I remember watching this game on Friday the day after Thanksgiving in 1977, 46 years ago!!! I was a major Sooner's (and Crimson Tide) fan in the 1970's and loved the wishbone offense! I think the option makes football more exciting to watch!
Course it was six years before this game, Thanksgiving Day 1971, when the Sooners & Huskers played one of those "games of the century" at Owen Field. 50 years ago Thanksgiving! Somewhat hard to believe, but Bill Fleming was there on the field while Chris Schenkel & Coach Bud Wilkinson were up in the booth. Will never forget the names from that day, Greg Pruitt, Rich Glover, Jerry Tagge, Leon Crosswhite, Jack Mildren, Johnny Roger's. That game of the century actually lived up to its pre game billing.
Those years, '76 through ,'78, had the most exciting runners, Billy Sims, Tony Dorsett, Charles White, and great kickers (the influence of soccer had improved kicking), Russell Erxleben, Uwe Van Schamann and Tony Franklin. Great time to be a fan!
NCAA yards per carry career leaders: Sims: 7.0 or 19th all time (tied with 2 others). King: 6.3 Tied for 98th all time with 14 others). Peacock 6.2 Tied for 113th with 30 others, including UT's Ricky Williams. Overstreet at 5.8 YPC. Two other greats: Greg Pruitt averaged a ridiculous 7.5 YPC, which ties with one other for 7th all time. Joe Washington at 6.1 YPC
For Nebraska standards, this was a disappointing season as they would finish 9-3. They suffered upset losses to Washington State and Iowa State and BOTH those were home losses. This was an extremely rare blow out loss for the Huskers as that almost never happened to them during their glory days. Relatively little went right for them in this game. This game had more hard hitting than most pro games. Classic 1970s college football that is missed now. In 25 seasons, Tom Osborne never endured more than three (3) losses in any season (counting bowl games) Since 1962 the Huskers had only seven (7) seasons in which they did not appear in a bowl game (three of those were in the past three seasons) Just amazing! Appreciate the old commercials.
@@IDiggSocialMedia Wow you really dug up an old memory there. My school Arizona State played Washington State back during that time and I remember him now.
They've had an amazing program that still stands now. They were ruled bowl ineligible in 1973 & 1974 and had a slump from 1992-98 but other that that, they've been outstanding since the late 1940s.
Yeah that was the downside of the VHS era. DVD's all but eliminated that as long as you had a good picture ( & a good cable/satellite signal) Somebody probably recorded this game while they weren't there and thus weren't able to monitor the tracking.
It’s ASTONISHING how much the game and the TV ads have changed since this game!! * Nebraska and OU in the same conference! We miss that! * That mobile phone in the Texaco ad was so big it had it’s OWN area code. * Judging by the TV ads, apparently there were no black people in America back then. * Osborne had never beaten Switzer. * The west coast’s “Pac 8 Conference” was mentioned. * The Nebraska kicker had a strait-on kicking style (not soccer style), and they mentioned an ABC special show on another one (Russell Erxleben). Unheard of today! * The referee couldn’t talk to the crowd (no mic). * Love the Wishbone! (Never used today). * A starting Oklahoma QB was one of the WORST PASSERS in the nation (3 of the last 4 years NOW they’ve either won the Heisman or finished 2nd!) He had 12 yards passing, but 143 rushing yards! * A missed field goal gets spotted for the other team at the 20 yard-line every time, regardless of where it was kicked from. * No legal replay review for questionable calls. * Plaid slacks! * A role-model major college head coach seen SMOKING on the sidelines in the middle of the game! * On ONE run the OU quarterback gained more yards than he did passing for the ENTIRE game! * WTF is a “Savings & Loan”!? * Lots of ads for American cars…..but NO foreign cars (Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Mercedes, Audi, Nissan, etc.). Wow! * That camera ad…..WTF is “film”??? * That Chevrolet $1,000 scholarship would, today, get the kid through his first four classes (his first day). * No smartphone ads, no computer ads, no video game ads, and thank god no virtue-signaling ads. * WTF are “The Yellow Pages”!? * USC had a good football team. 😊 * Women being sexually objectified (in the camera/tennis ad). Let’s see them try that today! * Two-sided photocopying was a “miracle”. * Future superstar Heisman winner, and future College Hall of Fame player, Billy Sims, just a sophomore, was overshadowed in the running game by…….the QUARTERBACK. Billy became an all-pro, and one of the top 3 runners when he joined the NFL, but was only the FOURTH most productive rusher in the backfield that day!
