If Ball State wins Saturday, it will match its best start to a season in 20 years. Here are some facts from the Oct. 8, 1988, game when Ball State was victorious to start out 5-0.
Nationwide
- No. 1 TV show - "The Cosby Show"
- No. 1 song - "Love Bites" by Def Leopard
- Top movie - "Alien Nation"
- Unemployment - 6.2 percent
- Stamp price - 25 cents
- Cost of gas - $1.08
- Nate Davis was only one year old
- Brady Hoke - Was an outside linebackers coach at Toledo
- Stan Parrish - Was the head coach at Kansas State
- Brandon Crawford - Was 12 years old
- Briggs Orsbon - Was not born
- Tom Collins - Was 30 years old
- Rick Majerus - Was the men's basketball team's head coach
- Bill Richards - Had won five of his 18 career MAC Championships
- Evan Bayh - Was running for Indiana governor
- Mike Pence - Was the Republican challenger running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat
- Indiana House Democratic incumbent Marc Carmichael and Republican Brad Razor held a debate in the Ball Communication Building.
- Twenty teams competed in Theta Xi's 26th-annual Tug-O-War prior to the football game.
- Field hockey won its 31 consecutive MAC game.
- The campus escort service was in its first year of existence.
- The Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission passed an amendment making it illegal for fraternities to have events in residential areas.
- Notre Dame defeated Pittsburgh 30 - 20 on Oct. 8. The team eventually went 12-0-0 for the season in 1988.
- On the same day as Ball State's win LSU defeated Auburn 7-0 in what became known as the 'Earthquake Game,' because the home crowd's reaction after the Tigers' score was detected by a seismograph.
- The Oakland Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 4 of the ALCS to advance to the 1988 World Series, where they would eventually lose to the Dodgers.
- The Dodgers' Kirk Gibson hit a home run in the 12th inning to win Game 4 of the NLCS against the New York Mets. The Dodgers would go on to win the World Series.
- George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis were campaigning for the 1988 presidential election.
- Ball State University Police found marijuana in Hearst Hall earlier in the week. No charges were pressed because no one could identify to whom the drugs belonged.
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