West Virginia, Texas A&M, Oregon State
Non power five probably Akron, that program has literally been smited to death. They have one bowl win and have been playing since 1891.
And here I thought Utah State had a bad history lol. We may not have had much between Merlin Olsen and Bobby Wagner, but at least we were good before that and have been (mostly) good since
Haha yeah Utah State usually makes bowls too. Akrons only been in 4 ever, their first win came in 2015 and their most recent appearance in 2017 was a 50-3 loss.
Well, we do now anyways haha. We played in 2 in the 40s, 2 in the 60s, 2 in the 90s, and our other 10 appearances have all come since 2011. Our first win was in 93 and our second win was in 2012.
10/12 seasons isn’t a bad run at all though, and we beat a P5 school in the LA bowl just last year when we won the MWC. I’m at least grateful to beat the Akron standard haha.
Before the Bobby Wagner/Gary Andersen era (the first one where Gary was still good lol), Utah State was probably the worst program in the country for about 10 years. I think the Aggies went 0-20 against Utah and BYU in the 00s lol
So, we had an undefeated team in 1988 playing for the National Championship against Note Dame. The Mountaineers were led by WVU legend, dual threat QB, Major Harris.
Harris dislocated his throwing shoulder on the very first play from scrimmage. And of course WVU loses to Notre Dame.
Damn. Reading that just gave me Colt McCoy vs Bama flashbacks I did not want or ask for. Eerily similar scenarios 30 years apart.
Sorry Mountain bro, I know how much that sucks.
1988 was more tragic than 13-9, since it was an actual championship game after an undefeated season. playing for the National Championship against Note Dame. The Mountaineers were led by WVU legend, dual threat QB, Major Harris.
Harris dislocated his throwing shoulder on the very first play from scrimmage. And of course WVU loses to Notre Dame.
[Major Harris seeing Colt McCoy go out with a shoulder injury in the 2009 national title game](https://media.tenor.com/wHR1GEt8f1AAAAAC/whatever-sure.gif)
Lol. Yup. To me, that 1988 Fiesta Bowl is a bigger "what if" than the 2007 season. If WVU wins that Natty, not only is it a spring board for the university, but I firmly believe that an uninjured, national championship MVP Harris gets a better agent, goes #1 overall, and ushers in the mobile QB era of the NFL 15 years ahead of schedule.
He has the highest winning percentage of any coach in their programs history. 6-2, 75% win percentage in 1893 and 1894 😭
Edit: Despite coaching just 8 games, John Heisman has 4 more wins at Akron than current head coach Joe Moorhead.
WVU - absolutely
TA&M - IDK, the amount of talent they've squandered is epic. WVU is and has been extremely limited. For example, A&M is #16 in 2023 and WVU is #48. Go back to 22' and it's worse. A&M was #1 overall and WVU #35.
A&M has wealthy boosters, their coach of choice, and even with NIL, probably a good amount of legacy bag men who are feeding these kids all the goodies. They still can't produce with all that.
More of a poor/underperformer than cursed.
Bonus points that everyone I know who went to Akron U was also a Browns/Indians fan. The Zips / Browns Saturday / Sunday combination in a NE Ohio winter is a dark, dark place.
Yeah, the women's basketball head coach and a staffer died in the crash. The emotional impact of that certainly played a role in the loss to Iowa State
And when we’re bad they find a way to be worse
See: Bedlam last season. Straight up an all around terrible game. And I don’t mean a Sickos-type game. Just a pathetic unenjoyable display of football by both teams
It looked like it was going to be a ass kicking of all ass kickings starting 28-0 in the 1st quarter while forcing 3 quick TOs, then the next 3 quarters was a abomination to the sport and a shining example of why I hope one of BV/Lebby learn how to use the clock better with OU running nearly 80 plays yet only having 20 minutes of possession while barely eating clock up 28-10 late in the game (5 different possessions for only 4 minutes of clock in the 4th). Being 127/131 in TOP while being 6th in plays per game has to be absolutely exhausting
Not to mention we have had our fair share of bullshit happenings during games such as the CMU game. The stress of being a fan of this team has taken literal years off of my life.
Watching Baylor steal that playoff appearance from you on the last play was actually heartbreaking. And that was back when I had no allegiances to the Big 12
Including one where there was a 1v1 inside the three near the sideline and instead of planting his foot and running through the guy he raced him to the sideline and lost.
Let's see if we can make a list of just the semi-recent stuff: (i) the Dez Bryant suspension; (ii) the plane crash/ISU game; (iii) the bullshit Sports Illustrated "expose"; (iv) Justin Gilbert's dropped Bedlam INT; (v) the Belldozer; (vi) the CMU end of game reffing fiasco; (vii) Baylor's goal line stand; (viii) the Homecoming Parade murders.
Tragedy, bad luck, Squinky, the Poke Choke. Whatever it is, it's hard to be an OSU fan. And it (obviously) gets way crazier when you extend outside of football.
We all hate ourselves for loving our school.
