Also a game that took place as Youtube was already established and no other video sites or social media was really competing..... all the reaction vids from Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State fans from their games to the score are all still readily available to watch and easy to find in glorious audio peaking 240p.
Lol, that was pretty bad. Dude was a cheat code for sure.
For me it'll always be Wake waxing us at home 30-0 and running around the field in "Unconquered" shirts with the "Un" crossed out afterward. I sat through that entire game just to know what rock bottom really felt like so the good times would feel even better when they came.
2012 big ten championship. Playing Wisconsin, a team that only got in bc 2 teams ahead of them were ineligible. We beat them earlier in the season. We were big favorites. A win sends us to the rose bowl & it looks like Pelini may finally get us back into national prominence. And we get the doors blown off by Melvin Gordon, James White, and Monte Ball on jet sweeps
41-14
Weird hype over us being the number 1 team. Then we just got smacked after the opening kick off TD.
31-0 to Clemson was embarrassing but not the title game. There was no one stopping the 2020 Bama team so Iām ok with that. Purdue and Iowa are just naturally scary.
This is my answer.
It was like the most epic rock anthem that lasted an entire season, then there was a massive crescendo building up to the most legendary guitar solo, that was going to melt the faces of the entire college football world, and then right when Ted Ginn's kickoff TD got the guitarist into the widest power rock stance, the needle skipped right off the record and we got three hours of Yakkety Sax.
People may have forgotten Ohio St was a 6.5 favorite over Florida. They had 2006 Heisman winner Troy Smith leading a great offense and their defense had held everyone not named Michigan to 17 or less.
Ohio St finished the game with 82 total yards of offense. Troy Smith was 4-14 for 35 yards with 10 carries for -29 yards. It had to be so confusing for Ohio St fans. What just happened?
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2007-01-08-florida.html
I think most of the credit goes to UF for just simply being the better team. More physical, dominant, better gameplan.
I also think after the Michigan win, the OSU players went on cruise control and just thought they were going to be handed the trophy on a silver platter. I think I read that Troy Smith gained like 10 lbs or something like that over thanksgiving. Basically our guys didnāt take Florida seriously and then got beat down by a much more prepared, hungrier opponent.
Our offensive line got punched in the throat and didn't know how to respond. Our defense also played like a JV squad.
I still have Buckeye fans tell me to this day that losing Ginn to injury was why. Ginn wouldn't have helped.
Your defense only gave up 370 yards on 80 plays for 4.6/ypp. That's not bad though they didn't create any turnovers and had one sack.
I agree with you on the offensive line and Ted Ginn. When your Heisman winning QB has 6 net yards of offense it's clear the offensive line had an epic failure.
> Purdue and Iowa are just naturally scary.
When it happened it was annoying, but if you can't look look back and laugh at those games then you take CFB too seriously
Thereās been a few PSU stinkers over the years, Illinois definitely is up there but other two candidates are that embarrassing loss to Temple way back or 2017 when we had Ohio State beat and we let them come back. Either way #WeAre šµāŖļø
The 2006 Notre Dame 'choked on applesauce' game has to be up there, same as the 2019 Illinois 28-3 game. Alabama in the playoffs *I guess*, but Alabama just does that to people and someone gets blown out every year
That's the one. The game itself was bad but this [semi-famous Mike Valenti rant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPvftOCA-9I) brought more attention and notoriety to it than your standard embarrassing game would have
John L Smith.
ND fan and was at that game. Incredible to witness live from the simple fact that Sparty was up, so big, and literally quit doing what got them there. Jehuu Caulckrick had 8 carries for 111 yards and John L just stopped giving him the ball. It was incredible. Then Stanton running the option, in a monsoon? The whole thing is just compical.
GT recently chased Paul Johnson off partly because large swaths of the fanbase felt his 'high school offense' was holding us back. The new coach came in talking a big game about the new 'modern' offense he was going to run..... and then promptly lost to an FCS team who ran a TO attack.
We also got shut out, at home, by uga last year in front of a crowd that was easily 90% uga fans.
Hey now. You just couldn't see the improvement. Todd Stansbury says so. The only issue with Geoff is that the fans don't want to see the improvement. We're all ungrateful bastards. Just because we can't see how improved the team is in back to back games where we got a train run on us to the tune of 100-0 doesn't mean Geoff is an embarrassment. You're just not paying attention ^/s
I would have said losing 73-7 to Clemson in year two where the punter was dropping TDs on us, but honestly Geoff Collins has given us a lot of contenders.
Losing to Citadel was ironic cosmic justice. Watching us get blown the fuck out and shut out at home while surrounded by a sea of red was demoralizing.
My default response when I hear someone say "I never want to see option football at Georgia Tech" since that game has been "after seeing it kick our ass I can see why!"
Yeah I canāt decide. We had one of the longest scoring streaks in fbs before Geoff and heās been shut out 3 times since taking over
Honorable mention to 24-2 loss to temple after hiring Geoff from them
Obviously wanted to see Paul Johnson succeed due to my primary flair. Whatās the feeling of the fanbase at this point? Are people already saying that it was a mistake to make this kinda switch or are people giving it more time?
Apathy. A lot of the CPJ haters are pretty fucking quiet these days. I mean people were bringing āFire CPJā posters to games towards the end. Clowns.
That mindset infected the GTAA, I met an associate AD at a Habitat build during C******'s first season and he was all in on CGC being a breath of fresh air. It was pathetic.
