re: What is your school's longest losing streak in football?

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Unreal - it's almost like he tried to be terrible.

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It was a sort of weird situation all around. Drew had faltered a little and resigned. But he stayed as track coach and Assistant AD. The AD was Hank Crisp who eased Drew out and hired Whitworth -- who had played at Alabama and was an asst.

One glitch was even though Alabama had struggled under Drew at the end of his tenure, all of Drew's assistant's stayed -- including Crisp who not only was AD, but line coach. (Can you imagine Saban's OL coach being the AD?)

That doesn't explain 0-10 for a minute, but Whitworth was curiously handcuffed for his tenure,too.

Messed up the years, 9-1-1 in 1965, 11-0 in 1966.

UGA has had 1 HBC with a losing record since 1909, We've only had 11 HBC's in 115 years, Smart will be # 12...

'10-'19... W.A. Cunningham...43-18-9

'20-'22...Herman Stegeman...20-6-3

'23-'27... George Woodruff...30-16-1

'28-'37... Harry Mehre...59-34-6

'38...Joel Hunt... 5-4-1

'39-'60... Wally Butts...140-86-9

'61-'63... Johnny Griffith...10-16-4

'64-'88... Vince Dooley... 201-77-10

'89-'95... Ray Goff... 46-34-1

'96-'00... Jim Donnan... 40-19

'01-'15...Mark Richt...140-48

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Just watched the flea-flicker on YouTube........holy lawd that receivers knees were down before he pitched the ball hahahaha

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I was at the season opener in Athens in the rain when UT started their 0-6 streak in 1988. Interesting story...during their bye week UT hired a new DC (Doug Mathews) and switched from a 3-4 to a 4-3...they won 5 of their last 6 with their only loss being to Bama and went 11-1 the following season.

ETA...link to highlights of the game...and remembering that the rain stopped about when the game started.

Georgia vs Tennessee Highlights 1988

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He was the line coach at Georgia in 1959 under Wally Butts.

He also coached baseball at Georgia in 1943..........and went 1-10.

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Just couldn't learn could they?

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This is why Ears Whitworth is the worst coach of all time. Bama was a GOAT before him in the 20s, 30s, and 40s

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Oh come on... Bama was probably the greatest program in the South during the '20s, '30s, and 40s, but Tennessee at least should be in the discussion. But the obvious King of that era was Notre Dame. Everyone knows that.

NCAA recognized National Titles from 1920-1949:

7- Notre Dame
5- Minnesota
3- Michigan
3- California
3- Alabama
2- Army
2- USC

The Irish also claim the 1919 MNC, the year before the mentioned time frame began.

Bama was the regional power in those days.... slightly better than the other top programs in the region, Tennessee, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech et. al. Most of Bama's games were against these programs as well as other teams located in the South.

But Notre Dame was the big National name in college football in that day. They not only played teams in the Midwest, but ventured out to play other top tier programs from all over the country.... they played Army (from the Northeast) 28 times during these 30 years.... they played Georgia Tech (The South) 16 times during these 30 years... and they played USC (West Coast) 21 times during these 30 years.

There is no doubt the Irish were THE program of that era. No one else was close.

Read my post again

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a GOAT

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"a" not "the"

You wasted a lot of effort

USM - 23 game losing streak from 2012-13 It came off the heels of a 12-2 season with a conference championship and a win in the Hawaii bowl. Went from the peak to the valley real fast.

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You might also mention that our 85 Sugar Bowl win over Miami prevented them from claiming at least a share of the MNC.

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I don't think they would have shared it if they won...since they beat Oklahoma in week 4 and Oklahoma beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl...Miami probably would have been the outright MNC that year.