There will be a football game Saturday between Oklahoma and Ohio State. It won’t be the first, and it likely won’t be the last, but it will carry significance all its own. In 1977 the third-ranked Sooners, led by an iconic and historic coach in Barry Switzer, traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to face the fourth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes and an icon in his own right, Woody Hayes. That Oklahoma team beat Ohio State thanks to one of the most memorable kicks in all of college football history, “The Kick.” Every Ohio State fan knows it. Every Oklahoma fan can tell you where they were when it sliced through that cold Ohio air on September 24, 1977. For the two people that lived it, this weekend’s clash of titans will be nothing like the original. That ’77 game wasn’t just a big game, it was the big game. Major TV deals being unheard of at the time, college football fans only got to enjoy one or two great games on any given weekend. The entire country had eyes fixated on Ohio Stadium in 1977; the Buckeyes were looking to protect their own and the Sooners were winning games left and right.…
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