In the two decades from 1967 to 1986 *Nebraska* and *Oklahoma* have a combined *15 CFB National Championships* according to the NCAA's officially recognized championship selectors. Another impressive fact about the greatness of this rivalry is that a TH-cam upload of someone's old home video tape recording can exceed 50K views.
@@debbiehenson1096 Yeah, I found those 15 NC's in the NCAA's Book of Official Records - FBS-pdf, pages 117 & 118. If Oklahoma and Nebraska used the same standards that Alabama, Tennessee, USC, etc. etc. uses they could claim 29 National Championship, (OU 17 + NU 12)
@@debbiehenson1096 Bama has18 titles!??? Bahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhaha! Bama claims titles for teams that wouldn't crack the top 50 teams in either Oklahoma's or Nebraska's history!!!
Wow that must have been an amazing experience, I'm from Brazil and I'm aiming to play college football in the US and the OU Sooners is on my list and it would be fantastic to play in the 70's and 80's where they had great names and my favorite is Keith Jackson
I never really noticed until recently that Nebraska has the best fanbase in sports for a few reasons. At least that's my opinion. So I found it interesting to hear Lampley pointing the exact same thing over 40 years ago. And I'm not a Nebraska fan. In fact, I'd call their loyalty borderline delusional at times considering their internet fans have been going into every game the past 5 years with unbridled optimism. No matter how bad their team is, or who they're playing, they always think they're gonna win. Bless their hearts.
Yes. David Overstreet died 7 years after this game. He was a Miami Dolphin in the NFL. He had over 240 yards in a future Sooner game. He will be missed.
@@IDiggSocialMedia Yep--- OU would have been awarded the National Championship instead of Notre Dame, had the Sooners beaten the Hogs N the Orange 🍊 Bowl
Dang! I forgot just how great OU's O-Line was...their center tabor straight pancaked folks. Also Thomas Lott is the reason i chose to play qb in hs, and to wear a bandanna over my afro. Also funny how tom Osborn always had to use trick plays (the fumblerooski) against OU. Almost the entire OU offensive backfield, save Lott ended up being drafted in the NFL..Sims:Lions, King:Raiders, Overstreet: Dolphins, and Peacock: LA Rams. And whomever originally taped this must have been allergic to his TRACKING BUTTON!!!!
The Day After Thanksgiving this game was played, at Norman. What I remembered most about this game, after Oklahoma scored their first Touchdown of the game they were pelted with Oranges, by their fans, for the fact that they were going to The Orange Bowl.
@@mwduck I have no idea, but this was back when Oklahoma and Nebraska played in the Big 8 Conference. In the following year Oklahoma and Nebraska played each other in the Orange Bowl, believe it or not. Probably because they couldn’t find a guest to play in that venue.
@@Jiltedin2007 I believe it. I witnessed it. Shame for Oklahoma that they fumbled the ball so much in the earlier meeting in 1978. Kinda like against Kansas in 1975. 78 might have been another NC year for them.
Loved watching Oklahoma run the wishbone. I was a 13 year old growing up in Nebraska and there was serious division in the household. I was a heretic and a traitor lol.😞
Wow---- at the 32 min 30 seconds mark, the annoucer mentions Jiu Jitsu---- I bet LESS than 1% of the listening audience there November of 1977 had any clue what Jiu Jitsu was 😂
4.7 for a Nose Guard is SMOKING 🚬.... Don't give damn if he was 270lbs or not... MODERN day college Nose Guard can barely make a 5.1 forty MODERN day D Lines are SLOOOWWW 🤣🤣
Texas beat Oklahoma and Arkansas but got curb-stomped by a Notre Dame squad which lost to mediocre Ole Miss. Alabama lost toi this Nebraska team. Washington beat Michigan the Rose Bowl behind some unheralded quarterback named Moon. 1977 was one of the great years of college football, but it gets lost in the shuffle. Five big coaching hires in '77: Lou Holtz (Arkansas), Fred Akers (Texas), Rich Brooks (Oregon), Johnny Majors (Tennessee) and Jackie Sherrill (Pitt). Plus Syracuse had two no-name assistants on its staff, Tom Coughlin and Nick Saban.
"Disgrace ?? What a lie. Don't be such a hater. Hard to find a more beloved coach by players and fans than Barry Switzer. Only opponents and bureaucrats had a problem with him.
I remember watching this game on Friday the day after Thanksgiving in 1977, 46 years ago!!! I was a major Sooner's (and Crimson Tide) fan in the 1970's and loved the wishbone offense! I think the option makes football more exciting to watch!
Ouch is correct. Almost forgot this imbroglio. Damn Sooners. Billy Sims still gives we Husker fans nightmares. That was a great OU team
Thanks for leaving the commercials. love it
We hatred having to wait through the commercials back then. Today, we love a 30-minute TH-cam of just commercials. They bring us back to that time.
