@@MarcelATX Not really? Gidden was a great safety. He just had one fall though his hands? Its not much more of a scapegoat situation than the whole "what if the tech player steps out of bounds" or "what if the Texas player knocks the ball down there" or "what if the Texas player makes the tackle". It is kind of the nature of these kind of conversations. You might be sensitive to the subject but its been like 15 years.. Blake is coaching at the University and doing great. I am sure even he would tell you he wishes he had that one back.
It was my first night in Lubbock, a friend had an extra ticket and so we drove up from Austin. I didn’t follow any football at all at the time so I had no clue what was going on 😂. I was like Jesus this place is crazy.
@@raleighsanford5111 but the fact of the matter is got there was an opportunity for a game-sealing pick. He could have caught it as you said, and then he could have fumbled and Texas still would have won.
Ironically, Tech is the king of "What If?" programs ever. It does my heart good to be on the right side of 1 of these. I was at that game & on the visitor sideline, near the opposite endzone, and it was so crowded, I couldn't see the catch. I heard a roar & knew he caught it, then another roar & saw Crabs in the endzone & it was awesome.
If we are playing what if, if TT doesn't score and Texas wins out and wins the NC and Colt doesn't get hurt in 09 and Texas manages to pull that one out, does that change the dynamic from the SEC, SEC, SEC to the Big 12 continuing to dominate on the national scene by getting the best players?
That's an interesting point. How long does Mack Brown stay at Texas if he wins back to back titles? Probably a long ass time even if he doesn't do much else after that.
Even with that loss, Texas should have gone to the BCS game over EITHER OK or Florida. Better resume. Better wins. “Less bad” loss. Thank God we have expanded the playoffs now to decide the champion on the field instead of in back room committees!
@@Mystery_Man84 🤣 “Doesn’t matter…” funny, but some college football fans prefer to see the games instead of accepting declarations of certain supremacy when it comes to these things. 🤷♂️
It was my first night in Lubbock, a friend had an extra ticket and so we drove up from Austin. I didn’t follow any football at all at the time so I had no clue what was going on 😂. I was like Jesus this place is crazy.
Lots of unfortunate feelings about that moment but the biggest is the weird conference rules at that time made three top 5 teams in the country in Texas, OU, and Tech fight for one conf game spot against Missouri or Nebraska who both had 4 losses by then and we're barely ranked in the top 25. So then you end up getting a OU 62-21 trouncing of Missouri instead of another rematch and slugfest vs Tech or Texas. They fixed the rule later and made it top 2 teams but the significance will never be what it was this year.
As a USC Trojans fan, off the top of my head: Bush push (if it failed). Vince Young was actually ruled down in the national title game. If USC beat Oregon State in 2008. Other entries: Speaking of Colt McCoy, if he didn't get injured against Bama in the title game, would that have helped Texas to win? If 'Kick-6' failed, Bama's kicker made it.
This wondering is why there’s a playoff. Yes those moments are crazy to see a play make or break a season and keeping you on the edge of the seat till the championship games are set and more games with value at the end of the season but people hated wondering what if ? What if number 3 Texas got the opportunity to play Florida for the trophy? Well now there’s lest suspense in week 13 and less wondering after the championship game. Which do we prefer suspense and questions or coasting into the playoffs and leaving the season with less questions?
Florida would have ROLLED Texas that year. Yes Texas beat OU, but OU went on a near unprecedented run offensively after that loss. It was a completely different OU team in the title game
If Ryan Reynolds didn’t get hurt in the RRS, OU beats Texas in 2008. The backup, Austin Box, was also hurt. They had nobody ready to play the Mike. By the time OU got to the national championship game, they had gotten Mike Balugan ready at Mike and he played pretty good and the defense played good enough to beat UF.
What if Ruggles makes the game winning fg agajnst Georgia in the Peach Bowl… 😔 Go Buckeyes. Anyways the 2008 Texas/Texas Tech is one of my favorite college football games ever to have watched, remember watching it as a teen being blown away and it holds up.