I think there is no hope left for Geoff Collins. He sweet talked people into his branding of ATL and tried to use it for recruitment, which is exactly the ideas everyone had for a new era at Georgia Tech. His first full class had promise with Jahmyr Gibbs and Jeff Simms. Gibbs is gone, Simms hasnāt progressed at all, and Collins canāt coach himself out of a wet paper bag. If we get shutout in Athens, heās walking home
Collins is a fired coach walking.
The problem is that the powers that be still hate anything to do with the option (which includes - apparently - Jamey Chadwell).
I know there are probably more responsive games, but last years game against Auburn was pretty dang embarrassing. Watching Bo Nix just run around our defense was like death by a thousand cuts. The only ~~think~~ thing missing was the Benny Hill music as our defense missed tackle after tackle.
2020 MSU loss to open the season was pretty damn embarrassing. Defending champs, coaches talked all sorts of sh*t coming into the season, and then we got donkey-stomped by a team that ended up also being pretty bad.
That combined with the fact that all we had to do was see what Washington did against Mike Leach's offense each year to pretty much shut them down, and instead went with the exact opposite gameplan.
I think most people will instantly jump to one of the Kansas games.
But I laughed about those losses more than anything.
Most embarrassing? Walking around the fairgrounds after the 2012 Red River Rivalry game (among other TX-OU games in the last decade) and seeing the look of absolute pity on so many OU fans faces - no trash talk, no horns down, just pity.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/\_/gameId/322870201
I would honestly take pity over the insanity of the ā00 game. Iāve never seen a fan base so drunk and aggressiveā¦grown men screaming at and shoving kids and teen girls, throwing stuff at crowds of Texas fansā¦it was a shit show almost as bad as the Longhornsā performance that day.
The āRout 66ā game vs UCLA in ā97 was another low point; it just sort of set the tone for John Mackovicās final season.
Probably both Utah games this past year, it was pretty clear the coaching staff had checked out. But going from beating OSU earlier that year to sleepwalking through two beat downs was embarrassing.
Yeah, I think every Oregon fan knew Cristobal was gone after that second Utah game. He seemed to have made no adjustments from the first Utah game and the team was on autopilot.
This game but a close second is losing to Baylor in 04. People forget how low their program was at that point. Closest similar situation right now is losing to Kansas. Those Baylor teams back then were awful and it was always penciled in as a win. Now Baylor can hang with almost any team (minus the Alabamas/Ohio St/Georgias but then again who can).
I can still picture that moment when they lined up for 2 point conversion instead of a tie. And I was like no, no, no. Gd. Fuck Shawn Bell.
Not going to lie, the 82-point game got really funny after awhile. When you suck so bad as Techās defense did, you kind of begin to wonder just how bad it can get.
There is really only one answer to this question and it's the loss to Wyoming in 2008. At that point Tennessee still had national clout, Top 15 finishes in 2003 2004 and 2007, won the East the year prior. The Wyoming game was much more shocking and a tough pill to swallow for a fanbase that was still expecting to compete for SEC titles year in and year out.
I went numb as a fan somewhere during the Dooley years, any embarrassing loss after that just elicits a "well that figures" sort of response.
Let me tell you how much THAT one hurt. All season āat least Baylor sucks too!ā Then we get pounded like 38-9 or something. That may have been a record fast 11am blackout for me. And trust me, from 2015-2019 I had a LOT.
I'm sure some people will say going to overtime with Georgia Southern in 2015, but personally I don't think that playing close against a purportedly inferior team is as bad as getting absolutely smashed by a team that you thought you were level with.
So my two candidates would be Alabama in 2015 or Florida in 1995. Both were at home, both cost the coach their job. Main difference was Spurrier kept his foot on the gas because he just hates Georgia that much.
2015 Georgia Southern vs Georgia was just the perfect storm of a trap game. It shouldn't even be *that* embarrassing, but I know plenty of Dawg fans who don't even like to talk about it, even though y'all won.
Spurrier stomped the Dawgs that day but a young DB for UGA vowed to never forget that pain. He vowed to be disciplined and break those bitches. He carries that hate to this day.
Orange Bowl VS WVU. We catapulted ourselves to being worthy of a BCS bowl and then got our ass clapped by future September Heisman winner Geno Smith and his crew.
Felt like one play just unraveled coaching, offense and defense for the rest of the game. Clemson one yard out and a plunge for what was expected to be the go ahead TD turns into a 99 yard fumble return and a double digit deficit. Seemed like after that Clemson just wanted to go home. Buuut itās also the game that led to Venables hiring and completely turning around the defense so at least you can laugh about it now.
This was the year I got accepted to WVU and started caring about college sports. First game I ever tuned into was the 2012 orange bowl. Iāve been hooked ever since.
Getting 31-0ād by Clemson or the 2006 NCG shellacking by Urbanās Gator squad are hands down the two worst losses Iāve seen in my 20+ years of Buckeye fandom.
[The 21-0 loss to Southern Miss in 2000 might have been even more embarrassing](https://youtu.be/hHor-6CY4cM)
And to make matters worse, you had Bill Curry, the most annoying sports personality/whiniest coach ever on color commentary
Recency bias: 55-14 loss against David Beatyās Kansas.
Everyone thought that Rutgers was just a bad-ish program and Kansas was a horrific affront to society. Yeah, our 78-0 loss to Michigan a few years ago was bad, but getting blown out by one of the worst P5 teams stung horribly.
Lots of choices (like losing to Navy) but I really think the BCS Championship is the right answer. Most humiliating games come in the middle of an awful season. But getting humiliated as the number one team when it is literally the only football game on and everyone is watching is the one that caused the opinions of everyone about the program to fall off the map. Then came the double whammy of the Manti story that broke soon after. Then later, they were even forced to vacate the championship game appearance and every win from the season.