Course it was six years before this game, Thanksgiving Day 1971, when the Sooners & Huskers played one of those "games of the century" at Owen Field. 50 years ago Thanksgiving! Somewhat hard to believe, but Bill Fleming was there on the field while Chris Schenkel & Coach Bud Wilkinson were up in the booth. Will never forget the names from that day, Greg Pruitt, Rich Glover, Jerry Tagge, Leon Crosswhite, Jack Mildren, Johnny Roger's. That game of the century actually lived up to its pre game billing.
Those years, '76 through ,'78, had the most exciting runners, Billy Sims, Tony Dorsett, Charles White, and great kickers (the influence of soccer had improved kicking), Russell Erxleben, Uwe Van Schamann and Tony Franklin. Great time to be a fan!
Dude, yes. And Earl Campbell
Golden days of college football & running back, wishbone offense& I formation
I remember all those guys!!!
@@natureboy1313 Oh yes. I should have included Earl!
❤️ Billy ball. Billy Sims super great college football running 🏃♂️ back
The greatest wishbone backfield of all-time Thomas Lott,Billy Sims,Kenny King, Elvis Peacock AND David Overstreet.
I agree 100%. They ran the wishbone offense to the T.
I don't know, Mildren,Pruitt,Crosswhite were pretty formidable.
@@thomaswilliams7458 Mildren-Lott push, Pruitt-Sims push, King/Peacock/Overstreet over Crosswhite. Pretty good company though.
As a Bama fan, I have to agree.
NCAA yards per carry career leaders: Sims: 7.0 or 19th all time (tied with 2 others). King: 6.3 Tied for 98th all time with 14 others). Peacock 6.2 Tied for 113th with 30 others, including UT's Ricky Williams. Overstreet at 5.8 YPC. Two other greats: Greg Pruitt averaged a ridiculous 7.5 YPC, which ties with one other for 7th all time. Joe Washington at 6.1 YPC
For Nebraska standards, this was a disappointing season as they would finish 9-3. They suffered upset losses to Washington State and Iowa State and BOTH those were home losses. This was an extremely rare blow out loss for the Huskers as that almost never happened to them during their glory days. Relatively little went right for them in this game. This game had more hard hitting than most pro games. Classic 1970s college football that is missed now.
In 25 seasons, Tom Osborne never endured more than three (3) losses in any season (counting bowl games) Since 1962 the Huskers had only seven (7) seasons in which they did not appear in a bowl game (three of those were in the past three seasons) Just amazing!
Appreciate the old commercials.
The win over Alabama made a lot of fans forget the losses to Wazzu and Iowa St.
QB Jack Thompson (The Throwing Samoan) played for Washington State U. back then! I wonder what happen to him?
@@IDiggSocialMedia Wow you really dug up an old memory there. My school Arizona State played Washington State back during that time and I remember him now.
I miss this era of CFB soo much bring back the 70s,80s90s
Bill Fleming did the ONLY college football highlights show.
WOW AWESOME THOSE WERE THE DAYS, OU VS HUSKERS REAL TALK, I LOVE THE SOONERS!
Thomas Lott with the doo-rag before anybody wore one.
They've had an amazing program that still stands now. They were ruled bowl ineligible in 1973 & 1974 and had a slump from 1992-98 but other that that, they've been outstanding since the late 1940s.
ABDUL, did you still love OU once the Miami Hurricanes absolutely exposed and destroyed the wishbone bullshit in the 80's?
@@GOPMAN71 Hehe, they moved beyond the 'bone, and the last 4 years had THREE throwing QB's either win the Heisman or finish runner-up.
"Somebody turn the tracking button!" If you know what this means, you are at least 50 years old!
Yeah that was the downside of the VHS era. DVD's all but eliminated that as long as you had a good picture ( & a good cable/satellite signal) Somebody probably recorded this game while they weren't there and thus weren't able to monitor the tracking.
❤ 1970s college football especially wishbone offense, Barry switzer, Oklahoma football & Billy sims etc etc
That may be fracking earthquakes. No wait, that was decades later.
I know those vhs tapes were bad in the beginning
It’s ASTONISHING how much the game and the TV ads have changed since this game!!
* Nebraska and OU in the same conference! We miss that!
* That mobile phone in the Texaco ad was so big it had it’s OWN area code.
* Judging by the TV ads, apparently there were no black people in America back then.
* Osborne had never beaten Switzer.
* The west coast’s “Pac 8 Conference” was mentioned.
* The Nebraska kicker had a strait-on kicking style (not soccer style), and they mentioned an ABC special show on another one (Russell Erxleben). Unheard of today!
