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1980 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls

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The Georgia Bulldogs have been a pretty consistent winner over the years, but only once have they won the national championship. That came in the 1980 college football season, when a freshman running back named Herschel Walker came blazing onto the scene and transformed Georgia and the entire SEC for the three years he was in Athens.

Under-The-Radar Sports History: The 1978 Orange Bowl

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This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article about the Arkansas-Oklahoma Orange Bowl game that followed the 1977 college football season marks a major upset that had huge repercussions on the national title race that season and future seasons to come.