re: Strange SEC losses

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Co-Champion

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So is Alabama the Champion and UGA is the Co-Champion?

LINK

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Co-Chief

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Do you know what co-champion means?

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You never watched Scrubs and just assumed it was a flame. Check out the videos.

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A more frustrating loss to Ole Miss would be 1997. LSU had upset #1 Florida the previous week and then gets drilled 36-21 by a mediocre OM team in tiger stadium. LSU finished 9-3 that year.

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Rufus French's one shining moment.

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A more frustrating loss to Ole Miss would be 1997. LSU had upset #1 Florida the previous week and then gets drilled 36-21 by a mediocre OM team in tiger stadium. LSU finished 9-3 that year.

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That was painful as hell to watch. The dreaded Jefferson Pilot game of the week coming a week after the biggest LSU win in years. That one did hurt, no doubt.

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dammit, you're right

When you linked a video, I just assumed it was some old grainy footage from a 1981 broadcast that mentioned alabama being the 81 SEC champs. I guess I was way off.

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I thought it would be a funny callback for anyone who had seen it. I got a good laugh about how bitter he was about being the Co-Chief.

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Tennessee
in 1996 UT goes 10-2, has Peyton Manning at QB, but loses to a 4-7 Memphis team

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Vols and Refs robbed the Gamecocks the week before that Memphis State game in '96. Vols knew it - nine pass interference calls on SCAR, two unsportsmanlike conduct calls tacked-on when first Terry Cousin complained, then the SCAR benched complained ... Leonard Little was injured in the game and missed the next week against Memphis State. Manning was limping and gimpy by game's end.

Karma Kickback against the Vols the next week when they did not have the SEC refs propping them up.

I'll say one thing, there was a ton of future NFL talent on both sides of the ball in that game at SC. I think more than thirty of those guys from those two teams played for awhile in the NFL. From SC alone I think, Terry Cousin, John Abraham, Anthony Wright, Marcus Robinson, Duce Staley, Jamar Nesbit, Randy Wheeler, Darrin Hambrick, Troy Hambrick, Ray Greene ... and UT was absolutely loaded as well.

Jay Graham later said, when he was coaching at SC, that the '96 game was one of the hardest hitting games he ever played in.

But anyways, UT went into the Memphis State game gimpy and maybe a little bit unsure about themselves - and Memphis State caught a ton of lucky breaks in the game too, especially on the game winning TD pass and I seem to remember a KO returned for a TD that was questionable as well. I think Manning may have ever had a interception returned for a long TD that night as well.

Three things I believe can be attributed to that loss in Memphis for the Vols.

1 - the physical game the week before in Columbia left the Vols gimpy.
2 - the Vols simply overlooked Memphis State and came in flat.
3 - too much was made the week heading into that game about how the Vols were 40-1 against teams in November for the previous ten years. I even remember John Ward, used to be the Voice of the Vols for the youngsters, referring to Tennessee's December schedule as "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod."

It all set-up for an upset and it kept the SEC from receiving two BCS bowl invites that season.

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1984: Undefeated USC (9-0) goes up to Annapolis, MD to play a 3-5-1 Navy team and loses by 2+ TDs.

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Very similar to what happened to UT in '96.

We beat FSU the week before in Columbia in a brutal game. Lost a lot of key players and went into the Navy game gimpy.

On the road, at Navy, (in a high school sized stadium in front of a high school sized crowd) as the #2 team in the country and we overlooked them and their option attack - we went in flat.

We let all the National Championship talk go to our heads all week, the supposed invite to the Orange bowl already on the table ... Beano Cook raising hell all week.

It was just a major cluster frick before all was said and done.

Wasn't Napoleon McCallum the surprise RB for Navy that kicked our arse that day?

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great minds..

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Ole Miss

In 2003 we lost to Memphis with senior QB Eli Manning and we would later go on to go 10-3. That same Memphis team gave State one of their only 3 wins on the year.

Also lost to Texas Tech that year. Their QB (BJ Simmons?) threw for over 600 yards and Eli threw for over 400. One of the craziest offensive games I've ever seen.

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