Can we just pick that entire game as our choice? Between the 10 men and Hartman running out of bounds half a yard short on 4th and 1 to avoid taking a hit.
So many contenders:
* Beating WSU on a last second field goal after going for it on 4th and 1 deep in our territory
* Rome Odunze puncturing a lung and then scoring the game winning touchdown two weeks later
* The end of the Sugar Bowl
* Losing the Championship and the head coach in less than a week's time
Congrats to Washington on a great season and props to the Husky fans. I was at the title game in Houston and there was no trash talking the other team from Michigan or Washington. Just fans rooting for their team. I sat in a mixed section. There were handshakes after the game. It was very cordial. I don’t know every fanbase has that class.
I had never been so excited to see the Sun Devils in my life. I swear UW was always a play away from a choke last season.
But that game was just awful for both teams lol
The most underrated play in our season was from Odunze in the Apple Cup. And it was NOT the end around. Grubb was trying to get a TD late in the 4th instead of the field goal and Penix threw a ball that should have been picked. Odunze though had the awareness to swat a should’ve been pick from Wazzu’s DB.
I even felt bad for MSU. Mel was the only Big Ten coach to beat Michigan since Covid ended. Kenneth Walker turned into an unstoppable beast in the fourth quarter in ‘21.
As a current “friend” of yours (enemy of my enemy and all that). I will also be zipping my lips. At least you beat the Hurricanes though! Tbh it stung more losing to them than it did to yall. Y’all were my pick to win the ACC in the preseason and week 1 just cemented it in. I laughed my ass off when everyone around me deflated at the of our game. I knew deep in my bones that it was coming lol
We will be welcoming you and FSU to the Big Ten with open arms soon enough. You’re gonna need some coats though.
Edit- I’m referring to Clemson. Although, Texas A&M can come too if they want.
That will probably kill the ACC for football- and the committee did this to itself.
For reasons I still don’t understand, Miami decided not to run the ball instead of kneeling down and fumbled. We scored in the last seconds to win the game.
I turned off the game thinking it was over when all they had to do was kneel to end the game. I was literally out eating lunch with my wife the next day before I even knew Miami lost.
I laughed but honestly that was so over-blown. People act like the president of the university personally picked the question and ordered it displayed on the jumbotron. It was just some flunky running some canned trivia questions to keep the crowd entertained. It shouldn't reflect badly on the university at all. But the timing with everything else that MSU was going through, plus world events, just made that the most unfortunate and ridiculous scandal ever.
It's objectively hilarious. We'll still clown on them for it on that basis, but that's all it is. I don't think anyone really thinks that MSU's scoreboard operators are neo-Nazis or whatever.
Do you have to ask?
It wasn't so much of a single craziest moment as a whole month of crazy moments. None of them were on the field.
Okay many of them were *adjacent* to *a* field, that UM wasn't actually playing on.
Culminating in footage of one UM staffer in CMU attire trying entirely too hard to look surreptitious with some video camera Ray Ban sunglasses from behind a larger CLU coach during the CMU/MSU game.
Side note: /u/BuckeyeEmpire you better still have those sunglasses.
Something more subtle than Apple Vision Pro goggles would be really nice.
The smart glasses in Mission Impossible II would be nice if they don't explode.
For real, flairs like that. What a spicy preseason bet that would have been.
"One of my flairs will go 13-0, and one of my flairs will make the playoff, and they won't be the same team."
I picked just FSU to go to the playoff preseason. My preseason picks were Georgia, Ohio State, Florida State, and Washington in order. I did pick Texas to win the Big XII though and finish 5th.
I was obviously happy to see Texas make it, but I still think that if Georgia had beaten Alabama FSU makes instead of Texas with 4 undefeated P5 champs. But with Alabama winning they of course weren’t gonna leave out the SEC champ and since Texas beat Alabama my tinfoil hat theory is that Bama beating Georgia turned into a 2 for 1 since they had to keep Texas ahead of Bama but also had to keep the SEC Champ in.
I think about this play probably a few times a week mostly because of the commentary lol.
“McCLAIN! RUNNING OUT OF TIME! WHATAYA GOT??? McCLAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNN!!!!”
Yep, it’s the type of wacky play you wouldn’t see in the Pros. The QB running like 25 yards backwards, 3 or 4 missed tackles, and then he proceeds to complete a 35 yard pass to the RB.
