The Buckeyes' 31-24 double-overtime win over Miami created a lot of memories. Which one is your favorite?
In this neck of the woods, fall colors don't just mean amber and orange and crimson leaves on trees. Fall colors in Ohio are scarlet and gray.Any talk of scarlet and gray begins and ends with the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. Maurice Clarett was a freshman sensation. It was maybe the night when coach Jim Tressel's sweater vest took its first steps -- as much as a garment can step -- toward iconic status.
In today's Plain Dealer, columnist Bill Livingston relives the key plays of that game, and succinctly silences those who might say the USC-Texas game that featured Matt Leinhart and Reggie Bush for the Trojans and Vince Young for the Longhorns topped it.
In Livingston's words, "Texas-USC was a better video game. Ohio State-Miami was a better football game."
Livingston's piece recalls those plays and, as Clevelanders are wont to do, gives some of them names: The Pass, The Call, The Steal. His descriptions are as colorful as they are accurate.
But as the 13th-ranked Hurricanes prepare to face the No. 2 Buckeyes for the first time since that January 2003 31-24 double-overtime win by OSU, Starting Blocks wants to know what you find most memorable about the game.
Is it Craig Krenzel's fourth-and-14 conversion ("The Pass")? Miami's Glenn Sharpe being flagged for pass interference against Chris Gamble in the end zone (The Call)? Clarett's stripping the 'Canes' Sean Taylor of the ball after an end zone interception (The Steal)? Krenzel's MVP rushing performance? Clarett's national title-winning touchdown to cap the second overtime?