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A classic Kickoff Classic.(Inside The Box Score)
Almost 20 years to the day before USC's 24-13 season-opening victory over Virginia Tech last Saturday, Miami and Auburn met in a Kickoff Classic noteworthy because it was Miami's first game since its 31-30 Orange Bowl victory over Nebraska on January 2, 1984. That victory not only clinched Miami's first national title, but it also was a coming-out party for the state of Florida as the epicenter of college football.
Since the final Associated Press poll of 1983 crowned the Canes No. 1, Miami, Florida or Florida State has been ranked among the top five in every final AP poll, finishing No. 1 eight times.
The original made-for-TV preseason college football game, the Kickoff Classic played at the Meadowlands from 1983 to 2002. It ended its run as one of more than a half-dozen preseason TV games that, as one newspaper put it, "proliferated themselves into extinction." The NCAA legislated preseason games out of existence after the 2002 season, but because of existing TV contracts, the BCA Classic was granted a two-year exemption.
This wasn't considered a regular-season game, so Auburn's streak of not having played a regular-season game north of the Mason-Dixon Line since 1942 stayed intact. It ended in 2001, when the Tigers played at Syracuse.
Brent Fullwood--not preseason All-American Bo Jackson--led the Tigers in rushing in '84 with 628 yards. Jackson, whose junior season was shortened by injury, rushed for 1,786 yards in 1985 and won ...
- KICKOFF CLASSIC `COMPETITIVE'
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) JOHN ROWE, Staff Writer February 19, 1995 700+ words
...02-19-1995 KICKOFF CLASSIC `COMPETITIVE' By...played on Aug. 27, Kickoff Classic XIII may best be...Virginia in 1994 and Florida State's 42-0 rout of...will be the second Kickoff Classic for both schools...
- POWERADE TO BECOME OFFICIAL SPORTS DRINK OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 3, 1993 700+ words
...Fans Trips to Kickoff Classic TALLAHASSEE...PRNewswire/ -- Florida State University...Jayhawks in the Kickoff Classic in East Rutherford...attend the Kickoff Classic, the first...Wayne Hogan of Florida State University...
- Kickoff Classic sign of things to come
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times August 25, 1996 700+ words
...Paterno calls the Kickoff Classic a "good thing...three seasons, the Kickoff Classic winner won the national...faltering. In 1993, Florida State beat Kansas 41...38-6 in the '95 Kickoff Classic, won their next...
- RAYCOM KICKOFF CLASSIC TELECAST LOOKS AT STORIED PAST AND BRIGHT FUTURE OF TWO...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 24, 1992 700+ words
...ever. After the Kickoff Classic, I hope that fans...producing his sixth Kickoff Classic. The telecast will...s Joe Paterno and Florida State's Bobby Bowden...Televising the Kickoff Classic for the eighth...
- EXPERIENCED QB THE KEY IN KICKOFF CLASSIC
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) LENN ROBBINS, Staff Writer August 11, 1994 700+ words
...EXPERIENCED QB THE KEY IN KICKOFF CLASSIC By LENN ROBBINS...recently named to the Kickoff Classic All-Decade team...touchdown passes. Kickoff Classic VII produced another...for Kansas against Florida State. Thomas completed...
- KICKOFF CLASSIC WANTS PENN ST.
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) JOHN ROWE, Staff Writer January 11, 1995 700+ words
...01-11-1995 KICKOFF CLASSIC WANTS PENN ST. By...national champions: Florida State in 1993, Nebraska...offer to play in Kickoff Classic XIII in late August...Diego, where the Kickoff Classic committee is talking...
- Nebraska Plays Texas A&M Tonight; Kickoff Classic Starts Season With...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Sally Jenkins August 27, 1988 700+ words
The Kickoff Classic is an ill-defined event, partly...to Oklahoma and the Fiesta Bowl to Florida State. If they can go one victory better...be some symbolism involved in the Kickoff Classic for Nebraska because the last time...
- Tennessee-Florida State in Fiesta to cap off wild college football season.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Kern, Mike December 7, 1998 700+ words
...choice, Tennessee and Florida State still would be playing...12-0) will meet Florida State (11-1), which...11-2) in the Kickoff Classic in August and two...Second-ranked Florida State lost by 17 points...
