Painful Memories

[paytonlives]

Doing some research and came across a game that STILL hurts real bad. In fact I think it is the worst I ever felt leaving a Griz game.

1993 Prior to the Great Griz teams. The Griz were rolling pounding all I-AA teams and only losing 35-30 to Oregon. 10-1 Ranked #2 and Averaging 42 points per game. The playoffs start and the Griz draw Delaware! OH CRAP an option team from the East. I would probably consider this one of the best college games that I ever saw, except the Griz lost 49-48. It was the quietest I ever heard 20,000 people. I don't think a word was said by any fan all the way home.

Just wondering what you feel was the hardest L to take from your favorite team.

[RadMann]

I have that '93 game on DVD. That was a barn burner to say the least.

The 1987 loss to Maine 56 - 58 . That loss at home was a tough one to take.

[CatFan22]

The 27-25 loss to UM on a last second field goal in Bozeman in 1997. We had the game almost in hand, but we give up a 46 yard pass to our own 19 and the griz kicker, Kris Heppner, makes the game winning field goal as time expired.
:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

[paytonlives]

The 27-25 loss to UM on a last second field goal in Bozeman in 1997. We had the game almost in hand, but we give up a 46 yard pass to our own 19 and the griz kicker, Kris Heppner, makes the game winning field goal as time expired.
:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

I knew that would come up. Your K sqibbed it out of bounds if I remember right. I STILL cant believe the Griz won that one.

[SO ILLmatic]

Even though the game was last year, I personally feel that the Dawgs loss at home to Ill State was painful. First off was the score of the game and the way we played. We got dominated in every aspect of the game and did not even close to winning. Second part being Coach Kill being escorted out of the stadium by ambulance after he collapsed on the sideline. It was a sad day of football at McAndrew.

Honorable Mentions: L @ Northern IL (23-22)-2004
L @ UNI (43-40) - 2003, the Salukis {both football & basketball} never seem to be able to get it done in the UNI-Dome. At least one of those sports wont be playing in the Dome this year.

[catbob]

The amazing OT win by EWU a couple years back in Bozeman. We blew a substantial lead.

[blackfordpu]

Any loss to SFA and Tx State, especially last season's finalie in San Marcos. :bawling:

[Mr. C]

Ralph and I were in the press box the day that Appalachian State pulled out the Miracle on the Mountain against Furman. That had to be about as low as it could go for the Paladins. To see those fans celebrating a great comeback win in the final seven seconds and then the looks of absolute stunned horror on their faces after Josh Jeffries and Derrick Black took the interception back for a defensive two-pointer. That was the toughest loss I've ever seen a team take. I'm sure the last-play 44-42 loss by Furman to Georgia Southern for the 1985 national championship had to be pretty tough as well for QB Bobby Lamb and company.

[eagle1]

2004 Quarterfinal loss to Sam Houston State at home. We had a 21 point lead in the 4th quarter and went into prevent defense and lost 35-34 with 2 seconds on the clock. That loss still pains me and then we once again blow a 14 point lead in the 4 quarter this past season in the first round of the playoffs against N. Iowa which brought back the pain. Hopefully we will get things figured out in the future and play all 4 quarters. Go Eagles!!!

[blukeys]

The losses to Nova in '69 and '70 were brutal. In Both instances UD had a 2 touchdown lead over then Division I-A Villanova going into the 4th quarter. In both cases UD lost by 3 points largely due to a future all pro wideout who went to the Oakland Raiders. 1971 was a different matter. :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod:

[TxState_GO_CATS!]

the loss to UNI last year. that's all i'm going to say.

[CatFan22]

The amazing OT win by EWU a couple years back in Bozeman. We blew a substantial lead.

I think we were up 27-10 or someething at some point, but nooooooooo we just had to play like shi* the rest of the game and lose.

[CatFan22]

I knew that would come up. Your K sqibbed it out of bounds if I remember right. I STILL cant believe the Griz won that one.

Neither can the entire fanbase of the Cats.