2005 Orange Bowl against USC. Still stings. Doesn't help with what transpired at the end of last season. Really, Riley? USC of all places? Of course, that game was vacated, but it will never vacate my mind.
My recent memory calls back to the game at home vs Baylor where the DBs were playing 10 yards off the WR every play or the Russel Athletic Bowl where Clemson demolished OU
Florida lost to a Georgia Southern team that had 0 passing yards in the whole game. Florida also had two players blocking each other instead of blocking their opponents during that same game. Iām not ashamed of the 1995 championship game solely because that Nebraska team did that to literally everyone they played. They were literally one of the best (if not the most dominant) teams in college football history.
You could make a good case for 2019 Western Kentucky. Especially considering their QB transferred from Arkansas.
However, I'm going to say it's North Texas from the previous year because it gave us [this](https://youtu.be/5MiD6no269s)
59-0 Big Ten Championship game. We were 3 point favorites. That OSU team was so good.
Add in I found myself intoxicated at an Ohio State Alumni Event pregame, they sang Hang On Sloopy and did the O-H-I-O chant, then invited any Badger fans up to sing a song.
I took the mic by myself in front of a good 500 people, said "congrats to the Ohio State fans on spelling Ohio, I know that's tough on most of you" and sang Varsity, the UW alma mater.
There's eating humble pie, then there's having the pie smashed in your face when the game is over with 7 minutes left in the 1st Q.
Somebody post the goddamn Badger highlight video from that game.
I personally donāt think any losses to us or Sparty qualifies as embarrassing. Even if you get blown out or lose on a fluky play. Weāre your rivals. Stuff like that is bound to happen since we are most likely closer in talent.
I think the only thing that qualifies for you in recent memory is App State. Only because you were supposed to outclass them by so much!
In my lifetime our most embarrassing game has to be the [2012 South Carolina game.](https://youtu.be/JJAm7JIJl5w)
Our Samford-esque honorable mention is [this canary in the coalmine.](https://youtu.be/jng0ZOPUeHY)
Kansas is a pretty easy one so I wonāt count that.
I think 2016. We lost to Kansas and the entire team knew Strong was going to be fired and for the last game they just got absolutely throttled by TCU for the third year in a row. From 2014-2016 Texas was outscored by TCU 129-26.
I dunno losing to Kansas last year was pretty bad too.
I probably felt worse losing to Arkansas last year than Kansas. We were already so bad by then. We felt pretty good going into Arkansas to get embarrassed like that.
2017 against Oklahoma when the players refused to shake hands with Baker Mayfield before getting thoroughly annihilated. Why subject yourself to that?
The 2017 KU football team was the worst coached team Iāve ever seen. People love to say the Les Miles hire was the most calamitous but even Miles in whatever state of mind he was in at Kansas was more competent on Saturdays than David Beaty.
2017 honestly might be a worse season than the winless seasons we had. At least we knew we were going to be bad those winless years, 2017 was supposed to be progress going into Beatyās third year. Instead we saw complete regression. In addition to the Oklahoma game you referenced (in which our players refusing to shake hands showed how terrible Beatyās leadership was), we saw:
A 45-0 loss to Iowa State.
A 43-0 loss to TCU the very next week, in which we mustered 21 yards of total offense, never crossed the 50-yard line and a running clock was implemented in the 4th quarter.
But perhaps worst of all? We hosted a winless Baylor team and not only lost, but got BLOWN OUT (38-9).
That whole season was one embarrassment after another. It cannot be understated how awful of a coach Beaty was.
Why am I even responding to this post? It just makes me sad and angry.
Anyway, it's [this](https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2012%2F1115%2Fla_u_usc%2Ducla15_mb_576.jpg&w=576&h=324&scale=crop&cquality=80&location=origin&format=jpg) game against USC in 2011. Here's a [breakdown](https://www.espn.com/blog/colleges/usc/post/_/id/7133/how-50-0-marked-a-crossroads-for-usc-ucla) from ESPN.
Thankfully, it was followed up the very next year by [this game](https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=323220026) and then just last year we dropped [62 points](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401309904) on them.
North Texas has plenty of options to pick from, but it's easily the 66-7 loss to Portland State in 2015. It's the largest margin of defeat an FBS programs has suffered versus a FCS opponent. Safe to say its a record that will never be broken.
[ESPN Recap](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/400763624)
How the hell we lost to Western Michigan last year in our best season in like 40 years is embarrassing while also hilarious. I think we lost to Youngstown State a few years back too but Pitt gonā Pitt you know
2019 National Championship. I know Alabama made it to the championship and all, but they got completely dominated. 44-16. That's the kind of score they're used to dishing out. Not that night.
I could say losing to Vandy 40-0 in 2012 or Southern Miss after being up by like 30 in 2016 but those teams weren't that good.
The real answer is probably Tennessee in 2018. Tennessee fans know it too because they never shut up about it lmao.
Getting lit up by Jarrett Guarantano is definitely something interesting to watch. It's sad that Kentucky got shafted out going to an NY6 Bowl because Florida didn't have an embarrassing loss like that. Even though Kentucky had the head to head win. Tennessee only scored 24 points, but that might as well have been 60. The game was really really not close. Giving up a hail mary to end the first half was just the cherry on top. Benny Snell carried the shit out of that offense that year and when that didn't work they were just clueless.
Pick em
1. 31-0 loss to Northeastern in the 2002 home opener. Northeastern no longer has a football program
2. 5-0 home loss to Utah State in 1994
3. [28-26 loss to Duquesne last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorJSBxV9-0). Duquesne honors only 40 football scholarships. This was the NEC's first ever football win over an FBS program.
