Southern Miss is celebrating our 100th year of football this year, and the Athletic Department has developed a website to celebrate. Each week, one of the top 15 games in Southern Miss history is unveiled. This week #12 is the 1989 vs. Louisville known in Southern Miss lore as the "Miracle of Louisville" Some pretty good highlights of the game. You might recognize the Southern Miss starting QB.

http://www.southernmiss.com/100/1989-vs-...-game.html

Don't anyone go click on that link! That day still burns in my craw! LOL

Is this one any better, Will?

I was at that game. It was a great game. I will always remember it.

I'll remember it myself. It was one of 2005's most exciting games, and most of the nation missed it...

how is this realignment related?

Well WVU just left the BE and USM deserves to be in the BE !

(07-24-2012 04:46 PM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Well WVU just left the BE and USM deserves to be in the BE !

Don't forget to mention Louisville wants to join WVU in the Big XII. I'd be willing to bet USM wouldn't be opposed to the idea either...

Yes, we do, Bit!

I'll just leave this here...............................









The 1983 USM ECU "Mud Bowl"

(07-24-2012 11:48 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Is this one any better, Will?

Marvin Graves approves Bit.

Marvin Graves is irrelevant, Mark. He's just another has been these days...

BTW, ECU fan, here's a few more WVU-ECU games...

I always enjoyed seeing West Virginia and East Carolina play simply because the names of the teams....

In that series, when East meets West, West usually has all the advantages...

(07-24-2012 08:56 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

EPIC -- and now that I've had years to digest, that one was better than the '92 Peach Bowl.

Sad thing is, two weeks after that epic win will probably be one of the games in USM's greatest moments list.

(07-25-2012 06:47 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  In that series, when East meets West, West usually has all the advantages...

The first "on campus" game I saw as an ECU student was the '86 classic between ECU and West Virginia.

Wrong team won, but it was a great game to see live.

I remember the very first ECU-WVU game. It was in Greenville on Nov. 7, 1970, and WVU won 28-14. WVU had a promising season that year, until consecutive losses to Duke and Pitt dropped the Mountaineers from the polls...

WVU was also playing the Pirates after another in a long series of consecutive losses to Penn State, and really needed the win...

WVU played the Pirates the following season in Morgantown, winning 44-21, and the 2 teams didn't play again until a decade passed...