For me, it’s Charlie Ward scrambling to toss a near effortless 72 yard TD pass.
Iowa and FSU football fans: What image or moment do you associate with the other school?
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Completely forgot about that game. Incredible how Iowa State collapsed in the second half of that season after the FSU and Iowa games, to end up in the Potato Bowl. That game at Kinnick still pisses me off.
I don't have any football images that come to mind, but whenever I think of Iowa sports I think of Chris Street.
I love it when the Urban and/or the Buckeyes lose.
I think of these two when it comes to basketball:
Some of you Iowa guys and gals are so cute talking crap.
As for me, I’m with the poster about beating the Buckeyes.
As for me, I’m with the poster about beating the Buckeyes.
On a serious note this is the first image that comes to mind for FSU:
On a serious note this is the first image that comes to mind for FSU:
Honestly, his carrying off and hand shake with Paterno after that epic multiple OT Orange Bowl (?) was right there with Ward in my mind.
Btw, I loved those jerseys. Wish they would go back to those ones.
I remember watching this a Beef O Brady’s in Tallahassee.
You would have thought you were in downtown Iowa City the FSU fans were cheering so loud after every Iowa score. The best is UF had first big TD and, as Gators tend to be, they were obnoxious and taunting the small Iowa contingent. Crickets and tears rest of game.
I also have to add story from wife’s late grandfather of going to the 1983 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.
You have to remember 1983 was before the interwebs and before the weather channel was on every cable package. So, they, like a ton of other Iowa fans showed up in shorts and T-shirt’s. The game was 35 (a raw high humidity 35) at kickoff with a nice 10-15 mph wind blowing in from the river. This man born and raised and buried in SW Iowa swore to me after those three hours in Florida, it was the coldest he had ever been.
Tate to Holloway or unfortunately the outback bowl sham against UF. Never paid much attention to the hawks before HROT.
Love it! Chris Leak’s final two choices were Iowa and Florida. He had a lot of nice things to say about Iowa/Iowa City, but that made it even sweeter for us.
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Neon Deion IS Florida State football in my mind.
I figured these two would come up. It got to the point that Chris Spielman was probably the most indignant a tv commentator has ever been about officiating. I think it was USA Today that did an article itself blasting the Sun Belt officials afterwards.
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Last time Iowa and Florida played in Outback Bowl, officiating ruined the game
The Iowa Hawkeyes and Florida Gators played 11 years ago in the Outback Bowl, one of the worst officiated games in college football history. The two teams match up again in the 2017 Outback Bowl.
There are many games that college football fans immediately think of when asked to talk about poor officiating. The onside kick fiascoin Oklahoma-Oregon 2006 stands out to many younger fans. Older fans might immediately think of Colorado’s famous national championship-winning fifth down.
Some might even remember the out-of-bounds catch from the 1982 Nebraska-Penn State game. But it’s hard to get too upset about that call because of how bang-bang it was.
There are numerous plays that fans remember as being terrible. Phantom penalties, weird reviews, and more. Every team has those individual plays throughout their history that they think is the “worst call ever.” Well, Iowa fans have a legitimate claim to being on the wrong side of the worst-called game ever. It was the last time Iowa played Florida in the Outback Bowl, back in 2006.
Every game has questionable calls. Every game has 50-50 calls, and normal variation dictates that in some games — with sample sizes so small — one team will have significantly more. This game, however, was not that. Not in the slightest. Not only did several “50-50” calls go against the Hawkeyes, several blatantly bad ones did as well–include what I like to call the worst individual call in football history.
First of all, the following video nicely sums up six of the worst in the game. One of them (No. 5) didn’t matter much — an awful missed penalty that should have been called on Florida would have been declined anyway — but you won’t find many games with this many calls this bad, let alone all against the same team. Rather than go through the whole game, this video focuses on six of the more egregious plays that went against Iowa.
Most of those plays had some real effect on the game. When looking at the first play, remember that while college football no longer has a “force out” rule, that rule existed back in 2006. If a player would have caught the ball in bounds but was clearly forced out while in mid-air, it was a catch by rule. That play would have continued an Iowa drive near midfield. Instead, the Hawkeyes punted.
The third play was a decisive one as well. A poor — at absolute best — helmet-to-helmet call against Iowa gave Florida new life on a drive late in the first half. Florida ended up scoring a touchdown off of that at the very end of the half.
My favorite call on that video, though, is the fourth one. It is, absolutely, one of the worst individual calls in football history. It’s not game-changing in and of itself, but the sheer absurdity of it just has to give us pause. Let’s take a quick look at this.
The graphic says it all. The Iowa player was literally dragged to the ground by his facemask, yet he was flagged for it. I dare you to find an individual call more egregious than that one, at any level of football, ever.
Despite all this, Iowa came back and made it a compelling game. The Hawkeyes scored 17 straight points in the fourth quarter, and after a field goal brought them to a 31-24 score with 1:22 left, recovered an onside kick to give themselves a chance to tie. But in their final egregious call of the game, the referees couldn’t have that. A phantom offsides call wiped out the Iowa recovery, and Florida recovered the re-kick and won the game.
