BYU just made the Not So Small 12 right?

[jdubb66]

Check out what they're talking about on their message board. https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=27278668
"Valium in the water, signal stealing, headset tampering"

Side note. UTEP played 3 down linemen most of the game and sent 8 back into coverage.

 

[JCorona]

It's the anniversary. Funny how no one here even remembered or at least didn't bring it up. They have an entire thread about it.

BYU football's worst upset — 1985 loss to UTEP

This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest, and most improbable, upsets in college football history.

www.deseret.com

 

[FeralFelidae]

The other time in my lifetime that UTEP upset a top 25 BYU, we were relying on a backup quarterback who was playing with a concussion. (Rocky would never be let back onto the field nowadays.)

That game is nearly as memorable, IMO, just not quite as much of an upset and not quite as bad of a UTEP team.

 

[FeralFelidae]

Look at that hit Rocky took (at the start of the video):



Then he came back and won the game. An absolute legend.

 

[OsoFromELP]

Look at that hit Rocky took (at the start of the video):

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Then he came back and won the game. An absolute legend.

Was it the hit or the concrete that passed for the artificial turf at the Sun Bowl at the time?

 

[JCorona]

Look at that hit Rocky took (at the start of the video):

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Then he came back and won the game. An absolute legend.

Nowadays that's a targeting call.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Less than 19,000 at the game too. I wonder how they were able to win?

 

[Rot]

I was at the game and was amazed with Rocky’s toughness. Although he was only a freshman he played with poise and turned out to be a great QB and leader on the team.

 

[MinerFan79]

It's the anniversary. Funny how no one here even remembered or at least didn't bring it up. They have an entire thread about it.

BYU football's worst upset — 1985 loss to UTEP

This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest, and most improbable, upsets in college football history.

www.deseret.com

Only game we won that season. Biggest win in UTEP football history

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Only game we won that season. Biggest win in UTEP football history

Is it really though???? Greatest upset, sure. Biggest win? I would have to look and see, but I don’t see how winning only 1 game that year, could be the “biggest”.

 

[MinerFan79]

Is it really though???? Greatest upset, sure. Biggest win? I would have to look and see, but I don’t see how winning only 1 game that year, could be the “biggest”.

Well they were the defending National champs. I don’t recall us having a win that big

 

[JCorona]

Well they were the defending National champs. I don’t recall us having a win that big

35+ years later BYU is still talking about it.

 

[MinerFan79]

35+ years later BYU is still talking about it.

Exactly

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Exactly

Yeap a few posters on a very busy board were talking about it, but nobody here did. They bring up the 66 title, but not this game.

 

[jdubb66]

Certainly our biggest upset and probably our most satisfying win ever due to BYUs success and our hatred of success. But for the program, probably the two Sun Bowl wins in the 60s were bigger political successes for the Miners. They got us into the WAC which had devoured the Border Conference in 1961 leaving UTEP out in the cold.

The success of the football team and the 1966 NCAA BBall championship likely played a part in UTEP being invited to the WAC which at the time had membership from BYU, Arizona, ASU, Wyoming, New Mexico, and UTAH.

 

[Lord Chabelo]

The success of the football team and the 1966 NCAA BBall championship likely played a part in UTEP being invited to the WAC which at the time had membership from BYU, Arizona, ASU, Wyoming, New Mexico, and UTAH.

Probably got us into the UT system as well

 

[MinerFan79]

Yeap a few posters on a very busy board were talking about it, but nobody here did. They bring up the 66 title, but not this game.

The 66 game is truly a topic that has been beaten to death.

 

[MinerManiac]

We like to brag a lot about the BYU games in 85 and 97, and beat our chest when we find out that losing those games are a thorn in the side of some of BYU's fans. But I would much, much rather trade places with BYU when it comes to our all time record against them: be 26-2 in last 5 decades with many blow out wins against two surprising losses.