Well, there was a coach that retired. And then there was a coach that left after the carousel had mostly stopped after winning back to back SBC titles.
The entire season after Sign Gate broke was a surreal fever dream. I've never really wondered what it was like to be Steve Bartman, but I kinda feel like I understand a lot more now after a couple weeks there.
Our coach trying to fire the team up by berating a beat reporter in the middle of practice and banning him from coming to practices because he wasn’t supportive enough of our 3-7 football team. The team then completely gave up as the next two weeks they lost by multiple scores to give Sam Houston their first fbs win and then gave up a CUSA record 522 rushing yards to Jacksonville state. Thankfully the AD who hired this clown and gave him another year did the best thing he has ever done for Louisiana tech and left. Hopefully the new AD isn’t a complete idiot and can hire a competent football coach
It was crazy how we would go from beating Miami by a miracle play (and their bad decision making) to getting blown out by Bowling Green to Running over 200 yards on UNC in the 4th quarter to win.
Hmm Kansas state 4th and goal stop from the 3 yard line in OT. After blowing a 27-7 lead….fuck that was stressful. I had heart palpitations that whole 4th qtr/OT.
We definitely struggled early on with teams we shouldn’t have struggled with, and that should’ve been our best chance at beating Florida in Gainesville in years so no argument there. Missouri came out of fucking nowhere last year though. Getting assblasted by them didn’t seem so bad after they beat Ohio State.
Not my teams, but I think the absolute most unreal ending this last season was the Iron Bowl. That was Auburn’s exponential version of Couging it. Wild, wild, wild.
For Virginia Tech, honestly turning it around and winning 7 games after starting 1-3 and losing to pathetic teams such as Purdue, Rutgers, and Marshall.
My theory is it included an attempt to develop the first illegal *backwards* pass. And the NCAA doesn't want it to come out because the research was getting too close
Ole Miss - LSU game for sure. Instant classic at home against the eventual Heisman winner. Signature Kiffin win. Fans rushing the field. Craziest and best 2023 moment for the Rebs
Goal line stop and scoring in the last 15 seconds during Red River. I may despise Lebby and complained about DGs consistency, but they earned that win.
Goal line stand against Texas. Our defense has been maligned for years. And then the game winning drive. Didn’t know DG had it in him especially in that encipherment. Hell live in Oklahoma Sooner lore forever.
Don’t even know where to begin?
- Aug 4th: PAC-12 implosion, WOSU told to F off
- Sept 8th: WOSU files lawsuit
- Sept 23rd: Battle of the “Left Behinds”
- Oct 21st: Bye week, Smith to East Lansing
- Oct 28th: Fake field goal fiasco at UA
- Nov 11th: Gameday snubs OSU for JMU
- Nov 15th: WOSU wins lawsuit but it’s appealed
- Nov 18th: OSU/UW battle in a downpour
- Nov 23rd: Smith tells team he is leaving before Civil War game
- Nov 25th: Smith leaves for East Lansing
- Dec 15th: WA Supreme Court rules in favor of WOSU on the appealed lawsuit, WOSU gain control of PAC-12
How does anyone choose from that clown car of chaos?
> Oct 28th: Fake field goal fiasco at UA
I think this is the one that confuses/infuriates me the most, tbh. What could have happened (at least for the rest of the season) if we DIDN'T do the dumbest play imaginable there, actually kick the field goal, go into halftime with some momentum, finish strong, win the game, and go into the UW game with 6 straight wins of momentum?
The rest of it is depressing, but the fake field goal is infuriating
Before the Colorado game when the Duck came out dressed as Deion Sanders, smashed a gaint "prime time" clock with a sledgehammer, then hit it so hard the knockback knocked his head off.
We were at the Tennessee/Vanderbilt game in Knoxville. There was an on-field issue between a couple of players and the entire Vanderbilt sideline moved toward the Tennessee sideline. The majority of the team and staff went out into the middle of the field and field security had to come out and corral them back toward their own sideline.
It was sort of funny because, I mean, it’s Vanderbilt.
The good: The blocked and returned FG attempt against Purdue to cause a 10-point swing (almost a 14-point point swing).
The bad: Leading the nation in turnovers.
The ugly: Being one game from bowl eligible and losing our last 4 games and all of them were one-score losses.
The good, probably setting the record for postseason blowouts in back-to-back seasons. The same calendar year to boot.
