Was the "go for 2" call the right choice in the 1984 Orange Bowl?

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Yes: You go for the win. No: Take the tie and undefeated record. Final result: 84% Yes (1,899 votes), 16% No (363 votes).

Richard Borman · Accepted Answer

Yes: We are still talking about it, right?  That says it all!
Go Big Red!

Arlie Rauch · Answer

Yes: That was the clear road to the championship.

Jeff Malooley · Answer

No: Although I do not have a problem with what coach Osborne did I do feel that going to their home field and with their crowd advantage, that a tie would have been a win.

Phil Coffey · Answer

No: because I know what the outcome was

Richard Barnes · Answer

Yes: We play football to win or fail trying.

David Olson · Answer

Yes: Huskers went there to win.

Carol Brown · Answer

No: The National Championship that would have gone with the tie would have been at lease as valuable as the split with Michigan!  Arkansas Husker

Jeremy Dean Petersen · Answer

Yes: You don't play the game to tie...

Jay Schultz · Answer

Yes: It changed the way the nation viewed Tom and NU football.

Alan J Farrell · Answer

Yes: Look back at Parsegian (SP) of ND against Mich St.  That haunted him forever. That was not Osborne's plan for NU.  If they had won, they would have been the top of college football for years.

David Foster · Answer

No: Nothing wrong with going for the tie.

Robert Hegler · Answer

Yes: You play to win, not tie the game.

Charles Johnson · Answer

Yes: Because you don't go to the prom to kiss your sister.

Kelly Sterling · Answer

Yes: We were the better team.  Boiled down to missed execution

Stephen Johnson · Answer

Yes: Everyone I know who is a Nebraska fan agreed to go for the win. There is no other decision.

Allen H. Browning · Answer

Yes: Osborne taught the world what big-time football was all about .

Greg Mann · Answer

No: The goal at the beginning of the season was to win a title.  Kick the extra point and you achieve the goal.  TO's gambled cost all those players a championship and years of wondering needlessly.

Eric Farris · Answer

Yes: play to win, not to tie

Ron Bauer · Answer

Yes: Should be only one (1) National Champion.

Jerry L. Hammon · Answer

Yes: You play to win not tie

Frank M. Olivarez · Answer

Yes: Huskers always go thru the front door

Keith Petrie · Answer

Yes: It wasn't the safe call... but it sure was GUTSY!   and the right way to go!  Go for the win!!!

Bart Burroughs · Answer

Yes: you don't have overtime in '84. you go for the win, not the tie if you are a competitor.

Travis Stewart · Answer

Yes: Same reason Osborne said - you play to win. If there had been overtime back then you kick the xtra point and play it out

Kendrick Marshall · Answer

Yes: You play to win the game.  That's all.

Jeff Van Every · Answer

Yes: Because there was no doubt that Dr. Tom would go for 2. Go for the win, not the tie. Football isn't soccer, hehe. I guess it is.

Erik Olson · Answer

Yes: "A tie is like kissing your sister."

Was the "go for 2" call the right choice in the 1984 Orange Bowl?

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Was the "go for 2" call the right choice in the 1984 Orange Bowl?

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