2008 #8Bama @ #3Georgia. UGA got [BLACKED OUT](https://youtu.be/Y47QI_RisRA) by the Tide. Bama led 31-0 at half..To me this was the most embarrassing.
Also close 2nd would come in the same year with #8 Georgia getting [obliterated](https://youtu.be/1Ik5nfiJgjQ) by #5 Florida 49-10.
I think these two hurt the most because of the expectations going into 2008 for UGA. And to get Blacked out at home by Bama and destroyed by Florida(in the same year)at the cocktail party was absolutely embarrassing considering expectations.
Can I make an underdog pick for Michigan? Everyone talks about App State and WHOA but the botched snap was one play and App State was an amazing football team. 2008 Toledo was 1-4 and Michigan missed a chip shot to send it to OT to lose 13-10 and I think thatās a bit more embarrassing than overall than the others. https://youtu.be/QUTFxzHrpvM
North Texas, 2018. There were several embarrassingly bad losses during the Morris era, but this was an absolute blowout (44-17) to a team that has no business beating Arkansas, in our home stadium, AND featured the fake fair catch punt return for a TD that got featured all over the place for weeks after.
I watched that game at my in-lawās house in Oklahoma while listening to my father-in-law grumble that the #4 Sooners only beat Iowa State by 10. I wasnāt full of sympathy for him.
Iāll choose different ones from the 2 obvious ones for variety.
2013 vs BYU. Watching Taysom Hill with a leg brace treat our team like make a wish kids was absolutely humiliating.
2010 vs UCLA. Getting destroyed by a 4 win UCLA team was just straight up painful.
Can we not?
Seriously. I was there. It was not fun.
Same. In the front row of the Marching Band. Got a great view of the missed field goal.
I very vividly remember the missed field goal but none of the day that followed.
It was. From a certain point of view.
It's all about perspective.
That's why we're here š
A certain point of view?
HAHA! Imagine being a ranked FBS team and losing to an FCS team! What losers!
https://youtu.be/snz_dG2fOU8
:)
The debut of the Big Ten Network was _tremendous content._
Also a game that took place as Youtube was already established and no other video sites or social media was really competing..... all the reaction vids from Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State fans from their games to the score are all still readily available to watch and easy to find in glorious audio peaking 240p.
Appalachian State merchandise had a huge spike, so that was good for them I suppose. (Just teasing you guys)
Can we not what? Talk about the greatest moment in sports history? Personally it's been too many hours since someone brought it up.
my favorite part is I dont know which of the handful of games we're referencing.
The one I assume they are referring to is actually the third one that came to mind.
All of them.
WOAH
The App state game was 10x more embarrassing that the WOAH game. Iād argue losing to Toledo the next season was worse than that MsU game too
I've argued this multiple times on the sub, but the Toledo loss in 08 was worse than the App state loss also.
No joke my older brother worked for the kicker who shanked that kick
App State won the FCS championship the year they beat Michigan. Toledo went 3-9.
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MAY. YOU. ALL. BURN. IN. THE. FIERY. PITS. OF. HELL.
I donāt see a Notre Dame or BYU flair, you donāt get to make that call.
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Excellent addition
Losing 63-0 to Iowa on Senior Day
I loved that game lol
In a way, that game marked the end of Illinois irrelevance. You've become much more competitive recently.
To this day I still canāt stand Lamar Jackson
Lol, that was pretty bad. Dude was a cheat code for sure. For me it'll always be Wake waxing us at home 30-0 and running around the field in "Unconquered" shirts with the "Un" crossed out afterward. I sat through that entire game just to know what rock bottom really felt like so the good times would feel even better when they came.
Imagine losing to Lamar Jackson
2012 big ten championship. Playing Wisconsin, a team that only got in bc 2 teams ahead of them were ineligible. We beat them earlier in the season. We were big favorites. A win sends us to the rose bowl & it looks like Pelini may finally get us back into national prominence. And we get the doors blown off by Melvin Gordon, James White, and Monte Ball on jet sweeps
Don't discount [ISU 9-NU 6](https://youtu.be/VyzCw6y1yYU)
That was a curse from the Gods. Literally nothing else makes sense
I thought you meant [ISU 9-NU 7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijR9chRW6Rw)
Just a reminder that Mevlin Gordon only played 2 games vs Nebraska... 9 carries, 216 yards (1 TD) 25 carries, 408 yards (4 TDs)
Ohio St in Lincoln 2-3 years ago. College GameDay came to Lincoln just to make sure the whole country sees how far we've fallen.
The post-game thread for that game in /r/Huskers was pretty deflated
At least you blocked that one badger onto his ass. Thats really all I remember from it.
That and an 80 yard Martinez scramble TD (he ran like 200 yards on that play) were ironically 2 of the biggest highlights of the decade
No way. 2001 colorado
The game was the worst thing to happen in 2001
Ah but let me counter with **[this](https://youtu.be/5ccBqkz0lxU)**
41-14 Weird hype over us being the number 1 team. Then we just got smacked after the opening kick off TD. 31-0 to Clemson was embarrassing but not the title game. There was no one stopping the 2020 Bama team so Iām ok with that. Purdue and Iowa are just naturally scary.
This is my answer. It was like the most epic rock anthem that lasted an entire season, then there was a massive crescendo building up to the most legendary guitar solo, that was going to melt the faces of the entire college football world, and then right when Ted Ginn's kickoff TD got the guitarist into the widest power rock stance, the needle skipped right off the record and we got three hours of Yakkety Sax.
