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hi!!!!! i saw the trailer for pupsick and when it released i was scrolling thru the regular nct fics tags (nct x reader etc) and it wasn’t showing up so i thought it was delayed D: found ur account again though!!! and i’m planning on reading it later tonight hehe

this might not be smt u care abt at all but i think the reason why pupsick wasn’t showing up in the tags is bc only the first three (i think???) tags on a post actually show up when looking through the hashtags which i think it’s silly but might also explain why i couldn’t find the fic initially .. if u don’t really care abt tags and stuff u can ignore this sjdjskdhjd i just had thoughts that had been thought and wanted to just say it somewhere

ok bye and i cannot wait to read pupsick <3

i think it's either like the first 3 or 5 tags maybe? i keep hearing different numbers i cant keep up anymore it feels like 😭 and i do care abt tags! i want more ppl to find my fics but like also tumblr will hide ur posts for the dumbest reasons (links too sometimes, which like, i need to link for navigation reasons?? my masterlist, etc.)

and also i kind of feel so disconnected from how readers find fics now? like idk how yall find fics, like which tags you actually look in?? not to age(?) myself but back in my heyday of reading fic everything (reader insert or slash fic, which omg is also old fandom lingo i feel like) was called an "imagine" so u would always go look in the "xyz imagine" tag for ur fill but im starting to figure out that now we're not using that anymore so like 😭😭😭 i feel old

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junker-town · 7 years

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11 things to know about the Texas vs. USC 2006 Rose Bowl, the greatest college football championship ever

A 2017 reunion between these two teams has everyone (except maybe USC fans) reminiscing on one of the biggest games of all time.

USC and Texas are playing football in 2017 (Sept. 16, 8:30 p.m. ET, Fox) for the first time since the last time. Because the last time was the 2006 Rose Bowl — which doubled as the national title game and was maybe the best ever played — this is an especially big deal.

Hopefully, Saturday’s game will be good. For a quick refresher course, here are some things about the night whose shadow it will be played in.

Just wanna watch the whole game? You can do that, too:

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1. Even the losing QB calls it the best game ever.

“Every time the game gets brought up, I just think, ‘Man, what if?’” Matt Leinart, now a Fox analyst tells SB Nation in an article also including stories from winning head coach Mack Brown. “We were so close. We had the game won, and obviously they made the plays in the end, but you just felt like we kind of let the game slip away from us. Credit Texas. But that’s really what I think about. And then, as I’ve gotten older, I just think more about being a part of that game, just the history of it, and really thinking back and just thinking, ‘Wow.’ I think it’s the greatest game ever played in college football.”

It was significant even by national championship standards. USC had been the country’s wire-to-wire No. 1, and Texas had been the wire-to-wire No. 2.

In an SB Nation poll of fans earlier this year, the ‘06 Rose Bowl came in as the No. 2 most beloved game of the millennium, behind the ‘07 Fiesta Bowl.

2. It was the night Vince Young became a college legend.

His winning touchdown on a fourth-and-5 in the last minute:

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Young’s line: 30-of-40 passing for 267 yards passing, plus 19 runs for 200 yards and three scores. He brought Texas back from a 38-26 deficit with 6:42 to play.

Young’s 467 total yards were a Rose Bowl record until the 2016 season’s game, when USC quarterback Sam Darnold got 473 in a similarly wild game.

3. It was the last broadcast call for a legend.

Keith Jackson rode into the sunset with one of his best calls ever, an understated pronouncement of Young’s touchdown. SB Nation interviewed his ABC crew mates that night:

“That was the tough part about the assignment, because here is the greatest college football — the voice of college football,” Dan Fouts said. “This was gonna be his last game. The thing about it was, it may have been his best game ever, too. He was all over it. He was perfect that night.”

Right before Young’s Longhorns lined up on that fourth down, Jackson said with a chuckle and a nod to his Bible Belt roots: “I kinda feel like Job. I’m too old for this.” When it was over, Young’s game wasn’t just good; the QB had “stepped beyond the pale.”

As a USC player knelt in the corner of the end zone and confetti rained, Jackson pointed out the “agony of defeat,” just like former colleague Jim McKay did in the famous opening to ABC’s Wide World of Sports, where Jackson had served as a reporter and announcer. Jackson’s last telecast ended with a bridge to the beginning.

4. It featured one big wrong call and one iffy call against USC.

Texas’ first touchdown came on a Young option pitch to Selvin Young, but the QB clearly had a knee down.

“Obviously, Vince’s knee was down, a hundred percent,” Leinart says. “We all know it. They know it. It doesn’t matter. It was a missed call. I’m sure we had some calls go in our favor. It is what it is. You can’t dwell on those plays.”

Earlier, a Reggie Bush attempted lateral became a fumble recovery for Texas.

Was Bush’s fumble really on a lateral, or was it a forward pass? The latter would’ve meant a penalty on USC, but the Trojans would’ve kept the ball. Bush released the ball here:

And the ball contacted a teammate here, probably without hitting anyone on Texas:

5. USC would’ve won if any number of plays had gone differently.

The obvious one is the Young touchdown in the final minute. Preceding that was a fourth-down stop by Texas on USC running back LenDale White:

If you’re a USC fan, you could torture yourself for weeks by doing nothing but hashing out all the things that could’ve been different. The play that bugs Leinart most is a fourth-down failure in the first quarter.

