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Can someone tell me the final score of the Miami Miracle, the date of the game, our record at the time and who the qb was that came in for Brian McClure when he got injured? Any help is greatly appreciated.

ZuluWarrior wrote:Can someone tell me the final score of the Miami Miracle, the date of the game, our record at the time and who the qb was that came in for Brian McClure when he got injured? Any help is greatly appreciated.

September 21, 1985...BG came into this game 2-0 with road wins at Ball State (31-6) and Kentucky (30-26).

Final score was 28-24...Rick Neiman was the QB that replaced Brian.

I was at this game with my parents and will never, ever forget that crazy ending...One of the most exciting endings I've ever seen.

Less than 102 days...

Better yet
November 23, 1985
Bowling Green's Brian McClure becomes the second player in NCAA Division I-A history to pass for more than 10,000 career yards as he completes 31 of 49 passes for 479 yards and three TDs in a 38-17 win at Ohio which caps Bowling Green's perfect 11-0 regular season.



another tidbit I find cool
September 8, 1988
Reserve quarterback Dave Kruse directs Western Michigan to three touchdowns as the Broncos outscore Wisconsin, 24-3, over the final three quarters in a 24-14 victory in Madison. Western Michigan went on to compile a 9-3 record and win its first outright MAC championship.

another
December 14, 1991
Bowling Green defeats Fresno State, 28-21, in the 11th and final California Raisin Bowl. Bowling Green, which never trailed in the game, broke Fresno State's 29-game home winning streak to finish the season with an 11-1 overall record. The Falcons were one of only five teams in the nation that had one loss or less and no ties in 1991.


The lie GROWS
November 7, 2000
The Bowl Championship Series announced future meetings would include the MAC as a non voting member.
THE DECEPTION and MANIPULATION are out of control




BGSU national champions of 1959
November 14, 1959
Undefeated Bowling Green routs Delaware, the No. 1 ranked College Division team in the country, 30-8. A week later BG edges Ohio, 13-9, to conclude its season with a 9-0 record and is voted the College Division National Champion.

We still are...this year it starts all over...we must demand perfection of our FALCONS! the time is now.

Not to be that guy, but how would you say the Miami Miracle matches up with beating Purdue (especially the way it happened)?

I was at both games, and here's my opinion.

The Miami victory was simply the most exciting live sporting event I have ever attended. The Purdue game was great, but when you start to look at everything that happened to win that Miami game (weren't there two onside kicks recovered?), and we had just won at Kentucky, and it was Miami and I was a senior.

It was the most exciting live sporting event I ever saw. Including Purdue, which is way up there, as well.

orangeandbrown wrote:The Miami victory was simply the most exciting live sporting event I have ever attended. The Purdue game was great, but when you start to look at everything that happened to win that Miami game (weren't there two onside kicks recovered?), and we had just won at Kentucky, and it was Miami and I was a senior.

o&b: Yup. The scenario was just unreal. BG had just beaten Kentucky, on the road of course, in a heart-stopping last-minute thrill ride (I have never seen a team overcome so many penalties on one drive). The school had juggled the schedule so that a win against Ball State gave Denny Stolz 99 wins. The win against Kentucky was his 100th. (I can still hear Stolz's voice in the post-game: "If I had my druthers, it [his 100th win] would come against a team like Kentucky.")

Miami was very strong in 1985. George Swarn was their featured back and the guy was a load. Their defense was one of the hardest-hitting BG saw all year.

I remember when McClure went down (BG down 24-14) - the whole stadium was dead silent. Then when he left the field, the fans started streaming out of the stadium. It was one of the oddest things I'd ever seen.

But I remember a lot of folks in the press box whispering - well, no big deal. We'll lose this one, but Miami will probably lose a game or two and we'll still win the MAC. What we didn't know then was that Miami would not lose another MAC game (although they would tie Western Michigan). This game ended up determining the MAC title.

When Dirty Rick Howard recovered that onside kick, it was surreal. And the game-winning TD, well, you have to give it to Stolz, the guy loved the drama of the game. Neiman fakes to Bernard White, who leaps over the pile. That's the play everyone expected, of course, White was practically automatic close to the goal line. But instead, Neiman runs an absolutely naked bootleg around the corner for a TD. Just about every BG News photographer had great photos of White leaping over the goal line - without the ball. Hilarious!

I thought Stolz was giddy after the Kentucky game, but he was practically giggling after this one.

Man, what a great game.