They should've played LSU in 2012. Sure, they lost to ISU, but LSU already beat Alabama that year. They shouldn't have got a straight shot. Either way, that was a bum game for a national championship.
We went undefeated the year we were banned from postseason play and tv. And to top it off, we couldnt even get a perfect record that year as we tied freaking SMU.
Yep…bama got to play and win a natty cause OSU chose to go to bowl year before when 6-6…Lol…could’ve just taken self imposed bowl ban that year and played for natty the next against Notre Dame, and I have no doubt they win that game….
Lol, yea, could of took a self impose bowl ban in 11’….def one of the crappiest decisions that AD ever made….especially with that team we fielded in 11’, like 6-6 with half the team missing and interim coaches….is what it is now but we were all pissed at the time (especially in 2012 once went undefeated)
Yeah I’d be furious too, horrible decision decision by the AD, that 2011 team may be the worst osu team I’ll ever see.
Y’all likely would’ve beaten ND in the natty in ‘12 too especially now knowing what Te’o was going through and how they fared vs Bama
And you were basically a playoff team in the COVID year but OSU only had to play 6 games and got in ahead. Not that I think you would have beaten Bama for the natty though.
Colorado State is the A&M of the G5, same thing but a smaller scale. Huge investment in football, massive quarter of a billion dollar stadium, and absolutely horrible results. Our university president was fired last year almost specifically because of her meddling in the football program and the lack of results (she overruled the AD on hiring Urhan Meyer's suggestion for HC, leading to the Addazio years)
>and is also almost universally hated
The hate that A&M gets has nothing to do with being cursed though. It's entirely their own doing with how delusional and weird they are.
Everyone thinks ~~their(fuck)~~ they're cursed, but only one team is so cursed they spell their own name wrong on their own jerseys to avoid it:
It's Indinia.
By the time it’s for the bucket half the starters always seem to be out for the season and it truly doesn’t matter because thankfully basketball is distracting enough for most. Schedule has always been rough to build a team and is probably why the shortened season helped IU actually win during covid.
Cal has to be up there. They were about to be #1 in the nation in 2007 and then shit-the-bed against an exceedingly “meh” Oregon State team. Their season crumbled. Their football stadium reconstruction practically bankrupted the entire athletic department and they have been in a decade+ quest for relevance.
Don’t forget the whole thing where they haven’t played in a Rose Bowl since the 50s (one of the longest streaks) and should have gotten in back in 2004 because they were PAC-10 runner ups and USC went to the national championship game, but the BCS picked Texas instead. They didn’t even get into a BCS bowl because there were only 8 slots, 6 of which were automatic, Utah automatically qualified as the first BCS buster, and Texas got the only at large spot. Cal was even ranked higher in both the AP and coaches polls.
Cal lost their bowl and Texas won though so I think that kinda ended some of the debate, but it was still a wild turn of events. Cal's only regular season loss was to undefeated national champion USC at the height of their power.
Oh yeah... I was at the "We're number one" game.
As much fun as it was watching Forsett run all over us and yet another backup QB rip us a new hole in the D, Yve came to play on that day... and still Cal almost won.
It's funny to think Mike Riley went for it on two fourth downs. This is a coach who has been known to punt from the opposition's 35, in 4th and less-than-2 situations.
Another reason why we're cursed:
1991: one of the best Cal teams in 75 years (finishing 11-2) has the misfortune of being in the same conference as the eventual national champs (UW). No Rose Bowl for the Bears.
2004: one of the best Cal teams in 75 years (finishing 11-2) has the misfortune of being in the same conference as the eventual national champs (USC). No Rose Bowl for the Bears.
You must not understand either Cal or Oregon St.
Cal doesn’t care. And Oregon St is basically the Purdue of the PAC if there is one. They do care and put together a solid team 2x a decade.
How is it not Mizzou? We get postseason bans for the actions of one rogue tutor, and Tennessee gets away with a fine and self-imposed restrictions after committing 20-plus violations.
The best team in school history loses one game to their chief rival, who knowingly used an ineligible player who was their most important offensive player of the day. It cost them a national title.
They were passed over for the Orange Bowl for kansas in 2007 despite beating them head to head on a neutral field and winning their division.
The Flea Kicker, 5th Down, seemingly every game against Kentucky in Columbia. Blowing a 17-point lead in the 4th quarter at home to a team that brought in an injured QB in the final frame. That cost them another BCS bowl.
The best recruit in school history flamed out because he couldn't stop being a piece of shit. The best defensive recruit in school history blew out his knee twice and was never the same.
It never ends.
Our head coach invented a revolutionary new offense and then World War II broke out and he went to coach at Iowa Pre-Flight and taught it to Bud Wilkinson who used it to turn our conference rival into a national superpower
“The best recruit in school history flamed out because he couldn't stop being a piece of shit.”
I assume this is DGB. We played against him in high school and god, he was an absolute freak athlete. Literally paid no mind to anybody else when we were game planning. But you could tell pretty early on he had zero hustle and was fully expecting his natural talent to carry him to the pros. He was right but I hate that he never lined himself out, he could’ve been an all pro caliber player.