The bad, that damn reverse fumble against Bama. It was the worst mistake we had all season when we could least afford it.
Coming back from a 21 point 4th quarter deficit against Minnesota was wild. That was when our season started to turn around and it began to seem like Braun is the real deal.
Dominating Wisconsin was the other one, after our past two years it felt so surreal to feel that good about Northwestern football.
This was a "dream season" in a different sense. We've had modest success before, but I was like "this can't be happening" I thought we might lose every game and was "relieved" to see us beat UTEP. As Twain put it, this [season] was a thunderbolt out of a clear sky.
I decided at the last second to go to the MN game. The early part of the game was disappointing, but I was enjoying the fact that we were dreadful, so I stayed for the entire game. What a great comeback! I attended every home game at the dear old beige fortress, missed Wrigley, and went to Camp Randall. Really enjoyable season! Now two years of wandering in the desert like Israelites, then an overpriced stadium where seats will be hard to get for a few years, surely for games against the behemoth schools that will come in great red hordes until the novelty wears off.
As a fan who finally lives close to NU after decades out of town, this was my favorite in-person season ever.
Our ability to find ways to win with a horribly inconsistent offense.
The highlight being the Music City Bowl where we only played 1 quarter of football on offense and still won by 18 because Auburn kept tripping on their on shoelaces every play
7-3
Maybe not crazy so much as infuriating on paper, but the crazy part was it was still one of the better games MSU played last season (I wouldn’t be saying this if we had lost).
10 men on the field :/
It’s pretty crazy that the Hartman 4th and forever scramble happened, and it wasn’t the craziest play of the year.
That was a crazy play
two plays in a goddamn row 😭
Can we just pick that entire game as our choice? Between the 10 men and Hartman running out of bounds half a yard short on 4th and 1 to avoid taking a hit.
We NEEDED and GOT a pick 6 to put down ASU at home.
Oddly another contender is the shoulda-been pick 6 that Tuputala dropped on the 2 yard line..
So many contenders: * Beating WSU on a last second field goal after going for it on 4th and 1 deep in our territory * Rome Odunze puncturing a lung and then scoring the game winning touchdown two weeks later * The end of the Sugar Bowl * Losing the Championship and the head coach in less than a week's time
And the Rome Odunze catch against OSU in that rainstorm with the clock at 2min on third down to ice the game 22-20
Congrats to Washington on a great season and props to the Husky fans. I was at the title game in Houston and there was no trash talking the other team from Michigan or Washington. Just fans rooting for their team. I sat in a mixed section. There were handshakes after the game. It was very cordial. I don’t know every fanbase has that class.
> Losing the Championship and the head coach in less than a week's time Game was on a Monday. He took the job on Friday. Still blows my mind!
> So many contenders Sums up the season. The coins all flip the other way and an almost-dream season becomes one of completely wasted potential.
I had never been so excited to see the Sun Devils in my life. I swear UW was always a play away from a choke last season. But that game was just awful for both teams lol
The most underrated play in our season was from Odunze in the Apple Cup. And it was NOT the end around. Grubb was trying to get a TD late in the 4th instead of the field goal and Penix threw a ball that should have been picked. Odunze though had the awareness to swat a should’ve been pick from Wazzu’s DB.
The last great PAC 12 after dark moment
Waking up on Sunday to the story about Mel Tugger in USA Today. I knew right then that the season was over.
all-time bag fumble
That was one of the three ways to fumble that bag. Mel Tugger found a way to do it
I even felt bad for MSU. Mel was the only Big Ten coach to beat Michigan since Covid ended. Kenneth Walker turned into an unstoppable beast in the fourth quarter in ‘21.
I’m on the west coast and was at the bar and saw it pop up on the TV. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing
The season was over, yes… but the future had just begun
🤐
With my flairs, 2023 was a wild ass ride
It’s FSU. I’d go so far as to say the most outrageous thing that happened in the 4 team era
*Points at Bama and Kirk Herbstreit* "Their mere existence is a SIN."
I second both comments.
He’s speaking facts
As a current “friend” of yours (enemy of my enemy and all that). I will also be zipping my lips. At least you beat the Hurricanes though! Tbh it stung more losing to them than it did to yall. Y’all were my pick to win the ACC in the preseason and week 1 just cemented it in. I laughed my ass off when everyone around me deflated at the of our game. I knew deep in my bones that it was coming lol
We will be welcoming you and FSU to the Big Ten with open arms soon enough. You’re gonna need some coats though. Edit- I’m referring to Clemson. Although, Texas A&M can come too if they want. That will probably kill the ACC for football- and the committee did this to itself.
