Few football seasons are more iconic than Boston College's 1984 campaign. Doug Flutie's Heisman Trophy provided the overscoring tune to the Eagles' 10-2 record and Cotton Bowl Classic win over Houston. BC became a top five team that year, and the game against Miami remains arguably the greatest college football game ever played. It was a season so memorable that it's still a hot topic, even though the "Flutie Effect" is now over 30 years old.
It's impossible to imagine a Heisman Trophy candidate or national championship-caliber team not earning national spotlight and television, but in 1984, that was the state of college athletics.