If only Curtis Brown, one of the greatest Gilmer Buckeyes of all time, had taken the right angle to Crabtree. He could have easily pushed him out of bounds and that would have been that. It still hurts. Not blaming him, there were plannty of other chances in that game to not be there at the end, but that was so close.
The two big what if for Texas fans are the Crabtree catch and Craig Curry fumbling a punt late in the 84 Cotton bowl against Georgia which made Miami and not Texas national champs
One player changed both the NFL and college football. That player is Drew Brees. Drew Brees was close to going to the Miami dolphins coached by Saban. He didn't go there, he went to New Orleans instead. Brees goes to the dolphins its likely that Saban stays with there and doesn't go coach Bama. Then you'd have Brees Saban going up against Brady Bellicheck to possibly hurt that dynasty. So for me Drew Brees is the player who changed college football and nfl the most.
What about 2007 game West Virginia vs Pit, 13-9 with Pitt winning. If West Virginia had won they would’ve clinched a BCS national championship spot against Ohio State! Imagine if West Virginia went on to win that game!
The Gideon dropped gimme interception was the bigger play in the sense that it would have ended the game (too) and it was so simple. Crabtree was merely being himself when he completed that catch for a touchdown. And I really do not think history would have changed much. Florida was better-coached than Texas, they likely would have won the championship. And Colt McCoy was not the dynamo that Vince Young was.
$#@ If Lane Kiffin never leave UT stays till this point. . . .are the Vols beating Bama on a base. Recruiting magnate. Amazing offense like CJH. . . .??? Discuss
I never though college games were rigged until I watched this game. terribly lopsided refereeing covered up by TV announcer making excuses for bad calls. Then BCS picks OU ignoring 10 point head to head win by Texas. The Refs spotted Tech 21 in this one. The only other game that was obviously rigged was Iowa vs LSU women's basketball. It was so bad it was laughable.
What if Mike Bobo play called giving the ball to Todd Gurley in 2014 versus South Carolina instead of passing the ball? I mean Georgia would be crazy to hire him again as their offensive coordinator again....oh wait
How about 2019 I think it was Rodrigo Blankenship makes the field goal vs South Carolina and UGA wins it -don’t know if this was a sport changing moment but it would change some seasons for sure
Crazier is an interception bounced right off the chest of a sure handed Texas safety.
Scapegoat
@@MarcelATX Not really? Gidden was a great safety. He just had one fall though his hands? Its not much more of a scapegoat situation than the whole "what if the tech player steps out of bounds" or "what if the Texas player knocks the ball down there" or "what if the Texas player makes the tackle". It is kind of the nature of these kind of conversations. You might be sensitive to the subject but its been like 15 years.. Blake is coaching at the University and doing great. I am sure even he would tell you he wishes he had that one back.
He was a freshman.
It was my first night in Lubbock, a friend had an extra ticket and so we drove up from Austin. I didn’t follow any football at all at the time so I had no clue what was going on 😂. I was like Jesus this place is crazy.
Ask any Texas fan, that 2008 team was far superior to the 09 team
08 had the better offense 09 had the better defense
I think you forgot one of the most important things of the game, what if texas didn't drop the easiest interception in history on the previous play??
Facts
It hit a Tech WR first, what if he makes the catch? Then there is no dropped INT.
@@raleighsanford5111 but the fact of the matter is got there was an opportunity for a game-sealing pick.
He could have caught it as you said, and then he could have fumbled and Texas still would have won.
@@timebomb42 you are reaching.
@@raleighsanford5111 could be a reach, could've been reality.
Ironically, Tech is the king of "What If?" programs ever. It does my heart good to be on the right side of 1 of these. I was at that game & on the visitor sideline, near the opposite endzone, and it was so crowded, I couldn't see the catch. I heard a roar & knew he caught it, then another roar & saw Crabs in the endzone & it was awesome.
