Exactly. UW bowed out for a more lucrative battle in the Orange Bowl.

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Sep 20, 2019
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UW claiming they were the better team in '84 being revisited.

BYUHawk

9/20/19 9:51am

They made their choice.

kccougar

9/20/19 9:51am

and they came back the next year and we took them to the woodshed.

Acorn

9/20/19 1:18pm

Yet......they didn't.

WJCougar

9/20/19 9:52am

Lol, but PAC 12 website says they were national champs in 84 anyway.

cowbellcoug

9/20/19 11:01am

Let's keep in mind that they also list '08 Utah as NC

cougfan32

9/20/19 12:11pm

Link

cougfan32

9/20/19 12:11pm

lmaOOO at this. What P12 intern did they get to skew those stats?

goseabass

9/20/19 1:48pm

So thats why no Pac invite. Cuz they'd have to take UW 1984 national championship away. Now I finally get it. Lol.

cowbellcoug

9/20/19 4:35pm

They didn't win their own conference.

Archaea

9/20/19 9:53am

This^^^^^

SG Blue

9/20/19 9:57am

BYU wouldn't have won it either in 84

ALUF 1990

9/20/19 10:03am

That's an awesome hypothetical.

coug almighty

9/20/19 10:07am

You know what's not speculation? BYU's 1984 National Championship.

svenot

9/20/19 10:08am

Such sour grapes

Bossk82

9/20/19 10:08am

Yes they would have.

mvtoro

9/20/19 10:09am

Exactly. UW bowed out for a more lucrative battle in the Orange Bowl.

Archaea

9/20/19 11:09am

A little flashback on the 84 championship

mkscougar

9/20/19 11:59am

The article speaks to this which is why I find it interesting. I know it's a

BYUHawk

9/20/19 12:31pm

Interesting insight into the voters thoughts.

Oat'n'bow

9/20/19 12:36pm

Why are you here?

canndyman

9/20/19 10:46am

Window licking.

kccougar

9/20/19 10:49am

You spelled "won it" wrong...

ochobeeguy

9/20/19 11:20am

NC trophy in Provo says otherwise

cougargollum

9/20/19 12:47pm

Wouldn’t have won what? The NC? They did. It’s done. Got the trophy.

canofpicante

9/20/19 1:06pm

And you know that because.... Exactly. Cork it.

Benfica1

9/20/19 2:05pm

Please explain to me ANY Ute as to why you always

BlueSioux

9/20/19 2:48pm

And then BYU crushes them 31 to 3 the very next season. That shut them up pretty

Soy Celeste

9/20/19 9:56am

The funniest thing is no matter what they say and who should be N.C.....

WJCougar

9/20/19 9:57am

RE: And then BYU crushes them 31 to 3 the very next season. That shut them up

Gibbcoug

9/20/19 10:01am

A real game that is actually played, even with some graduated, is more legitimate than pure imagination of “what would

mvtoro

9/20/19 10:03am

Except it shows that they aren’t a better program.

Brigham

9/20/19 10:26am

Both teams had the same coaching staffs, and probably ~70% same players.

Game Changer

9/20/19 10:41am

Plus my buddies at Mt. Rainier High School had been giving me crap and that game shut them up.

cowbellcoug

9/20/19 11:34am

It's okay though cause they didn't want to be there lol

RICoug

9/20/19 11:18am

I have no sympathy for any other team who claimed to be #1 in 1984. They didn't care enough to prove

Indy Coug

9/20/19 9:57am

They had the option? How does that work?

coug almighty

9/20/19 9:58am

They were invited to play us in a bowl game to settle it on the field. Had they accepted there would be no question

mvtoro

9/20/19 10:01am

And make more money.

Archaea

9/20/19 11:10am

I guess they got what they deserved then.

mvtoro

9/20/19 11:13am

they got the dough and we got the honor.

Archaea

9/20/19 11:15am

They were given the opportunity to play BYU in the Holiday Bowl. They rejected

Soy Celeste

9/20/19 10:01am

is this true? Seems like people are throwing this out there like its truth. Is

buckeyecougarguy

9/20/19 2:14pm

From the article.

BYUHawk

9/20/19 2:23pm

Wouldn't you expect a team that is so great as they claim, a defending "champ,"

NOCAL_YFAN

9/20/19 9:59am

Just finished reading it. It's actually a pretty interesting read. Adds a lot of

BYUHawk

9/20/19 10:07am

Let's settle this the Northwestern way.

Pimpin4Paradise

9/20/19 10:08am

Let’s settle this in “the old way”:

mvtoro

9/20/19 10:17am

I'd take Kalani against most coaches out there...I think we've got national

NOCAL_YFAN

9/20/19 10:27am

I literally said this to my seat neighbor before kickoff v USC.

mvtoro

9/20/19 10:33am

Whitt is ruthless too in this regard.

ThorLebowski

9/20/19 10:57am

But he's old and small.

kccougar

9/20/19 10:59am

And he has a crippling hidden weakness:

mvtoro

9/20/19 11:11am

I'm going to agree with Mike Leach on this one

Schultz is back

9/20/19 12:01pm

He couldn't choose between Whitt and Herm Edwards?!?! Credibility shot.

mvtoro

9/20/19 2:53pm

Or Tuiaki

puntersarepeople

9/20/19 3:06pm

People act like that was a crappy Michigan team. It was a team that suffered a bunch of injuries during the season

Byron McNertney

9/20/19 10:12am

Maybe. But they have conjecture and we have the crystal ball from that year so..

Graig Swame

9/20/19 11:57am

True. Speaking of I always thought the crystal football as one of the best

Oat'n'bow

9/20/19 12:28pm

Most up here don't mention it or even have a strong opinion re; 84',but the ones

MatthiasPhunkHausen

9/20/19 12:55pm

RE: UW claiming they were the better team in '84 being revisited.

Norge Coug

9/20/19 12:18pm

Little do they remember they did not win their conference and got stomped the

Coug Man in Florida

9/20/19 12:33pm

Didn’t we crush them the following year?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

9/20/19 1:18pm

I work right next to a die hard Huskies fan

zerome4sooners

9/20/19 1:49pm

It was a bad year for the PAC10 that year. Only one other team, USC, was ranked

oldrugger

9/20/19 3:09pm

Oklahoma also said they were better, but when offered a pre-season bowl

oldrugger

9/20/19 3:18pm

Time for BYU to shut UW up once and for all.

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