Worst Bowl loss

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Big Orange Captain said:
Well i started a thread with the best bowl win so it’s only right to flip the coin with the worst bowl loss. Mine is the 2002 Peach bowl and i was there guess that makes the experience even worse. We got drilled by Maryland 30-3 and didn’t even show up or look interested in being there at all. There was also some drama in the locker room with a player who was on his cell phone best i remember. We started the 2002 season ranked in the top 5 and were consensus preseason picks to win the SEC and compete for the national title. It ended on a thud in the Peach bowl loss finishing the season 8-5 and unranked. 2002 season was one of the most disappointing ones under Fulmer. My second one would be the 1998 Orange bowl lost 42-17 to Nebraska, going into the game if Washington St beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl then the orange bowl would’ve been the de facto national championship game. Unfortunately we got steam rolled and a less than 100 percent healthy Peyton had one of his worst games the outcome was never in doubt from the first quarter on.
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if not in one of the New Years day bowls or the CFP, bowl games have always just been reard trips for the players and staff. Rarely are they going to be motivated to play those games and it has always been that way. I've been to many of them and seen how they handle them... Now, if playing a name program (Ohio St in 95 and Michigan in 01), they have a little more motivation to show up..
 
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Definitely Maryland in the Peach Bowl in 02 for several reasons.

One, we got our azzes whipped. We were never in that game.

Two, it was the cherry on top of a quite disappointing year. The motto of the season was something about finish the job or unfinished business because we choked in the 2001 SEC Championship but we just weren't that good all season.

And three, I had caught a stomach virus and had felt weird all day, then went to a party where we watched this game and instead of maybe listening to my body I decided to eat tons of junk food. Then I had to drive about 2 hours home. And on the way back it hit me and I had to pull over and puke my guts out, hoping that a police officer didn't see me and assume I was drunk. Even worse was that wasn't even the bad throw up, a few hours later I woke up to a stomach cramp I have never felt before and I threw up so much I thought I was going to vomit an organ. It got so bad I had to go to the ER to get fluids and for them to give me something to make me stop.

So yeah...that's my worst bowl game.
 
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Big Orange Captain said:
Well i started a thread with the best bowl win so it’s only right to flip the coin with the worst bowl loss. Mine is the 2002 Peach bowl and i was there guess that makes the experience even worse. We got drilled by Maryland 30-3 and didn’t even show up or look interested in being there at all. There was also some drama in the locker room with a player who was on his cell phone best i remember. We started the 2002 season ranked in the top 5 and were consensus preseason picks to win the SEC and compete for the national title. It ended on a thud in the Peach bowl loss finishing the season 8-5 and unranked. 2002 season was one of the most disappointing ones under Fulmer. My second one would be the 1998 Orange bowl lost 42-17 to Nebraska, going into the game if Washington St beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl then the orange bowl would’ve been the de facto national championship game. Unfortunately we got steam rolled and a less than 100 percent healthy Peyton had one of his worst games the outcome was never in doubt from the first quarter on.
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Surprised with all the old guys on here nobody has mentioned the 69 Cotton Bowl against Texas. Texas lost 2 games early in the season but won all the rest and should have been ranked #1. It was about 25 degrees and wind was blowing about 25 mph, perfect situation for a wishbone attack. They were ahead 28-0 at the half and it wasn't even that close. Ended up winning 36-13.

That team went on to win the NC in 69, one of the best teams I have ever seen. Trivia fact; that was the last all white team to win the NC.

Amazing with all the resources Texac has they have won only 1 Nattie in the last 57 years.
 
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Savannahbayvol said:
Surprised with all the old guys on here nobody has mentioned the 69 Cotton Bowl against Texas. Texas lost 2 games early in the season but won all the rest and should have been ranked #1. It was about 25 degrees and wind was blowing about 25 mph, perfect situation for a wishbone attack. They were ahead 28-0 at the half and it wasn't even that close. Ended up winning 36-13.

That team went on to win the NC in 69, one of the best teams I have ever seen. Trivia fact; that was the last all white team to win the NC.

Amazing with all the resources Texac has they have won only 1 Nattie in the last 57 years.
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In this context, I suppose that it depends on how you define worst, i.e., worst slaughter or most painful bowl loss for whatever reason. If memory serves me correctly, one of our players in that game, perhaps Richmond Flowers, stated essentially that, "If we had played them ten times, they would have beaten us ten times. [Texas] just was that much better than we were." At least in games of that sort, you walk off the field with no doubts in your mind, no "if only we had done this or that, the outcome would have been different." It is easier, on one level, to walk away from a game knowing that you were simply outplayed by a superior opponent.
 