* The referee couldn’t talk to the crowd (no mic).
* Love the Wishbone! (Never used today).
* A starting Oklahoma QB was one of the WORST PASSERS in the nation (3 of the last 4 years NOW they’ve either won the Heisman or finished 2nd!) He had 12 yards passing, but 143 rushing yards!
* A missed field goal gets spotted for the other team at the 20 yard-line every time, regardless of where it was kicked from.
* No legal replay review for questionable calls.
* Plaid slacks!
* A role-model major college head coach seen SMOKING on the sidelines in the middle of the game!
* On ONE run the OU quarterback gained more yards than he did passing for the ENTIRE game!
* WTF is a “Savings & Loan”!?
* Lots of ads for American cars…..but NO foreign cars (Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Mercedes, Audi, Nissan, etc.). Wow!
* That camera ad…..WTF is “film”???
* That Chevrolet $1,000 scholarship would, today, get the kid through his first four classes (his first day).
* No smartphone ads, no computer ads, no video game ads, and thank god no virtue-signaling ads.
* WTF are “The Yellow Pages”!?
* USC had a good football team. 😊
* Women being sexually objectified (in the camera/tennis ad). Let’s see them try that today!
* Two-sided photocopying was a “miracle”.
* Future superstar Heisman winner, and future College Hall of Fame player, Billy Sims, just a sophomore, was overshadowed in the running game by…….the QUARTERBACK. Billy became an all-pro, and one of the top 3 runners when he joined the NFL, but was only the FOURTH most productive rusher in the backfield that day!
@@msp5138 Yes, Nebraska has EIGHT losses for far this year, and the year's not even over!
Yes, "Big 8" Conference, good catch.
❤ 1970s &1980s college football, best ever especially billy sims& Oklahoma sooner football, Barry switzer football, ❤ Billy sim & wishbone offense
Back when every university belonged to their proper region! No Colorado in the Pac 8 (now Pac 12) nor West Virginia in the Big 8 (now Big 12)!
In the two decades from 1967 to 1986 *Nebraska* and *Oklahoma* have a combined *15 CFB National Championships* according to the NCAA's officially recognized championship selectors. Another impressive fact about the greatness of this rivalry is that a TH-cam upload of someone's old home video tape recording can exceed 50K views.
Lol, they had 5 titles. 70, 71, 74, 75, and 85. Wheredo you get 15!?.
@@debbiehenson1096 Yeah, I found those 15 NC's in the NCAA's Book of Official Records - FBS-pdf, pages 117 & 118. If Oklahoma and Nebraska used the same standards that Alabama, Tennessee, USC, etc. etc. uses they could claim 29 National Championship, (OU 17 + NU 12)
@@drwinstonOboogi come on get in the real world. Bama has 18 titles O U has 9 Nebraska 6, Tenn 2, lol.
@@drwinstonOboogi your granchildrens grandchildren won't live long enough to see O U and Nebraska combine for 29 titles.
@@debbiehenson1096 Bama has18 titles!??? Bahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhaha!
Bama claims titles for teams that wouldn't crack the top 50 teams in either Oklahoma's or Nebraska's history!!!
Watched that gm on tv (as a teen).
-Non-OU-Neb fan
Freshman at OU, Fall 1977. I was at the game and of course I had a bag of Oranges. The Big 8 was Great!
Wow that must have been an amazing experience, I'm from Brazil and I'm aiming to play college football in the US and the OU Sooners is on my list and it would be fantastic to play in the 70's and 80's where they had great names and my favorite is Keith Jackson
46:20 Classic footage! Barry Switzer takes a drag.
That's how Switzer got through his career
Was he smoking a joint?
I never really noticed until recently that Nebraska has the best fanbase in sports for a few reasons. At least that's my opinion. So I found it interesting to hear Lampley pointing the exact same thing over 40 years ago. And I'm not a Nebraska fan. In fact, I'd call their loyalty borderline delusional at times considering their internet fans have been going into every game the past 5 years with unbridled optimism. No matter how bad their team is, or who they're playing, they always think they're gonna win. Bless their hearts.
Enjoyed. Thank you.
I want that guaranteed game again the rivalry was superior
If the Big Ten would have taken Missouri and not Nebraska, then the Cornhuskers might have gone to the SEC.
How could you forget Elvis Peacock & I M Hipp!!
And you can add David Overstreet to that OU backfield!
Yes. David Overstreet died 7 years after this game. He was a Miami Dolphin in the NFL. He had over 240 yards in a future Sooner game. He will be missed.
