Take a Time Warp with Keith Jackson.....

Ahhh 1984. Bobby Bowden is in the middle of "a slump"--it's been 3 years since Florida State has posted a 10 win season and it will take 2 more seasons before he produces another. Of course, after that, the Seminoles go on to produce 14 seasons in a row with at least 10 wins.

South Carolina is in a different spot: '84 turned out to be the only 10 win season in the program's history. Coach Joe Morrison ended up leading the Gamecocks to their best record and a ranking as high as #2 after winning the first 9 games. They finished up with a loss to Oklahoma State in the 1984 Gator Bowl. 4 players received some sort of All American note for that season. Morrison lead the Gamecocks for 6 seasons before passing away from a heart attack in February of 1988.

More 1984: Keith Jackson is firmly entrenched as the syrupy sweet voice of college football. Reagan-Mondale. Vanessa Williams wins the Miss America pageant, only to give it up due to 'artsy photos' in Penthouse.

And a plucky freshman named Raynard Brown sets Williams-Brice Stadium into pandemonium on an early November night in Columbia, opening the 2nd half of the game with Florida State with an amazing kickoff return .

The next year, Brown is the savior of the Gamecocks in a play that made #35 on the Fox Sports Net's Best Damn's Top 50 Spectacular Football Plays. A description is as follows:

• 35. Desperation Pass: Mike Hold — the QB for South Carolina back in 1985 — evaded getting sacked five times, while backing up 20 yards into his own end zone (almost resulting in a safety). If that wasn't enough- he then heaved the ball 50 yards downfield. In a style reminiscent of the Immaculate Reception, the football deflected off a few players before falling into the hands of Raynard Brown, who ran it in for an 80 yard touchdown play.

Unfortunately, Brown is later drafted in the 10th round of the 1987 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions and there is no further mention of him in cyberspace.