While Hawkeyes fans will always remember this game as one that was robbed from them — and, unlike when most fanbases have such complaints, the Iowa fans have a strong case here — this game still does a lot for college football. It will go down as possibly one of the most one-sided games ever, and additionally spawned one of the greatest spoofs of a popular commercial series that YouTube has ever seen. (Who else remembers the “Real Men of Genius” series from Bud Light?)
When Iowa and Florida meet on Jan. 2, the rematch will be 11 years to the day of when the two teams last played. It’s a game which many Iowa fans have been anxiously waiting for more than a decade. And to get it in the Outback Bowl again just makes it that much more exciting.
I believe it was conference USA. And that led to a change, major conference bowl games no longer use crews from lesser conferences because of that game.
Last time Iowa and Florida played in Outback Bowl, officiating ruined the game
The Iowa Hawkeyes and Florida Gators played 11 years ago in the Outback Bowl, one of the worst officiated games in college football history. The two teams match up again in the 2017 Outback Bowl.
There are many games that college football fans immediately think of when asked to talk about poor officiating. The onside kick fiascoin Oklahoma-Oregon 2006 stands out to many younger fans. Older fans might immediately think of Colorado’s famous national championship-winning fifth down.
Some might even remember the out-of-bounds catch from the 1982 Nebraska-Penn State game. But it’s hard to get too upset about that call because of how bang-bang it was.
There are numerous plays that fans remember as being terrible. Phantom penalties, weird reviews, and more. Every team has those individual plays throughout their history that they think is the “worst call ever.” Well, Iowa fans have a legitimate claim to being on the wrong side of the worst-called game ever. It was the last time Iowa played Florida in the Outback Bowl, back in 2006.
Every game has questionable calls. Every game has 50-50 calls, and normal variation dictates that in some games — with sample sizes so small — one team will have significantly more. This game, however, was not that. Not in the slightest. Not only did several “50-50” calls go against the Hawkeyes, several blatantly bad ones did as well–include what I like to call the worst individual call in football history.
First of all, the following video nicely sums up six of the worst in the game. One of them (No. 5) didn’t matter much — an awful missed penalty that should have been called on Florida would have been declined anyway — but you won’t find many games with this many calls this bad, let alone all against the same team. Rather than go through the whole game, this video focuses on six of the more egregious plays that went against Iowa.
Most of those plays had some real effect on the game. When looking at the first play, remember that while college football no longer has a “force out” rule, that rule existed back in 2006. If a player would have caught the ball in bounds but was clearly forced out while in mid-air, it was a catch by rule. That play would have continued an Iowa drive near midfield. Instead, the Hawkeyes punted.
The third play was a decisive one as well. A poor — at absolute best — helmet-to-helmet call against Iowa gave Florida new life on a drive late in the first half. Florida ended up scoring a touchdown off of that at the very end of the half.
My favorite call on that video, though, is the fourth one. It is, absolutely, one of the worst individual calls in football history. It’s not game-changing in and of itself, but the sheer absurdity of it just has to give us pause. Let’s take a quick look at this.
The graphic says it all. The Iowa player was literally dragged to the ground by his facemask, yet he was flagged for it. I dare you to find an individual call more egregious than that one, at any level of football, ever.
Despite all this, Iowa came back and made it a compelling game. The Hawkeyes scored 17 straight points in the fourth quarter, and after a field goal brought them to a 31-24 score with 1:22 left, recovered an onside kick to give themselves a chance to tie. But in their final egregious call of the game, the referees couldn’t have that. A phantom offsides call wiped out the Iowa recovery, and Florida recovered the re-kick and won the game.
While Hawkeyes fans will always remember this game as one that was robbed from them — and, unlike when most fanbases have such complaints, the Iowa fans have a strong case here — this game still does a lot for college football. It will go down as possibly one of the most one-sided games ever, and additionally spawned one of the greatest spoofs of a popular commercial series that YouTube has ever seen. (Who else remembers the “Real Men of Genius” series from Bud Light?)
When Iowa and Florida meet on Jan. 2, the rematch will be 11 years to the day of when the two teams last played. It’s a game which many Iowa fans have been anxiously waiting for more than a decade. And to get it in the Outback Bowl again just makes it that much more exciting.
I was there and I remember not seeing highlights until the next day. Complete and utter bullshit that game was.
My first taste of FSU football was Charlie Ward.
First Iowa football season that sticks out to me was the 1990 Rose Bowl team.
First Iowa football season that sticks out to me was the 1990 Rose Bowl team.
I loved the atmosphere when the crowd did this- it was particularly cool to see during a big rivalry game such as vs. Florida or Miami in a night game.
My one and only time in Florida was the Outback sham. Clearwater/St Pete/Tampa was very nice and I could easily see myself living there with temps in the 80’s in January.
The game put a damper on the trip, but it was still an excellent week on the beach.
I loved the atmosphere when the crowd did this- it was particularly cool to see during a big rivalry game such as vs. Florida or Miami in a night game.
DYK?: Exeter Chiefs of English Premiership Rugby does this. Weird to see an English team with American Indian mascot and imagery. Obviously they don’t have the hang ups with it.
Old and Tricky.
That takes some Cojanes (sp) to run that in the endzone!
If we tried it our quarterback would get his ankle snapped
