Was thinking about how big of a game yesterday was for salvaging this season, and it got me thinking about some past big regular season victories. I don't think yesterday was necessarily a top10 but it's about as satisfying a game as I could have imagined. Here's some off the top of my head since I starting wearing purple, in no particular order.
-at Boise State 2011 (36-35, go ahead in the last minute on a 2 point conversion and Boise missed a FG as time expired)
-Utah 2009 and 2010 (55-28 and 47-7, back to back throttlings of our main MWC foe)
-Baylor 2015 (28-21 double OT, in the pouring rain one year after Baylor gave us our biggest ever "what if?" defeat. There's only been a few games in my life as a sports fan that I believed i truly would not be ok if we lost, and this was one of them. It didn't even have big bowl implications, it was just personal)
-at Oklahoma 2005 (17-10, a true catalyst for the program)
-at West Virginia 2012 (39-38 double OT. This one was just plain old fun, and another big gamble going for 2 to end it. God I loved watching Josh Boyce play)
-Texas Tech 2015 (55-52. One of the craziest games I've ever seen, being won on one of the craziest plays I've ever seen. Remember how I said beating Baylor was personal b/c of what they did to us the year before? That's exactly how Tech felt playing against us after we hung 82 on them a year before.)
-at Stanford 2007 (38-36. This is kindof a forgotten one. We had to come back twice on the road. This was Harbaugh's first season at Stanford and while they weren't that great, a televised west coast victory is always good for the program. I was debating between this game and at Clemson in 2009, but that game just wasn't as exciting to watch)
-BYU 2008 (32-7, a good ole Thursday night ass whooping of one of the most unpleasant fan bases we've ever had to share a conference with)
-Oklahoma 2014 (37-33, and on that day our new found spread offense was born and we shot up the rankings to shake up the playoff rankings. One day we might even beat them again!)
-at Boise State 2011 (36-35, go ahead in the last minute on a 2 point conversion and Boise missed a FG as time expired)
-Utah 2009 and 2010 (55-28 and 47-7, back to back throttlings of our main MWC foe)
-Baylor 2015 (28-21 double OT, in the pouring rain one year after Baylor gave us our biggest ever "what if?" defeat. There's only been a few games in my life as a sports fan that I believed i truly would not be ok if we lost, and this was one of them. It didn't even have big bowl implications, it was just personal)
-at Oklahoma 2005 (17-10, a true catalyst for the program)
-at West Virginia 2012 (39-38 double OT. This one was just plain old fun, and another big gamble going for 2 to end it. God I loved watching Josh Boyce play)
-Texas Tech 2015 (55-52. One of the craziest games I've ever seen, being won on one of the craziest plays I've ever seen. Remember how I said beating Baylor was personal b/c of what they did to us the year before? That's exactly how Tech felt playing against us after we hung 82 on them a year before.)
-at Stanford 2007 (38-36. This is kindof a forgotten one. We had to come back twice on the road. This was Harbaugh's first season at Stanford and while they weren't that great, a televised west coast victory is always good for the program. I was debating between this game and at Clemson in 2009, but that game just wasn't as exciting to watch)
-BYU 2008 (32-7, a good ole Thursday night ass whooping of one of the most unpleasant fan bases we've ever had to share a conference with)
-Oklahoma 2014 (37-33, and on that day our new found spread offense was born and we shot up the rankings to shake up the playoff rankings. One day we might even beat them again!)