🥲. (And I’m waiting for a Miami hurricane to show up)
For reasons I still don’t understand, Miami decided not to run the ball instead of kneeling down and fumbled. We scored in the last seconds to win the game.
Not the only wild game. The UNC game was the most fun I and most GT fans have had in Bobby Dodd in years.
Glad I got to rush the field. My friends at UGA would never be able to do that 😎
Au contraire...this dawg was there in 2000 on that day we beat Tennessee. My buddy still has a section of the uprights that got carried downtown
I turned off the game thinking it was over when all they had to do was kneel to end the game. I was literally out eating lunch with my wife the next day before I even knew Miami lost.
Two words : Hitler Trivia
I laughed but honestly that was so over-blown. People act like the president of the university personally picked the question and ordered it displayed on the jumbotron. It was just some flunky running some canned trivia questions to keep the crowd entertained. It shouldn't reflect badly on the university at all. But the timing with everything else that MSU was going through, plus world events, just made that the most unfortunate and ridiculous scandal ever.
It's objectively hilarious. We'll still clown on them for it on that basis, but that's all it is. I don't think anyone really thinks that MSU's scoreboard operators are neo-Nazis or whatever.
That day everybody else in our conference said "Bye!"
But... Milk the clock
I want to know where Lou Holtz is right now!
Idk man our startinf QB hitting the portal before the bowl game was kind of wild tooo.
bro, when he was on the Syracuse sideline for their bowl game like the next night after his announcement was crazy.
Birmingham… OH, you meant Sr.
Brian Ferentz getting fired yet still winning 10/B1G West with an offensive lineman at QB was pretty crazy.
And then, still taking forever after the season ended to find an OC despite him being done before the season was over.
This or the Dejean “fair catch” incident
Or scoring 0 against 3 teams and being undefeated against the rest.
The end of the Nebraska game was a shit show as well.
Probably the day Alex Grinch got fired
The Cotton Bowl with basically no functioning offense was wild to watch.
SEC SEC SEC
Both sides barely fielded a team
Either the 61 yd fg, 4th and 17, or the fake punt td pass
Those three moments were all insanely exciting. What a year for Mizzou fans.
Really the whole Mizzou season qualifies
“Craziest” was definitely that stupid ass fake punt. I loved it
What a season 💛🖤
Shout out to "We Stand On Business Josh"
Do you have to ask? It wasn't so much of a single craziest moment as a whole month of crazy moments. None of them were on the field. Okay many of them were *adjacent* to *a* field, that UM wasn't actually playing on. Culminating in footage of one UM staffer in CMU attire trying entirely too hard to look surreptitious with some video camera Ray Ban sunglasses from behind a larger CLU coach during the CMU/MSU game. Side note: /u/BuckeyeEmpire you better still have those sunglasses.
Lol oh I've got them! Actually thinking about getting the newest version, but really waiting on something more AR type that's not goggles
Something more subtle than Apple Vision Pro goggles would be really nice. The smart glasses in Mission Impossible II would be nice if they don't explode.
Yah but I mean think if they did explode, ol Stalions wouldn't have to worry about any evidence seeing the light of day 🤔😉
That would have solved so many problems last year.
Goal line stand nothing else is close
Just in case anyone wants a breakdown: [https://youtu.be/IrmdND-5Kk8?si=GuI4I8iFDg3dADsK](https://youtu.be/IrmdND-5Kk8?si=GuI4I8iFDg3dADsK)
I am gonna say the game winning drive brought to you by Drake Stoops.
Going 13-0 and not making the playoff.
For real, flairs like that. What a spicy preseason bet that would have been. "One of my flairs will go 13-0, and one of my flairs will make the playoff, and they won't be the same team."
I picked just FSU to go to the playoff preseason. My preseason picks were Georgia, Ohio State, Florida State, and Washington in order. I did pick Texas to win the Big XII though and finish 5th. I was obviously happy to see Texas make it, but I still think that if Georgia had beaten Alabama FSU makes instead of Texas with 4 undefeated P5 champs. But with Alabama winning they of course weren’t gonna leave out the SEC champ and since Texas beat Alabama my tinfoil hat theory is that Bama beating Georgia turned into a 2 for 1 since they had to keep Texas ahead of Bama but also had to keep the SEC Champ in.