Greatest game ever. Texas vs Tech 2008.
A better question is what would have happened if Demarco Murray had played in that championship game.
It's a wonderful moment that's worth reliving all the time.
Then y’all went and lost next week
If we are playing what if, if TT doesn't score and Texas wins out and wins the NC and Colt doesn't get hurt in 09 and Texas manages to pull that one out, does that change the dynamic from the SEC, SEC, SEC to the Big 12 continuing to dominate on the national scene by getting the best players?
That's an interesting point. How long does Mack Brown stay at Texas if he wins back to back titles? Probably a long ass time even if he doesn't do much else after that.
Even with that loss, Texas should have gone to the BCS game over EITHER OK or Florida. Better resume. Better wins. “Less bad” loss. Thank God we have expanded the playoffs now to decide the champion on the field instead of in back room committees!
Wouldn’t have mattered. Florida would have dusted Texas as well
@@Mystery_Man84 🤣 “Doesn’t matter…” funny, but some college football fans prefer to see the games instead of accepting declarations of certain supremacy when it comes to these things. 🤷♂️
Your high as a Chinese spy ballon
@@737smartin then next time, beat Texas Tech 🤦🏻♂️
@@Mystery_Man84 Way to sidestep the discussion! 🙄 Like that loss was worse than the Florida loss to Ole Miss that year. 🤣
Why are you making me live in that reality? That was the best in person sports moment of my life and I don’t know if it will ever be topped.
It was my first night in Lubbock, a friend had an extra ticket and so we drove up from Austin. I didn’t follow any football at all at the time so I had no clue what was going on 😂. I was like Jesus this place is crazy.
Can’t nobody man up my boy crab!
Please don’t change this one. One of the best post game interviews ever !
Crabtree is one of college football's goats
I am way too high for this video….
It should have never gotten to that moment if Blake Gideon would have held on to the interception I was at that game and was pissed
Lots of unfortunate feelings about that moment but the biggest is the weird conference rules at that time made three top 5 teams in the country in Texas, OU, and Tech fight for one conf game spot against Missouri or Nebraska who both had 4 losses by then and we're barely ranked in the top 25. So then you end up getting a OU 62-21 trouncing of Missouri instead of another rematch and slugfest vs Tech or Texas. They fixed the rule later and made it top 2 teams but the significance will never be what it was this year.
As a USC Trojans fan, off the top of my head: Bush push (if it failed).
Vince Young was actually ruled down in the national title game.
If USC beat Oregon State in 2008.
Other entries: Speaking of Colt McCoy, if he didn't get injured against Bama in the title game, would that have helped Texas to win?
If 'Kick-6' failed, Bama's kicker made it.
This wondering is why there’s a playoff. Yes those moments are crazy to see a play make or break a season and keeping you on the edge of the seat till the championship games are set and more games with value at the end of the season but people hated wondering what if ? What if number 3 Texas got the opportunity to play Florida for the trophy? Well now there’s lest suspense in week 13 and less wondering after the championship game. Which do we prefer suspense and questions or coasting into the playoffs and leaving the season with less questions?
Florida would have ROLLED Texas that year. Yes Texas beat OU, but OU went on a near unprecedented run offensively after that loss. It was a completely different OU team in the title game
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You know it my man because. We Chomp
That was Sam Brafford and Adrian Peterson OU team or am i wrong?
He's got the big man, CRABTREE, PULLS FREE and TOUCHDOWN RED RAIDERS
If Ryan Reynolds didn’t get hurt in the RRS, OU beats Texas in 2008. The backup, Austin Box, was also hurt. They had nobody ready to play the Mike. By the time OU got to the national championship game, they had gotten Mike Balugan ready at Mike and he played pretty good and the defense played good enough to beat UF.
What if Ruggles makes the game winning fg agajnst Georgia in the Peach Bowl… 😔 Go Buckeyes. Anyways the 2008 Texas/Texas Tech is one of my favorite college football games ever to have watched, remember watching it as a teen being blown away and it holds up.