[Grizo406]

I've got a few, but the ones that stick out the most was our 2002, 10-7 loss to Montana State, and our 2003, 25-24 loss to NDSU.

If the Pope would have seen either of those games, he would have left Washington/Grizzly asking the same thing that everyone else was..."What the "F" just happened?"
We got beat by better teams on those days, but that doesn't make the memory any less painful.:bawling:

I could yammer about loss to JMU for the National Championship, but that's already been covered in more that one previous thread.

[grizfnz]

The ass whooping @ Western Illinois in 1998 and giving up 17 in the 4th qtr at McNeese in 2002

[rcny46]

The 10-0 loss to Somersworth,NH High School in 1895 was tough to take.I was devestated for weeks after that fiasco.

[NSUDemon98]

Doing some research and came across a game that STILL hurts real bad. In fact I think it is the worst I ever felt leaving a Griz game.

1993 Prior to the Great Griz teams. The Griz were rolling pounding all I-AA teams and only losing 35-30 to Oregon. 10-1 Ranked #2 and Averaging 42 points per game. The playoffs start and the Griz draw Delaware! OH CRAP an option team from the East. I would probably consider this one of the best college games that I ever saw, except the Griz lost 49-48. It was the quietest I ever heard 20,000 people. I don't think a word was said by any fan all the way home.

Just wondering what you feel was the hardest L to take from your favorite team.

1998 football season. I was a freshmen in the band at Northwestern. I didn't know a whole lot about football at the time, but I knew enough to recognize that NSU was having a good season....which eventually turned into their best, most successful season in school history. Beat I-A UL-Lafayette that year and beating Top 10 McNeese[I am sure some of the McNeese guys remember that game, and it may even be one of their painful memories] and also holding Top 25 UMissouri's offense to their lowest offensive production of their season.

Anyway, it was halftime of the I-AA Semi-Final game between NSU and UMASS and we had a pretty comfortable lead...I had no idea that UMASS was gonna pull out the win. Our football team looked helpless and literally couldn't stop the bleeding.

We even remember the Demon Band went ahead and made room lists and bus lists for Nooga "just in case". We were pretty confident b/c the game was at Northwestern and we easily handled our first two opponents[AppySt and IllinoisSt].

Still hurts today...

The 2003 NSU-Tulane game is 2nd. We were matching Tulane TD for TD...except we missed 3!!! field goals throughout the game. Game ends up going into OT and we lose by 3 pts...

We make any one of those 3 missed FGs and there is no overtime...

[FUwolfpacker]

I can think of a couple...

Every loss to App. State my 4 years in college (the last 4, 2002-2006) sucked, but especially The Miracle on the Mountain. That was my first college football away game, and I went from celebrating a great win to watching the goal post come down and make their way to the pond on campus. I still have nightmares about that game....

The lost to JMU in the quarterfinals last year. JMU was the team of destiny it appears, but a ball fumbled as our RB was falling in the endzone and a blocked punt deep in our own territory really cost us the game.

[OL FU]

Ralph and I were in the press box the day that Appalachian State pulled out the Miracle on the Mountain against Furman. That had to be about as low as it could go for the Paladins. To see those fans celebrating a great comeback win in the final seven seconds and then the looks of absolute stunned horror on their faces after Josh Jeffries and Derrick Black took the interception back for a defensive two-pointer. That was the toughest loss I've ever seen a team take. I'm sure the last-play 44-42 loss by Furman to Georgia Southern for the 1985 national championship had to be pretty tough as well for QB Bobby Lamb and company.

