#1 Miami at #8 Cuse, 1992 Showdown

[TexanMark]

One of the greatest games played in a loss.

3 more yards grrr

 

[Willy75]

If only our quarterback wasn’t sick as a dog on the last drive…

 

[djorange1989]

That game still hurts. Our best team of the last 60 plus years, minus 1987, and I honestly think 1992 would give 1987 a run for their money

 

[OburgOrange]

Etched in my mind forever. Still hurts

RIP Chris Gedney

 

[CbusCuse]

One of the greatest games played in a loss.

3 more yards error

I was in HS at the time and was at that game with my Dad. I can still visualize that last drive from my vantage point of our seats. Oh so...close. The crowd was deafening for that game. I couldn't talk for a couple days after that.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

Still one of my most painful sports memories.

 

[djorange1989]

Still one of my most painful sports memories.

Yep, Keith Smart will always be number one by a mile but this game was up there

 

[Marsh01]

I was a sports intern at channel 3 and watched that game with Wayne Mahar

 

[sufandu]

I wish we hadn't waited until the second half to make our adjustments on offense.

 

[GoSU96]

That game still hurts. Our best team of the last 60 plus years, minus 1987, and I honestly think 1992 would give 1987 a run for their money

Fully healthy the 97 team beats both.

McNabb and Graves were both better than McPherson.

 

[djorange1989]

Fully healthy the 97 team beats both.

McNabb and Graves were both better than McPherson.

Good point, I was so fired up when we waxed Wisconsin in the Meadowlands to start that season. Really thought that could be a top 3-5 team at that point

 

[FrancoPizza]

Why can’t broadcasts include the crowd noise like this? It makes such a huge difference pulling viewers into the game. In the streaming world we’re in today abc and espn should at least give viewers the option.

 

[Chip]

I don't think we'll ever see another villain come into the Dome like the Hurricanes were that day.

 

[sufandu]

Fully healthy the 97 team beats both.

McNabb and Graves were both better than McPherson.

That would be an interesting match up. Ismail and Gedney vs Darius and Jones. Kevin Mitchell was a disruption machine, but McNabb was magic. That '92 team also beat a pretty loaded Colorado team. I couldn't confidently pick one over the other.

 

[GoSU96]

That would be an interesting match up. Ismail and Gedney vs Darius and Jones. Kevin Mitchell was a disruption machine, but McNabb was magic. That '92 team also beat a pretty loaded Colorado team. I couldn't confidently pick one over the other.

What Brown is trying to do, which is a predicate to worrying about any other deficiency, is get the talent level to where is was between 87-2001.

I’d have to go back and look but there was at least one future first rounder on the team during that entire period.

Last year was the culmination of Dino’s decent improvement with Brown’s transfer injection. If you have a team with 12 guys getting contracts the following April, you are inevitably going to have a good season. They don’t have to be starters, but that is a very good college roster. Keep going with that and you are going to 8 to 10 wins every year.

To be better than that you need kids that are going to be picked in the first three rounds eventually always on the team to go along with your 4-UFA guys.

That is Fran’s job one. After that worry about the rest of it.

 

[Eric15]

That was the day I became a Syracuse football fan. The most intense sporting event I've ever attended. In my 10 year old brain Miami just seemed like Darth Vader.

 

[pattycuse]

Was at this game at age 13. We often talk about loudest moments or games in the history of the Dome- when Gedney went down at the three it was the quietest I ever heard a sold out crowd in that building. Everyone was completely stunned.

Brilliant, tense game, even in a loss.

 

[Cuseregular]

couple of notes: Didn't realize/forgot our secret O weapon Womack played D, those two ints by Conley are and remain the loudest moments in dome history!

 

[Eric15]

Crazy to think that Gino Toretta won the Heisman in 1992 with 19 TDs and 7 INTs. Obviously the game was much more run-oriented 30 years ago. Those numbers probably don't get you a third team all-conference selection today with how insane pass stats are now.

 

[Newhouser]

Gotta be honest - the replay was not kind to either QB.

 

[FrancoPizza]

That last drive was doomed when Graves got sacked and they didn't have a timeout to regroup. We made it all the way to their 18-yard line before things unraveled. In hindsight I don't fault P&D as much as you guys do for the clock mismanagement. Graves was "taking his time" because he was shaken up and vomited a few minutes earlier - and this was addressed by Coach P in the post-game. The coaching screwup was being forced to burn a timeout when they had 1st and goal at the 1-inch line a couple drives earlier. That timeout was sorely needed at the end.

The last play should've had all routes into the endzone. The Miami safeties were keeping Gedney in front of them and they were not going to let him score. Great throw, but poor route. Throw it into the endzone and you might get a 50/50 ball.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Gotta be honest - the replay was not kind to either QB.

Toretta I can agree had a subpar game, but Graves?

 

[sufandu]

couple of notes: Didn't realize/forgot our secret O weapon Womack played D, those two ints by Conley are and remain the loudest moments in dome history!

I remember him being great at CB blitzes.

 

[sufandu]

Crazy to think that Gino Toretta won the Heisman in 1992 with 19 TDs and 7 INTs. Obviously the game was much more run-oriented 30 years ago. Those numbers probably don't get you a third team all-conference selection today with how insane pass stats are now.

He had no busness winning that. That should have been Marshal Faulk. They gave it to the QB of the team that was the most hyped and they assumed would win the NC.

 

[Eric15]

Toretta I can agree had a subpar game, but Graves?

Miami's defense was a nightmare for us that game. In the first half we had a grand total of one first down and -1 total yards.

Graves ended up 13-24 for 145 yards, and then 28 rushes for 19 yards (which included a loss of 57 yards on nine sacks).