The first live CFB game you ever watched from start to finish?

[Thruthefog]

University of Pacific @ West Texas State University (live)

Can't remember the year. I was about 10 or so.

'Pistol' Pete Pedro was a star RB for the WTSU Buffaloes.

 

[theboardref]

My earliest memory of watching a Buckeye game was when I was 6 yrs old, when they went down to Baton Rouge and tied LSU at 13...I think LSU was ranked in the top 5 at the time? I remember that the Buckeyes were having a bit of a down season, so that game came as a nice surprise, I think everybody expected them to lose. But then a couple weeks later they DID lose to Indiana...I remember that game because my friend who lived two houses down from us, his Dad was absolutely livid and we could hear him cussing up a storm from his man cave in the basement.

My aunt was a huge LSU fan and still tells me about the nightmare it was when she took a trip to the Horseshoe. Don’t remember what year but apparently LSU had a double digit lead and Ohio State came back with like two onside kicks within the last few minutes to win.

 

[ralphiewvu]

Same for me.
I was 11 years old.

Dad? Is that you?

 

[olympicoscar]

I really don't know. I did see part of the Rose Bowl in 1954 involving Michigan State, if my memory is correct. As for a whole game, it would probably be a live game between Syracuse and maybe Boston College in 1955. Just guessing.

 

[IrishBlooded]

What a pathetic rule.

You wouldn’t believe how many free drinks I have won from people calling me a liar about that being true.

Still you are right. It was a terrible rule. But it is still one of the most epic games I have ever seen live. In Michigan’s fist two games that year. They lost by a combined 3 points to ND at S Bend and Miami at home.

Outside of 93 FSU game and maybe the 05 USC game. That is the loudest I have ever heard that stadium

 

[WizardHawk]

Parents had season tickets since I was born. Can't recall the first game specifically, but I was taken to more games a year as I got older. My oldest memory of UW when I was old enough to pay attention to the game, stats, following players, etc. was around the time Don James came to Montlake. I remember the debate on what they were doing taking an unknown coach from Kent State and following those early years. I remember vividly the racism in the crowd over having a black QB (Warren Moon) and not really understanding why given I never really saw racism around our community. The '78 Rose Bowl is really the farthest back memory of a game I have, even though I had been following it for years before that.

Shit, I can't tell you what I had for dinner half of last week and you want details of games when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old back in the early 70's? Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[theboardref]

Parents had season tickets since I was born. Can't recall the first game specifically, but I was taken to more games a year as I got older.

In a similar situation. I started going to every game in ‘98. I was really young though. I want to say my first game being at was an Arkansas game, but I was too young to remember anything.

 

[kburjr]

1963 Rose Bowl. USC vs Wisconsin. The near miracle. #1 vs #2 USC ld 35-14 after 3 qtrs and Wisconsin almost pulled it out. Final 42-37

 

[rmilia1]

TV

1984 Freedom Bowl Iowa 55 Texas 17

In person

1985

#1 Iowa 12 #2 Michigan 10

I was 8. Dad and my uncle took me and my cousin . It was insane

 

[KnightAndDay]

Bump.

 

[SideSwipe52]

I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, had free tickets to watch K-State vs Iowa State.

 

[naslundfan19]

My first in person game was an Idaho game in the Kibbie Dome in the 90s when I was a teenager. Don’t remember who they played or who won. I did go on the field after the game.

 

[bamafan4evr12]

95 Alabama vs Tennessee I believe. I was really little and my dad was watching on TV.

First game I remember seeing in person was either the 99 division 1-AA championship, my dad took me. I remember Georgia Southern winning it all against Youngstown. Paul Johnson vs Jim Tressel. Pretty cool.

 

[Rod Freakin' Dangerfield]

As best I can recall............

1987, Virginia Tech at South Carolina

Cocks-40
VPI-10

 

[KnightAndDay]

 

[Olyduck]

When you say start to finish do you mean when the game finished or when i did?

 

[KnightAndDay]

When you say start to finish do you mean when the game finished or when i did?

When the game finished.

 

[navamind]

1st full game: Ohio State-Michigan State 1998
1st full Michigan game: Mich-Wisconsin 1999 (I think)

 

[Chewbaccer]

I know I watched some before, but the first I remember was UGA @ LSU in 1998. 28-27 UGA

I remember it because it was a crazy game and considered a decent upset at the time. LSU completely collapsed afterwards and it lead to Saban coming to Baton Rouge.

 

[CowpokeU]

I mean, my parents have been season ticket holders at Oklahoma State since I was an infant.

The first one I really remember from top to bottom was in the 6th grade, long before there was a BPS back in the old erector set days.

This was back in 98.