“That was a possession that we got no points on, and people kind of forget about that, but that was some play that always sticks out in my mind, that I just felt like I should’ve called time out,” Leinart says. “Even when I didn’t get it, I remember coming off the field just thinking, ‘God, we should’ve called time out.’ The coaches could’ve called time out, but I really felt like that was my job to do.”

6. Right before this game, Reggie Bush won the Heisman over Young and Leinart.

Bush later lost it in an NCAA sanctioning, but anyway. As Bill Connelly argues:

The Trojans owned college football in the calendar year of 2005. Depending on how you define the terms, USC was either a dynasty in the making or was already a dynasty. Pete Carroll signed the best recruiting classes and put star athletes in position to make star plays.

And there’s a perfectly valid case that the Trojans were the better team than Texas for the season as a whole. One of the hazards of football’s short season is that we have only a best-of-one series to decide our champion. Texas won the one game that counted (and yes, it counted), and good for the Horns. They were incredible, too.

But let’s not pretend USC wasn’t amazing or that Bush only won because he played for a glamorous program. Texas is kind of a marquee name in its own right.

Let’s put this all another way: Bush won the Heisman by 933 points, despite his own quarterback finishing third and potentially siphoning off some votes. This was a runaway victory, and it was warranted.

Bush totaled 2,218 scrimmage yards and 18 touchdowns. As a public service, here is a highlight video, which you will enjoy:

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7. LenDale White, USC’s best RB that night over Bush, has had a hard post-playing career.

Against Texas, White racked up 124 yards on 20 carries and scored three times. He had a brief NFL career. His night ended when Texas stopped him on that critical fourth down that set up Young’s game-winning drive. In the week before 2017’s game, the Los Angeles Times published a devastating profile of White that touched on his injury history:

White estimates he sustained 20 to 30 concussions, about one every other game. But he can’t be sure. Only one was diagnosed, he says.

“You lose consciousness and then all of a sudden it’s like shoooo-ooooof,” White says, making a slurping noise, his eyes growing wide as he described the sensation. “Like, that’s how it sounds, like shhhhhhloooof, and then all of a sudden you hear the play again.” He’d wander around in a haze, Young directing him to the right spot until he regained his senses.

His head throbbed. His body ached. When his career began to slide, he slipped into a funk. Pain pills, he found, dulled the misery.

8. The NCAA later vacated USC’s record from that season. The Trojans are 0-0 that year, in the NCAA’s warped view of things.

The Trojans list themselves as having not lost the game to Texas. That’s not usually a thing, since the NCAA typically only vacates wins, but it somehow is, this time.

ESPN reported:

According to USC sports information director Tim Tessalone, the program was instructed in 2010 by Jim Wright, then the NCAA director of statistics, not to include participation in any games that year as part of its official records. That edict included the Rose Bowl.

"I have documentation in a letter sent in July 2010 to Wright noting all the changes he instructed us to make, including that losses had to be vacated," Tessalone said in an email. "The letter also states that he had reviewed all our revisions and approved them."

When asked to clarify how the NCAA officially views USC's record from 2005, Jeff Williams, the associate director of media coordination and statistics for the NCAA, provided a link to the organization's list of USC's season-by-season records. It lists the Trojans as 0-0 in 2005.

9. All these years later, the QBs are good friends.

ESPN reports on their relationship:

"I have never been as focused as I was that night," says Young, who was 22 years old then. Now 34, he can still recall every detail of his second-ranked Longhorns facing the top-ranked Trojans in the Rose Bowl. "But before the game when I saw Matt, I couldn't help but smile. We were both so focused, but even in that moment I was like, 'Wassup, Matt? You ready to play some ball, man?'"

And Leinart’s still close with Young, he told SB Nation:

We were just a lot of places together post-college and really got to be friends, and we’ve remained friends for the last 10, 12 years. We see each other every once in a while. We sat down a couple weeks ago and did a little feature for this game coming up this weekend. But any time I see him, man, it’s just like old buddies talking shop.

10. Dozens of players from the game went on to NFL careers.

Sports Illustrated counted out the top-50 pro careers from the game. The highest-profile players (Bush, Leinart, and Young) were all high picks, but other players in the game lived out better careers.

USC had 10 picks in the April NFL draft that followed the Rose Bowl, and Texas six. The ‘06 Rose Bowl’s NFL alums include USC linebackers Brian Cushing, Ray Maulauga, and Keith Rivers, and receiver Dwayne Jarrett. Texas produced running back Jamaal Charles, safeties Michael Huff and Michael Griffin, and tight end Jermichael Finley.

11. Here are some other really good things you can read about that game:

This definitive Texas oral history, from 247Sports.

Another oral history that brings in USC, from CBS Sports.

“The Night is Young’s,” the Sports Illustrated cover story afterward.

Visit SB Nation’s USC blog at Conquest Chronicles.

Visit SB Nation’s Texas blogs at Burnt Orange Nation and Barking Carnival.

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