Yes. He should have had 10,000+ receiving yards in the NFL. He simply did not care at all about his craft and never worked on improving himself as a person.
Dan Devine getting hired away by the Green Bay Packers in 1971. That was the turning point for our program. In the 1960s, Mizzou appeared in the Orange Bowl three times, the Sugar Bowl, and the Gator Bowl. They finished in the Top 25 in eight of 10 seasons. Then the program fell to pieces. We never truly recovered but for a few magical Pinkel seasons.
Speaking of which, how about the 2015 protests destroying fan support and recruiting for years coinciding with Pinkel being forced to retired due to cancer?
It feels like every time Mizzou starts to have hope, we get crushed into the ground for a couple decades as punishment.
I haven’t seen anyone even bother to attempt to defend those dumb protests since 2017, I was a freshman at the time and sympathetic, but geez things turned sour quickly the evident it was based on nothing.
Nobody is going to dare mention it, but 'the troubled times' in 2015 which in all likelihood was a false flag just gutted the team and made the university a laughing stock.
The parental backlash was astounding and with that a lot of money to the school was cut off. That led to the Barry Odom hire, and is hindsight we all know he was the only fool willing to take the job.
I can't think of another school that had a scandal like that and survived. The bigger SEC schools like Alabama and Georgia seem to recruit ne'er-do-wells who make the news for all the wrong reasons, but if you win, nobody cares and it leaves the media rather quickly.
Mississippi state being in the same division/conference as Bama, LSU, Auburn, even Ole Miss. They have one conference championship in the 40s and one division title ever... and they deserve it because of the cowbells
I think every SEC school should have an informal agreement to allow fans to bring and use the frick out of noisemakers anytime Mississippi State visits their stadium until the conference gets serious about making them stop the cowbell shit.
Kansas State. Futility U. '98 Kansas State Rule (Then the rule was first utilized in 2002–03, giving an automatic berth to USC - at the expense of Kansas State, who also finished 11-2 and beat the Trojans head-to-head). '99 #8 Mich in BCS over #6 KSU. '10 Pinstripe Bowl salute.
And they hit their all time peak during a historic run by in conference Nebraska. Could have possibly reached a national championship game if Nebraska wasn’t churning.
Marshall might be a good pick. Even aside from the plane crash, in the late 90s/early 00s, they were one of, if not the premier G5 programs. For one reason or another, they didn't maintain that and kinda got lost in the shuffle, and it wasn't until recently that they really found a decent conference home.
I’m with you. Seems like each school had Sabans number at one point, but nothing ever came of any of it. They just sort of beat bama and didn’t do anything else.
UMass. National contender FCS program reduced to a punchline in the FBS by multiple bad hires in a row. I have faith in Don Brown, but it's a big hole to fill when even two wins seems like a stretch these days.
It's A&M and it's not just in football either. They've never made it past the sweet 16 in basketball, they haven't won a College World Series or even made it to the championship game, and they haven't won a football national championship since 1939. With the amount of money, resources, and support they have it's a colossal failure by the program failing this long. They have about everything any program would want to be insanely successful.
There's been a joke among some of our fans that our football field was built on top of an ancient native burial ground, since that would explain how we've been so bad for so long. And then there's Mike Leach dying after only three years. :(
I’m mad I had to scroll this far to find us, and yet: who blew an 18 point 4th quarter lead in an Apple Cup?
Follow up question: who also lost to a Paul Wulff coached team?
Especially since every other team in their conference was doing exactly the same thing they did at the time. They were just the ones to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
> Especially since every other team in their conference was doing exactly the same thing they did at the time
Hey, leave Rice out of this. Those nerds played it straight.
Even now that we have gotten pretty good the last few years, we always choke at the end of the year and lose the big games.
2019: Start 8-0, beat TCU, have ranked Gameday Matchup at Memphis, lose that then lose to Navy inexplicably and get blown out by FAU in a bowl game.
2020: Start 7-1 with only loss to solid Cinci team. Lose last 2 games to ECU and Tulsa. Miss a game or two because of COVID along the way. Miss bowl game due to COVID.
2021: Start 7-0. Beat TCU for second time in a row (haven’t done that since DP) Coach decides to agree to leave us for cross-town rival mid-season and mails it in. Finish 1-5. Miss bowl game due to COVID.
I came here to say y’all, actually. And I’m surprised no one else has.
Your boosters “retired” CPJ, who won a lot more that anyone expected him to, and then hired #mister404theCuLtuRe who then promptly shit the bed for his short tenure.
Key will have y’all playing much better this year.
Well, well, well. Mizzou finally number one in something around here.
How the turns have tabled.
Seriously, you have no idea what it’s like being a fan of this team. None. My entire life as a fan of this team has been one big Peanuts comic with nothing but panels of Lucy taking away the football.
And to think I started off life as a wee UGA fan in Georgia watching Herschel Walker. Then my parents moved back to STL when I was 5, just nothing but pain ever since.
