re: What is your team's most epic collapse?

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None of you can even touch the Stoerner fumble in 1998. Hogs up on #1 TN in Knoxville. Just need to run out under 2 minutes.....you know the rest.

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Like hell we can't.

Iron Bowl, 1997. Bama is 4-6 and going home for Christmas. Auburn is 8-2 and going to Atlanta if they win the game and the game is in Auburn.

With :50 left in the game and the clock running, Bama has the ball 3rd and 8 on their own 35. Auburn has one timeout left. It is over. Bama has pulled one of the (maybe THE) biggest upsets in Iron Bowl history.

Just give the ball to Shaun Alexander. He either gets the first down or forces Auburn to use its last time out.

Well, that is what should have happened but Mike Dubose was walking the Bama sideline.

Bama calls a swing pass to Ed Scissom and didn't fool a damned soul. He catches it, gets immediately hit, and fumbles. Auburn recovers already in field goal range with :42 left and proceeds to win the game.

The world would have been a much better place if Bob Bockrath had pulled a Pat Hayden and told Dubose's sorry arse to not even bother getting back on the bus right then and there.

Here's the end of the game if you want to see pure choke on display.