Man! Nothing like this atmosphere. When games like these came on my mom would fry some drumettes and we would eat chicken and watch football all day Saturday!
This was at a time during college football when you looked at the schedule looking to see when the Noles and the Canes were going to play because you knew that no matter what this game was going to be an awesome smash mouth game and both teams were going to play their guts out and leave everything on the field!!!!!!!
I was 23 years old when they played this game. I’m a Cane fan and my brother in law was a Seminole fan and we watched this game together. It gave me bragging rights for one year.
The best memories of when I was a middle school kid watching Satruday morning football with Dad. Probably eating breakfast and recovering that morning after a Friday night Middle School game with a local rival.
Man so freaking intense! What hitting with bad intentions. They hated each other like no,other. This is when this was hands down the #1 rivalry because the winner won/played for the championship in 83, 85,86, 87, 91,92,93,94,96,98,99,00,01, and 02! 14 times in 20 seasons one of these two either won, or atleast played for the national championship! 70% ! Never again will a rivalry be that important to the big picture over 2 decades. And FSU Florida in the 90s was nearly equally as important. Bowden is the only coach spurrier had a losing record to at Florida
It gets forgotten, but that field goal by Huerta at 34:00 was massive. Miami had 3 negative plays in a row after reaching the 13, it was 4th and 25, under 10 minutes left, crowd was in a frenzy. Had Huerta missed that it would have been an avalanche of momentum against the Hurricanes. A 45-yarder back then was probably the equivalent of a 53-yarder today - most college kickers couldn't make that, especially off a grass field. One of the biggest kicks in Miami football history.