Miracle on the mountain was tough but it does not equal '85 for two reasons. One, in the '85 game Furman dominated the first half. Absolutely no question who the better team was. In the second half the better team was Tracy Ham. My guess is other '85 Eagle players hate to keep hearing this but you take Tracy Ham out of that game and Furman wins by an unbelievably large margin. (I guess the same could be said for most teams starting qbs but Ham threw for about 4000 yards after averaging about 20 yards per game. He also rushed for a large number of yards. and every yard gained (rushing or passing) came from scrambling away from a Furman D that was putting a lot of pressure on him but could never seem to take him down) Two, it was the national championship game. :nod:

[UNH 40]

In 2003 I was playing DE for UNH, and we were pitted against a mighty Delaware team that as everyone knows went on to walk all over everyone in the playoffs and win the national championship. At this point in the season we were 2-4 and starting to play much better as a team, and Delaware was 6-0. We lead the entire game behind inspirational play by our now forgotten great QB Mike Granieri who played most of the game with a bad concussion. With 4:00 left in the game Andy Hall had a 38 yard run to the UNH 5 and on third and goal from the 1 eventually pounded it in putting delaware on top 22-21. We got the ball back with with just under 2 minutes remaining. Behind some great plays by Granierii, we advanced the ball to the Delaware 27 with 45 seconds remaining. Another pair of Granieri runs gave us a first down at the UD 17 with 35 seconds to play. We took a knee twice letting the clock run down to 3 seconds. We attempted a 34 yard field goal that went directly over the top of the goalpost and could have gone either way was call no good. Shawn Johnson UD's great DE, whom I was blocking on the field goal watched the kick sail over the goal post along with me. When the ref said that the kick was no good he turned to me and said that he thought it was good. That was the most painful lose that I have experienced.

The worst lose I have experienced as a UNH fan was this years playoff lose to UNI, my wife and I were devestated until about christmas time.

[soweagle]

1998 Championship game. GSU vs. UMASS. Wait, wait-I have an update from that game. It appears GSU has fumbled again.

[MACHIAVELLI]

ICON-14 vs Jackson St.-24 ...1975 (Ruined a perfect season)
ICON-8 vs Tenn. St.-26...1977 (Ruined a perfect season)
ICON-7 vs FAMU-31.....1978 (Ruined an undefeated season)
ICON vs Boise St....1980 (Ice Bowl)
ICON-13 vs SMU-20...1983 (Punt returner fumble on a drive that could have given us the win. SMU was a national power around that time and we got them to come to Shreveport, 60 miles from the home of THE ICON to play us.
ICON-7 vs Arkansas St.-10...1985
ICON-56 vs SFA-59..1989
ICON-33 vs. Alcorn-35...1992
ICON-42 vs Deleware St.-45..1992
ICON-20 vs McNeese-31.. 2003

[Mr. C]

1998 Championship game. GSU vs. UMASS. Wait, wait-I have an update from that game. It appears GSU has fumbled again.
Watching that game on TV, I was stunned by all of the fumbles. But I also believed that Georgia Southern would have eventually won, if the Eagles had somehow had more time. I still was expecting a comeback victory late into the fourth quarter that day. They were basically moving the ball at will against UMass. To me, that is the flukiest I-AA championship of all time. If you had played it 100 times, GSU wins 99 of them. Those Eagles were the best GSU team I have seen.

[Umass74]

The end of the 2002 season stands out for me.

UMass had a powerful club that year. We went undefeated in the A10 south beating Villannova, Richmond, Delaware and JMU.

However our starting QB Jeff Krohn suffered a concussion against Delaware. We started a true freshman Don Day against UNH. He fumbled the snap on our own three yard line and threw four interceptions. UNH won easily 31-14.

The next game was Hofstra and UMass mostly ran the ball. Hofstra scored with 2:08 remaining to make it 31-28 Hofstra.

UMass drove to the Hofstra 5 yard line with 9 seconds left, third down and no timeouts. Whipple told Day to take a quick look into the end zone on a pass play and if nothing was there to wing the ball out of the stadium. Zullo reminded him again in the huddle. UMass could easily have kicked a field goal to tie the game and go into overtime.

When Day took the snap, he did the one thing he couldn't do-----he scrambled and was sacked. Time ran out and that knocked UMass out of the playoffs. The last game of the season was with Rhode Island and with Krohn back we blew them out 48-21.

