I know it was October but Miami FSU in 2000 was at noon. There's definitely some similarity between the landscape of both games.
Were do we start...
Both at noon...( temp TBD for gator game)
It was the Orange bowl
they were number 1
we were number 7
it was the 5th game of the season
we were coming off a good year from probation beating a better GT team with our back up Dorsey in the Gator Bowl...
the 99 recruting class is considered one of the BEST ALL TIME ever classes
1999 Class highlights
Miami had signed two full classes since emerging from the shadow of NCAA sanctions, but this class launched the Hurricanes back into the nation's elite and helped lay the foundation for the 2001 BCS title team, which is on a Muggsy Bogues-short list of the best football squads in NCAA history.
Quarterback Ken Dorsey, receiver Andre Johnson, offensive tackles Bryant McKinnie and Vernon Carey, tailbacks Clinton Portis and Jarrett Payton and cornerback Phillip Buchanon punched their tickets to Coral Gables in 1999. Once there, they joined a group that included safety Ed Reed (class of 1997) and awaited the arrival of a 2000 class that would include tailback Willis McGahee, tight end Kellen Winslow and linebacker Jonathan Vilma.
The group would have won two BCS titles if not for a controversial pass interference call late in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl that allowed Ohio State to pull off an upset
I see where you are going that this is the game to launch us back into someone, I agree, AL needs a bigtime win as we do...Good post