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re: What’s your team’s biggest WTF win?
Posted on 7/21/20 at 2:52 pm to lsudave1
Posted on 7/21/20 at 2:52 pm to lsudave1
For me it’s gotta be Ole Miss bearing LSU in 2013. Ole miss had so many injuries going into that game that they had no business winning that game. Believe it got to the point with injuries where freeze had to pull a redshirt off a freshman defensive back mid game and tell him to go guard Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham. Believe he had to pull a Redshirt off an OL or two mid game too and throw them into the action on what was already a decimated OL injury wise
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:16 pm to Rebel920
Weren't y'all playing converted OL on the DLine as well? Just a typical Less Miles team performance: come out flat and unprepared and need a wild comeback to hopefully win. One of many occasions when we should've jettisoned that dead weight.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:23 pm to Rebel920
Probably UGA vs Auburn 2006.
We were having a crappy year.
18 year old QB starting in the SEC.
Placekicker got hurt midyear and caused losses to Vandy and Kentucky.
Struggling running game. Our fullback led the offense in rushing TDs.
And we beat #5 Auburn at Auburn.
Auburn was hoping for a shot at the SECCG. Auburn was hoping for a shot at the BCS title game.
We should have had no business beating Auburn that game.
Beating top 10 auburn in 2014 was good. But we had Todd Gurley that game. And when he got hurt... Nick Chubb.
2006 had Danny Ware and Matt Stafford as our leading rushers. And Brendan Southerland pounding the ball into the endzone.
We were having a crappy year.
18 year old QB starting in the SEC.
Placekicker got hurt midyear and caused losses to Vandy and Kentucky.
Struggling running game. Our fullback led the offense in rushing TDs.
And we beat #5 Auburn at Auburn.
Auburn was hoping for a shot at the SECCG. Auburn was hoping for a shot at the BCS title game.
We should have had no business beating Auburn that game.
Beating top 10 auburn in 2014 was good. But we had Todd Gurley that game. And when he got hurt... Nick Chubb.
2006 had Danny Ware and Matt Stafford as our leading rushers. And Brendan Southerland pounding the ball into the endzone.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:28 pm to RECConspiracy
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Seriously? I remembered it being about 30 yards out or something. I was only 9 years old at the time so that accounts for some of it. That was stupid then for McGinty to get the criticism he got.
It was a 42-yarder. I think McGinty had missed a 50-ish yard kick earlier in the game though. Tiffin his a 52-yarder for Bama in that game.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:28 pm to lsudave1
I read this entire thread, man do I hope we get college football this season. I watched so many of these games simply because there’s nothing like insane momentum in sports like a college football game.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:34 pm to lsudave1
Probably beating Florida in 2005. Florida was ranked No. 5 and Alabama was ranked No. 15. Despite being ranked 15 at the time, this still didn't feel like the type of game Alabama was supposed to win during the Shula era. In the end, Alabama blew them out. Of course, the win was overshadowed by the Prothro injury.
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:07 pm to lsudave1
Biggest WTF win for me is the 98 LSU game in Baton Rouge. They pretty much dominated us most of the game as far as yardage and TOP, but they couldn't seem to put many points on the board. I think they missed 3 FGs and PAT. We scored a late TD that LSU should have intercepted. Then we recovered the onside kick and went down to score another TD in closing minutes to win it.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:17 pm to The Spleen
Not my school or even the SEC, but the first game that comes to mind when I think of "WTF" results is Pitt-West Virginia 2007. WVU was awesome that year, and all they had to do was win the last game of the season at home against 4-7 Pitt and they are playing for (and probably winning) the national championship. Instead got beat 13-9 and that opened up the path for 2-loss LSU to get back in the mix and win it all.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:45 pm to lsudave1
Auburn over LSU in '94.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:25 pm to McMillan
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You probably have to go all the way back to the Onofrio years to find some of them. Most notably the second ND win in 1978.
Indeed. Uncle Al had quite a few of those:
1975 20-7 win over #2 Alabama at Alabama
1976 46-25 win over #8 Southern Cal at USC
1976 22-21 win over #2 Ohio State at O-state
(we finished 6-5 overall and 3-4 in the Big Eight in 1976)
1978 3-0 (yep...that's three to zip) win over #5 ND in South Bend
Onofrio was a giant killer who lacked consistency and (worst of all) the ability to beat Kansas.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 7:25 pm to lsudave1
Tennessee 2010 is the only answer here. We lost but won
Posted on 7/21/20 at 7:50 pm to lsudave1
2008 Auburn vs UT-Martin
2011 Auburn vs Utah State
2012 Auburn vs ULM
i was at all three games the 2008 game against UT-Martin i believe they had tied the game at one point and majority of Auburn folks headed towards the exit one guy sitting in my section and said out loud "Hey Tuberville both Tony Franklin and Al Borges just called me they said tell you "You're Fired!"
the 2011 Utah game was a premonition of the 2012 season for Chizik. even though we won the general feeling was that if Chizik somehow lucked out and survived 2011 that he would need a hail mary to survive 2012
2011 Auburn vs Utah State
2012 Auburn vs ULM
i was at all three games the 2008 game against UT-Martin i believe they had tied the game at one point and majority of Auburn folks headed towards the exit one guy sitting in my section and said out loud "Hey Tuberville both Tony Franklin and Al Borges just called me they said tell you "You're Fired!"