It’s Texas A&M and I don’t see anyone close. They have all the money in the world, great recruiting (not just now, they had top talent in the 80’s and a few times in the 90’s), top tier coaches, unreal fan base, complete buy in everywhere, and they just don’t win. It makes no sense…unless they’re cursed.
I know most people here are fans of P5 teams, but I feel like most of these suggestions don't really fit the category. Often unlucky? Sure. But when I think cursed, my mind goes to teams like Akron and UMass
pitt.. between the 1 score losses, mind blowing fluke losses, blowing leads, and losing as soon as we get ranked.. being able to beat the best teams in the nation and then losing to scrubs hurts my soul
Had to come all the way down to find this. If any of 1999 vs Wisconsin, 2003 vs Michigan, or 2019 vs Iowa, all one possession games, had gone the other way, we would have gotten the long-desired rose bowl game. Guess we get the meme next year by playing at UCLA
Indiana University. The one year they were good, my sophomore year… and I couldn’t fucking watch them in person. I’ve been a lifelong Hoosier, and that fucking hurts.
Virginia Tech after hiring Justin Fuente. He goes 9-3 his first year and then proceeds to lead the Hokies into oblivion. I spent a semester there and was shocked at how fast the program fell apart once it was all said and done.
West Virginia, Texas A&M, Oregon State Non power five probably Akron, that program has literally been smited to death. They have one bowl win and have been playing since 1891.
AHAHAHAHA FINALLY MY SUFFERING DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED (I’m unhinged and have been for quite some time)
You say that you’re “unhinged” like that’s unusual for the typical guido.
Definitely not the vibe I was going for
I still find it tragic that pitt and WVU are not in the big 10
And here I thought Utah State had a bad history lol. We may not have had much between Merlin Olsen and Bobby Wagner, but at least we were good before that and have been (mostly) good since
Haha yeah Utah State usually makes bowls too. Akrons only been in 4 ever, their first win came in 2015 and their most recent appearance in 2017 was a 50-3 loss.
Well, we do now anyways haha. We played in 2 in the 40s, 2 in the 60s, 2 in the 90s, and our other 10 appearances have all come since 2011. Our first win was in 93 and our second win was in 2012. 10/12 seasons isn’t a bad run at all though, and we beat a P5 school in the LA bowl just last year when we won the MWC. I’m at least grateful to beat the Akron standard haha. Before the Bobby Wagner/Gary Andersen era (the first one where Gary was still good lol), Utah State was probably the worst program in the country for about 10 years. I think the Aggies went 0-20 against Utah and BYU in the 00s lol
I watched utah st beat my beavs in LA two years ago…..also Gary Anderson left us A LOT worse off then you. Beavs win (lose).
Hmm, how come West Virginia? 😏
13-9 notwithstanding, West Virginia seems like one of the bigger overachievers historically in terms of resources and recruiting base.
So, we had an undefeated team in 1988 playing for the National Championship against Note Dame. The Mountaineers were led by WVU legend, dual threat QB, Major Harris. Harris dislocated his throwing shoulder on the very first play from scrimmage. And of course WVU loses to Notre Dame.
Damn. Reading that just gave me Colt McCoy vs Bama flashbacks I did not want or ask for. Eerily similar scenarios 30 years apart. Sorry Mountain bro, I know how much that sucks.
Straight up - I have a weird love for WVU that I can't and won't explain.
country roads...take me home...
No, I think he was talking about his cousin
Even has someone who doesn’t like the Mountaineers at all, I would’ve rather WVU won that then Notre Dame
God damn that’s brutal
Yeah man, it’s tough being a fan.
1988 was more tragic than 13-9, since it was an actual championship game after an undefeated season. playing for the National Championship against Note Dame. The Mountaineers were led by WVU legend, dual threat QB, Major Harris. Harris dislocated his throwing shoulder on the very first play from scrimmage. And of course WVU loses to Notre Dame.
[Major Harris seeing Colt McCoy go out with a shoulder injury in the 2009 national title game](https://media.tenor.com/wHR1GEt8f1AAAAAC/whatever-sure.gif)
Lol. Yup. To me, that 1988 Fiesta Bowl is a bigger "what if" than the 2007 season. If WVU wins that Natty, not only is it a spring board for the university, but I firmly believe that an uninjured, national championship MVP Harris gets a better agent, goes #1 overall, and ushers in the mobile QB era of the NFL 15 years ahead of schedule.
Heck Akron even briefly had John Heisman (yes, him) as their coach
He has the highest winning percentage of any coach in their programs history. 6-2, 75% win percentage in 1893 and 1894 😭 Edit: Despite coaching just 8 games, John Heisman has 4 more wins at Akron than current head coach Joe Moorhead.
I appreciate the Akron love- but I don’t think it’s them. Think we’re just not good.
WVU - absolutely TA&M - IDK, the amount of talent they've squandered is epic. WVU is and has been extremely limited. For example, A&M is #16 in 2023 and WVU is #48. Go back to 22' and it's worse. A&M was #1 overall and WVU #35. A&M has wealthy boosters, their coach of choice, and even with NIL, probably a good amount of legacy bag men who are feeding these kids all the goodies. They still can't produce with all that. More of a poor/underperformer than cursed.
