Since we are forced to go without college football for a few more months I thought maybe reliving some favorite moments in Bobcat Football could help pass the time.

What is your favorite Bobcats play you saw in person, with your own eyes? I'm sure there are numerous more on TV but let's keep it to live games.

An amazing touchdown run? Game saving defensive stand?

For me it was Kevin Kerr's game winning field goal against Buffalo in 2002 to break a lengthy losing streak and was the first win in Peden since the 2000 season ending win over Marshall.

The Bobcats came in after going 1-10 in Knorr's first year, and were 0-fer on the year with losses to Pitt, a horrific 31-0 loss to Northeastern (who no longer even has football now), a 34-6 defeat to Florida (albeit there was a brief lead in that game!), and also a defeat to brand new FBS foe UConn after blowing a lead.

The game at first looked like a final escape from futility after building a 21-3 lead at halftime. However Buffalo scored 29 second half points and held a late 32-31 lead. I believe Dontrell Jackson hit Ray Huston with a long pass to set up the winning field goal shortly after Buffalo took the lead.

A hardy band of O-Zoners ran onto the field thinking we could take out the goal posts!

I enjoyed it then because it was a fun night with friends and it was a win! I enjoy it today as a reminder of how bad things used to be and makes me appreciate how much better Ohio Football is today even if it doesn't always meet lofty fan expectations. I hope to some day place my ticket stub from this game next to a MAC championship item of some kind.

Looking forward to reading other stories.

Circa 1981, we were punting from our own 40 yard line and our punter kicked the ball into the back of his own lineman. Ball flew back 20 yards, yet the kicker somehow got it and nailed a 60-yard punt. We called them the Cardiac Cats for a reason.

...or opening the second half with an onside kick during the Cleve Bryant era, when the onside kick was our premier offensive weapon...

...or the infamous "Get your ribs at the Ritz" episode? Classic...could only happen in Athens.

Paul Hershey hurdling a Miami player on a fake punt keeper.

Bowling Green had an awesome trick play against us that went for a long TD pass on a freezing midweek game in 2012. If you've seen "Not Another Teen Movie", it was a real "Wam Bam - WTF just happened?" Same game, they had a guy drag like six tacklers 10 yards into the end zone. Same game, we boned like four different punts. Yeah, that game was embarassing.

These are some great nominations for favorite play.

Here's mine -- a bit obscure. CB Mose Denson sacked M$%^&i's Zac Dysert on a blitz late in the 4th quarter to seal a 21-14 win in 2011. It clinched an outright MAC East title and was our sixth consecutive win over the team from Oxford. The RedHawks were in the red zone and poised to score a tying TD or sneak out of Athens with a win on a two point conversion.

It wasn't one play, but earlier that season I won't forget the Marshall player/coach reaction when our Bobcats walked out of the locker room just before the kickoff to the sounds of Johnny Cash's God's Gonna Cut You Down while wearing all black unis for the first time (as I recall). We ran the Herd out of Peden that day. The final was 44-7.

While I've seen many great plays in my day, this is at the top of my list.

Along about mid-August a viewing of this always gets me pumped up for the upcoming season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVISVWk2PA

That's on my list, Monroe. Probably in the number two spot. And, one of the stars of that team -- Todd Snyder -- is a friend. But, nothing so far in my Bobcat football fan career beats that win over Pitt with its dramatic ending. Stick with Frank and he'll bring us more such excitement in the future. The guy's in constant learning mode and adapts as player talent and conditions warrant. Hey, he's even gong to under center this fall in short-yardage situations. I suspect he read your posts. If we score more TDs this year and fewer FGs, I'll give you all the credit for being a football visionary. Go OHIO!

I was one of those on the hill for the Byrum Pick 6 so that's #1 for me.

#2 was a memorable trip to Champaign, IL during my grad school days. Traveled with two of my best friends in an old 4 seater prop plane to watch Matt Lasher hit a 32 yard field goal for the win. The entire experience of that weekend was surreal and the dramatic win was just icing on the cake. Seeing the airport in Albany on the way home was a temporary relief from the hangover I earned celebrating the night before, but that feeling quickly went away when my pilot friend put that old plane in a nose dive without warning the other two of us. He laughed all the way back to Athens about it, my other buddy and I not so much. I will never forget the entire experience and also never stop reliving it through the stories any time the 3 of us are together.

You'll have to remove Chip Cox, as he was gone by 2005, but in his place you can add Michael Mitchell and Mark Parson. Tony Ward wasn't bad, either, though he was suspended the next year. That was indeed an elite a group of DBs.
Mitchell - many years as an NFL starter
Wright - signed a FA contract and appeared to be in position to make the team until he got hurt
Byrum - Played in a few NFL games, and was on the practice team
Parson - I think he also played in a few NFL games, and was on the practice team

Four DBs who later had NFL contracts, not bad at all. That entire defense had pretty good players, but they were still young. After losing only Ream and Byrum, they really came together in 2006 when they only gave up 18.1 points a game, the best ever under Burrow.

I'll precede this with a caveat - as is well known, I'm much more a basketball fan than football fan. So specific plays aren't as easy in football as hoops for me.

That said, favorite moment, and it didn't occur in person exactly, was the Potato Bowl win. I was at the Nutter Center watching Bobcat hoops, and watched the bowl game through the telephoto lens on my camera, to a TV that had the game on a screen in a hospitality area across the arena from our seats. Bobcat basketball got a blowout win, and Ohio Football won at about the same time. I was informing those around me what was happening through the camera. Anyway, it's a fun memory I figured wasn't too far off topic for this thread.

The favorite moment I saw in person will remain every time Ohio beat Marshall in Athens. The night game in 2013 was one of my favorites.

I loved to watch Chad Brinker run.

Dion Byrum is my favorite moment.

Dubs pass was against Kent, right?

1,642 yards in 2012.

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