The Week That Was | College Football Week 13 & NFL Week 12 Recap & Preview | NBA Season | Classic College Football Throwback Games of The Week: Boston College vs Miami November 23rd 1984

The College Football Regular Season is almost finished and coming to a close because there are only 2 more weeks left in the regular season. First things first, the #12 Georgia Bulldogs won a big game at home against the #7 Tennessee Volunteers by score of 31-17. The Bulldogs had a 10-0 deficit to overcome in order to win the ballgame now the College Football Playoff hopes remain intact.

Top-Ranked Oregon barely beat the University of Wisconsin by score of 16-13 to preserve their unbeaten season. So Oregon survived a scare on the road to pass the road test. Meanwhile there were numerous upsets in college football last week such as Unranked Stanford beating #19 Louisville: 38-35, unranked Florida beat #22 LSU:27-16,Unranked Arizona State beat #16 Kansas State:24-14,Unranked Mexico City beat #18 Washington State by score of 38-35,and finally Unranked Kansas won at #6 Utah by score of 17-13.

Moving forward to this week's slate of games keep eyes on the top 5 matchup between #5 Indiana vs #2 Ohio State. Can the Hoosiers remain unbeaten by snapping their 28 game losing streak against the Ohio State Buckeyes? Next keep your eyes on the matchup between #19 Army who unbeaten against #6 Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium.

In The NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs finally lost this season losing to the Buffalo Bills by score of 30-21 on the road suffering their first loss of the season but the Bills obviously have to win in the playoffs if they face the Chiefs again. Quarterback Josh Allen is playing at an MVP level despite no Stefon Diggs or Gabe Davis. The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens by score of 18-16. A typical low scoring affair between these 2 rivals. Quarterback Lamar Jackson of Baltimore Ravens continues to struggle against the Pittsburgh Steelers defense and as a team as a whole so now Jackson is now 1-4 against the Steelers.

The San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl hangover continues as they fell to 5-5 after losing to the Seattle Seahawks by score of 20-17. Moving forward the games to keep eyes on this week in the NFL is the 49ers vs Packers, Seahawks vs Cardinals, Eagles vs Rams and the Harbaugh Bowl: Ravens vs Chargers. Jim and John Harbaugh will be coaching against each other on opposite sides for the first time in a decade.

Offensive Player of The Week:

Quarterback Bo Nix of Denver Broncos

28-33, 307 yards, 4 touchdown passes and zero interceptions against the Atlanta Falcons.

Defensive Player of The Week:

Linebacker Terrel Bernard of Buffalo Bills

8 tackles,1 sack and 1 interception against the Kansas City Chiefs.

In The NBA, the biggest game of the week was between the 15-0 Cleveland Cavaliers vs the 11-3 Boston Celtics. The Celtics won by score of 120-117 obviously the 3-point shot was at a fever pitch connecting on 22 3-point shots shooting 53.7 percent from 3-point range led by Jayson Tatum scoring 33 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. The Celtics had a 21-point lead but the Cavaliers made a run and made the game competitive.

Now here is a look back at the Classic Throwback College Football Games of The Week where there were 2 games that were played in November starting with the Boston College played Miami at the old Orange Bowl where Miami was the defending champions coming into the 1984 season but Miami wasn't as good as 1983 season where they won the national championship against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

On November 23rd 1984 40 years ago, Boston College had a shootout for the ages against the Canes where Quarterback Doug Flutie of Boston College against Miami’s Bernie Kosar. The game was known for Doug Flutie's Hail Mary For The Ages to Gerald Phelan to win the ballgame by score of 47-45 which would go down as one of the more iconic moments in college football lore. The game was known as Hail Flutie: Miracle In Miami. Flutie threw for 472 yards and 3 touchdown passes to become the first major college quarterback to surpass 10,000 yards passing in a career. This classic game was played the day after Thanksgiving.

Doug Flutie would go on to win the Heisman Trophy in 1984. The next classic game was between Notre Dame vs Miami on November 25th 1989. This matchup was the rematch of Catholics vs Convicts from 1988 where the Irish won 31-30 in South Bend, Indiana. Now the scene shifted to the Orange Bowl where the Miami Hurricanes were looking revenge and a reckoning of #1 Notre Dame where the Canes won 27-10. This was a heated rivalry at the time. Miami Hurricanes would snap Notre Dame’s 23-game winning streak that resulted in Miami Hurricanes winning the national championship in 1989. This game was known for 3rd down and 43 where Quarterback Craig Erickson threw a pass to Wide Receiver Randal Hill to convert the 3rd and 43 for 44 yards.