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Your Team's Worst Mid-Season Collapse and Best Mid-Season Recovery?
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:15 am
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:15 am
What is the worst example of your team looking great at mid-season and then folding like a cheap tent? Conversely, what's the best example of turning what looked like a disaster around and having a good season?
For Auburn, 2014 would be a good choice for worst, but I think 2001: 6-1, having beaten #1 UF, and then losing 4 of 5 including a IB thrashing and a bowl loss to fricking UNC.
Best turnaround was 2002: 4-3, losing in OT to a mediocre UF team, then destroying a top 10 LSU team and losing only once (the 4th and 15 game to UGA)the rest of the year.
For Auburn, 2014 would be a good choice for worst, but I think 2001: 6-1, having beaten #1 UF, and then losing 4 of 5 including a IB thrashing and a bowl loss to fricking UNC.
Best turnaround was 2002: 4-3, losing in OT to a mediocre UF team, then destroying a top 10 LSU team and losing only once (the 4th and 15 game to UGA)the rest of the year.
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Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:16 am to BammerDelendaEst
Best turn around was probably last season. Worst collapse, I have no idea.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:18 am to BammerDelendaEst
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Best Mid-Season Recovery?
2007. We were 4-2 and ranked 24th coming off a bad loss to UT and were on the ropes against frickin vandy. They were driving late to beat us in nashville when we caused a fumble which we recovered to hang on to the win. Little did anyone know that was just the start.
Next game we beat Tebow and UF by 2 touchdowns. Beat troy, beat the shite out of auburn in the blackout, beat kentucky, beat tech, then throttled hawaii in the sugar bowl to finish #2 in the country.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:22 am to BammerDelendaEst
I don't know if I'd call it a mid-season collapse - but more of a bubble that popped that we knew was probably coming in 2007. Least talented Bama team in 40 years started the season 6-2 with an overtime loss to UGA and a close loss to FSU. Beat the brakes off of UT and lost to eventual champion LSU the next week in the last few seconds of the game. Went on to finish the season 1-4 following that win over UT.
This post was edited on 5/8/15 at 8:23 am
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:24 am to BammerDelendaEst
Cats Collapses (both are recent!):
Football 2014 (not as bad much much more painful was the 2007 collapse)
Basketball 2012-13
Football 2014 (not as bad much much more painful was the 2007 collapse)
Basketball 2012-13
This post was edited on 5/8/15 at 8:26 am
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:26 am to LegendOfCobb
So far for LSU It's this years softball team collapsing. Baseball in 2008 was struggling then won 23ish straight. There are others but baseball is in my mind.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:28 am to BammerDelendaEst
In recent years it'd have to be 2013 for UGA. Lost the opener to Clemson then beat two top 5 squads (South Carolina and LSU) to move into the top 5 ourselves. Then the game at Tennessee happened. We were fortunate to escape with an OT victory, but lost 3 or 4 players to season ending ACL injuries.
Down the stretch we would lose to Mizzou, Vandy, and Auburn to close the season on a disappointing note.
The collapse definitely can't just be blamed on the injuries obviously. Our defense was atrocious.
Down the stretch we would lose to Mizzou, Vandy, and Auburn to close the season on a disappointing note.
The collapse definitely can't just be blamed on the injuries obviously. Our defense was atrocious.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:32 am to NOSTRODAMUS
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So far for LSU It's this years softball team collapsing
1998 football. #6 in the country and national title aspirations after week 4...then we all saw Lou tepper drive that dream into the ground.
If you want to talk baseball collapses, look no further than 2010. Started the season 32-6, finished 9-16, didn't make it out of regional in Los Angeles
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:33 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Best turn around was probably last season.
Really? I know you started 3-5 and finished 7-6 but that's only because your schedule was front loaded. After the 3-5 start, Tennessee beat South Carolina (7-6) in OT, Kentucky (5-7), Vandy (3-9), and Iowa (7-6). The only good team Tenn played after the 3-5 start was Mizzou and Tenn lost that at home.
