oregon fans were just as stunned as Cal fans in '90 were last night. The stadium was nearly full during the Bryce Love/Costello interviews, because nobody in the stadium could fathom what they had just witnessed.


RE: Better than '90 Big Game? - Spiny_Norman - 09-23-2018

In 2012, Stanford was down 14 to Arizona with 9 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. The defense was in the process of giving up nearly 500 passing yards and over 600 yards in total offense. Yet led improbably by QB Josh Nunes, they scored, got the one critical stop on Arizona they needed and scored again to tie the game which they won in OT. The final 2 Stanford drives included a 3rd down completion to Drew Terrell (which he fumbled and then recovered), a 4th down pass to Toilolo, a 3rd down run by Nunes for 16 yards, a 4th down pass to Ertz and 2 rushing TDs by Nunes. 

I was at that game and it may be the most improbable win I have seen in Stanford Stadium. That game was the springboard for the rest of the amazing 2012 Run to the Roses.