KSL, come on. This series is just embarrassing now...

@up up and away - It's always 1984 in Provo.....

@up up and away - Well, at least they improved this report by including Jim Nantz on the play-by-play. Now that's a real sports broacaster unlike some of the flunkies that call college football in Utah, i.e. Greggy Ruubell, Carl Arky at Weber State and Al Lewis at Utah State.

When the past is all you've got, you may as well relish in it. Adieu to those days, eh bruthren?

Ah the cliche "UNANSWERED POINTS"

I bet $1,000,000 I could answer for every point they (or anybody else for that matter) scored in any sporting game.

Who the hell cares. As Garth Algar puts it so well, "LIVE IN THE NOW!!!" 1984... Seroiusly?!?!

@Chris C. - It was a long time ago. Wasn't it 1884 or 1984?

BYU: We used to be sorta good, like back in the 80s.

You know your current team is in sad shape when you've got stories highlighting the "back in the day" mentality. 1984...hmmm, that does go back a few years. Come to think of it, one of the most memorable things about that year for me was that Van Halen put out one hell of an album...

Get over it!

jeremiah jensen is a complete loser for even taking the time to write this "story". I almost want BYU to go to a BCS game so i dont have to hear about 1984

KSL and BYU=Dumb and Dumber.

National championship?

At the conclusion of the 1984 college football season, BYU was the only undefeated team in Division I-A. As such, BYU's fanbase assumed that BYU would win the national championship if it won its bowl game. However, BYU, as champion of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), was obligated to play in the Holiday Bowl. The Holiday Bowl was not one of the top-tier bowls, and, as such, would not automatically draw a high-caliber opponent for the WAC champion most years. Many of the poll voters were reluctant to crown a WAC team as national champion, because of the ostensibly easier schedule that a WAC team would play in comparison to a Pac 10 or Southeastern Conference team. Much as the University of Utah and Boise State would learn 20 years later, undefeated on the season does not guarantee a championship.

The Holiday Bowl furiously recruited teams from the major conferences to play BYU in the Holiday Bowl. But it was difficult to find takers. Most major programs felt that there was more to lose in facing a BYU team and losing than there was to be gained by facing BYU and winning. Eventually, however, the Michigan Wolverines agreed to play BYU. However, with only a 6-5 record, the Wolverines were hardly the sort of opponent that a prospective national champion would expect to be playing in their bowl game.

@Nicholas D. - When BYU won their "championship" they beat a 6-5 team? Wow, they are even stinkier than I thought. Whats worse is KSL is reflecting on it. PATHETIC!

@Nicholas D. - I will take the BCS trophies that the Utes had to actually work for over a pity NC trophy. Relish it cougs, that's the only one you will get since you can't win a BCS game now that it's more difficult to accomplish now a days.

Are the tickets on sale for BYU at the Vegas Bowl this year yet?

Oh dang here we go with the 1984 crap again. Stop living in the past.

I remember back in 84 I could throw a pig skin a quarter mile. I bet I could throw that foot ball over them mountains.

That was a long time ago. Most people reading this board probably weren't even born! Those were the days. MTV actually played rock videos and didn't have a bunch of crappy reality shows, The Commodore 64 was the most popular home computer with it's 1/2 Mhz processor and 64 Kilobytes of RAM, designers of the 640K PC believed that 640K was the most memory a computer will ever need, Utah just got over the Floods of '83, and BYU won a national championship against 6-5 Michigan.

"Oh no 6-5 Michigan!! boo hoo!! They suck!"

Oh please people, they won 13 games in a row, defeated Pittsburgh which started 3# ranked in the nation at that time and beat a decent Baylor team.

They got their championchip and that's that.



But I agree with everyone else on one thing: Re-living these memories is pretty lame which is only showing the rest of the world that we don't care much about this season anymore.