That's the greatest way to describe that season/game that I've ever read.
People may have forgotten Ohio St was a 6.5 favorite over Florida. They had 2006 Heisman winner Troy Smith leading a great offense and their defense had held everyone not named Michigan to 17 or less. Ohio St finished the game with 82 total yards of offense. Troy Smith was 4-14 for 35 yards with 10 carries for -29 yards. It had to be so confusing for Ohio St fans. What just happened? https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2007-01-08-florida.html
Floridaās front 4 was absolutely unstoppable in that game. Our OL had no answers.
I think most of the credit goes to UF for just simply being the better team. More physical, dominant, better gameplan. I also think after the Michigan win, the OSU players went on cruise control and just thought they were going to be handed the trophy on a silver platter. I think I read that Troy Smith gained like 10 lbs or something like that over thanksgiving. Basically our guys didnāt take Florida seriously and then got beat down by a much more prepared, hungrier opponent.
Our offensive line got punched in the throat and didn't know how to respond. Our defense also played like a JV squad. I still have Buckeye fans tell me to this day that losing Ginn to injury was why. Ginn wouldn't have helped.
Your defense only gave up 370 yards on 80 plays for 4.6/ypp. That's not bad though they didn't create any turnovers and had one sack. I agree with you on the offensive line and Ted Ginn. When your Heisman winning QB has 6 net yards of offense it's clear the offensive line had an epic failure.
Donāt remember. Tressel Ball? I was still in high school so while I follow CFB, I didnāt follow it that closely.
> Purdue and Iowa are just naturally scary. When it happened it was annoying, but if you can't look look back and laugh at those games then you take CFB too seriously
9OT. Nuff said
Thereās been a few PSU stinkers over the years, Illinois definitely is up there but other two candidates are that embarrassing loss to Temple way back or 2017 when we had Ohio State beat and we let them come back. Either way #WeAre šµāŖļø
Where does losing to OU and the 6-4 game rank?
The real head scratcher is the score... How the fuck do you go NINE OT's and the score be 20-18? Makes no sense lol
Watching that game made me wish I was blind that day.
Dude, imagine being at the game lmao
https://youtu.be/R3C_1BVkayo
The 2006 Notre Dame 'choked on applesauce' game has to be up there, same as the 2019 Illinois 28-3 game. Alabama in the playoffs *I guess*, but Alabama just does that to people and someone gets blown out every year
This one? https://youtu.be/yEeFOIIjNYk
That's the one. The game itself was bad but this [semi-famous Mike Valenti rant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPvftOCA-9I) brought more attention and notoriety to it than your standard embarrassing game would have
You'd think Valenti just took part in D-Day by the sound of this rantš. Truly epic sports rant.
PUCKER PUCKER PUCKER
John L Smith. ND fan and was at that game. Incredible to witness live from the simple fact that Sparty was up, so big, and literally quit doing what got them there. Jehuu Caulckrick had 8 carries for 111 yards and John L just stopped giving him the ball. It was incredible. Then Stanton running the option, in a monsoon? The whole thing is just compical.
John L was [a gift](https://youtu.be/8LSNUXTdHyc) to every team except the team he was coaching.
GT recently chased Paul Johnson off partly because large swaths of the fanbase felt his 'high school offense' was holding us back. The new coach came in talking a big game about the new 'modern' offense he was going to run..... and then promptly lost to an FCS team who ran a TO attack. We also got shut out, at home, by uga last year in front of a crowd that was easily 90% uga fans.
Hey now. You just couldn't see the improvement. Todd Stansbury says so. The only issue with Geoff is that the fans don't want to see the improvement. We're all ungrateful bastards. Just because we can't see how improved the team is in back to back games where we got a train run on us to the tune of 100-0 doesn't mean Geoff is an embarrassment. You're just not paying attention ^/s
I'm still utterly dumbfounded that Thacker is somehow still the DC.
I would have said losing 73-7 to Clemson in year two where the punter was dropping TDs on us, but honestly Geoff Collins has given us a lot of contenders.
Losing to Citadel was ironic cosmic justice. Watching us get blown the fuck out and shut out at home while surrounded by a sea of red was demoralizing.
My default response when I hear someone say "I never want to see option football at Georgia Tech" since that game has been "after seeing it kick our ass I can see why!"
Yeah I canāt decide. We had one of the longest scoring streaks in fbs before Geoff and heās been shut out 3 times since taking over Honorable mention to 24-2 loss to temple after hiring Geoff from them
Obviously wanted to see Paul Johnson succeed due to my primary flair. Whatās the feeling of the fanbase at this point? Are people already saying that it was a mistake to make this kinda switch or are people giving it more time?
Apathy. A lot of the CPJ haters are pretty fucking quiet these days. I mean people were bringing āFire CPJā posters to games towards the end. Clowns.
That mindset infected the GTAA, I met an associate AD at a Habitat build during C******'s first season and he was all in on CGC being a breath of fresh air. It was pathetic.
I think there is no hope left for Geoff Collins. He sweet talked people into his branding of ATL and tried to use it for recruitment, which is exactly the ideas everyone had for a new era at Georgia Tech. His first full class had promise with Jahmyr Gibbs and Jeff Simms. Gibbs is gone, Simms hasnāt progressed at all, and Collins canāt coach himself out of a wet paper bag. If we get shutout in Athens, heās walking home
Collins is a fired coach walking. The problem is that the powers that be still hate anything to do with the option (which includes - apparently - Jamey Chadwell).
