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Revisiting the last Texas-Georgia game - the '84 Cotton Bowl - and the muffed punt that haunted Craig Curry for 2 decades

No. 15 Texas and No. 5 Georgia will clash on New Year's Day in the Sugar Bowl, the first football meeting between the schools since the Jan. 2, 1984 Cotton Bowl -- best known as the day in which a muffed punt by Craig Curry led to Georgia upsetting the No. 2 Longhorns, 10-9, possibly costing Texas its first national title since 1970.

In 2005 Curry sat down with The Dallas Morning News for his first and still only interview about that Cotton Bowl and "that thing," as he called it. The following story appeared in The News on Oct.