MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee experienced some of its finest seasons on the gridiron during the mid-1980s.
Thanks to the likes of legendary running backs Vince Hall, Gerald Anderson and Dwight Stone and quarterbacks Marvin Collier and Mickey Corwin, the Blue Raider offense was explosive alongside a defense that gave up only 14 points per game over a three-year stretch from 1983-85.
They advanced to the 1984 NCAA I-AA semifinals, then followed by winning an Ohio Valley Conference championship in an undefeated 1985 regular season, reaching a No. 1 national ranking before falling in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Georgia Southern.