The game was placed in NCAA Football video games as a "College Classic", challenging players to recreate the ending.
1984 | 1984 Winter Olympics | 1984 Summer Olympics | Super Bowl | Orange | Orange County | Orange Bowl | Rose Bowl Game | Rose Bowl | 1984 in music | Pro Bowl | Orange Free State | A Clockwork Orange | Orange Bowl (game) | Sugar Bowl | Orange, New South Wales | Orange County, Florida | Orange County, New York | Agent Orange | William of Orange | Prince of Orange | Bowl Championship Series | Hollywood Bowl | Canadian federal election, 1984 | Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County | Fiesta Bowl | House of Orange-Nassau | The Karate Kid (1984 film) | Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy | Super Bowl XLVIII |
Two famous examples of this gamble were by Nebraska in the last minute of the 1984 Orange Bowl (unsuccessful) and by Boise State in the first overtime of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl (successful).
In the 1984 Orange Bowl, all-American guard Dean Steinkuhler scored a touchdown for Nebraska on a planned fumble early in the game's second quarter when his team was down 17–0 to the University of Miami.