Longest Losing Streaks for Every SEC Team

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golfballvol said:
So that 6 game skid was 2020, what was our record before that? 2017 only had 4 losses in a row
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Some of us remember starting off 0-6 during the 1988 season. Some dude camped out on a billboard until Tennessee won a game. I think he was up there for a almost a month.

Here's a good reference I use: Tennessee Historical Scores
 
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brockytop said:
In 1988 TN started 0-6, which at least shares in the ”honor”.

Interestingly, that team ended up 5-6 and the next season—1989—was the start of the greatest run in modern Tennessee football history.
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I drove from Orangeburg, SC to watch every one of those. Then in 89-90, I was there for all those too, including the Cotton Bowl. Pick and Webb were awesome.
Bowl was a day trip. Flew out at 4 AM, got home at midnight. The Cotton Bowl cost me only the tix ($40 each) plus lunch and a t-shirt. When we got home, my wife discovered that she had bought an Arkansas shirt. (Had frequent flyer miles)
 
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vik said:
Some of us remember starting off 0-6 during the 1988 season. Some dude camped out on a billboard until Tennessee won a game. I think he was up there for a almost a month.

Here's a good reference I use: Tennessee Historical Scores
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Yeah, I had just gotten married and began to wonder if I might have to get a divorce to break the curse. Fortunately, that didn't turn out to be necessary. Still going strong almost 4 decades later.
 
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brockytop said:
In 1988 TN started 0-6, which at least shares in the ”honor”.

Interestingly, that team ended up 5-6 and the next season—1989—was the start of the greatest run in modern Tennessee football history.
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I think they won their first game in Memphis, can’t remember if it was Tiger High or Ole Miss. I think Tiger High.

And boy did they think they were going to beat us!
 
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MHS Rebel said:
I drove from Orangeburg, SC to watch every one of those. Then in 89-90, I was there for all those too, including the Cotton Bowl. Pick and Webb were awesome.
Bowl was a day trip. Flew out at 4 AM, got home at midnight. The Cotton Bowl cost me only the tix ($40 each) plus lunch and a t-shirt. When we got home, my wife discovered that she had bought an Arkansas shirt. (Had frequent flyer miles)
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One more thing about the '89 year. Did it seem to y'all that Pickens always seemed to have a pinch between his cheek and gum?
 
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MHS Rebel said:
I drove from Orangeburg, SC to watch every one of those. Then in 89-90, I was there for all those too, including the Cotton Bowl. Pick and Webb were awesome.
Bowl was a day trip. Flew out at 4 AM, got home at midnight. The Cotton Bowl cost me only the tix ($40 each) plus lunch and a t-shirt. When we got home, my wife discovered that she had bought an Arkansas shirt. (Had frequent flyer miles)
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My first game were both that. I went to 89 ole miss game with my great uncle. He was a tale gunner in World War 2. He said I enjoyed my self so much he bought me a ticket to the cotton bowl. I will never forget that trip. I still have the ticket stub.
 
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Unconditional Surrender said:
That was the year my dad got me listening to John Ward on the radio. He had introduced me to the Braves (worst team in baseball) earlier that year. So I just thought "this is sports."
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Those 80s Braves were maddening. My dad loved baseball, he watched the Braves every night and it was a 3hr gripe fest. He hated Dale Murphy's stance in the batters box
 
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dieseldaddy said:
My first game were both that. I went to 89 ole miss game with my great uncle. He was a tale gunner in World War 2. He said I enjoyed my self so much he bought me a ticket to the cotton bowl. I will never forget that trip. I still have the ticket stub.
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That's awesome
 
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vik said:
Some of us remember starting off 0-6 during the 1988 season. Some dude camped out on a billboard until Tennessee won a game. I think he was up there for a almost a month.

Here's a good reference I use: Tennessee Historical Scores
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Duncan Stewart was a sports radio host that camped out on that billboard.
 
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vik said:
Some of us remember starting off 0-6 during the 1988 season. Some dude camped out on a billboard until Tennessee won a game. I think he was up there for a almost a month.

Here's a good reference I use: Tennessee Historical Scores
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Duncan Stewart was the one that lived on the billboard. I was friends with a guy who knew him well....When he did it he thought he'd only be up there a few days and we'd win...Boy, was he wrong. Lol

I had season tickets in those days and I remember walking on The Strip after games and folks wearing paper bags over their heads.
 
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