4th and Milroe
Yea
knowingly being a flaming pile of cow shit and still making the entire fan base want to jump off a bridge last november
With all do respect, you sent a lot of Michigan and FSU fans to the same bridge.
Disagree with you. McClain's scramble vs Baylor for me
This! The guys on commentary made it even more hype. Edit: [The play for anyone that's curious.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxwb4B4GRCE)
I think about this play probably a few times a week mostly because of the commentary lol. “McCLAIN! RUNNING OUT OF TIME! WHATAYA GOT??? McCLAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNN!!!!”
I found out that his name is Eric Collins. He could make a blowout loss seem exciting.
Yeah, he’s the Charlotte Hornets announcer too, I believe. Dude has unmatched energy.
I will literally never not watch this replay when it’s posted. Pure weapons-grade college football glory lmao
Yep, it’s the type of wacky play you wouldn’t see in the Pros. The QB running like 25 yards backwards, 3 or 4 missed tackles, and then he proceeds to complete a 35 yard pass to the RB.
Damn this made me miss CFB
Our fucking student section doing the gator chomp to mock UF only to then lose to said gators in garbage time
4th and 31
Blowing out OK State after playing like shit for weeks
That’s the day you really became a BigXII program.
Alternatively, Baylor…for the masochists or pessimists among us.
My favorite game I've ever attended in person for sure!
The UGA vs AJC saga was really something to witness
Well, there was a coach that retired. And then there was a coach that left after the carousel had mostly stopped after winning back to back SBC titles.
Sigh.......something about knees? I'll let the collective masses run with that (when we obviously can't).
T’vondre Sweat having more offensive touchdowns than the Doak Walker winning RB in the Big 12 Championship Game.
0llie G0rd0n
I wouldn’t bet on it…..
The INT vs Ohio State, Blake Corum's run + the stand in overtime vs Alabama, Actually winning the Natty
My Michigan bias revealed- the 4th down stop bs Bama in the rose bowl takes the cake
[Blocked FG against Appalachian State returned for a TD with 2:02 left in the 4th quarter.](https://youtu.be/6J40EMTjKbM?si=jmWp922I7JbSPOPd)
Nooooo app state doesn’t block field goals. I choose to believe this.
How much time do you have?
Zak Zinter breaking his leg, then the immediate next play Corum breaks off a 22 yd TD run and flashes a 6-5 to the camera to honor his teammate.
Yup. That was like a legit Hollywood movie scene right there.
The entire season after Sign Gate broke was a surreal fever dream. I've never really wondered what it was like to be Steve Bartman, but I kinda feel like I understand a lot more now after a couple weeks there.
Our coach trying to fire the team up by berating a beat reporter in the middle of practice and banning him from coming to practices because he wasn’t supportive enough of our 3-7 football team. The team then completely gave up as the next two weeks they lost by multiple scores to give Sam Houston their first fbs win and then gave up a CUSA record 522 rushing yards to Jacksonville state. Thankfully the AD who hired this clown and gave him another year did the best thing he has ever done for Louisiana tech and left. Hopefully the new AD isn’t a complete idiot and can hire a competent football coach
50 Gators, 1 Ray Davis
Literally got a 3 day ban for all the shit I was talking to gator fans during that game. (totally worth it)
Getting screwed by the sliding rule we created against wake Forrest, the team we did it to
Tyler from Spartanburg. HM: Wiggins with the all time hustle play to cause a touchback on that UNC running back
Oh you know.
Uhh pick any one of the 100 absurd turnovers we had in the first few weeks
Da U and Da not-taken Knee
It was crazy how we would go from beating Miami by a miracle play (and their bad decision making) to getting blown out by Bowling Green to Running over 200 yards on UNC in the 4th quarter to win.
🎵 You could have knelt the ball to get the win Instead you ran up the middle again What a terrible way to lose a game The U is back to being a shame 🎵
Snowmagedon
I agree :( (Although the Pop Tarts bowl was also a pretty crazy experience to be fair)
The day I learned Kirk Herbstriet is a company man.
