The Craig Way Show
Revisiting the Longhorns win over Michigan in the Rose Bowl
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Hey Cam, I was going to tell you something else too. Just because there are no team walkthroughs here inside the stadium this afternoon on the day before the game. That doesn't mean there isn't a beehive of activity going on. First of all, I'm guessing looking across that it's Fox's big noon kickoff set. They would probably have the entree into that over college game day being inside the stadium. I'm just guessing I could be wrong about that, but I'm thinking maybe that's the crew for Fox's big noon kickoff because they're both here and I think ESPN radio has a crew here. It's also being broadcast on national radio from Westwood One. There's a lot of agencies being represented, but in addition to that, here's the other thing I was going to tell you Cameron, just because the football teams aren't on the field. It doesn't mean that nobody's going to use the field. I think because I just saw a big and I do mean big dude walk out of the tunnel with a big tuba. So big sousaphone, big, big tuba. So there might be a band practice that's going to happen here at some point. I don't know when there's nobody else, but just the one guy came out with the big horn and was kind of cruising around the side. I don't know. Maybe wife about that. Yeah, you might have a might have an inside show where the Michigan band preparing for the game tomorrow. I could probably look for it and see if I get a little preview of the show tomorrow. It's going to be a lot of fun and that leads me to talking about this matchup. Yes, it's number three against number 10. And yes, there's, you know, the absolute patented nature of these two iconic collegiate football programs. Michigan, not only, of course, is the defending national champion, the Wolverines have won one thousand and five college football games all time. That leads all NCAA affiliated programs one thousand and five on that. So the law board ran access to nine hundred, but and it's two iconic programs. But like we said, Michigan with a thousand five all time wins. And of course they've been playing football here a long, long, long, long, long time. Um, I think the Longhorns first ever bowl appearance was 1943, maybe in the cotton bowl. And they played Randolph field. Do you know what that is, Cam? When Texas opponent the 1943 cotton bowl, Randolph field. I do not know. Well, remember where we were in 1943. We were a world at war. And what used to happen was you had a lot of military installations have their own teams, be it college or professional teams that played a lot of games and played against legitimate college teams. And also some that played some games professionally against teams, especially in baseball. There was a team called Great Lakes Naval Air Station. And it was loaded with Hall of Future Hall of Famers, Bob Feller was pitching for the team, because these were guys who were in the military. So Bob Feller was in it. Joe DiMaggio was in briefly Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, yeah, all of these future Hall of Famers who were playing baseball for military installation affiliated teams. It is the same thing the college football with Randolph field. Now Randolph field itself is what we now know as Randolph Air Force Base, which is on the Northeast side of San Antonio. In fact, it's very, very close. And the school district bumps up with in the town of Universal City. I think you've probably heard of that, Avenue Cam Universal City. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, the RoHawks. Yeah. All right. Well, that's where it came from originally. In fact, our engineer on the Longhorn Radio Network football broadcast, Greg Klingensmith, a military kid himself, is a graduate of Randolph High School, the RoHawks. And they had some, they were a playoff team, I think, and won a district title a year ago, but they've had some big moments. They got all the way to a state championship once, lost to Plano back in 1967 in a two-way state championship game, which by the way, Cam, just for your knowledge and edification, that two-way state championship, yeah, Plano, a large population, six-way school now, won a two-way state championship over Universal City Randolph in 1967. The game was played at I, I, Nelson Field. That's where the state championship was. Wow. Nelson Field, apropos of nothing on that, but Randolph Field itself, the precursor to Randolph Air Force Base. Randolph Field, just like Bergstrom Air Force Base, it was called Bergstrom Field before it became Bergstrom Air Force Base. And now, of course, is the site of Austin Bergstrom International Airport, but the Randolph Field had a college football team and a good one. And they played Texas in the Cotton Bowl, I believe it was 1943, and I think it was the Longhorn's first ever bowl appearance. The point of all this was to point out how Michigan has been around playing football for so long that Michigan played in the very first Rose Bowl back in 1902. So they've been around a long, long time is the point. And these are two of the iconic programs of all of college football. And so for them to be meeting on a college campus for the first time with more than 100 years of football for each of these programs is pretty amazing to think about these two great, great programs, but they will meet tomorrow for the first time on a college campus. And then in three years, they will meet in Austin and the plan in between time, the Longhorns will play the Ohio State Buckeyes. Now, Texas has played Ohio State just a little more often than they played Michigan. They had a home and a home with the Buckeyes in '05 and '06, they memorable low five game in the horseshoe with Vince Young hitting Leimah Swede with the touchdown pass late in the game and Texas won that contest over Ohio State. Then the Buckeyes came in the next year when the Longhorns were the defending national champions. Ohio State had the Heisman Trophy winner to be Troy Smith and Colm McCoy was starting his first game as a red shirt freshman. And he and the Longhorns were taught a lesson or two by those Ohio State Buckeyes who won that game 24/7 and went on to win the national championship. They met one more time and that was two years later. The the famous 2008 season, some Longhorn fans might refer to it as infamous 2008 season because of that antiquated tiebreaker that the big 12 use that no other conference in the nation used with Texas and Oklahoma and Texas Tech all finishing tied for the top spot. Texas had beaten Oklahoma when the Sooners were number one. Texas Tech, of course, the Michael Crabtree catch had the exhilarating home win against the Longhorns and then what was a week or two after that, Oklahoma just destroyed Texas Tech. So it was a three-way tie and under the tie-breaking rules of the BCS, the way that it that it worked for all the other major conferences, the Big Ten, the Pac-10 or Pac-12, by then the the SEC and the ACC, all of the other power conferences used the tie-breaking system that if there were three teams tied and they all defeated each other in round robin fashion as Texas, Texas, Texas, Tech and Oklahoma had done that season, then if there was one school of the three separated by more than five spots in the BCS rankings, they were already taught they were automatically tossed out and then he went to the head-to-head winner. Well, Texas and Oklahoma were both up in the top five and Texas Tech was way down around, I think, 10 or 12, something like that. They were down pretty far but they would have been tossed out in any other league on that but the Big 12 had kept that tie-breaker so then it went to some more formulaic things and I think it was four one-thousandths of a point they got Oklahoma past Texas and into the Big 12 championship where they beat Missouri and then of course were beaten by USC and the Orange Bowl 55 to 19. The Longhorns who were left out of that went to the Fiesta Bowl, played Ohio State, incredible game. Juan Cosby, our friend and colleague, scored the game's game-winning touchdown on a pass from Colt McCoy with I think 26 seconds to go and that was the last time that Texas and Ohio State played so they played three times and they'll renew that series next year when Texas plays in Columbus at Ohio State and then in 2026 the Buckeyes were turned the game to Austin and then in 2027 Michigan will play in Austin in the return of this game. So a little history lesson for you there on this college football stuff. 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