This post was edited on 5/8/15 at 8:35 am
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:35 am to elposter
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The only good team Tenn played after the 3-5 start was Mizzou and Tenn lost that at home.
well Tennessee wasn't a good team last year, so a 4-1 finish after a 3-5 start was actually a great turn around for them
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:38 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Worst collapse, I have no idea.
2005. Beat #3 LSU at home in OT, were in the top 10 and 3-1, then lost 4 straight games and finished the season 5-7, including a loss to Vanderbilt for the first time in 22 years
Posted on 5/8/15 at 8:56 am to BammerDelendaEst
In '10 A&M started 3-3 (0-2) with losses to OSU, Miz, & Ark in a row, but then went on a run of 6 straight with wins including beating OU (top 10), BU (Heisman RG3), NU (top 10), and @tu (rival). We finished that season 9-3 with a trip to the Cotton Bowl and the Butkus & Lou Groza Award Winners... and I'll just leave it at that.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:01 am to elposter
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Really? I know you started 3-5 and finished 7-6 but that's only because your schedule was front loaded. After the 3-5 start, Tennessee beat South Carolina (7-6) in OT, Kentucky (5-7), Vandy (3-9), and Iowa (7-6). The only good team Tenn played after the 3-5 start was Mizzou and Tenn lost that at home.
I consider it a good turnaround to finish 4-1 after starting 3-5 with embarrassing losses to Bama and Ole Miss. Especially considering the previous years under Dooley when the team would just quit midway through the season.
I also think the outcome of the Mizzou game would have been different if we didn’t have to replace our only All American and team captain with a true freshmen who had only been playing American football for 2 years 3 days before the game, because AJ had to go and be all rapey and shite, Allegedly.
Mizzou fans will argue, but trying to replace AJ at that point is like trying to replace a Gerry Bertier, you cannot replace a Gerry Bertier.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:01 am to Farmer1906
Our worst collapse was going 5 - 0 to start last season and then losing every game from there on out. 
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:03 am to lsufball19
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2005. Beat #3 LSU at home in OT, were in the top 10 and 3-1, then lost 4 straight games and finished the season 5-7, including a loss to Vanderbilt for the first time in 22 years
Bingo. I don't know why that slipped my mind. You, you're good you.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:07 am to BammerDelendaEst
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Best Mid-Season Recovery?
For football I'd say LSU in 2001. Was sitting 4-3 (2-3 SEC) at the end of October. Ended up winning the final 4 games of the regular season to win the West. Then upset #2 Tennessee in Atlanta and went on to hammer Illinois in the Sugar Bowl to finish the season in the top 10.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:09 am to Vols&Shaft83
I still don't know how LSU lost that game. We throttled yall in the first half. Maybe emotional drainage after Katrina and Rita?
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:12 am to BammerDelendaEst
Gotta go 1990 for AU. After beating a superior FSU team in one of the top 10 games in Jordan Hare history, AU was undefeated (1 tie to a very good UT team) and poised to move into the #1 spot in the AP poll with a win over Florida.
Spurrier went beserk in his coming out party with the Fun n Gun and handed Pat Dye the worst loss of his AU tenure.
Total collapse afterwards ending unranked and losing to a bad Bama team.
Spurrier went beserk in his coming out party with the Fun n Gun and handed Pat Dye the worst loss of his AU tenure.
Total collapse afterwards ending unranked and losing to a bad Bama team.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:12 am to geauxnavybeatbama
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still don't know how LSU lost that game. We throttled yall in the first half. Maybe emotional drainage after Katrina and Rita?
I don't know either. But Gerald Riggs WOULD. NOT. BE. DENIED. , then your fans flipped over one of our busses.
I think. Maybe they just threw beer bottles at the bus.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 9:14 am to Vols&Shaft83
It was a rough couple days. Yall should've just laid down and let us win
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