Greatest victory in state of Utah history.
 

Enjoy.

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I prefer Weber State's victory over UNC just a couple of years later. It's remembered much more nationally.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnJbeswDpVg

I prefer this one

Ah, yes. The win wherewith Utah secured a second place finish.

Kentucky's bitches, evermore.

BYU's bowl wins are like a zillion first round NCAA playoff wins Utah has had. BYU has never smelled a stage liket this. NO comparison. Urban Meyer's season did not come close to this, I'll admit.

I asked the other day on CB whether BYU had ever beaten a top 10 team in post season in any sport. You could hear a pin drop.

1984.

Next question, please?

Your answer, which is the year of the mythical national championship, is not a correct answer. Unless, of course, a 6-5 Michigan team was ranked in the top 10 that year.

I still say that 6-5 Michigan team was better than that Pitt team Utah played in the Fiesta bowl.

That may very well be, but what does that say about that '84 BYU team? Didn't it have to score a TD late in the game to get the win? The Utes destroyed Pitt. It was a joke that the BCS made Utah play that team.

I'm not comparing the '04 Ute team to the '84 BYU team - I was just pointing out to AA that his answer was wrong. ;)

I wasn't answering that question. Seattle claimed BYU had never sniffed the stage Utah reached by achieving a second place finish. As a matter of face, we've done even better than that.

And calling it mythical isn't going to erase the trophy or the name at the top of the polls at the year's end.

Got it. My bad.

No matter how hard y'all try, Yewta althetic accomplishments cannot not compare to a national championship.

It's what it is, can't be taken away, can't be dimished ... keep spouting the same smack over and over ... by the way, Urban Meyer won the Fiesta bowl -what team was he coaching again, the national media doesn't even care, they just know Urban won the game ;)

Okay, but the U does have a national championship in a major sport.

'84 was a great year for the zoo. It's too bad they couldn't have had a real opponent in a major bowl game and better settled all the hub-bub since.
Maybe in the alternative universe game for the PS-19383093 in heaven, we can accurately play an '84 BYU vs. wash or fla and see what happens. Or the fiesta utes vs one of (texas/mich/auburn/vtech)

Was Steve Young the QB on the '84 team? If so, he won't be in heaven, because we all know what happens to people who make a career out of breaking the sabbath.

yes they become utefans with Giac as their eternal basketball coach, and Chuck Stobart as their eternal football coach.

As a side note, I still don't think they were the best team in '84. The whole undefeated thing is hooey, especially when you play such a weak schedule.
I'm undefeated in arm wrestling matches in my home (vs. wife and teenage daughter, that doesn't mean I can go for the title on the ESPN tough guy show). I have the same thoughts on the fiesta utah team. in no way do i think they deserved a shot at the title, they weren't that good, and their weak schedule never tested them.

But, I could be wrong, we'll never know until we break out the PS in heaven.

Florida was the best team but they were on probation for rules infractions. Charlie Pell bought a damn good team that year.

Whether they were best or not is arguable. None of the teams were that great. Ok lost to an okay UW team, a team that failed to even win its conference. NB lost to Syracuse or Kansas. It wasn't a stellar year. And BYU was good, not great. We played the rules and won. Best? Who cares.

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'84 was a serious down year for college football. I do find comfort in knowing the good teams offered to prove BYU was not all that and a bag of chips lacked the testicular fortitude to play the BYU.

That is why Seattle Ute loves them so, they are testicular fortitude lackers...one and all!

Hundreds of sportswriters and coaches disagree with you.

But if I need your opinion on the deeper meaning of a scripture story, I'll give you a holler. :-)

I take comfort in the fact that we made the Huskies our bitch the following year.

I'm not diminishing it at all. BYU did everything it had to do wo win the mythical national championship. And yes, it is mythical because it was determined by voters. That is a fact that can't be denied.

As it was every year.

Exactly. Until Division I football finally catches up with the rest of the world of college sports, it's champion will always be mythical which is a sad thing.

Because the NCAA is all about money now, a football playoff would generate more money than the NCAA would know what to do with.

Thanks all for contributing. I think this thread establishes that Utah's win over no. 1 ranked North Carolina in the 1998 Final Four was the greatest victory by any Utah team in any sport (edging out that same Utah team's win over no. 2 ranked and defending national champ Arizona a week before).

And yet you referred to 1984 as the year of the mythical championship?

Nice.

Nah, I'll go with Miami.

And I actually have a decent reason why. Rankings don't matter in basketball. The fact that UNC was voted #1 meant absolutely nothing in a sport where the champion is determined on the court. It actually matters that Miami was ranked #1 when BYU beat them.

I do admit that at least part of the reason I'm responding such is out of beligerence.

Yes, I did. It was the year of the mythical championship. As was every year before and after.

My mistake was specifying BYU's mythical championship.

No worries, I'd like to have one for Utah.

If that's how you felt, you would have referred to 1984 as "a year in an era of mythical championships." You don't get to weasle out of this one, mon frere.

To quote Rocky "If that's what you want to believe, go ahead." ;)

Apostate.

I know, I know. You just call it like you see it, right?

I'm not afraid to speak the truth.