re: The Fulmer Cup origin

:banghead: son of a bitch. I've spent the last 25 minutes writing a thread titled "SEC WHAT IF: Stoerner doesn't fumble"

Did a nice analysis of the game, the situation, the stakes, linked a bunch of videos of the play, the last drive, and of Stoerner explaining it in his words a year ago.

f'n wikipedia made explorer crash and it's gone. SOB!!! Goddamnit!


The jewel of the OP was the results. If Stoerner doesn't fumble and Arkansas converts the first down we likely run the clock out for the win. Tenner doesn't win the crystal ball, the loss deflates the entire program and Fulmer is fired by 2002. UT hires Saban away from LSU, LSU never wins in 2003. LSU hires Houston Nutt away from Arkansas like they almost did in 1999 and 2005. Arkansas hires Tommy Tuberville and wins multiple NC's with McFadden, Jones, and Hillis in the backfield led by Bobby Petrino's offense. Auburn then hires a nobody and Alabama is forced to keep Mike Price and both of the schools go on NCAA penalties for years.

In 1998, after beating UT Arkansas would have gone up to #6 in the polls, beaten MSU the next week, still killed LSU in LR like they did in '98 41-14. UCLA would have been #1, and beaten by Miami in the last week of the season. FSU goes to #1, Kstate #2, Ohio St. #3-5, Arky #4-5. In the SEC champ game, if Arky would have won again we would have jumped tOSU and gotten in the title game, where who knows we might have beaten FSU, but it's a bowl game so we probably would have been killed.