The biggest question is, why didn’t Crabtree and Harrell not get in invited to heisman awards?
If only Curtis Brown, one of the greatest Gilmer Buckeyes of all time, had taken the right angle to Crabtree. He could have easily pushed him out of bounds and that would have been that. It still hurts. Not blaming him, there were plannty of other chances in that game to not be there at the end, but that was so close.
He's right there!! A little push and Crabtree goes out of bounds Ugh
wouldn’t that leave tech time to make a field goal?
I had a feeling Texas Tech was winning that game at home. I was never nervous at the end.
USC 2006, 2007, 2008 would’ve three peat 🔥🔥🔥
The two big what if for Texas fans are the Crabtree catch and Craig Curry fumbling a punt late in the 84 Cotton bowl against Georgia which made Miami and not Texas national champs
One player changed both the NFL and college football. That player is Drew Brees. Drew Brees was close to going to the Miami dolphins coached by Saban. He didn't go there, he went to New Orleans instead. Brees goes to the dolphins its likely that Saban stays with there and doesn't go coach Bama. Then you'd have Brees Saban going up against Brady Bellicheck to possibly hurt that dynasty. So for me Drew Brees is the player who changed college football and nfl the most.
Texas deserved to be in the BCS Championship anyway. They had the same record as Oklahoma and a win over them
He caught the ball with 3-4 seconds left, if it’s dropped one to 2 seconds left, they kick a field goal and win
What about 2007 game West Virginia vs Pit, 13-9 with Pitt winning. If West Virginia had won they would’ve clinched a BCS national championship spot against Ohio State! Imagine if West Virginia went on to win that game!
The Gideon dropped gimme interception was the bigger play in the sense that it would have ended the game (too) and it was so simple.
Crabtree was merely being himself when he completed that catch for a touchdown.
And I really do not think history would have changed much.
Florida was better-coached than Texas, they likely would have won the championship.
And Colt McCoy was not the dynamo that Vince Young was.
This one hurts cause tech got their championship by beating us but we didn’t get our chance cause the bcs snubbed us from playing Florida
Gedion dropped the interception.
The bad angle by the safety on the catch
$#@ If Lane Kiffin never leave UT stays till this point. . . .are the Vols beating Bama on a base. Recruiting magnate. Amazing offense like CJH. . . .??? Discuss
The greatest football game in history. The media couldn't get tickets because Leach gave tickets to prospects and their families.
What if 2015 we make the 2 point conversion or didn’t miss an extra point and beat Clemson
WHAT IF my Aunt Bertha had balls. She would be my Uncle Bert!
I never though college games were rigged until I watched this game. terribly lopsided refereeing covered up by TV announcer making excuses for bad calls. Then BCS picks OU ignoring 10 point head to head win by Texas. The Refs spotted Tech 21 in this one.
The only other game that was obviously rigged was Iowa vs LSU women's basketball. It was so bad it was laughable.
What if Mike Bobo play called giving the ball to Todd Gurley in 2014 versus South Carolina instead of passing the ball? I mean Georgia would be crazy to hire him again as their offensive coordinator again....oh wait
Psu Beats Ohio state in 2017 and Justin fields stays commited and psu could have broken through
And then Oklahoma beat the brakes off of ttu
WVU beats Pitt 2007
2007 Oregon Duck and Denis Dixon's torn acl.
Wreck em
We sure did... 65-21. And everyone jumped around.
@@1185AspAve not this year bubba
What if Kansus beat Mizzou or WVU beat pitt
USC was robbed in 2008. #1 defense in the nation and averaged 7.8 ppg in the regular season. SEC didn’t want the smoke, Carroll was 4-0 against them
What if colt mccoy didn’t get hurt in championship game vs Alabama 🤔
How about 2019 I think it was Rodrigo Blankenship makes the field goal vs South Carolina and UGA wins it -don’t know if this was a sport changing moment but it would change some seasons for sure