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Big Orange Captain said:
Well i started a thread with the best bowl win so it’s only right to flip the coin with the worst bowl loss. Mine is the 2002 Peach bowl and i was there guess that makes the experience even worse. We got drilled by Maryland 30-3 and didn’t even show up or look interested in being there at all. There was also some drama in the locker room with a player who was on his cell phone best i remember. We started the 2002 season ranked in the top 5 and were consensus preseason picks to win the SEC and compete for the national title. It ended on a thud in the Peach bowl loss finishing the season 8-5 and unranked. 2002 season was one of the most disappointing ones under Fulmer. My second one would be the 1998 Orange bowl lost 42-17 to Nebraska, going into the game if Washington St beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl then the orange bowl would’ve been the de facto national championship game. Unfortunately we got steam rolled and a less than 100 percent healthy Peyton had one of his worst games the outcome was never in doubt from the first quarter on.
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OP, for me, it’s both of those Peach Bowls. Clemson in the exact same situation the next season.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
In this context, I suppose that it depends on how you define worst, i.e., worst slaughter or most painful bowl loss for whatever reason. If memory serves me correctly, one of our players in that game, perhaps Richmond Flowers, stated essentially that, "If we had played them ten times, they would have beaten us ten times. [Texas] just was that much better than we were." At least in games of that sort, you walk off the field with no doubts in your mind, no "if only we had done this or that, the outcome would have been different." It is easier, on one level, to walk away from a game knowing that you were simply outplayed by a superior opponent.
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Your point is well taken. I was looking from the viewpoint of worst being the most outmatched we have ever been. Particularly considering we were 8-1-1 and though not a great team, a pretty good one.

The Horns could have beaten us 56-0 if Royal hadnt let up.
 
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Savannahbayvol said:
Your point is well taken. I was looking from the viewpoint of worst being the most outmatched we have ever been. Particularly considering we were 8-1-1 and though not a great team, a pretty good one.

The Horns could have beaten us 56-0 if Royal hadnt let up.
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I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but there was a wild card involved. That was the first time we faced the wishbone offense, and Texas was in the middle of a 30-game winning streak. Nobody defended it successfully until Notre Dame came up with their "mirror" defense for the 1971 Cotton Bowl.
 
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Savannahbayvol said:
Your point is well taken. I was looking from the viewpoint of worst being the most outmatched we have ever been. Particularly considering we were 8-1-1 and though not a great team, a pretty good one.

The Horns could have beaten us 56-0 if Royal hadnt let up.
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"Royal quickly embraced the idea of the wishbone, though it did not immediately work, as the Longhorns tied their first game running the new offense and went into halftime of their second game against Texas Tech trailing 21–0. This led Royal to make the first of two changes which proved key to the future success of the wishbone. He replaced initial starting quarterback Bill Bradley, who proved to have trouble with the reads and pitches that were key to the new formation, with James Street, who nearly led the Longhorns to a comeback win. Then, while analyzing film from the Texas Tech loss, an assistant noticed that fullback Steve Worster was reaching the line of scrimmage too soon. At the assistant's suggestion, Royal and Bellard then had Worster start a step farther back from the quarterback. According to Bradley, "When we moved Worster back and James took over, we just caught fire."[5] Texas won its next 30 games, leading to two national championships using the formation.[6] In 1971 Royal showed the offense to Bear Bryant, who was so enamored with it that he installed it at Alabama complete with his own touches." Wishbone formation - Wikipedia

Therefore, Texas had eight games to truly get the kinks worked out of the wishbone but, defensively, nobody really had time to adapt to a fundamentally new offensive scheme, one that would dominate college football during the 1970s, that season.

P.S. Texas was a pedestrian 6-4 football team in 1967, one that averaged only 18.6 points per game. In the final nine games of the '68 game, including our Cotton Bowl matchup, the Longhorns scored 337 points, while giving up only 147.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but there was a wild card involved. That was the first time we faced the wishbone offense, and Texas was in the middle of a 30-game winning streak. Nobody defended it successfully until Notre Dame came up with their "mirror" defense for the 1971 Cotton Bowl.
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Probably the best team in college football history that wasn't recognized as NC. Funny story our crew had gone to Miami for the Orange Bowl the year before and we were behind 19-0 at the half. Somewhere in Mississippi on the way to Dallas I made the ill fated statement, "well at least we wont be behind by 19 at the half." Unfortunately I was correct, we were behind by 28!:)
 
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GAVol said:
I was there too. The team clearly didn’t want to be there. 2003 was just as bad when the team got royally screwed by the bowl selection process.
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2003 we beat UK and had a better record but they went to the Outback Bowl. Why, because the CEO of Outback was a UK grad. Havent eaten in an Outback since.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Clausen wasn't the reason we lost either of those games....we were pissed as a team for being #6 in the country and falling to the SEC's 5th bowl game which was BS...

Then Clemson had a TD given to them where the WR ran BEHIND a player on the sideline and came back in, wasn't called.

Then as we scored a TD right before half, the same ref said it was incomplete and gave Clausen a flag for arguing it.

BS game..

Maryland just was a better less injured team who wanted it more
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I have a friend that was on the team that lost to Maryland. He said the team went out partying hard with their bowl allowance. Stayed out late, got drunk as hell …. So bad that guys were puking at practice the day before the game.
 
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Go over to some of the ACC boards and the B10 boards. They are making fun of us and the SEC. Can you believe that? We are so bad the ACC is making fun of us.
 
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