re: Your school's most humiliating HOME loss in the last 30 years? (Top 3)

Good god, the 2000 season. I have a lot of vivid memories from that one. Watching the UCLA game in disbelief because I had totally bought into the “Bama is back!” preseason hype. Watching us have to resort to running the option to finally put Vanderbilt away late in the game the following week. And then watching in horror as motherfricking SOUTHERN MISS blanked us in Legion Field. My mom is the sweetest, most loving and caring person I know, and she insisted after the game that we walk down to just above the Alabama tunnel so that she could boo DuBose and Stubbs loudly and by name as they walked off the field. So many more awful memories after that. Losing to UCF on a last-minute field goal. Traveling to Starkville to watch the Dawgs beat the frick out of us, and thinking, “Well, it can’t get worse than this,” only to watch Auburn beat us 9-0 in a driving sleet in the first Iron Bowl in Bryant-Denny in decades.

Oh, and also randomly destroying Ole Miss 45-7 in the middle of all that, because, you know, Ole Miss.

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That was the day scheduled for the Bear Bryant museum ribbon cutting. Bama brass did push it back a week as a result of that loss, but know and remember this:

Every time you walk into that museum and cry over your deity, we beat your arse the day you were to honor him, and those tears you cry, are delicious.

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What a sad post. That 1988 win represents more than 10% of Mississippi’s all time wins versus Alabama. Needless to say they are few and far between.

Even though it was a win, what happened when Auburn played Jacksonville State was flat out embarrassing.

People are gonna wanna say Citadel but we deserved to lose that game and our 2015 team was pure garbage.

I still can't get over losing to 2011 Auburn. I wanna love Stephen Garcia but I'll always hold him responsible for that horrendous loss

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The 2015 game was bad too, but 08 was when the Richt era lost its swagger. Just got disrobed in front of God and America.

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Really not trying to rub that it in but 08 Bama seems like a good answer for Georgia. Georgia made the final score respectable but the hype for that game was HUGE, the black unis, Scott fricking Cochran, and then UGA walks into halftime with a score of 31-0...I just have never really seen anything quite like that.

I like the 21-0 So Miss answer for Bama. Bama lost to a lot of those mid majors in the 2000s but they were generally close games between relatively evenly matched teams. But Bama just doesn’t really ever lose to anyone by three touchdowns, and to do that at home to a Conference USA team? That’s real bad.

Good point. We didn't even get dominated in our most humiliating loss.

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but know and remember this: Every time you walk into that museum and cry over your deity, we beat your arse the day you were to honor him, and those tears you cry, are delicious.

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And y’all continue to rub it in, winning championship after championship, while we languish in the rubble of that crushing loss.

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2004 miss st

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That is embarrassing. Outside of Jerious Norwood that is one of the worst college football teams of all time

Oh boy where to begin... I could name a few in recent years. Auburn 2016 and Auburn 2008 are high on the list for me. But these 3 easily come to mind:

#3: Maine 2004: ooof. This one would be higher if we weren't talking about a program that had only won 8 games since the start of the 2001 season coming into this game. State loses 7-9 to a team that I don't even think had a winning record that season. We went on to lose to Vanderbilt and UAB among other teams that season before upsetting Number 20 Florida at home. Which was a big upset and got Ron Zook fired which led to Urban Meyer coming to Florida and Dan Mullen coming to Mississippi State. Wow weird how a simple game can change everything eh?

#2 South Alabama 2016: Dan Mullen came off of an off-season of 0 recruiting and running the Boston Marathon after a somewhat disappointing 2015 season, and what happened next? Well an 11 am game with no fans and 0 excitement. And most of the fans that were there left at halftime to enjoy Labor Day. I stayed till the bitter end. It felt like what Mullen had done at Mississippi State was completely erased and I was 80% confident State wouldn't make a bowl game. Well I was correct that State wasn't bowl eligible per say as they did go 5-7 with some upset wins over #4 Texas A&M and Ole Miss on the road. But with losses to Arkansas, Kentucky, and BYU to round out the season, it was just an abysmal year all around.


#1 2001 Troy State: If the SEC Rant were around back then, we would've had some State fans shite talking like crazy about this season. This season is also why many State fans hype up any season in football anymore. State came into the preseason ranked #20 and predicted to finish #2 in the SEC West. But it was with good reason as they had their starting QB who was clutch in 1999 and 2000 coming back. The season started with a win over Memphis before 9/11 happened and what I believe killed Mississippi State Football for years. As the first game after 9/11 is a Thursday Night ESPN game against South Carolina which ends in a 14-16 loss. And then coming off of an upset of #3 Florida in 2000, Florida absolutely wrecks State in Gainesville 51-0 in probably one of the most embarrassing losses I've seen. And then a close 14-16 loss to an ok Auburn team on the road put State at 1-3. None of these losses were bad per say, but 2 of the losses weren't expected for what State was preseason predicted and the 3rd loss was just embarrassing and not a 14-16 type ball game like you might expect. Anyways so State is hosting Troy State at the time who isn't even D1 at this point. And they lose 9-21. This is absolutely the lowest of the low right here. State would go on to defeat Kentucky and Eli Manning's Ole Miss team before hosting #10 BYU in the 9/11 makeup game. And I believe the 1970 USSR Refs came to town because State got hosed in a 38-41 loss in a way that can only be said that they were ensuring BYU Remained undefeated which didn't matter because BYU would end up losing to Hawaii the next week....

Anyways I'm rambling. Thanks for the thread. I got to go back memory lane and I was able to share the worst home losses for Mullen, Croom, and Sherrill. Hopefully none of Moorheads home losses are that bad....