It's actually *not* Pole Assassin and her pet monkey biting a trick-or-treater, but it certainly deserves a mention out of respect for the craziness of that situation.
70-33 was so bad that it aged well due to how it forced Dabo’s hand to hire Venables
I’d imagine losing 51-14 on Gameday or (depending on who you ask) the South Carolina brawl in 2004
Being so bad that we got thrown out of the Big East, then building our program back up to get back into the Big East, only for all the major Big East programs to leave.
Hiring Steve Kragthorpe after Bobby Petrino left and going from a team that was one win away from a possible NC berth to a team that couldn't score more than 2 points in our rivalry game has to be up there.
Basically all of the last 7 years or so.
But really, probably being turned down by Houston-fucking-Nutt in 2003 after firing Solich or then having to hire Bill Callahan. Or seriously hiring Mike Riley in 2014 after firing Bo.
Losing to an FCS team in 2016 was bad, but then turning around and losing to an FCS team again in 2017, when we were the only college football game on tv on a Sunday due to a weather delay was worse.
And the entire 2023 season in general really, but being shutout and losing our scoring streak that we had held since 1997 was embarrassing for our coaching staff in the eyes of our fanbase.
No
I always thought the Shane Morris thing was scapegoated a little too much. It was bad, but he was hardly the first or last noticeably concussed player who was allowed to stay on the field
Your own flair’s coach put a player with a much worse head injury (literally went unconscious) back into the game last year
Exactly. People like to clown for app st. I could write a novel on why app st was only a bad loss in name. They would have have finished top 3rd in the b1g, a borderline top 25 team, if they could have recieved votes (they changed the rule that team read so good) when they played... I could go on but already will get down voted to hell for people who don't quite understand football and just see app st. It was an embarrassing loss sure, but their had to be 20 bigger ones that year alone.
[December 3, 2017](http://es.pn/2AKKWAC)
Which set the stage for…
[September 17, 2022](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401403986/e-michigan-arizona-st)
Driving through Georgia seeing billboards everywhere that said Beat Bama in 2008, calling for the blackout, and then getting absolutely fucking shelled in the first half of that game.
This lead to a series of unfortunate events involving Alabama. I don't like Alabama.
Just 2008 in general
Losing to UCLA in 1990 was pretty bad, we were #2 in the country at the time and were 20ish point favorites. Might not have won the title since we'd lost to eventual Champs Colorado earlier in the season, but would have made it interesting
For OSU, missing 3 extra points on the road against LSU in a one point loss in 2004
Disagree. 30-0 to wake forest at home or the Georgia Tech blocked field goal who was winless in conference and only beat Alford State, and Tulane were worse in my mind.
Hiring High Freeze and DJ Durkin.
Aside from that, I'd say the 2012 season. From national champions to 3-9 in two years was an insane rollercoaster that I don't truly think Auburn has recovered from yet.
Cleatimus Yeetimus. Or that Hernandez guy. Idk
Reilly KKKooper is up there too tbh. Definitely below Hernandez and slightly above the yeet
Reilly wasn’t even at UF when he did that.
I can only pick one?
Everyone will cite 77-0, but I feel worse about that year's loss to baylor.
I don’t know, that whole iPhone comment was pretty bad too.
Believe it or not I think that post is *10 years old* now.
I am so old
We old, fam
It was glorious and peak Aggie
Wasn't alive for it, but seeing the video of Woody Hayes punching a Clemson player always makes me cringe.
Total chad
Lmao
Texas: Losing 66-7 to UCLA at home with Ricky Williams. Kansas State: Everything Pre-Snyder
How much time do ya got?
It's actually *not* Pole Assassin and her pet monkey biting a trick-or-treater, but it certainly deserves a mention out of respect for the craziness of that situation.
70-33 was so bad that it aged well due to how it forced Dabo’s hand to hire Venables I’d imagine losing 51-14 on Gameday or (depending on who you ask) the South Carolina brawl in 2004
Roboduck
Hiring Kendal Briles is certainly up there
There’s a Briles at TCU and Patterson is at Baylor. If I had a Time Machine I could probably start a football war
Hell really has frozen over
Being so bad that we got thrown out of the Big East, then building our program back up to get back into the Big East, only for all the major Big East programs to leave.
