possible, but you’re essentially saying BYU should’ve been nat champs in 1985?

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Jul 7, 2020
7:26:40pm

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possible, but you’re essentially saying BYU should’ve been nat champs in 1985?

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Interesting, I've never seen this quote re: 1984 team

7/7/20 1:13pm

Yep, it was circulated widely at the time. BYU thumped Baylor 47-13.

Indy Coug

7/7/20 1:13pm

IIRC, the audio was even played during a BYU highlight film of the season

Belboz

7/7/20 1:15pm

i went to that game. it was a lot of fun. everyone was doing the wave, reverse wave, double waves, wave using keysetc.

zephyr

7/7/20 1:39pm

That’s because the wave sucks

SJS

7/7/20 1:45pm

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dryflyelk

7/7/20 2:02pm

Having a sponsored "wave" killed it.

Xylene

7/8/20 10:28am

I remember him being interviewed on pregame show he asked "which one of those

relic

7/7/20 3:45pm

Must have been amazing to be alive back then

Backcountry

7/7/20 1:30pm

Teaff and Edwards were very good friends.

KikmCougs

7/7/20 1:56pm

OU /Switzer declined to play BYU in kickoff classic the following season.

towerman

7/7/20 1:59pm

BYU would have crushed OU in 1985 due to OUs defensive issues as you mentioned

1984coug

7/7/20 2:07pm

A few years later, in the early 90's, we did play OK. Everyone said they were

oldrugger

7/7/20 3:45pm

I’m talking specifically 1985

1984coug

7/7/20 5:02pm

Hmmm, OU won national championship that year

7/7/20 5:23pm

Had BYU play them first off BYU would win- fully healthy BYU would outscore OU

1984coug

7/7/20 5:27pm

possible, but you’re essentially saying BYU should’ve been nat champs in 1985?

7/7/20 7:26pm

I’m not saying BYU would have won, but OU lost by 2 touchdowns at home to Miami.

Cougar Jazz Fan

7/7/20 10:58pm

I was at that game...only game they lost that year

7/8/20 4:34am

Umm. We lost to UTEP in '85. 😉

Greg4BYU

7/8/20 11:20am

Kind of irrelevant since Washington beat Oklahoma

Gibbcoug

7/7/20 1:59pm

Never know...Washington gave the hard pass as well...

TrueBlue67

7/7/20 2:24pm

And Washington got thumped by BYU the next year.... neither team was the same

Pretorian

7/7/20 2:35pm

Apologies Pretorian... too busy composing to see that you beat me to it.

Cully

7/7/20 2:44pm

Doesn't mean much - 2 totally different teams

Gibbcoug

7/7/20 5:22pm

Don James ("the Dogfather") and his Washington Huskies visited Provo in 1985

Cully

7/7/20 2:42pm

I think BYU did run up the score because...

run26

7/7/20 4:38pm

My first game in Cougar Stadium, freshman year.

7/7/20 7:29pm

Also, the only other ranked PAC10 team was USC, and UW, lost that game.

oldrugger

7/7/20 3:47pm

I remember the quote

Archaea

7/7/20 7:55pm

there was a paper back published by the daily herald on the BYU 84 team

BigYfan

7/7/20 9:31pm

I remember that quote well. It was also the first BYU game I ever attended.

idacoug

7/7/20 10:20pm

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