Biggest win in school history

[Schadenfreude]

Obviously, if Bowling Green were to win this coming weekend, it would be the biggest win in school history.

So what is the biggest win in school history?

We have threads about this, but it seemed like a good week to do a poll.

Feel free to shame me if I've left a game out.

I think I know my answer, but I'm going to hold out for a while.

[Schadenfreude]

Second thought, I'm gonna go ahead and vote.

I think it was the 2003 Northern Illinois game.

I've been puzzling over for a while. It was at home in front of a full house, ESPN Game Day was there and NIU was ranked 12th. We've never beaten a higher-ranked team.

[bgsufalcon24]

Without a doubt the 2003 game against Northern Illinois. I fully believe Northern Illinois was on their way to an undefeated season and the BCS that year before we beat them. That win was on the day College Gameday came to BG and the game was nationally telecast. That day did more for our present program than any other in history IMO.

[Warthog]

That was my logic as well Schade. We have never had a game get so much attention. And we came out and drilled them. So between Gameday, the ranked opponent, the sell out crowd, and the outcome, I voted for the 2003 NIU game as well.

[TG1996]

The history geek in my voted "other" as an "all of the above and more"... or at least MOST of the above.

I'd put the 1959 win over Delaware at least on par with the win over OU that year, if not a step higher. Delaware was #1, and we kicked their AZZ. The OU game as a clincher with an exciting finish was a good one, though.

(See, Fanatic? I didn't even make a comment about you being at either of those games! )

A lot of the others have their own merit, some more obvious than others. I really wanted to vote for the win over Northwestern. I think that win as much as anything may have brought me "back" to BG. I had been following scores and such, but between the product on the field and a weekend work schedule, hadn't been giving the effort I wish I would have now to BG football. Seeing that win and how it was pulled off was a turning point for me.

The stage and the wood-laying we gave to NIU in '03 was huge, as was going into Purdue that year.

The 1921 Findlay game continues to make me mad. Carl Bachman missed three PAT's in that game!!! Special teams were terrible even 85 years ago!!!

[gayfalcon]

I'm going with the defeat of Freson State in Fresno. I got to go to that game and remember rushing the field with the hundred (only about a hundred) BG fans.

The 2003 defeat of Northern Illinois ranks up there too. Taped the whole thing to see the College Gameday thing.

[kdog27]

The Purdue game in 2003 is still my favorite football game I have ever been to. I doubt I will ever see a game as good as that one live. The NIU one was the probably the biggest recently though.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

I'm with NIU as well. We had an opportunity to impress a huge audience, and it really couldn't have gone much better. The students were awesome for gameday, and the team destroyed the Huskies. It was the perfect BG football weekend.

[Rightupinthere]

I voted the final Cali Bowl in 91.

BG received no respect either before or after the game. Fresno was moving to a larger conference (WAC, I believe) the next year and they wanted to make a final statement before moving.

The other is that -at the time-showed BG had entered a new era of football post the Moe Ankney years.

I was at the game and it was an amazing experience for our football team to beat that team on their own chia-turf.

And of course the BG band completely dominated halftime.

[Dayons_Den]

I voted Cal Bowl as well. We faced a team on their home field in their Big West swan song and the Cal Bowl finale as 21 pt (I believe) dogs and we knocked 'em off. FSU had an NFL corner in that game that Erik White and Mark Sczlachic got to know real well.

I think, even with the down time in Blackney's tenure, that was a turning point for the program. The crowds were biggish and sustained, money was allocated to the program (see Perry Field House which looking back probably should have been closer to where the Sebo will be than where it is but hindsight always is better), we could stop talking about IAA, and we fostered a bit of a winning tradition that had been dormant for some time. I really think that layed the groundwork for the excitement Urban brought to the program.

[orangeandbrown]

There has to be at least one Toledo game on the list, if not more.

[svillefalcon]

Its gotta be the Josh Harris to Chucky to beat Purdon't. That game really put us on the map. Could we have a similar game next week maybe? haha
Turner to Partridge...TOUCHDOWN!

[billchase2]

that NIU game was amazing!

*has wonderful flashbacks*

[Schadenfreude]

I'd put the 1959 win over Delaware at least on par with the win over OU that year, if not a step higher. Delaware was #1, and we kicked their AZZ. The OU game as a clincher with an exciting finish was a good one, though.

I wondered which game to put in from that season.

I really wanted to vote for the win over Northwestern. I think that win as much as anything may have brought me "back" to BG. I had been following scores and such, but between the product on the field and a weekend work schedule, hadn't been giving the effort I wish I would have now to BG football. Seeing that win and how it was pulled off was a turning point for me.

That's why I put it in -- it really put an exclamation point on Bowling Green football being back. And it was an incredibly exciting finish. But I couldn't possibly pick it as our biggest win.

The 1921 Findlay game continues to make me mad. Carl Bachman missed three PAT's in that game!!! Special teams were terrible even 85 years ago!!!

Do you seriously have a box score from that game? I'd love to read an account.

[Schadenfreude]

There has to be at least one Toledo game on the list, if not more.

I know. But which one?

I can't think of any.