Craziest SU game you ever saw in person?

[SUfanNC]

This has made me think of best plays you can think of that you have witnessed. It would cool to have a list in case the Twitter army production company wanted to know some of the best moments in our history.

98 va tech mcnabb to win game
87 penn st first play from scrimmage for a td

 

[DoubleDee]

As an 8 yr old, the last game at Archbold was crazy. At least the aftermath was. Breaking concrete, railing, tearing up the field and watching the goalposts come down. Will never forget it, and I have lots of souvenirs!!!'

 

[Trueblue25]

'06 Iowa


What could have been.

 

[orange79]

As an 8 yr old, the last game at Archbold was crazy. At least the aftermath was. Breaking concrete, railing, tearing up the field and watching the goalposts come down. Will never forget it, and I have lots of souvenirs!!!'

There are some on this board that may have had something to do with that...

 

[jekelish]

There are some on this board that may have had something to do with that...

I always knew CTO was a wild one.

 

[Jake]

Pitt triple OT game would have broken twitter it twice. Nunes doing crazy things. Bad kicks. Choking dogs every where.

 

[Brian Orange]

Virginia Tech in 2002. Ernest Wilford went crazy. Nunes had a killer INT in the end zone late. Close to the height of VT's power. A crazy homecoming game.

Sneaky game could be the Kansas State bowl game in 2011 (?). Game went back and forth. Marcus Sales two long TDs. The K-State player that did the salute and literally cost them the game. Sneaky great game.

 

[Chip]

I think I nearly died in the student section about, oh, 7 seconds into the 91 Florida game. Still have never seen anything quite like it, was unexpected chaos in the Dome, and especially that student section.

I could have sent plenty of tweets after the 92 Miami, 94 Oklahoma or 98 Tennessee games during the time I stood there at my seat after the game.

One great one that doesn't get talked about much was Texas in the Dome in 1992. That was a lot of fun.

As mentioned, 98 and 02 VT games were glass cases of emotion. Especially since I was a Virginian by then, living and working among so many annoying Hokies. That was the annual game I wanted to win more than any other.

This whole post and thread depresses me about the state of Syracuse football. The youngin's don't realize how magical it was, how chaotic that Dome could be.

 

[MSOrange]

Virginia Tech in 2002. Ernest Wilford went crazy. Nunes had a killer INT in the end zone late. Close to the height of VT's power. A crazy homecoming game.

Sneaky game could be the Kansas State bowl game in 2011 (?). Game went back and forth. Marcus Sales two long TDs. The K-State player that did the salute and literally cost them the game. Sneaky great game.

Living in Kansas, I had to hear about that call more than any person should ever have to. So I have to correct you. He cost them a opportunity to tie the game on a two point conversion. By no means is K State guaranteed to have won without the call. And if K State wanted to win, they had plenty of chances to stop us and couldn't do it.

 

[rocklloyd]

Likely 25 years ago , #1 ranked Miami rolls into the dome and we almost beat them. We were on their 5 yd. line when the clock expired. Graves threw up on the field. We had 2 great linebackers that year. Dan Conley and------------? You could hear a pin drop at the end of the game. No one left their seats for 15-20 minutes. That game really, really sticks in my craw.

Glen young?

 

[HtownOrange]

VPI, '02. Just absolutely nuts. My ears were ringing for days after the game. That was still in the era when the Dome rocked and nobody wanted to play the Orangemen there.

 

[NailstheCusefan12]

I was at all three recent wins over WVU. The ugly one in Morgantown, the beat down on Parent's Weekend on a Friday in the Dome, and the Pinstripe Bowl. I hate them and their fan base with a major passion and those three wins were absolutely incredible. I give a tip of the hat to the game in the Dome and Dorian Graham's KO return for a TD. Pretty sure Provo is still wandering uncovered through their secondary for another TD. bnoro and I consumed an unsafe amount of alcohol with my father before, during, and after that one.

 

[RoatanCuse]

In Yankee Stadium in the 60's we killed Pitt something like 63-7. Floyd Little and big Jim Nance had a field day. Took my dad and little brother. What a day! Not many passes thrown, either.