That was a talented UMass squad we would have made some noise in the playoffs. :bawling:

[Umass74]

Watching that game on TV, I was stunned by all of the fumbles. But I also believed that Georgia Southern would have eventually won, if the Eagles had somehow had more time. I still was expecting a comeback victory late into the fourth quarter that day. They were basically moving the ball at will against UMass. To me, that is the flukiest I-AA championship of all time. If you had played it 100 times, GSU wins 99 of them. Those Eagles were the best GSU team I have seen.

Not to start the UMass-GSU wars all over again, but I disagree. GSU had a wonderful offense, but their defense was poor. You will remember that Johnson totally revamped the GSU defense after that loss.

UMass also fumbled the ball. We scored on every drive except two. If we had not fumbled the ball we would have scored 70+ points. Not just Marcel Shipp (who set a championship game rushing record) but every UMass back that carried the ball averaged over 5 yards/carry.

The UMass win was not a fluke and it is not fair not to give us our due.

[MYTAPPY]

For me there were two occasions. The first was the OT loss to the Griz during the 2000 playoffs and the one point loss to Maine in Boone during the 2002 playoffs. Both of those losses were tough to take.

[blueballs]

There is a difference in "most painful loss" and "most embarrassing loss," both of which open old wounds.

For me, the two most painful losses for GSU would have to be to UMass in the 98 title game (UMass was good but GSU was 14-0, had clobbered everybody and just played like crap that day) and the loss in the 01 semis to Furman at home (stunned was a good description and was a miserable ending to a great era).

The most embarrassing w/o a doubt would be losing to West GA at home in whatever year it was (I've almost completely blocked it from my memory).

[UNH 40]

However our starting QB Jeff Krohn suffered a concussion against Delaware. We started a true freshman Don Day against UNH. He fumbled the snap on our own three yard line and threw four interceptions. UNH won easily 31-14.

The true freshman QB that you started was named Tim Day not Don Day.

[henfan]

Shawn Johnson UD's great DE, whom I was blocking on the field goal watched the kick sail over the goal post along with me. When the ref said that the kick was no good he turned to me and said that he thought it was good. That was the most painful lose that I have experienced.

UNH dominated the first half behind the Homecoming crowd. My friend and I were the only two lunatics to go over to the UNH side to cheer on the disheartened Hens as they entered the lockerroom at the half. The Hens played like gangbusters in the second half of that game to even get it in.

I was behind the fence in the opposite end zone (with no angle on the play) and watched McCormick's kick sail through the uprights... or so I initially thought. The UNH crowd responded with cheers as the kick approached the goalposts. The only thing I remember hearing as I turned away from the field, thinking my Hens had lost, was the roar of the UD crowd reacting to the call. I still can't believe the officials called that kick 'no good', but I was happy as a UD fan to escape with a win.

There had to be some cold comfort in Durham at least after seeing how the Hens plowed through the playoffs that year. UNH should have had that one.

[Go...gate]

All road losses:

1977: 21-3 loss to UD which cost us an undefeated season and a bowl bid;

1983: 29-26 loss to a really bad (3-8) Rutgers team on a last-second Ralph Leek to Andrew Baker TD bomb for Rutgers. AIR, Erenberg gained over 200 yards rushing and Calabria had a great game.

1983: 24-23 loss to Western Carolina in the NCAA play-offs;

1998: 42-35 loss to Navy (though the close loss probably helped us get in the NCAA play-offs as a #16 seed)

[McNeese75]

xidiotx I am still in therapy over a few games that pop into memory from time to time. I am really, really trying to get over them though :rotateh: :D

[DUPFLFan]

For me - two losses last year stick in my mind - we were without our best lineman due to a knee injury in practice....

Dayton 25 - Drake 17 - we were actually ahead in the 4th quarter - fumbled the ball 5 times losing three... :bang:

San Diego 31 - Drake 26 Scott Phaydavong rushed for a career-high 244 yards but our senior QB threw for 25 yds.:bang: Another one where we were ahead in the third quarter until an interception at the 26 yard line...

