re: Which Big 6 coach had the worst first year loss?

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then the most out of the blue win of the last 30 years in beating the shite out of a solid Tennessee team

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Tennessee was a Jekyll and Hyde team themselves that year especially on the road. They went to Berkeley and Cal hung 45 on them, they went to Gainesville and Florida hung 59 on them, and went to Tuscaloosa and Bama hung 41 on them. In Knoxville though, they beat UGA by 3 TDs and UGA was considered playing the best ball in the nation by season's end and beat Arkansas by 3 TDs when they had McFadden and Felix Jones.

I think we forget that in 2007 it was just a weird year of CFB all across the nation. USC lost at home as 41 point favorites to Stanford, WVU was upset by Pitt with a backup QB. Michigan started off the season #5, then lost to App St, then Oregon and Dennis Dixon ran a train on them, then they rattled off 8 wins in a row including Penn St before losing to Juice Williams and Illinois and then Ohio State to end the year.

I think you can take any team that year and you can find weird peaks and valleys in their seasons. It's still the strangest year of CFB I've ever witnessed.