re: Worst Games You've Witnessed in Your Team's Stadium

Georgia at Tennessee, 1973

Tennessee had a 31-28 lead and apparently was on its way to victory. But with 2:32 remaining and fourth down and 2 to go on the Tennessee 28, Coach Bill Battle elected to try for the first down. But fullback Steve Chancey was caught for a two-yard loss. Georgia quickly took advantage of the gift to win 35-31.

2007 LSU 41 Ole Miss 24. I stayed for the whole thing in the rain. Ed Orgeron would have the Golden Egg wrapped up in Starkville five days later when he decided to go for it on fourth down and hand Sylvester Croom an unexpected victory (we had a 14 point fourth quarter lead). First winless season in the SEC since 1982 for the Rebs. That Eggbowl featured the two dumbest coaches in modern SEC history. Ed had the nerve to complain about being fired after the game. However, he recruited well and allowed Houston Nutt to con the fan base into thinking he was something special the next year.

2016 UGA vs. Nicholls State - it was not extremely hot that day, maybe low to mid 90s, but it felt very hot. UGA pulled it out 26-24, so it was a win, but it sure didn’t feel like it. A lot of anxiety in the student section and the crowd in general.

2016 UGA vs. Vanderbilt - Same year. Wasn’t as hot but it was warm for October. UGA played terrible and lost 17-16 I think. At one point, we had a kickoff return where the returner caught the ball at the 1 yard line near the sideline and then fell out of bounds right after catching it. 4th and 1 at the end of the game, we ran a toss sweep with WR Isiah MacKenzie with Nick Chubb as the lead blocker. Head scratcher.

2019 UGA vs. South Carolina - Terrible game. Probably outgained South Carolina 2 to 1, but turned the ball over, missed field goals. Lost in overtime 20-17.

2016 Tennessee is an honorable mention, but even though it ended poorly for UGA it was a great game, and I didn’t want to include three games from the same season. 2016 GT also. There were some serious growing pains Kirby’s first season.

Ole Miss played LaTech in 1992 in a cold, November rain when the team was pretty bad. 22,500 turned out to watch a thrilling 13-6 Rebel victory.

2007 Arkansas vs. Ole Miss--Darren McFadden went nuts his senior year, Rebels lost 44-8.

2011 we lost the home opener in a classic Houston Nutt come-from=ahead defeat after a 4th quarter collapse, 14-13. The crowd was sullen leaving, knew it was over. It was the start of a 2-10 season, with Nutt's sorry 2 wins over Southern Illinois and Fresno State eventually vacated.

I present to you just about every game coached by Chad Morris at Arkansas. We weren't just beaten by North Texas and Western Kentucky... we were bombed by them. The games weren't even competitive.

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3. Texas A&M (2014). Lost 52-28. Launch of the SEC Network. South Carolina came in at #9 off of an 11-game winning season the year before. Kenny Hill proceeded to light SC up for 511 yards and 3 touchdowns. Broke an 18- game home winning streak for South Carolina.

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I still remember talking about Kenny Trill that Friday

99 Auburn. My first game in Death Vally

This technically doesn’t qualify as a home stadium because the Iron Bowl was at Legion Field, but I was at the “Bo Over the Top” IB when Auburn drove the field with just a few minutes on the clock and won 23-22. Bear Bryant’s last Iron Bowl before he died.

South Carolina 65-39 at State in 1995.

It seemed more like 650-39.

That's not such a shocking score now, but in 1995 giving up 65 points in an SEC home game was obscene.

2008 Auburn at State
2008 egg bowl

That egg bowl yielded some of the best Jack Cristil quotes ever

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