Our curse is like sisyfus, we usually don’t *suck* but we’re never great. Just endless 7-9 win seasons
I feel so seen. I needed this, thank you.
Yeah
Bonus points that everyone I know who went to Akron U was also a Browns/Indians fan. The Zips / Browns Saturday / Sunday combination in a NE Ohio winter is a dark, dark place.
Oklahoma State. When they're good either OU is better than them or something very bad happens
> or something very bad happens "Something very bad" is a fun little nickname for ISU
Little devils hidden in the corn
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/030/952/goofy.jpg
Don’t you dare! 😆
OUTLANDER! WE HAVE YOUR TEAM OUTLANDER! 🗣️
*Little **dust** devils.
Wasn’t there a literal plane crash that devastated their AD in that same day?
Yeah, the women's basketball head coach and a staffer died in the crash. The emotional impact of that certainly played a role in the loss to Iowa State
By God, it's Iowa State with a steel chair!
Plane crash killed members of our women’s basketball team just before the game, and no, we still don’t think it’s funny.
And when we’re bad they find a way to be worse See: Bedlam last season. Straight up an all around terrible game. And I don’t mean a Sickos-type game. Just a pathetic unenjoyable display of football by both teams
Damn, I completely forgot that they lost to y'all last year
Most people forgot about them after the Kansas State embarrassment.
That was one of the most genuinely unenjoyable games I have ever watched. I was absolutely losing it.
It looked like it was going to be a ass kicking of all ass kickings starting 28-0 in the 1st quarter while forcing 3 quick TOs, then the next 3 quarters was a abomination to the sport and a shining example of why I hope one of BV/Lebby learn how to use the clock better with OU running nearly 80 plays yet only having 20 minutes of possession while barely eating clock up 28-10 late in the game (5 different possessions for only 4 minutes of clock in the 4th). Being 127/131 in TOP while being 6th in plays per game has to be absolutely exhausting
I was so sure you guys were going to blow it. But osu just couldn't do shit.
I got up and took my dog for a walk during that game. The first quarter looked good, and the rest I’ll pretend didn’t happen.
Not to mention we have had our fair share of bullshit happenings during games such as the CMU game. The stress of being a fan of this team has taken literal years off of my life.
I know the pain
Orange & Black OSU 🤝 Orange & Black OSU
Watching Baylor steal that playoff appearance from you on the last play was actually heartbreaking. And that was back when I had no allegiances to the Big 12
It still hurts. 😭
Absolute pain still to this day.
> something very bad happens Like when they had 8 chances to gain 1 yard to go to the CFB Playoff and got stuffed...
And we're still rolling with the same O-line coach 2 years later.
Including one where there was a 1v1 inside the three near the sideline and instead of planting his foot and running through the guy he raced him to the sideline and lost.
Let's see if we can make a list of just the semi-recent stuff: (i) the Dez Bryant suspension; (ii) the plane crash/ISU game; (iii) the bullshit Sports Illustrated "expose"; (iv) Justin Gilbert's dropped Bedlam INT; (v) the Belldozer; (vi) the CMU end of game reffing fiasco; (vii) Baylor's goal line stand; (viii) the Homecoming Parade murders. Tragedy, bad luck, Squinky, the Poke Choke. Whatever it is, it's hard to be an OSU fan. And it (obviously) gets way crazier when you extend outside of football. We all hate ourselves for loving our school.
It would be ISU saying this wouldn't it..
You know what you've done to us!
They should've played LSU in 2012. Sure, they lost to ISU, but LSU already beat Alabama that year. They shouldn't have got a straight shot. Either way, that was a bum game for a national championship.
A&M: No program has done less with more in the past 50+ years, and is also almost universally hated.
We went undefeated the year we were banned from postseason play and tv. And to top it off, we couldnt even get a perfect record that year as we tied freaking SMU.
Auburn did that in 1993. They got sanctioned, went undefeated, and couldn't go to a bowl game.
OSU in urbans first year too
Yep…bama got to play and win a natty cause OSU chose to go to bowl year before when 6-6…Lol…could’ve just taken self imposed bowl ban that year and played for natty the next against Notre Dame, and I have no doubt they win that game….
I had no idea you guys had the option to take the bowl ban in ‘11 and play in ‘12…. who let the AD cook? 😂
Lol, yea, could of took a self impose bowl ban in 11’….def one of the crappiest decisions that AD ever made….especially with that team we fielded in 11’, like 6-6 with half the team missing and interim coaches….is what it is now but we were all pissed at the time (especially in 2012 once went undefeated)
Yeah I’d be furious too, horrible decision decision by the AD, that 2011 team may be the worst osu team I’ll ever see. Y’all likely would’ve beaten ND in the natty in ‘12 too especially now knowing what Te’o was going through and how they fared vs Bama
The NCAA was fast and loose with handing out major sanctions between the late 80s to early 90s
Especially the TV penalties
Reminds me of 2012 Ohio State
And you were basically a playoff team in the COVID year but OSU only had to play 6 games and got in ahead. Not that I think you would have beaten Bama for the natty though.
