Comments on: Suggestion Box: Nominate Your Big Ten Greatest Game

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:32 +0000

I would like to see the Michigan at Indiana basketball game from Febuary 14th 1993

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:42:02 +0000

Suggest a game:: Michigan 38 vs Ohio State 26 2000 The reason I like this game was because even though the score was 12 points, it was a close game going down to the end. Michigan was the better team, but OSU played very well for the whole game until Drew Henson put it away with a couple minutes left on a fake HB dive and a QB run bootleg, I thought it was a very good and well fought game, even though UM won by 12. Michigan vs Illinois 2000 With Illinois building a double digit lead in the 4th quarter, the injured Drew Henson lead UM on a furious comeback. John Navarre started the game, but with UI cruising in the 1st half, Henson was put in to win for the big blue. UM had a great comeback and a couple of controversial calls favored UM in a close one. I think these were two great, classic, hard played B1G football . I would love to see these games on the B1G’s greatest games.

By: BTN.com staff

BTN.com staff — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:59:51 +0000

No sweat to everyone here. Seriously. Just trying to be open and responsive. And no one thinks anyone here is being difficult. We want feedback – happy and otherwise – and trust me when I say we get it both ways and plenty of it via all sorts of avenues. As an editor on the website here, I’m just doing my part to communicate. Enjoy the upcoming weekend of football.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:57:07 +0000

No problem, BTN. I certainly don’t want to come off as being difficult–just a passionate football and MSU fan.

I have no doubt that finding complete games (particularly older ones) is probably quite difficult. Thanks for your response to our (Toren and myself) queries.

By: BTN.com staff

BTN.com staff — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:25:53 +0000

Also, we can't respond to every email we get. It's just not possible. I know you want to hear back and our customer service team does a great job of that over here on all sorts of other issues. But this small feature on this page was meant to be a simple suggestions box. "Drop us a note and we'll add it to the bunch." You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook, and other places. Full list here.

By: BTN.com staff

BTN.com staff — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:22:56 +0000

TOren (and Mark N.), actually, that’s not quite accurate. If you use the email box on his page, your notes go directly to our production team. They’re the ones that asked for this feature so they do want to hear suggestions and they do pay plenty of attention. The issue is a little more complex as there isn’t a complete library of every game every played available right now. We’re working on that but that doesn’t stop us from taking suggestions from fans like yourself. Hope that clears things up.

By: TOren

TOren — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:59:09 +0000

Thanks, Mark N. I don’t think BTN pays much attention to these requests. 1974 with Levi running it in late is a terrific suggestion; there was much controversy, as Woody claimed OSU scored with no time left and should have won. It went on for a while, and Woody was not happy. I remember, I was in school there then watching the game with the guys. Sure would like to see BTN actually acknowledge these responses.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:22:13 +0000

I’ve already suggested this before, but I beg BTN to try to find the 1974 Michigan State/Ohio State game, in which Denny Stolz’s Spartans upset the #1 ranked Buckeyes. The game ended in controversy when it appeared OSU had scored the winning TD on the final play of the game, but officials determined that time had run out. Levi Jackson’s 88-yard TD run was, as it turned out, the winning score. MSU 16, OSU 13. Archie Griffin also had a huge game for OSU, gaining 140 yards on only 13 carries.

I agree with Toren that the 1985 MSU/Iowa game was great. Iowa won it late on a Chuck Long bootleg. The teams went back and forth, with Bobby McAllister and Lorenzo White having great games for MSU in a losing effort.

By: Tom Oren

Tom Oren — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:21:15 +0000

I nominated this one other time, but I would love to see Iowa – Michigan State 1985. Iowa’s Homecoming, they were #1 with Chuck Long as senior QB, and the rising Spartans nearly knocked them off behind sophomore Lorenzo White (Long and White finished #2 and #4 in the Heisman voting that year). Long scored on a naked bootleg on fourth down with less than a minute left after the teams traded touchdown after touchdown. The final was 35-31, and even though my Spartans lost, I remember it as absolutely one of the best games ever. Sure would like to see that one again.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:24:09 +0000

I would say the 1983 first round NIT basketball game with Northwestern and Notre Dame at the Rosemont Horizon. Northwestern won 71-57.