the 2011 Utah game was a premonition of the 2012 season for Chizik. even though we won the general feeling was that if Chizik somehow lucked out and survived 2011 that he would need a hail mary to survive 2012
Posted on 7/21/20 at 7:51 pm to BossBailey345
i was at that game as well as the arky game, washington state game, lsu game, arky state game and florida game
we played two of our best games against florida and lsu. but those arky and georgia games smelt like rotten eggs on a hot summer day
we played two of our best games against florida and lsu. but those arky and georgia games smelt like rotten eggs on a hot summer day
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 7/21/20 at 8:14 pm to BoomNation
For State, 99 Auburn was unreal.
No offense all day. Down 16-3 with 2:30 left. Get a touchdown to bring it to 16-10. Had all three timeouts and decided to try to pin them deep.
It worked. Auburn ended up taking a safety on the punt so they could pin us deeper. 16-12.
State ran the free kick back to the Auburn 40 and then hit a slant to take it down to the 10. From that point it was just getting into the end zone.
Had more yards of offense in the final 3:00 than the rest of the game combined and won 18-16.
No offense all day. Down 16-3 with 2:30 left. Get a touchdown to bring it to 16-10. Had all three timeouts and decided to try to pin them deep.
It worked. Auburn ended up taking a safety on the punt so they could pin us deeper. 16-12.
State ran the free kick back to the Auburn 40 and then hit a slant to take it down to the 10. From that point it was just getting into the end zone.
Had more yards of offense in the final 3:00 than the rest of the game combined and won 18-16.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 9:29 pm to Mithridates6
Oh yeah. I mean the team was absolutely decimated by injuries. Had no business winning that game at all.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 9:23 am to The Spleen
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It was a 42-yarder. I think McGinty had missed a 50-ish yard kick earlier in the game though. Tiffin his a 52-yarder for Bama in that game.
I think Tiffin was in 1985. The Kick. I was referring to '84. We had no business winning that game in '84. '85 was a bit more believable.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 9:48 am to lsudave1
Most recently I would say Clemson beating LSU in 2012. Les Miles piss poor coaching gave Clemson a chance to put a drive together and even in that last drive it took a 4th and 16 completion to keep the drive alive so we could go down and kick the winning FG.
That game probably had as much to do with Clemson's ascension than any game.
That game probably had as much to do with Clemson's ascension than any game.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 9:57 am to lsudave1
No question Oklahoma 2015. They were undefeated and 17.5 point favorites, and Texas was in utter turmoil. And Texas beat them 24-17 after scoring on their first two drives and never trailed during the entirety of the game.
Backstory as to how batshit crazy this was:
Charlie Strong finished his first season at 6-7, capped with a 31-7 Texas bowl humiliation (where they gained a whopping 59 TOTAL yards in the game). Year 2 started with a 38-3 loss to Notre Dame which probably wasn't even as close as the score indicates, and Texas fired the OC (after game 1 with 11 games to go). They lost 3 of the next 4 and had started year 2 at 1-4. Texas's fourth loss was a week before the OU game and ended in a 50-7 drubbing @TCU with the halftime score 37-0 and a starting freshman retweeting somebody asking him to transfer (DURING HALFTIME). OU on the other hand was playoff bound and was in the midst of Baker Mayfield's illustrious tenure there. By season's end, they were No. 1 in the ESPN FPI heading into the playoffs.
TLDR: I've never seen a worse Texas team in my lifetime (born in 92), and they beat one of the top 5 OU teams in my lifetime.
Backstory as to how batshit crazy this was:
Charlie Strong finished his first season at 6-7, capped with a 31-7 Texas bowl humiliation (where they gained a whopping 59 TOTAL yards in the game). Year 2 started with a 38-3 loss to Notre Dame which probably wasn't even as close as the score indicates, and Texas fired the OC (after game 1 with 11 games to go). They lost 3 of the next 4 and had started year 2 at 1-4. Texas's fourth loss was a week before the OU game and ended in a 50-7 drubbing @TCU with the halftime score 37-0 and a starting freshman retweeting somebody asking him to transfer (DURING HALFTIME). OU on the other hand was playoff bound and was in the midst of Baker Mayfield's illustrious tenure there. By season's end, they were No. 1 in the ESPN FPI heading into the playoffs.
TLDR: I've never seen a worse Texas team in my lifetime (born in 92), and they beat one of the top 5 OU teams in my lifetime.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 10:22 am to RECConspiracy
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I think Tiffin was in 1985. The Kick. I was referring to '84. We had no business winning that game in '84. '85 was a bit more believable.
Tiffin's kick in 85 was 53 yards. He also hit a 52-yarder in 84, in a less stressful situation. I think it was in the 2nd quarter.
We definitely had no business winning that 84 game, and as I recall we should have been up more than we were at halftime. Auburn couldn't do anything in the fist half offensively, and Paul Ott Carruth had a really good game. Auburn really couldn't do much until Fullwood had that long TD run in the 2nd half. That kind of woke them up and gave them confidence.
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