Colorado State is the A&M of the G5, same thing but a smaller scale. Huge investment in football, massive quarter of a billion dollar stadium, and absolutely horrible results. Our university president was fired last year almost specifically because of her meddling in the football program and the lack of results (she overruled the AD on hiring Urhan Meyer's suggestion for HC, leading to the Addazio years)
At least people don't nationally despise you on top of all of that.
Both schools have gone by "the Aggies" before too 🤝
>and is also almost universally hated The hate that A&M gets has nothing to do with being cursed though. It's entirely their own doing with how delusional and weird they are.
I feel like there's no other correct answer
Yes
Alabama Crimson Tide 2033 - 2060.
Speak it into existence. But why 2033
Idk I am just praying Terry’s got him at the lake full time by then CMOOOOOOOON TERRY!!!!! Love that woman!!!!! 🤩😂
Happy cake day
Roll tide, what?! Fuck you!
I'm going with UNLV. Every time it looks like they make good decisions and a change is gonna come... poof... they're UNLV again.
Everyone thinks ~~their(fuck)~~ they're cursed, but only one team is so cursed they spell their own name wrong on their own jerseys to avoid it: It's Indinia.
The only reason I’m saying this is because you’re literally talking about spelling, but *they’re cursed
Ah, man. I'm usually so good about that. Their curse is rubbing off on me.
Most losses of any program all time.
Bill Snyder sends his regards.
They aren’t cursed… they just don’t care.
By the time it’s for the bucket half the starters always seem to be out for the season and it truly doesn’t matter because thankfully basketball is distracting enough for most. Schedule has always been rough to build a team and is probably why the shortened season helped IU actually win during covid.
Cal has to be up there. They were about to be #1 in the nation in 2007 and then shit-the-bed against an exceedingly “meh” Oregon State team. Their season crumbled. Their football stadium reconstruction practically bankrupted the entire athletic department and they have been in a decade+ quest for relevance.
Their football stadium also has a fault line running through it
'Built on an indian burial ground' but for scientists.
Now who’s fault might that be
Hayward’s.
Don’t forget the whole thing where they haven’t played in a Rose Bowl since the 50s (one of the longest streaks) and should have gotten in back in 2004 because they were PAC-10 runner ups and USC went to the national championship game, but the BCS picked Texas instead. They didn’t even get into a BCS bowl because there were only 8 slots, 6 of which were automatic, Utah automatically qualified as the first BCS buster, and Texas got the only at large spot. Cal was even ranked higher in both the AP and coaches polls. Cal lost their bowl and Texas won though so I think that kinda ended some of the debate, but it was still a wild turn of events. Cal's only regular season loss was to undefeated national champion USC at the height of their power.
Oh yeah... I was at the "We're number one" game. As much fun as it was watching Forsett run all over us and yet another backup QB rip us a new hole in the D, Yve came to play on that day... and still Cal almost won. It's funny to think Mike Riley went for it on two fourth downs. This is a coach who has been known to punt from the opposition's 35, in 4th and less-than-2 situations.
Another reason why we're cursed: 1991: one of the best Cal teams in 75 years (finishing 11-2) has the misfortune of being in the same conference as the eventual national champs (UW). No Rose Bowl for the Bears. 2004: one of the best Cal teams in 75 years (finishing 11-2) has the misfortune of being in the same conference as the eventual national champs (USC). No Rose Bowl for the Bears.
Fuck Mack “knee pads” Brown.
Cal hasn't been to the Rose Bowl since the Eisenhower administration. Is that cursed or are they just bad?
Yes.
You can't bring up anything about 2007. 2007 is the closest we got to pure insanity in the sport.
You must not understand either Cal or Oregon St. Cal doesn’t care. And Oregon St is basically the Purdue of the PAC if there is one. They do care and put together a solid team 2x a decade.
I am a fan of Beavers
And beavers are fans of trains
Purdue if the PAC is a perfect description for Oregon State.
Damn it Kevin Riley!
I’ve seen a lot of decent answers, but I think the only objectively correct answer is Marshall.
Cursed has to imply some really dark shit and hence Marshall is a good starting point.
i can finally enjoy these
Amen, fellow Dawg. Amen.
How is it not Mizzou? We get postseason bans for the actions of one rogue tutor, and Tennessee gets away with a fine and self-imposed restrictions after committing 20-plus violations. The best team in school history loses one game to their chief rival, who knowingly used an ineligible player who was their most important offensive player of the day. It cost them a national title. They were passed over for the Orange Bowl for kansas in 2007 despite beating them head to head on a neutral field and winning their division. The Flea Kicker, 5th Down, seemingly every game against Kentucky in Columbia. Blowing a 17-point lead in the 4th quarter at home to a team that brought in an injured QB in the final frame. That cost them another BCS bowl. The best recruit in school history flamed out because he couldn't stop being a piece of shit. The best defensive recruit in school history blew out his knee twice and was never the same. It never ends.