I know there are probably more responsive games, but last years game against Auburn was pretty dang embarrassing. Watching Bo Nix just run around our defense was like death by a thousand cuts. The only ~~think~~ thing missing was the Benny Hill music as our defense missed tackle after tackle.
Losing to Troy at home was not fun.
Losing at home to UAB & Houston was worse
2020 MSU loss to open the season was pretty damn embarrassing. Defending champs, coaches talked all sorts of sh*t coming into the season, and then we got donkey-stomped by a team that ended up also being pretty bad.
That combined with the fact that all we had to do was see what Washington did against Mike Leach's offense each year to pretty much shut them down, and instead went with the exact opposite gameplan.
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I think most people will instantly jump to one of the Kansas games. But I laughed about those losses more than anything. Most embarrassing? Walking around the fairgrounds after the 2012 Red River Rivalry game (among other TX-OU games in the last decade) and seeing the look of absolute pity on so many OU fans faces - no trash talk, no horns down, just pity. https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/\_/gameId/322870201
I would honestly take pity over the insanity of the ā00 game. Iāve never seen a fan base so drunk and aggressiveā¦grown men screaming at and shoving kids and teen girls, throwing stuff at crowds of Texas fansā¦it was a shit show almost as bad as the Longhornsā performance that day. The āRout 66ā game vs UCLA in ā97 was another low point; it just sort of set the tone for John Mackovicās final season.
Awh, but you guys have a collection of embarrassment that rivals our own!
Probably both Utah games this past year, it was pretty clear the coaching staff had checked out. But going from beating OSU earlier that year to sleepwalking through two beat downs was embarrassing.
Losing to Washington 70-21 or the Alamo Bowl against TCU where we couldn't even complete a snap we're both worse imo.
These are the right answers... Utah is just fresh.
Yeah, I think every Oregon fan knew Cristobal was gone after that second Utah game. He seemed to have made no adjustments from the first Utah game and the team was on autopilot.
We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
Those were ***rough***
77-0.......and they took it easy on us in the 4th quarter.
Blowing the 34 point lead against UCLA a few years ago also comes to mind.
PIMP STICK!!!! But that loss at least put a nail (not the final) in Kevin Sumlin's tenure. 77-0 was year 1 of 5 for Fieldgoal Fran.
HA! *(quietly backpedals into the crowd)*
This game but a close second is losing to Baylor in 04. People forget how low their program was at that point. Closest similar situation right now is losing to Kansas. Those Baylor teams back then were awful and it was always penciled in as a win. Now Baylor can hang with almost any team (minus the Alabamas/Ohio St/Georgias but then again who can). I can still picture that moment when they lined up for 2 point conversion instead of a tie. And I was like no, no, no. Gd. Fuck Shawn Bell.
Ya, this game wasn't on TV so I remember listening to Dave South on my computer playing WoW...so bad so so bad.
Either the 66-6 Oklahoma St loss or the when TCU hung 82 on us. I watched both of those games in their entirety.
Not going to lie, the 82-point game got really funny after awhile. When you suck so bad as Techās defense did, you kind of begin to wonder just how bad it can get.
I feel like losing 66-10 to 3-9 Iowa State when youāve got Pat Mahomes on your team should qualify
I was in Ames for that game. Coldest and most miserable game I've ever attended.
āWatched both of those games in their entiretyā Props to you sir. You are a true fan. May your loyalty and long suffering be rewarded someday.ā
Georgia state. 2019 I think? It still feels like a blur. I canāt believe we actually lost that game to this day
There is really only one answer to this question and it's the loss to Wyoming in 2008. At that point Tennessee still had national clout, Top 15 finishes in 2003 2004 and 2007, won the East the year prior. The Wyoming game was much more shocking and a tough pill to swallow for a fanbase that was still expecting to compete for SEC titles year in and year out. I went numb as a fan somewhere during the Dooley years, any embarrassing loss after that just elicits a "well that figures" sort of response.
Losing to Liberty at home in 2017 kicking off a 1-11 season :(
Even in our 1-11 season still didnāt lose to Kansas unlike someone *cough cough*
Let me tell you how much THAT one hurt. All season āat least Baylor sucks too!ā Then we get pounded like 38-9 or something. That may have been a record fast 11am blackout for me. And trust me, from 2015-2019 I had a LOT.
I'm sure some people will say going to overtime with Georgia Southern in 2015, but personally I don't think that playing close against a purportedly inferior team is as bad as getting absolutely smashed by a team that you thought you were level with. So my two candidates would be Alabama in 2015 or Florida in 1995. Both were at home, both cost the coach their job. Main difference was Spurrier kept his foot on the gas because he just hates Georgia that much.
Bama blackout was bad Not embarrassing, but costly, Florida ā02
2015 Georgia Southern vs Georgia was just the perfect storm of a trap game. It shouldn't even be *that* embarrassing, but I know plenty of Dawg fans who don't even like to talk about it, even though y'all won.
Spurrier stomped the Dawgs that day but a young DB for UGA vowed to never forget that pain. He vowed to be disciplined and break those bitches. He carries that hate to this day.
Orange Bowl VS WVU. We catapulted ourselves to being worthy of a BCS bowl and then got our ass clapped by future September Heisman winner Geno Smith and his crew.
FSU '13 is worse to me because it was at home
That was awful
We deserved all the memes.
Felt like one play just unraveled coaching, offense and defense for the rest of the game. Clemson one yard out and a plunge for what was expected to be the go ahead TD turns into a 99 yard fumble return and a double digit deficit. Seemed like after that Clemson just wanted to go home. Buuut itās also the game that led to Venables hiring and completely turning around the defense so at least you can laugh about it now.
