Editor’s note: As the World Cup continues in the United States for the first time since 1994, The Athletic is looking back at college sports in the 1990s and how much has changed since then. Join us for a couple of weeks of offseason football and basketball nostalgia.The 1990s were a time for world-changing technological advances — welcome to the vernacular, “websites” and “email” — legendary art and an unforgettable era of college football.Of course, some of society’s foremost ills in 2026 owe themselves to the World Wide Web. The ’90s gave us Kurt Cobain, Wu-Tang Clan and “Pulp Fiction,” but they also gave us Fred Durst, Insane Clown Posse and “Encino Man.” College football had some elements best left in the trash bin with the moth-eaten flannels as well.Here are 10 things we don’t miss about the sport in the 1990s.1. Tie games. If only we could go back in time, armed with overtime rules (which debuted in 1996), and settle “The Choke at Doak” — Florida State scoring four touchdowns in the fourth quarter to turn a 31-3 deficit against rival Florida into a 31-31 final score. The last tie in college football history, in 1995, was a great one to go out on: Wisconsin 3, Illinois 3. Imagine having to sit through that grunt-fest and not even receiving an outcome. On short fields, one of them would have had to score.2. Getting sick of arguing about which of the clear two best teams was better and wishing there was a way to get them on a field together. What would Marco Coleman and that fierce Bobby Ross-coached Georgia Tech defense in 1990 have done against Darian Hagan, Eric Bieniemy and the Bill McCartney “I-Bone” offense of Colorado? Could Miami’s Gino Torretta escape Washington’s Steve Emtman in 1991? What if 1993 Auburn wasn’t banned from the postseason? Penn State or Nebraska in 1994? Michigan or Nebraska in 1997? Arguing is a college football staple, but in some of these cases it was shared frustration that no mechanism existed to deliver the matchups everyone wanted to see.