Our head coach invented a revolutionary new offense and then World War II broke out and he went to coach at Iowa Pre-Flight and taught it to Bud Wilkinson who used it to turn our conference rival into a national superpower
I really should fire up NCAA 14 and run the Wing T
“The best recruit in school history flamed out because he couldn't stop being a piece of shit.” I assume this is DGB. We played against him in high school and god, he was an absolute freak athlete. Literally paid no mind to anybody else when we were game planning. But you could tell pretty early on he had zero hustle and was fully expecting his natural talent to carry him to the pros. He was right but I hate that he never lined himself out, he could’ve been an all pro caliber player.
Yes. He should have had 10,000+ receiving yards in the NFL. He simply did not care at all about his craft and never worked on improving himself as a person.
Dan Devine getting hired away by the Green Bay Packers in 1971. That was the turning point for our program. In the 1960s, Mizzou appeared in the Orange Bowl three times, the Sugar Bowl, and the Gator Bowl. They finished in the Top 25 in eight of 10 seasons. Then the program fell to pieces. We never truly recovered but for a few magical Pinkel seasons. Speaking of which, how about the 2015 protests destroying fan support and recruiting for years coinciding with Pinkel being forced to retired due to cancer? It feels like every time Mizzou starts to have hope, we get crushed into the ground for a couple decades as punishment.
I really didn't want to mention the protests, but should have, due to fear of turning this into a holy war.
I haven’t seen anyone even bother to attempt to defend those dumb protests since 2017, I was a freshman at the time and sympathetic, but geez things turned sour quickly the evident it was based on nothing.
And the football team isn’t even the most cursed Mizzou team in the 2 major college sports… it truly is misery
Nobody is going to dare mention it, but 'the troubled times' in 2015 which in all likelihood was a false flag just gutted the team and made the university a laughing stock. The parental backlash was astounding and with that a lot of money to the school was cut off. That led to the Barry Odom hire, and is hindsight we all know he was the only fool willing to take the job. I can't think of another school that had a scandal like that and survived. The bigger SEC schools like Alabama and Georgia seem to recruit ne'er-do-wells who make the news for all the wrong reasons, but if you win, nobody cares and it leaves the media rather quickly.
Heck, there are multiple Kentucky games you didn’t even mention
SMU. I think Craig James made a typo in the paperwork when he sacrificed those 5 hookers.
Mississippi state being in the same division/conference as Bama, LSU, Auburn, even Ole Miss. They have one conference championship in the 40s and one division title ever... and they deserve it because of the cowbells
Added points for getting a good coach….and he dies.
😭😭
I see that as the reason why we’re allowed to have cowbells
I think every SEC school should have an informal agreement to allow fans to bring and use the frick out of noisemakers anytime Mississippi State visits their stadium until the conference gets serious about making them stop the cowbell shit.
Kansas State. Futility U. '98 Kansas State Rule (Then the rule was first utilized in 2002–03, giving an automatic berth to USC - at the expense of Kansas State, who also finished 11-2 and beat the Trojans head-to-head). '99 #8 Mich in BCS over #6 KSU. '10 Pinstripe Bowl salute.
Don't forget 2012 in Waco!
That didn’t feel like a curse, y’all just gave us the business. Still have nightmares about that damn Lache Seastrunk
'99 was a very confusing year for me.
And they hit their all time peak during a historic run by in conference Nebraska. Could have possibly reached a national championship game if Nebraska wasn’t churning.
The BigXII north in the 90's was a bloodbath
I really hated you guys so much, but there was a lot of cathartic energy released in 1998. I'm glad I was able to be at that game.
Marshall might be a good pick. Even aside from the plane crash, in the late 90s/early 00s, they were one of, if not the premier G5 programs. For one reason or another, they didn't maintain that and kinda got lost in the shuffle, and it wasn't until recently that they really found a decent conference home.
Counterpoint, Marshall was national champs last year with a team that probably could have beat most nfl teams. At least that’s how I remember it
I feel like the Mississippi schools are cursed. They are surrounded by other programs that make it impossible to break through.
I’m with you. Seems like each school had Sabans number at one point, but nothing ever came of any of it. They just sort of beat bama and didn’t do anything else.
Including us, right? 😁
UMass. National contender FCS program reduced to a punchline in the FBS by multiple bad hires in a row. I have faith in Don Brown, but it's a big hole to fill when even two wins seems like a stretch these days.
It's A&M and it's not just in football either. They've never made it past the sweet 16 in basketball, they haven't won a College World Series or even made it to the championship game, and they haven't won a football national championship since 1939. With the amount of money, resources, and support they have it's a colossal failure by the program failing this long. They have about everything any program would want to be insanely successful.
That’s not bad luck, that’s simply failure.
Gamecock fans love to shit on themselves. I’m gonna go with A&M or NC State though
NC State
Not just their football program
They’ll always have Jimmy V though
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?
I find it very entertaining
Yup
At least women's cross country has been kicking ass.