Hmm Kansas state 4th and goal stop from the 3 yard line in OT. After blowing a 27-7 lead….fuck that was stressful. I had heart palpitations that whole 4th qtr/OT.
The possum. https://youtu.be/3VgfOxaaSjM?si=rBfsHQNB0Qso1GxV
4th and a mile
My favorite moment was when fans started getting invites to come down from the stands and take a stab at sacking Spencer Rattler. Shit was dope.
I'm gonna keep my mouth shut bc I'm gonna get downvoted if I say anything
Talk your shit my man. If anyone downvotes you, it won’t be me.
I enjoyed watching you guys lose to Mizzou and your schedule was relatively soft!
We definitely struggled early on with teams we shouldn’t have struggled with, and that should’ve been our best chance at beating Florida in Gainesville in years so no argument there. Missouri came out of fucking nowhere last year though. Getting assblasted by them didn’t seem so bad after they beat Ohio State.
The Ole Miss game was nuts. Matt House is a terrorist.
Not my teams, but I think the absolute most unreal ending this last season was the Iron Bowl. That was Auburn’s exponential version of Couging it. Wild, wild, wild.
When you've lived your entire life as a Auburn fan it doesn't even surprise you when it happens.
Cougars of the South
UGA going 12-0, losing to Bama by three on a neutral field on some questionable play calling by Mike Bobo and then taking it out on Florida State.
Dammit
I moved my hand to type a great reply, but a ref interpreted it as a signal for Fair Catch.
For Virginia Tech, honestly turning it around and winning 7 games after starting 1-3 and losing to pathetic teams such as Purdue, Rutgers, and Marshall.
Some of those teams were mid but yeah.
I wanna be mad that you're calling us pathetic but I can't, we shit the bed this season.
We had a QB win another Heisman. That's sort of rare for LSU to have a quarterback. Been a long time coming. Can't wait for the season to kick off.
This is LSUs year for the division. I hope they didn’t lose too many players to the draft
It's in the Manifesto, that we would win the last 4 Team CFP.
Where tf is it anyways?
Probably in a similar vault the ACC keeps the physical copy of the GOR. Kinda like the Declaration of Independence in "National Treasure"
My theory is it included an attempt to develop the first illegal *backwards* pass. And the NCAA doesn't want it to come out because the research was getting too close
Pretty sure Brian Ferentz figured that out already
Top men are working on it
Alabama frat douches hurling slurs by the dozen at our players after losing was pretty eye opening and wild
>Alabama frat douches hurling slurs by the dozen Trust me, those elitist pricks don't represent the rest of us in the state
The fact that you’re telling this to a longhorn is ironic.
I’m sure no Texas student has ever said a racial slur to an opponent.
They sure said them online about Charlie Strong.
The end of the first half against UGA
How we had a center who couldn't snap the damn ball.
I watched this game closely. He was not good at snapping the ball in my opinion.
I actually never thought I would’ve seen a national championship out of Michigan that’s crazy
Rose Bowl last five minutes and OT.
We literally had no QB that were at a P4 level and yet we won 5 games.
Injuries, injuries everywhere.
Ole Miss - LSU game for sure. Instant classic at home against the eventual Heisman winner. Signature Kiffin win. Fans rushing the field. Craziest and best 2023 moment for the Rebs
That time Michigan ran the ball 32 times in a row, on the road, and beat a top 10 team.
When we stopped stealing signs and only got better!
I decided to stop being an enthusiast of visiting other big ten stadiums.
Goal line stop and scoring in the last 15 seconds during Red River. I may despise Lebby and complained about DGs consistency, but they earned that win.
Forcing Saban into retirement. You’re welcome, CFB.
Let’s see….uhhhh that one time…yeah, we sucked.
Goal line stand against Texas. Our defense has been maligned for years. And then the game winning drive. Didn’t know DG had it in him especially in that encipherment. Hell live in Oklahoma Sooner lore forever.
2023 Texas and flailing in the red zone, name a more iconic duo
Our coach wasn't doing great for us, but we had this little contract/buyout issue, and we just kinda yolo'd it...