 

[kuethstheman]

Honorable Mention:

Diamond Ferri BC frustration
@WVU fight game

 

['72 Orange]

In Yankee Stadium in the 60's we killed Pitt something like 63-7. Floyd Little and big Jim Nance had a field day. Took my dad and little brother. What a day! Not many passes thrown, either.

The game was actually at Shea Stadium 51 - 13 back in '65

 

[RF2044]

Virginia Tech '98

Crazy game, from start to finish.

 

[djorange1989]

No mentions of the 2010 Pinstripe Bowl yet - an extremely exciting and high scoring back-and-forth game.

Awesome game, awful call that helped us with the salute personal foul. We were proud of our team like we hadn't been in a long while.

 

[SWC75]

We talkn' crazy, not great or wonderful

1998 Virginia Tech. We out-gain them 420-152 and have to come from behind to win 28-26 on the last play of the game.
1999 Virginia Tech. They out-gain us 120-411 and win 0-62.

Now THAT's crazy!

I throw in the three most famous Troy Nunes games:

1999 The Jubilation Y. Cornpone retreat into the end zone for a safety that gives them a 7-15 lead. The game comes down to SU having to score a TD in front of the Michigan goal line at the end, down 13-18 instead of 13-16. Madei William's fourth down pass goes off Pat Woodcock's hands.

2000: We get a 14-0 lead on Virginia Tech due to Dwight Freeney's 5 sacks of Michael Vick. But Freeney gets injured and Nunes starts throwing the ball to the Hokies, (4 pics) until we lose, 14-22

2002: Nunes turns hero, leading us to a wild 50-42 win over the nationally ranked Hokies, a game we had no business winning but we did it.

 

[A Clockwork Orange]

Here's a game I'm sure no one would mention, and honestly it's not near as high as SU-VPI in '98 for me. Tulane-SU in '97 at the dome. SU was coming off three losses in a row. Tulane was supposed to be an easy win, but they had Shaun King at quarterback, and late in the game down 24-19, he led them on a drive down to the SU goal line. It looked like four straight losses in McNabb's junior year. Lo and behold, Tebucky Jones jumps the route, and takes it back like 95 yards for a touchdown, essentially saving the season. That started a string of 8 wins in a row on the way to a Fiesta Bowl berth.

 

[TheCusian]

How about Pitt v Nunes led Cuse at Dome... Triple OT.

I got tickets from my Dad on the 50 about 3 rows up, who got them through the publisher at the PS. Brought my newish girlfriend. After 1st OT she turns to me and asks if we can leave because she was hungry. I looked at her and knew it would never last...

 

[SWC75]

Here's a game I'm sure no one would mention, and honestly it's not near as high as SU-VPI in '98 for me. Tulane-SU in '97 at the dome. SU was coming off three losses in a row. Tulane was supposed to be an easy win, but they had Shaun King at quarterback, and late in the game down 24-19, he led them on a drive down to the SU goal line. It looked like four straight losses in McNabb's junior year. Lo and behold, Tebucky Jones jumps the route, and takes it back like 95 yards for a touchdown, essentially saving the season. That started a string of 8 wins in a row on the way to a Fiesta Bowl berth.

That was the play where some jerk clipped Antoine Ponds 40 yards behind the play and he missed the rest of the season.

 

[omg_cuse_rules]

Wvu in dome 2011. Craziest overall experience i've witnessed in the dome, in a good way

 

[MSOrange]

I will go with the only game I've seen in person - which just happened to be rather crazy also. The last minute win against Mizzou in Columbia when Nassib hit Lemon for the winning TD. Boy that crowd got quiet quickly.

 

[A Clockwork Orange]

That was the play where some jerk clipped Antoine Ponds 40 yards behind the play and he missed the rest of the season.

I blocked that out of my memory SWC! You're right, that was the same play.

 

[crzdsufan]

Gedney tackled at the four yard line or Pearl sinkning the half court shot. One for each king pin sport!