99 Peach Bowl

[Chesusdog]

Had a bit of a slow day at work so I ended up rewatching the '99 Peach Bowl.




Few things to point out:

Think we ended up with like 22 penalties in this game. Close to 200 free yards for Clemson.

Our defense was insanely good. Our DLine batted down at least a half dozen balls and our secondary picked off nearly as many. Streeter and Danzler probably still hear the footsteps to this day.

I had forgotten how hard to watch our offense was. Give them Dak and maybe Ross though and it's a Natty contending team.

So many brutal hits in this game that in today's game would be 15 yarders with ejections. Interesting to see how much the culture has changed.

 

[RocketDawg]

I'll never forget the hit ... I think it was Bean ... put on the Clemson receiver. Viewed from my perch high in the end zone, it looked like the hardest I'd ever seen. That might be one of those "ejection" penalties you mentioned, but it was definitely effective. We beat a good Clemson team that thought they had it in the bag before the game (at least according to the Tiger fans we befriended during pregame tailgate). But we were better.

 

[Chesusdog]

Bean and Clinton both had a couple nice shots, but the knockout shot of the game in my opinion came from Josh Morgan. Led with the shoulder right under the receivers chin as he was coming down with the ball.

 

[campshelbydog842003]

So a 6-6 Clemson team thought they had it in the bag against a 9-2 SEC squad? Sounds like you met Yancy's east coast relatives.

 

[RocketDawg]

That could have been the one. As I recall, it was somewhere near midfield ... maybe around the 40. That was a really good game. Maybe Sirmon can get us back into the glory defensive days, along with Mullen's offense.

 

[RocketDawg]

Coulda been, but they were definitely confident and a bit arrogant. Why an ACC team would be arrogant against a good SEC foe is beyond me.

We offered them some dessert, but they were afraid it was laced with ExLax or something, and didn't want to eat it. They finally did, and it was not. Kinda funny though.

 

[Chesusdog]

Play starts at 3:34:40

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

My son was 5 years old at the time. We went to the game, with him wearing a toy MSU jersey, complete with helmet and shoulder pads. After one of those vicious hits (which we all heard), I told my son that "Coach Sherrill wanted him to go into the game". He got all upset and almost started crying. I laughed and laughed.

Today, he's a theater major at Belhaven.

 

[Crazy Cotton]

Game was sold out 3 weeks before kickoff. That doesn't happen much anymore. A lot of "smart" people thought Clemson was going to take us out in that game. Always pissed me off that we ended up with a 6-5 opponent that year.

 

[RocketDawg]

Yeah, me too. I haven't looked at their record for that year, but they most likely finished high in the conference thus giving them the Peach Bowl ... and lost the non-conference games. They realistically shouldn't have been there.

 

[MaroonNation]

I still remember the day Josh Morgan ended the legend of Ceadric Fason against Florida. I don't think C4 ever felt comfortable again going across the middle.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

I remember sitting in the endzone and seeing that the Georgia Dome was easily 70% Orange and 30% Maroon. And just a coincidence I suppose that Clemson had both sides (20-20 yard lines) and the other endzone and MSU had the 15 yard line to the 15 yard line on the other endzone.

At the end of the game the 70% folks were gone and we in Maroon migrated to the empty midfield seats to watch the celebration.

 

[icouldjustpuke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCKT6DEHig

 

[thekimmer]

I was there too......

Game was sold out 3 weeks before kickoff. That doesn't happen much anymore. A lot of "smart" people thought Clemson was going to take us out in that game. Always pissed me off that we ended up with a 6-5 opponent that year.

Sat in front of a few clempson fans who were nice enough before the game. I let em ring my cowbell and all of that. As the game progressed they got drunker and madder at the unfolding butt whipping. Finally, the last straw was the MSU fans doing the SEC chant. One of these guys stood up and started yelling about how they were just 6-5 and offered to take on all comers. Lucky for him cooler heads in his group prevailed and they led him out while we celebrated. I heard more than a few tigers say that they never wanted to hear another cowbell as long as they lived.

Fun times.

 

[benatmsu]

They didn't have a bowl announcement day then, like they do now...

They knew they were going to the Peach Bowl at least a week (maybe more) than we did.
Their fans had the opportunity to get the tickets not allotted to schools before we even knew where we were going for sure.

Game was sold out 3 weeks before kickoff. That doesn't happen much anymore. A lot of "smart" people thought Clemson was going to take us out in that game. Always pissed me off that we ended up with a 6-5 opponent that year.

 

[thekimmer]

Good memories. Couple of comments.

Wasn't as bad a beat down as I remembered. It definitely was on defense but their D did a pretty good number on us most of the game. Someone said something about what if we had Dak on this team. From what I saw it wouldn't have mattered. Clemson's D just about beat Madkin to the pocket all night. No QB would be effective with that.

Noticed the ad for the outback bowl on the broadcast featuring 26th ranked UGA while 16th ranked MSU played in the chick fil a. After all these years still grinds my gears.