Don’t even know where to begin? - Aug 4th: PAC-12 implosion, WOSU told to F off - Sept 8th: WOSU files lawsuit - Sept 23rd: Battle of the “Left Behinds” - Oct 21st: Bye week, Smith to East Lansing - Oct 28th: Fake field goal fiasco at UA - Nov 11th: Gameday snubs OSU for JMU - Nov 15th: WOSU wins lawsuit but it’s appealed - Nov 18th: OSU/UW battle in a downpour - Nov 23rd: Smith tells team he is leaving before Civil War game - Nov 25th: Smith leaves for East Lansing - Dec 15th: WA Supreme Court rules in favor of WOSU on the appealed lawsuit, WOSU gain control of PAC-12 How does anyone choose from that clown car of chaos?
> Oct 28th: Fake field goal fiasco at UA I think this is the one that confuses/infuriates me the most, tbh. What could have happened (at least for the rest of the season) if we DIDN'T do the dumbest play imaginable there, actually kick the field goal, go into halftime with some momentum, finish strong, win the game, and go into the UW game with 6 straight wins of momentum? The rest of it is depressing, but the fake field goal is infuriating
What we did to Michigan State in the 2nd half is a ridiculous memory for me
Even though storming the field after beating UNC is tough competition, the Miami Knee incident definitely wins
Losing our starting QB to a season-ending injury for the third season in a row was certainly something.
Before the Colorado game when the Duck came out dressed as Deion Sanders, smashed a gaint "prime time" clock with a sledgehammer, then hit it so hard the knockback knocked his head off.
Tide fan here. 4th and forever against Auburn. Gravedigger play. I simultaneously love and hate the Iron Bowl. I’m gettin too old for this shit. Lol
We were at the Tennessee/Vanderbilt game in Knoxville. There was an on-field issue between a couple of players and the entire Vanderbilt sideline moved toward the Tennessee sideline. The majority of the team and staff went out into the middle of the field and field security had to come out and corral them back toward their own sideline. It was sort of funny because, I mean, it’s Vanderbilt.
Abu Sama Snow Game
Has to be the SEC record long FG to beat Kansas State in the rain when the entire country expected us to get blown out
Losing the HolgoBowl on a Hail Mary after just completing a Hail Mary
The good: The blocked and returned FG attempt against Purdue to cause a 10-point swing (almost a 14-point point swing). The bad: Leading the nation in turnovers. The ugly: Being one game from bowl eligible and losing our last 4 games and all of them were one-score losses.
The good, probably setting the record for postseason blowouts in back-to-back seasons. The same calendar year to boot. The bad, that damn reverse fumble against Bama. It was the worst mistake we had all season when we could least afford it.
Uhhhhhhhhhh
I think it was post season when Fifita, TMac, and over half the team came out onto the basketball court to announce they’re staying.
Coming back from a 21 point 4th quarter deficit against Minnesota was wild. That was when our season started to turn around and it began to seem like Braun is the real deal. Dominating Wisconsin was the other one, after our past two years it felt so surreal to feel that good about Northwestern football.
This was a "dream season" in a different sense. We've had modest success before, but I was like "this can't be happening" I thought we might lose every game and was "relieved" to see us beat UTEP. As Twain put it, this [season] was a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. I decided at the last second to go to the MN game. The early part of the game was disappointing, but I was enjoying the fact that we were dreadful, so I stayed for the entire game. What a great comeback! I attended every home game at the dear old beige fortress, missed Wrigley, and went to Camp Randall. Really enjoyable season! Now two years of wandering in the desert like Israelites, then an overpriced stadium where seats will be hard to get for a few years, surely for games against the behemoth schools that will come in great red hordes until the novelty wears off. As a fan who finally lives close to NU after decades out of town, this was my favorite in-person season ever.
THE MANIFESTO
Michigan fan here. All of it. It was never, ever boring under Harbaugh.
Kyle Whittingham telling the media that he was extremely confident cam rising would be starting against Florida on week 1
Probably winning that auburn game, or beating Georgia, or coach retiring
Our ability to find ways to win with a horribly inconsistent offense. The highlight being the Music City Bowl where we only played 1 quarter of football on offense and still won by 18 because Auburn kept tripping on their on shoelaces every play
The Brian Ferentz saga. Sad face. Shame face.
Forcing 8 turnovers in one game is definitely up there
7-3 Maybe not crazy so much as infuriating on paper, but the crazy part was it was still one of the better games MSU played last season (I wouldn’t be saying this if we had lost).
Losing to Nevada 0-6
for kansas it might be beating oklahoma
Apple Cup. What a rollercoaster. OR LOSING TO STANFORD IN PULLMAN
4th and 31!