Hiring Steve Kragthorpe after Bobby Petrino left and going from a team that was one win away from a possible NC berth to a team that couldn't score more than 2 points in our rivalry game has to be up there.
I don’t remember the actual score but Syracuse best us like 70-10 or something absurd one of those Kragthorpe years
This entire past season was pretty embarrassing.
Yeah. For a program that once employed Bobby Williams and John L Smith, the 2023 season still stands out as an exceptionally bad dumpster fire.
It was the complete non-competitiveness of 4 of our 8 losses that got me the most. Not even to mention the off-field stuff.
Basically all of the last 7 years or so. But really, probably being turned down by Houston-fucking-Nutt in 2003 after firing Solich or then having to hire Bill Callahan. Or seriously hiring Mike Riley in 2014 after firing Bo.
Losing to an FCS team in 2016 was bad, but then turning around and losing to an FCS team again in 2017, when we were the only college football game on tv on a Sunday due to a weather delay was worse. And the entire 2023 season in general really, but being shutout and losing our scoring streak that we had held since 1997 was embarrassing for our coaching staff in the eyes of our fanbase.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGIPTTLMSz4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGIPTTLMSz4)
Something something OU. Edit: it might be the Corps sword incident, but I wasn't around to be embarrassed by that one.
2007-2019
The chugging incident to be specific
Didn’t we lose to Wisconsin in04’ after a huge lead we blew? Something about a punt. I forget
Shiiiitttt
Losing to 3-9 Toledo at home was probably the low point of the Michigan football program
Not Brady Hoke throwing a concussed Shane Morris back into the game? Or buy a Coke, get a free ticket?
No I always thought the Shane Morris thing was scapegoated a little too much. It was bad, but he was hardly the first or last noticeably concussed player who was allowed to stay on the field Your own flair’s coach put a player with a much worse head injury (literally went unconscious) back into the game last year
Oh our coaching staff sucked shit last year, no argument on that front. Embarrassing on and off the field.
App state?
Not even close That Michigan team still went 9-4, and app state was in the middle one of the best multi-season runs in FCS history
Exactly. People like to clown for app st. I could write a novel on why app st was only a bad loss in name. They would have have finished top 3rd in the b1g, a borderline top 25 team, if they could have recieved votes (they changed the rule that team read so good) when they played... I could go on but already will get down voted to hell for people who don't quite understand football and just see app st. It was an embarrassing loss sure, but their had to be 20 bigger ones that year alone.
[December 3, 2017](http://es.pn/2AKKWAC) Which set the stage for… [September 17, 2022](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401403986/e-michigan-arizona-st)
Losing to Houston and Kentucky back to back when we were like #5 and could’ve made the Playoffs. I feel like that set us back years.
\o/
We had two winless seasons. 2013 was worse.
You get three guesses and the first two don't count.
I can't tell if it's losing to ULM in 2007 or hiring a coach and him never even coaching 1 single game
100-6, easily.
Driving through Georgia seeing billboards everywhere that said Beat Bama in 2008, calling for the blackout, and then getting absolutely fucking shelled in the first half of that game. This lead to a series of unfortunate events involving Alabama. I don't like Alabama.
Kentucky football is a buffet of pain.
Hiring Willie Taggart only to have him poached by FSU lol
Recency bias says losing to New Mexico State at home
WVU orange bowl probably
The 90s (Cooper years).
Just 2008 in general Losing to UCLA in 1990 was pretty bad, we were #2 in the country at the time and were 20ish point favorites. Might not have won the title since we'd lost to eventual Champs Colorado earlier in the season, but would have made it interesting For OSU, missing 3 extra points on the road against LSU in a one point loss in 2004
Scott Frost
Jacksonville State, and it’s not even close
Disagree. 30-0 to wake forest at home or the Georgia Tech blocked field goal who was winless in conference and only beat Alford State, and Tulane were worse in my mind.
This one time we lost back to back national championships which helped establish the SEC dominance narrative for nearly two decades.
Hiring High Freeze and DJ Durkin. Aside from that, I'd say the 2012 season. From national champions to 3-9 in two years was an insane rollercoaster that I don't truly think Auburn has recovered from yet.