1987alum wrote:

orangeandbrown wrote:The Miami victory was simply the most exciting live sporting event I have ever attended. The Purdue game was great, but when you start to look at everything that happened to win that Miami game (weren't there two onside kicks recovered?), and we had just won at Kentucky, and it was Miami and I was a senior.

o&b: Yup. The scenario was just unreal. BG had just beaten Kentucky, on the road of course, in a heart-stopping last-minute thrill ride (I have never seen a team overcome so many penalties on one drive). The school had juggled the schedule so that a win against Ball State gave Denny Stolz 99 wins. The win against Kentucky was his 100th. (I can still hear Stolz's voice in the post-game: "If I had my druthers, it [his 100th win] would come against a team like Kentucky.")

Miami was very strong in 1985. George Swarn was their featured back and the guy was a load. Their defense was one of the hardest-hitting BG saw all year.

I remember when McClure went down (BG down 24-14) - the whole stadium was dead silent. Then when he left the field, the fans started streaming out of the stadium. It was one of the oddest things I'd ever seen.

But I remember a lot of folks in the press box whispering - well, no big deal. We'll lose this one, but Miami will probably lose a game or two and we'll still win the MAC. What we didn't know then was that Miami would not lose another MAC game (although they would tie Western Michigan). This game ended up determining the MAC title.

When Dirty Rick Howard recovered that onside kick, it was surreal. And the game-winning TD, well, you have to give it to Stolz, the guy loved the drama of the game. Neiman fakes to Bernard White, who leaps over the pile. That's the play everyone expected, of course, White was practically automatic close to the goal line. But instead, Neiman runs an absolutely naked bootleg around the corner for a TD. Just about every BG News photographer had great photos of White leaping over the goal line - without the ball. Hilarious!

I thought Stolz was giddy after the Kentucky game, but he was practically giggling after this one.

Man, what a great game.

What a game '87!! I was 17 at the time and that game really sold me as a BG football fan. My older sister, Brenda, was a JR and until she started at BG in the fall of '83, my parents didn't go back to BG for any games. I had been to a couple games in '83 & '84 but this Miami game was the bomb. We ended up going back on 11/21/85 to watch BG clinch the MAC title with a 21-0 whitewash of the Rockets.

I remember vividly watching from the top of the West side stands all these people leaving the stadium. But the crowd that stayed started screaming while BG made the comeback and a bunch of them started running back to the Doyt. I was yelling down at them that BG had scored and recovered the onsides kick and they all started sprinting up the walkways. GREAT memory...and it still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

As far at Purdue vs Miami? I'd have to say Miami because the way it all unfolded. Our star QB going down....Miami had BG dead in the water. With Purdue, it went back and forth all game but that one is in my top 5 for sure.

The other game that is up there is Northwestern, 2001. Mrs. Freak and I were supposed to go to South Carolina for the game which, of course, was cancelled due to 9/11. So, we got a refund for our tickets and I talked her into driving to Evanston for the game. The game meant nothing in terms of MAC standings but it knocked NW outta the bowl picture...and NW was the defending Big 10 Champ. Mrs. Freak asked me after the game if I was ok to drive 7 hours back to Akron. I told her "After what we just saw, I could drive straight thru to Atlantic City as pumped up as I am!!"

Those 3 games are probably my all time favorites.

101 days til more memories!

That game sucked...I left early to go drinking.

Flipper wrote:That game sucked...I left early to go drinking.

Flip,

That is one game that taught me never, ever leave a game early. Unless the score is 50-0 with 2 min left.

I hope you enjoyed the drinking!

WTF???? We won that game?

I'll have what he was having......

Thanks everyone. That game was THEE most incredible sporting event that I have ever seen, live or on TV! I remember a pretty good crowd cut in half with about five minutes to go. By the time BG recovered the second on-side kick I remember looking out to the South side parking lot and watching a couple of hundred people running as fast as they could back to the stadium.
If there was a movie made no one would ever believe it to be true. Two onside kicks, three touchdowns and the back-up of an All-American QB candidate filling in.
Thanks again!

1985 was a good year, I was born that year.
(ok how many people did I make feel really old???)

I'd love to watch that game sometime. Someone needs to come out with a BG classic channel showing great games in Falcon Athletics history.

BGSU Crazy Fan 58 wrote:1985 was a good year, I was born that year.
(ok how many people did I make feel really old???)

I'd love to watch that game sometime. Someone needs to come out with a BG classic channel showing great games in Falcon Athletics history.

I'd bet a shiny nickel that there's little, if any, footage of that game still in existence.

Why doesn't someone just call the football offices and ask if they have the footage. VCR's were around then, but it isn't real game film unless it's reel-to-reel

As for the greatest comebacks of all time football history, I'd wax on about Wadsworth in 2003 scoring 17 in the last 4 mins, 10 of which in the last 40 seconds to tie, then beat Medina in OT.

But then Freak would start hammering on Medina County