After the New Year's Bowl, after OU had lost to Washington in the Orange Bowl, I broke open the paper, the Bryan College-Station Eagle, tore to the sports section to see the announcement that BYU had won the national championship! I scanned quickly. Nothing. And there on page B1, at the far bottom right was a 2-inch article saying BYU had been voted #1. I was indignant, and a bit letdown.
At this young tender age, I felt this national championship had established BYU as a power that would be reckoned with...forever. That we would get better and better players. It was not to be, and that 2-inch article presaged the nation's reaction.
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