Orange Bowl 1975 -- OU Vs. MU

[tekon1994]

from this game to 2008 Michigan didn't miss a bowl game

[jobu88]

Ahhhhh the good old days,,,,,,I could watch these old videos all day.

[wideawakeinotown]

not to rub it in capt. don, but billy brooks was my "mentor" in the 3rd grade....awesome guy we stole from the flat state of Texas!!

[wideawakeinotown]

sooonergurl.....U ROCK! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[dbohon77]

Yes forest technically thats correct but also misleading because this was the 1975 season and thus making this game oklahoma champions for the 75 season.

[Sooners7x]

You love to watch these games because the teams are so good. What a great couple of teams



[ErikS1975FreeState]

A great matchup between two great teams with similar offenses

[forest1974]

Alabama and Notre Dame played in the 1975 Orange Bowl game. This is the 1976 game.

[ErikS1975FreeState]

Barry Switzer the King of the Wishbone throwing the Football

[chipyboy10]

ZOU RAH

[mrkingt]

boomer sooners rock!

[gobucksfu]

michigan is trash

[jimymax58]

No I think you are confussed, I think its sooners are trash!

[shuckers52]

Soonergurl: thanks for this, I appreciate it a lot. Can you tell me by chance what ever happen to Steve Davis and where he lives these days?

[ebf1957]

@shuckers52

I do recall that Steve was doing broadcast for CBS, and I remember at the time he was with the Sooners he was a minister.

[themike95]

We looked like ghosts with those white away

pants

[txkid1]

Both of these teams were full of stars. This was true old skool football.

[shmann44]

Tinker Owens. The first TO!!!!!!!!!!

[pj94murmur]

Steve Davis to Tinker Owens, magic!

[bkwiley]

I remember the game, OU finished the year No. 1

[deebee230]

He also has a high winning percentage and never had a hint of controversy or scandal on his teams.

[80svideoluvr]

Yeah, he had a high winning % back in the days when his team's only REAL competition in the Big Ten was the Buckeyes. What was Bo's bowl record, again? And what's Michigan's overall bowl record? Yeah, that's right.

[ballsthatclank]

Michigan looked slow.

[sportshistorybuff]

My sentiments exactly. Throughout the 1970's and into the early 1980's, both Michigan and Ohio State looked like plodding dinosaurs in bowl games against

other powers, with USC, UCLA, Stanford and Washington running circles around them in the Rose Bowl or games like this. Better athletes, conditioning, or coaching, or all three. The Wolverines and Buckeyes looked one step behind on New Year's Day. Those all white uniforms, also, are lame for UM.

[mcoltrane5]

Defense was the name of the game in this one.

[forddog5]

What's interesting about this game is that Barry Switzer was so dumbfounded on how the smaller Michigan team held his powerful rushing offense to only two touchdowns. He went up to Ann Arbor over the summer to learn Bo Schembechler's defense. Two great coaches learning from each other.

[Z7m]

Shame UM had to use a freshman QB in this game.

UO would of had there hands full a year earlier or a year later. This was an average UM team at best.

[ladron02]

GOOD LORD WHITE PANTS!

[rabidgoldfish65]

Never will be another team like that sooner team on the field that night.  Bob Stoops....KISS IT.

[a7b7c78]

Billy Brooks was drafted in the first round the next year by Cincinnati but didn't last too long.

[vitoduval]

Dwight Hicks - 17 Went on to star for the 49ers

[wooddog21]

Dwight Hicks, cut by the Lions in training camp, more fun from the worst franchise in sports!

[vitoduval]

Dwight Hicks - 17 - played for the 49ers.

[vitoduval]

UCLA upset Ohio State in the Rose Bowl earlier in the day.

Dwight Hicks (17) of Michigan went on to be an All-Pro for the SF 49ers, he co-hosts on the "Point After" on KTVU after Fox 49er games.

[IowaRocker1]

Thats Jim Simpson and John Brodie on the call for NBC.

[minky812]

The tight end for Michigan was a guy named Les Miles!!!

[ShaytanBozorg]

Tinker, what a great receiver. Thanks for posting.

[vitoduval]

Love that wishbone!

[rustyshackleford918]

I have this game on DVD.

[sooonergurl]

Sorry.....no can do! :)

[MadDogMadsen]

Hey Soonergurl will U please remove this?!? I can't stand 2 see Michigan lose a game.

[blazer79]

You can't stand to see Michigan lose a game! Then watch the Appalachian State game. Great game!