Ardian peterson
Nebraska fan here, this OU team was just way too good for Nebraska to handle, the Sooners just mowed them over all game long.
Five turnovers will do that.
I still can't see how in the world they lost to Arkansas in the 1978 Orange Bowl! That broke my heart!
@@IDiggSocialMedia Yep--- OU would have been awarded the National Championship instead of Notre Dame, had the Sooners beaten the Hogs N the Orange 🍊 Bowl
The SWC was tough on OU that year.
I want Nebraska to come back home
Dang! I forgot just how great OU's O-Line was...their center tabor straight pancaked folks. Also Thomas Lott is the reason i chose to play qb in hs, and to wear a bandanna over my afro. Also funny how tom Osborn always had to use trick plays (the fumblerooski) against OU. Almost the entire OU offensive backfield, save Lott ended up being drafted in the NFL..Sims:Lions, King:Raiders, Overstreet: Dolphins, and Peacock: LA Rams. And whomever originally taped this must have been allergic to his TRACKING BUTTON!!!!
The Day After Thanksgiving this game was played, at Norman. What I remembered most about this game, after Oklahoma scored their first Touchdown of the game they were pelted with Oranges, by their fans, for the fact that they were going to The Orange Bowl.
Just curious, but did Southwest Conference fans back in the day throw cotton balls onto the field when their team won a conference championship?
@@mwduck
I have no idea, but this was back when Oklahoma and Nebraska played in the Big 8 Conference. In the following year Oklahoma and Nebraska played each other in the Orange Bowl, believe it or not. Probably because they couldn’t find a guest to play in that venue.
@@Jiltedin2007 I believe it. I witnessed it. Shame for Oklahoma that they fumbled the ball so much in the earlier meeting in 1978. Kinda like against Kansas in 1975. 78 might have been another NC year for them.
49:35 One can really see the crown on the middle of Owen Field during the wishbone era.
They were always running downhill…..😅😊
Loved watching Oklahoma run the wishbone. I was a 13 year old growing up in Nebraska and there was serious division in the household. I was a heretic and a traitor lol.😞
People forget just how strong Thomas Lott was
Pause button works wonders on VCR. Edits commercials.😂
cool, i just posted a short with this game, just a couple pics!
Funny to see Barry Switzer smoking on the sideline.
I dont remember Curtis Craig but of course remember Roger Craig a few years later. Any relation?
Yes, they are Brothers
Wow---- at the 32 min 30 seconds mark, the annoucer mentions Jiu Jitsu---- I bet LESS than 1% of the listening audience there November of 1977 had any clue what Jiu Jitsu was 😂
Cuse is in the house!
Commentators:
Bill Flemming, Rick Rorzano &
My mother used to think Nebraska was called the Cornshuckers.
There's a high school in Illinois whose teams are called the Cornjerkers. Their fans will shout, "Go Jerkers!" Really.
OU only regular season loss that year to Earl Campbell and Texas.
#HATRED OU VS NU BLUEBLOODS CEST BON!!!!!!
4.7 40 yard dash was considered fast? WTF?
that is a DT
@@pastorandy_k4302 True, but I doubt he was over 280 pounds.
@@williamjordan5554 you are correct, he played at about 250--260 if I remember. Still very fast for that size.
They better gym 👞 shoes for football field. Weight equipment. Machine equipment etc etc
4.7 for a Nose Guard is SMOKING 🚬.... Don't give damn if he was 270lbs or not... MODERN day college Nose Guard can barely make a 5.1 forty MODERN day D Lines are SLOOOWWW 🤣🤣
Texas beat Oklahoma and Arkansas but got curb-stomped by a Notre Dame squad which lost to mediocre Ole Miss. Alabama lost toi this Nebraska team. Washington beat Michigan the Rose Bowl behind some unheralded quarterback named Moon. 1977 was one of the great years of college football, but it gets lost in the shuffle.
Five big coaching hires in '77: Lou Holtz (Arkansas), Fred Akers (Texas), Rich Brooks (Oregon), Johnny Majors (Tennessee) and Jackie Sherrill (Pitt). Plus Syracuse had two no-name assistants on its staff, Tom Coughlin and Nick Saban.
I wonder what happened to Thomas Lott?
He is the Texas high school Hall of Fame played some pro football I think he’s doing Radio and he son played football @ Rice u running back
As I remembered, the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals drafted him in 1979!
Barry Switzer fired in disgrace at both OU & Dallas despite winning at both places.
"Disgrace ?? What a lie. Don't be such a hater. Hard to find a more beloved coach by players and fans than Barry Switzer. Only opponents and bureaucrats had a problem with him.
I hear the difference, southern high school/ college football players want to be close to 🏡