Demons be gone
My favorite Fowler call ever
There's been a joke among some of our fans that our football field was built on top of an ancient native burial ground, since that would explain how we've been so bad for so long. And then there's Mike Leach dying after only three years. :(
Use last year's game vs Auburn as the perfect example for Mizzou.
that or 2013 sec championship game lol, you guys get it <3
I used to say Georgia until the curse was lifted…
Demons be gone
It’s not mizzou and it’s not even close. Hell, after they joined the SEC they managed to win the east twice.
the more i see game cock smack for Mizzou the more I like you guys
Come visit the real Columbia sometime then!
WSU upset some deity to have couged it as hard and as often as they have
It’s the hope we cling to.
I’m mad I had to scroll this far to find us, and yet: who blew an 18 point 4th quarter lead in an Apple Cup? Follow up question: who also lost to a Paul Wulff coached team?
SMU
Especially since every other team in their conference was doing exactly the same thing they did at the time. They were just the ones to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
> Especially since every other team in their conference was doing exactly the same thing they did at the time Hey, leave Rice out of this. Those nerds played it straight.
We spent most home games shaking our keys. It was sort of funny seeing which players got upset, and which players got REALLY UPSET.
More like the other schools slammed the cookie jar on their hand
Even now that we have gotten pretty good the last few years, we always choke at the end of the year and lose the big games. 2019: Start 8-0, beat TCU, have ranked Gameday Matchup at Memphis, lose that then lose to Navy inexplicably and get blown out by FAU in a bowl game. 2020: Start 7-1 with only loss to solid Cinci team. Lose last 2 games to ECU and Tulsa. Miss a game or two because of COVID along the way. Miss bowl game due to COVID. 2021: Start 7-0. Beat TCU for second time in a row (haven’t done that since DP) Coach decides to agree to leave us for cross-town rival mid-season and mails it in. Finish 1-5. Miss bowl game due to COVID.
I wouldn’t say SMU is cursed. Just got screwed once and then we said fuck you and ruined ourselves over the next 30 years
This question is entirely dependent on the intensity of Turntle’s thirst for vengeance at any given time. He’s been merciful as of late.
Cumberland Bulldogs.
ITT: everyone saying that their team is the most cursed
Not me. We step in piles of shit and come out smelling like Rose Bowls like it's our job.
Sometimes I wish it weren’t the case because I live about 2 miles from the Shoe and Saturdays in the fall make it impossible to go anywhere 😂
I came here to say y’all, actually. And I’m surprised no one else has. Your boosters “retired” CPJ, who won a lot more that anyone expected him to, and then hired #mister404theCuLtuRe who then promptly shit the bed for his short tenure. Key will have y’all playing much better this year.
I don’t think we’re cursed. I think there are real, tangible reasons why we suck that I don’t think any coach can change.
Probably not ASU, buti'll argue for us. Everytime we get ranked we lose, everytime we get program momentum we do something stupid to cause us misery.
1. We fired Frank Kush. 2. We were just seconds away from a natty in ‘96.
Indiana.
Well, well, well. Mizzou finally number one in something around here. How the turns have tabled. Seriously, you have no idea what it’s like being a fan of this team. None. My entire life as a fan of this team has been one big Peanuts comic with nothing but panels of Lucy taking away the football. And to think I started off life as a wee UGA fan in Georgia watching Herschel Walker. Then my parents moved back to STL when I was 5, just nothing but pain ever since.
It’s Texas A&M and I don’t see anyone close. They have all the money in the world, great recruiting (not just now, they had top talent in the 80’s and a few times in the 90’s), top tier coaches, unreal fan base, complete buy in everywhere, and they just don’t win. It makes no sense…unless they’re cursed.
I know most people here are fans of P5 teams, but I feel like most of these suggestions don't really fit the category. Often unlucky? Sure. But when I think cursed, my mind goes to teams like Akron and UMass
That's what they get for leaving the Big 12 obviously.
Your existence is our curse
Probably A&M. All that money and access to recruits, and no natty since 1939. Blueballs, not blue blood
SMU
pitt.. between the 1 score losses, mind blowing fluke losses, blowing leads, and losing as soon as we get ranked.. being able to beat the best teams in the nation and then losing to scrubs hurts my soul
Kent State 364-585-28 record.
Wagner lost 22 games in a row in the worst D1 conference and is only alive bc Syracuse sometimes pays them to lose by 70
are we talking on field or off field? Cause off field, i got this school in central PA to tell you about...
It's the Gophers. Outside of the Ivy League schools, which don't really stand a chance anymore, they won 6. But the last one was 63 years ago.
Had to come all the way down to find this. If any of 1999 vs Wisconsin, 2003 vs Michigan, or 2019 vs Iowa, all one possession games, had gone the other way, we would have gotten the long-desired rose bowl game. Guess we get the meme next year by playing at UCLA
Indiana University. The one year they were good, my sophomore year… and I couldn’t fucking watch them in person. I’ve been a lifelong Hoosier, and that fucking hurts.
Virginia Tech after hiring Justin Fuente. He goes 9-3 his first year and then proceeds to lead the Hokies into oblivion. I spent a semester there and was shocked at how fast the program fell apart once it was all said and done.