Also in 2004, losing at Missouri State 31-26 We were this close but it was the opposite of the San Diego game - we were ahead but couldn't run the ball to close the deal.. (This was before we found out what we had in Phaydavong)

[douglasdmb]

I can think of a couple huge letdowns in my three years as a Bears fan:

1.) 30-23 OT loss, last year @ #2 SIU: Despite the fact that we scored 13 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to send it to overtime, Jon Scifres (who had successfully kicked a school/conference record 18 consecutive field goals coming into the game) missed 3 field goals on the day. After SIU drew first blood in overtime, we had 2nd and Goal at the goal line...only to fail on three straight rushing attempts. Another fine example of Coach Randy Ball's playcalling.

2.) 34-31 loss, 2004 @ Illinois St.: Bears were ahead by 14 with 5 minutes left in 3rd quarter. We were up 31-24 early in the 4th quarter and had the ball 1st and goal on the two. We run the ball, fumble, the Redbirds recover on their own one yard line, and we instantly went from having all momentum to none.

ISU scores the tying TD on a 99-yard drive with 3 minutes left, our offense has nothin, they kick the winning FG with 12 ticks left.

[ErkPeterson]

1998 NC UMass loss: Still burns, not taking anything away from UMass. We had fumble-itis. Granted our D was anemic and they took it to us on O. They did deserve the NC. We got our revenge the next in the Boro and NC #5.
2001 WKU: semis loss to WKU. heartwrenching. Great game and they had a great team. Their O-line was massive
2004 UNH & 2005 TSU: I'm grouping these together b/c they were uncharacteristic Southern 1st round losses. We gave up big leads in both cases ultimatley resulting in Sewak's firing(everybody knows this already. I'm still numb from these games.

[douglasdmb]

2004 UNH & 2005 TSU: first round playoff losses. I'm grouping these together b/c they were uncharacteristic Southern 1st round losses. We gave up big leads in both cases ultimatley resulting in Sewak's firing(everybody knows this already. I'm still numb from these games.

I watched that '04 UNH-GSU game. GREAT game (maybe not so much for GA Southern fans)

[GannonFan]

Doing some research and came across a game that STILL hurts real bad. In fact I think it is the worst I ever felt leaving a Griz game.

1993 Prior to the Great Griz teams. The Griz were rolling pounding all I-AA teams and only losing 35-30 to Oregon. 10-1 Ranked #2 and Averaging 42 points per game. The playoffs start and the Griz draw Delaware! OH CRAP an option team from the East. I would probably consider this one of the best college games that I ever saw, except the Griz lost 49-48. It was the quietest I ever heard 20,000 people. I don't think a word was said by any fan all the way home.

Just wondering what you feel was the hardest L to take from your favorite team.

Fantastic game - both offenses were absolutely unstoppable - only thing that made a difference was Montana's kicker missing the extra point to only go up 48-42 so that when UD scored next they made the XP and it was game over. Not exactly a good showing by either defense, but both offenses were exceptional.

[GeauxColonels]

Well, luckily (I guess I can say that) I can't give a good answer to this thread. I can't recall when a Nicholls loss hurt really bad. HOWEVER, that's probably because we're so accustomed to the losses that no matter WHAT happens, it doesn't really surprise us.

I do remember a game against Jacksonville State in the late 90s (98 or 99 seasons). Nicholls State was up by a point or two late in the 4th Quarter. It was a back and forth game with our team missing several field goals and extra points, but it looked as though the Colonels would pull out the "W". JSU had the ball just over the 50 yard line into Nicholls State territory when the referees threw a penalty flag: 15-yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Most of the fans in the stands and all of us in the marching band were perplexed as to what provoked the flag. Apparently, the flag was on the BAND! We were flagged for playing when the JSU QB went under center. That penalty kept the drive alive and resulted in the game-winning score by the Gamecocks.

Really weird.

[Umass74]

1998 NC UMass loss: Still burns, not taking anything away from UMass. We had fumble-itis. Granted our D was anemic and they took it to us on O. They did deserve the NC. We got our revenge the next in the Boro and NC #5.

