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Interesting YouTube video here. It's a four minute interview with apple-massaging Notre Dame "Assistant Head Coach" Jon Tenuta. Corwin Brown is Notre Dame's de jure defensive coordinator, but listening to Tenuta it's hard to tell who is the D.C. and who is the underling.

"Old School" is the College Football FanHouse's irregular look back at the rich history of college football, usually through the medium of embeddable flash video. Check out the Old School archive for more famous plays and infamous hair.



Heisman Trophy winners often falter in their team's bowl game appearance following the award ceremony. But when they do play up to their potential, we are occasionally rewarded with an amazing performance like that of Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers in the 1973 Orange Bowl.

Nebraska's head coach Bob Devaney moved Rodgers from wingback to I-back for the Orange Bowl match-up with the Fighting Irish. The move paid off as Rodgers finished his collegiate career by scoring four touchdowns and throwing for another in a 40-6 Nebraska victory.

In what remains one of the greatest bowl performances ever, Rodgers:

· Rushed 15 times for 81 yards or an average of 5.4 yards/carry.

· Scored three touchdowns on runs of eight, four and five yards.

· Caught a screen pass from quarterback Dave Humm and ran 50 yards through the Irish to score a fourth time, establishing a new Orange Bowl record for total points and touchdowns scored.

· Threw a 52-yard touchdown pass to Frosty Anderson.

Overall, Rodgers personally accounted for 30 of Nebraska's points and clinched a dramatic and impressive final victory for retiring coach Bob Devaney.

"Old School" is the College Football FanHouse's irregular look back at the rich history of college football, usually through the medium of embeddable flash video. Check out the Old School archive for more famous plays and infamous hair.

It's hard to imagine how dominant Nebraska was in 1996. The gold standard for excellence this millennium, USC, has won a couple national titles but has only one undefeated season in the Carroll era. Even when they were obviously the best team, they weren't flat unbeatable.

Nebraska was. After a crushing 18-16 defeat against Florida State in the 1994 Orange Bowl (about which more here), the Huskers went on the warpath. 1994: 13-0, national champions, no team within two scores save Miami in the bowl game. 1995: 12-0, national champions, no team closer than 14 points. Obliterated Florida 62-14 in the bowl game. They opened the 1996 season by hammering Michigan State and Oklahoma State by a combined score of 114-31. Nebraska was never going to lose again.

Enter Arizona State. Enter Derrick Rodgers. Exit streak.



(via EDSBS.)

It started with the Power Towel Anthem. And now, Kansas State fans have added another YouTube beauty to the school's video anthology. This one is ripe with the freshest synthesizer sounds and the latest in computer graphics. But the highlight has to be the robotic Josh Freeman, complete with an ice cream cone(?)

I really hope this is just the beginning. I demand more!

Update: Upon further review, that looks to just be Josh Freeman's robotic hand. I have no idea where I would have gotten the ice cream cone visual.

"Old School" is the College Football FanHouse's irregular look back at the rich history of college football, usually through the medium of embeddable flash video. Check out the Old School archive for more famous plays and infamous hair.

Step back in time with me, college football fans, to an earlier era. Here we have the Seminoles of Florida State taking on the Florida Gators in 1973.



This is pre-Ben Hill Griffin stadium stuff, so that's just Florida Field. Note that the Swamp is highly recognizable. Back then the stadium was painted blue rather than orange but "This is... Gator Country!" is still scribed on those trademark vertical walls rising out of the east and west stands. The press box was a tad smaller back then, too, as you might notice.

Florida's mascot was in a woeful state in those days. "Albert E. Gator" looked like an inflatable green jalapeno with teeth and a tail.

As for the game itself? Florida routed the Seminoles 49-0. For the rivalry, it was an era which favored the Gators, who won 9 straight from 1968-1976. Today, Florida leads the overall series, 30-19-2, but FSU is 17-15-1 against the Gators under Bobby Bowden.

Interesting piece from ESPN's "Outside the Lines" series profiling the unusual hiring of Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny. Kilkenny was a well-heeled Oregon booster with ties to former Nike founder Phil Knight.

OTL: "The next time you consider hiring or firing a coach will you call Phil Knight first? To see what he thinks?

PK: Yeah, I'd probably would talk to him about it, I would talk to some other donors too.

This kind of stuff makes the NCAA incredibly squeamish, but Kilkenny comes across as honest about the murkier aspects of his ascent and relationship with Knight.

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Courtesy of the little-known Every Day Should Be Saturday, the website with the most revolutionary stance on calendar realignment in decades, we bring you what appears to be a campaign video for Texas A&M's Yell Leader. It's called "Reload With Reagan," which just so happened to be the title of an NRA pamphlet during the 1984 election cycle.

What you're about to witness will demonstrate perfectly the canyon of a difference between your favorite team's fanbase and that of TAMU. It's part cheerleading, part propaganda, and part hand gestures that would get you kicked out of 99% of high school and college classrooms. Enjoy.



We don't care what you may claim about your team and your traditions and your fanbase. You don't do "crazy" like A&M does "crazy." They do it with aplomb, alacrity, vim and vigor. Oh, you're doing "the wave"? How quaint. The Aggies are too busy squeezing their own testicles. All hats are off, TAMU: we admire your complete severance from reality and request that you stay at least 75 miles away from us at all times.

Does anything really surprise you anymore? Me neither. But still, if you're a journalism or communications student at Penn State have we got an offer for you. Now you can study Joe Paterno and his interaction with the media starting this fall. Which means you should probably get real familiar with the word "brains", and study all the Night of the Living Dead movies for self defense purposes if you plan on getting close to the subject.

As far as the class goes, I'm going to suggest to you that you stay guarded against believing schools like Temple, Youngstown State, and Florida International ever have a chance of winning anything other than sportsmanship awards. Because over his time as coach of Penn State, Joe has been known to build up the opposition in his press conferences well beyond what any knowledgeable college football fan would believe. Some people refer to that as lying. But in Joe's case, that's just Joe being Joe.

And speaking of Joe being Joe, you might find out that Joe is kind of renaissance man in your studies. Football coach (obviously), but more importantly, the dude can twirl!

Or should I say yooooouuuuuuTubesDay? Cultural phenomena meets man in animal suit . . . go!

"Old School" is the College Football FanHouse's irregular look back at the rich history of college football, usually through the medium of embeddable flash video. Check out the Old School archive for more famous plays and infamous hair.

It's 1982 in Georgia, and the most popular things are Herschel Walker, the colors red and black, and porny mustaches. But don't take it from me, take it from this assortment of Herschel Walker, suited dudes, horrifying clown-women, and spaced-out students:



Behold the dignity of fandom!

PORNY MUSTACHE GUY: What does it ["Bulldog Fever"] do for you?
HERSCHEL WALKER: For me? It doesn't do anything.

Woooo!