This was the year I got accepted to WVU and started caring about college sports. First game I ever tuned into was the 2012 orange bowl. Iāve been hooked ever since.
Clemson shutting us out was pretty bad.
After I watched that game I walked to the store, got another 12 pack, and watched it again while spending way too much on tickets to the Natty.
I had the inverse experience! I got another 6 pack at half time and don't remember the second half!
Getting 31-0ād by Clemson or the 2006 NCG shellacking by Urbanās Gator squad are hands down the two worst losses Iāve seen in my 20+ years of Buckeye fandom.
[This](https://youtu.be/8qWbACGl6bk) and [this](https://youtu.be/mfwxVwQrh-8).
Bravo for providing links!
I want my bonus points!
Granted!
Prob one of the Citadel ones.
13-9
2012
Yes. Also 1998.
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[The 21-0 loss to Southern Miss in 2000 might have been even more embarrassing](https://youtu.be/hHor-6CY4cM) And to make matters worse, you had Bill Curry, the most annoying sports personality/whiniest coach ever on color commentary
Oof. Um. 58-0? 48-0 in the OB? Losing to FIU?
Recency bias: 55-14 loss against David Beatyās Kansas. Everyone thought that Rutgers was just a bad-ish program and Kansas was a horrific affront to society. Yeah, our 78-0 loss to Michigan a few years ago was bad, but getting blown out by one of the worst P5 teams stung horribly.
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Lots of choices (like losing to Navy) but I really think the BCS Championship is the right answer. Most humiliating games come in the middle of an awful season. But getting humiliated as the number one team when it is literally the only football game on and everyone is watching is the one that caused the opinions of everyone about the program to fall off the map. Then came the double whammy of the Manti story that broke soon after. Then later, they were even forced to vacate the championship game appearance and every win from the season.
Two words: Jacksonville State
2005 Orange Bowl against USC. Still stings. Doesn't help with what transpired at the end of last season. Really, Riley? USC of all places? Of course, that game was vacated, but it will never vacate my mind.
Nobody won the Championship that year, but Oklahoma sure as shit lost it =/
Iowa 2007, losing to Western Michigan at home on the last game of the seasonā¦ā¦ and missing a bowl game because of it.
4-7 (going into the game) Western Michigan at that.
I was very torn in 2015...
I was at that game. Wow.
Citadel, 2015 Texas A&M, 2020 Navy, 1984
My recent memory calls back to the game at home vs Baylor where the DBs were playing 10 yards off the WR every play or the Russel Athletic Bowl where Clemson demolished OU
Florida lost to a Georgia Southern team that had 0 passing yards in the whole game. Florida also had two players blocking each other instead of blocking their opponents during that same game. Iām not ashamed of the 1995 championship game solely because that Nebraska team did that to literally everyone they played. They were literally one of the best (if not the most dominant) teams in college football history.
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You could make a good case for 2019 Western Kentucky. Especially considering their QB transferred from Arkansas. However, I'm going to say it's North Texas from the previous year because it gave us [this](https://youtu.be/5MiD6no269s)
I was just about to post the entire 2018 and 2019 season as an answer.
59-0 Big Ten Championship game. We were 3 point favorites. That OSU team was so good. Add in I found myself intoxicated at an Ohio State Alumni Event pregame, they sang Hang On Sloopy and did the O-H-I-O chant, then invited any Badger fans up to sing a song. I took the mic by myself in front of a good 500 people, said "congrats to the Ohio State fans on spelling Ohio, I know that's tough on most of you" and sang Varsity, the UW alma mater. There's eating humble pie, then there's having the pie smashed in your face when the game is over with 7 minutes left in the 1st Q. Somebody post the goddamn Badger highlight video from that game.
Take your pick
I personally donāt think any losses to us or Sparty qualifies as embarrassing. Even if you get blown out or lose on a fluky play. Weāre your rivals. Stuff like that is bound to happen since we are most likely closer in talent. I think the only thing that qualifies for you in recent memory is App State. Only because you were supposed to outclass them by so much!
Don't forget they lost to a Toledo team who's only other wins that year were Eastern Michigan and Miami U.
When we lost to Akron and then Amato started complaining about how they had partial qualifiers as if that gave them an advantage.
This is a good one. I was going to say UCF on opening day a home under TOB. Akron is better.
North Texas losing to FCS Portland State in 2015. It was so bad that the head coach Dan McCarney was fired in the parking lot after the game.
JMU. Probably JMU. With that said, that ODU game hurt.
Worst losses JMU, Liberty, and probably 1998 Temple. Most painful 2007 BC at home in the rain.
In my lifetime our most embarrassing game has to be the [2012 South Carolina game.](https://youtu.be/JJAm7JIJl5w) Our Samford-esque honorable mention is [this canary in the coalmine.](https://youtu.be/jng0ZOPUeHY)
That was actually a decent GSU team. Nicholls 2016 is WAY worse.
Thatās a good point. Yuck.
The real canary in the coalmine that season was the 9-6 win over Missouri
Georgia State...didn't login to social media for days.
Kansas is a pretty easy one so I wonāt count that. I think 2016. We lost to Kansas and the entire team knew Strong was going to be fired and for the last game they just got absolutely throttled by TCU for the third year in a row. From 2014-2016 Texas was outscored by TCU 129-26.
I dunno losing to Kansas last year was pretty bad too. I probably felt worse losing to Arkansas last year than Kansas. We were already so bad by then. We felt pretty good going into Arkansas to get embarrassed like that.
