No. 7: 7-OT Thriller Scrambled The Press Box

No. 7 - 7-OT Thriller That Scrambled The Press Box

Remember the 7-OT edge-of-your-seat thriller the Mean Green played against FIU back in 2006? You know, the longest game ever played in college football history! How could anyone ever forget that night at Fouts Field.

North Texas, which was the only Division IA team to have never played an overtime contest, went up by three points with two minutes to play thanks to a Johnny Quinn 4-yard touchdown pass from Daniel Meager. The Golden Panthers answered back with a 28-yard field goal with two seconds on the fourth quarter clock to send it into OT.

Up in the press box we didn’t know what to do – literally. Not one member of the stat crew had ever been apart of an overtime game, so we were forced to blow the dust off the NCAA statistics manual to figure out how to properly code the game in our stat computers.

It didn’t go well for us up in the press box (we still didn’t have everything straightened out when we gave up and left at 2:30 a.m.), but luckily everything worked out on the field. The two teams combined for 13 field goal attempts in the overtimes alone, including the 34-yard winner from Denis Hopovac in OT No. 7.

100	100-yd fumble return for TD	75-	"Mean Joe" Greene	50-	Gross and Washington	25-	Conference Titles
99	Fitzgerald Goes The Distance	74-	NT Downs No. 20 SDSU	49-	Keith Chapman FGs	24-	Talking About Willis
98	Sears Woods' Stuns Knoxville	73-	Fry & the new Mean Green	48-	Cody Spencer	23-	Rev. Maher Dominates Southland
97-	NT Blows Out Decatur Baptist	72-	Yaege's Stellar Season	47-	First Homecoming	22-	Walker Passes Rice
96-	96 Years Of Football	71-	Steve Ramsey's TDs	46-	Meager Against SMU	21-	Cobbs 100-Yard Games
95-	The Jump To Division I-A	70-	Little's 1970 Season	45-	Cobb Scores 45	20-	Fouts Arrives In Denton
94-	Optimist Bowl Offense	69-	7 All-Conference in '69	44-	Not A Day To Rush	19-	Haynes Scores 19 TDs
93-	Michael High KR Yards	68-	A Consensus All-American	43-	Patrick Cobbs	18-	Miracle In the Desert
92-	Gowin 92-Yard Punt	67-	Armour Anchors NT Offense	42-	Craig Robertson	17-	The Ramsey Plan
91-	Chancellor Saves The MGRN	66-	Love Tops 1,000 Yds	41-	Erric Pegram	16-	2002 All-Conference Record
90-	Renfro/Haynes Tally 90 pts.	65-	St. Clair's Win Pct	40-	Fry Win Total	15-	Renfro All-America
89-	Redwine Bursts Onto Scene	64-	Spider's Special Season	39-	Jack Sisco and 1939	14-	Vidal Carlin
88-	Mean Green Robbed	63-	NT & Navy Light Up The Scoreboard	38-	2002 NMSU Win	13-	Shanklin's Big Year
87-	Fitzgerald Fries Competition	62-	Khoury's 62-yd FG	37-	Dunbar TDs (so far)	12-	Andrew Smith
86-	Mean Green 86 The Toads	61-	Kennedy's 61 TFL	36-	What A Rush	11-	Scott Hall
85-	Adrian Awasom	60-	Fouts Field	35-	Galbreath Seals NO Bowl Win	10-	10 Wins in 1947
84-	Brown Delivers For NT	59-	The '59 Sun Bowl Squad	34-	Ja'Quay Wilburn	9-	Dinkle's Winning TD
83-	83 All-Conference Selections	58-	Mitchell Claims COY	33-	Ray Renfro	8-	Vizza's TD Passes
82-	Corky Nelson	57-	Thomas Scampers For 57	32-	The First All-American	7-	7-OT Thriller
81-	One Of The Greats	56-	Scott Davis Completion Pct	31-	31 NT All-Americans	6-	Sunday, September 4
80-	Cedric The Sack- Getter	55-	Gill, NT's First Retired Number	30-	Former NCAA Record 30 TDs	5-	Monday, September 5
79-	"Blow George, Blow!"	54-	Pair's Punts	29-	29,473 Fans	4	Tuesday, September 6
78-	J.T. Smith Joins the NFL	53-	OSU's 53 Passing Yards	28-	Abner Haynes	3-	Wednesday, September 7
77-	North Texas Goes 10- 1	52-	Fouts Field Opens	27-	Maher Destroys Passing TD Mark	2-	Thursday, September 8
76-	Blizzard Battle With FSU	51-	Bahnsen Named All-American	26-	Consecutive SBC Wins	1-	Friday, September 9

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