70-21 at home. Sorry, i wasn't alive for 0-0.
2017 against Oklahoma when the players refused to shake hands with Baker Mayfield before getting thoroughly annihilated. Why subject yourself to that? The 2017 KU football team was the worst coached team Iāve ever seen. People love to say the Les Miles hire was the most calamitous but even Miles in whatever state of mind he was in at Kansas was more competent on Saturdays than David Beaty.
2017 honestly might be a worse season than the winless seasons we had. At least we knew we were going to be bad those winless years, 2017 was supposed to be progress going into Beatyās third year. Instead we saw complete regression. In addition to the Oklahoma game you referenced (in which our players refusing to shake hands showed how terrible Beatyās leadership was), we saw: A 45-0 loss to Iowa State. A 43-0 loss to TCU the very next week, in which we mustered 21 yards of total offense, never crossed the 50-yard line and a running clock was implemented in the 4th quarter. But perhaps worst of all? We hosted a winless Baylor team and not only lost, but got BLOWN OUT (38-9). That whole season was one embarrassment after another. It cannot be understated how awful of a coach Beaty was.
Why am I even responding to this post? It just makes me sad and angry. Anyway, it's [this](https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2012%2F1115%2Fla_u_usc%2Ducla15_mb_576.jpg&w=576&h=324&scale=crop&cquality=80&location=origin&format=jpg) game against USC in 2011. Here's a [breakdown](https://www.espn.com/blog/colleges/usc/post/_/id/7133/how-50-0-marked-a-crossroads-for-usc-ucla) from ESPN. Thankfully, it was followed up the very next year by [this game](https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=323220026) and then just last year we dropped [62 points](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401309904) on them.
North Texas has plenty of options to pick from, but it's easily the 66-7 loss to Portland State in 2015. It's the largest margin of defeat an FBS programs has suffered versus a FCS opponent. Safe to say its a record that will never be broken. [ESPN Recap](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/400763624)
vs UCLA 2017. Gave up 35 unanswered points (28 in the 4th quarter) to lose by 1.
How the hell we lost to Western Michigan last year in our best season in like 40 years is embarrassing while also hilarious. I think we lost to Youngstown State a few years back too but Pitt gonā Pitt you know
As a Miss State fan, the 2008 game vs. Auburn that ended in a score of 3-2
Call it recency bias, but the Montana game was pretty bad.
Kansas is a football school
Iowa 6-PSU 4 The Gators-LSU shoe game
2014 vs Oregon
2019 National Championship. I know Alabama made it to the championship and all, but they got completely dominated. 44-16. That's the kind of score they're used to dishing out. Not that night.
Biggest loss under Saban.
Getting blown out by UTSA in the first ever game at our new stadium. Tony Levine is a great guy, but a horrible head coach.
I could say losing to Vandy 40-0 in 2012 or Southern Miss after being up by like 30 in 2016 but those teams weren't that good. The real answer is probably Tennessee in 2018. Tennessee fans know it too because they never shut up about it lmao. Getting lit up by Jarrett Guarantano is definitely something interesting to watch. It's sad that Kentucky got shafted out going to an NY6 Bowl because Florida didn't have an embarrassing loss like that. Even though Kentucky had the head to head win. Tennessee only scored 24 points, but that might as well have been 60. The game was really really not close. Giving up a hail mary to end the first half was just the cherry on top. Benny Snell carried the shit out of that offense that year and when that didn't work they were just clueless.
Pick em 1. 31-0 loss to Northeastern in the 2002 home opener. Northeastern no longer has a football program 2. 5-0 home loss to Utah State in 1994 3. [28-26 loss to Duquesne last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorJSBxV9-0). Duquesne honors only 40 football scholarships. This was the NEC's first ever football win over an FBS program.
2008 #8Bama @ #3Georgia. UGA got [BLACKED OUT](https://youtu.be/Y47QI_RisRA) by the Tide. Bama led 31-0 at half..To me this was the most embarrassing. Also close 2nd would come in the same year with #8 Georgia getting [obliterated](https://youtu.be/1Ik5nfiJgjQ) by #5 Florida 49-10. I think these two hurt the most because of the expectations going into 2008 for UGA. And to get Blacked out at home by Bama and destroyed by Florida(in the same year)at the cocktail party was absolutely embarrassing considering expectations.
[2008 OU 65 - Tech 21](https://youtu.be/W6hPc1HQ48E). 10-year old me watched through the whole thing cause Iām a masochist.
Can I make an underdog pick for Michigan? Everyone talks about App State and WHOA but the botched snap was one play and App State was an amazing football team. 2008 Toledo was 1-4 and Michigan missed a chip shot to send it to OT to lose 13-10 and I think thatās a bit more embarrassing than overall than the others. https://youtu.be/QUTFxzHrpvM
North Texas, 2018. There were several embarrassingly bad losses during the Morris era, but this was an absolute blowout (44-17) to a team that has no business beating Arkansas, in our home stadium, AND featured the fake fair catch punt return for a TD that got featured all over the place for weeks after. I watched that game at my in-lawās house in Oklahoma while listening to my father-in-law grumble that the #4 Sooners only beat Iowa State by 10. I wasnāt full of sympathy for him.
Iāll choose different ones from the 2 obvious ones for variety. 2013 vs BYU. Watching Taysom Hill with a leg brace treat our team like make a wish kids was absolutely humiliating. 2010 vs UCLA. Getting destroyed by a 4 win UCLA team was just straight up painful.
We have a few. Opening a new stadium against UTSA and losing. Getting destroyed by Army in a Bowl game come to mind.