EP is correct on this one. I'll argue when someone slights our 98 win, but I can't bitch about 99. Johnson had revamped the GSU defense and they were really good. UMass only scored 21 points and that won't get the job done. The 99 GSU team was one of the best all time in I-AA.

[Umass74]

The true freshman QB that you started was named Tim Day not Don Day.


UNH40 is correct. I've mixed up his name before.

Tim was a good soldier for UMass. After he was replaced in the third game in 2005 after throwing four interceptions against Colgate, he came back as a wide receiver and played well for UMass.

If he had made a fuss or tried to split the team, it would have really hurt. He didn't. Actually, he kinda found his position at WR. He had excellent hands and good leaping ability.

[soweagle]

EP is correct on this one. I'll argue when someone slights our 98 win, but I can't bitch about 99. Johnson had revamped the GSU defense and they were really good. UMass only scored 21 points and that won't get the job done. The 99 GSU team was one of the best all time in I-AA.

Gotta give UMASS credit for going on the road for most of the playoffs in 98. We fumbled but we couldn't stop Shipp and Co. either. The one thing that game did was guarantee a championship the next year against YSU. I knew without a doubt that once we made it to Chattanooga the next year that we would not be stopped. YSU took a pretty tough beating in the first half and GSU cruised through the second with many starters not playing much.

[paytonlives]

Fantastic game - both offenses were absolutely unstoppable - only thing that made a difference was Montana's kicker missing the extra point to only go up 48-42 so that when UD scored next they made the XP and it was game over. Not exactly a good showing by either defense, but both offenses were exceptional.


Thats the only time the Griz and Delaware have ever played, THAT SHOULD CHANGE.

[GannonFan]

Thats the only time the Griz and Delaware have ever played, THAT SHOULD CHANGE.

Agreed - I would love to roadtrip out to Missoula and I'm sure the Griz faithful would love to come to Newark. UD's played other IAA biggies home and home before and coming up (Youngstown and Georgia Southern with Furman on the schedule in 2008/09) so doing something with Montana shouldn't be out of the question. You agitate on your end and we'll do the same on our end - it'll happen eventually (and could happen again in the playoffs even sooner).

[DuckDuckGriz]

The 2000 NC game against GSU. It looked all over in the first half, but Griz fans knew better. Montana made another great comeback to turn a 20-3 halftime defecit to a 23-20 lead. Then was the Son of the Run. The Griz had such a great season and so many comebacks that losing the NC came to one missed tackle. If 2001 hadn't gone the way it did I would still be crying about that one.
:nonono2:

Bar none though -- Greatest I-AA title game EVER. And in the middle of a hurricane!!!

[SU Jag]

-2004 lost to Bama State in the SWAC Championship game. I've never ever cried like that before.

[Cap'n Cat]

'85 semifinal loss to Georgia Southern, 40-33.

Appalachian State in NC in '05.

'01 semifinal pounding by Montana, 38-0.

Any loss during the Dunbar years, 1997-2000.

[JohnStOnge]

Doing some research and came across a game that STILL hurts real bad. In fact I think it is the worst I ever felt leaving a Griz game.

1993 Prior to the Great Griz teams. The Griz were rolling pounding all I-AA teams and only losing 35-30 to Oregon. 10-1 Ranked #2 and Averaging 42 points per game. The playoffs start and the Griz draw Delaware! OH CRAP an option team from the East. I would probably consider this one of the best college games that I ever saw, except the Griz lost 49-48. It was the quietest I ever heard 20,000 people. I don't think a word was said by any fan all the way home.

Just wondering what you feel was the hardest L to take from your favorite team.

Easy. McNeese's 1997 10-9 championship game loss to Youngstown State. Defensive game. Youngstown state got 199 total yards and I think McNeese got like 201.

What makes it painful?

1) In the first half, McNeese's all conference tight end dropped what should've been an easy TD pass. He was so open on the play action that no YSU defender even showed up on the TV screen with him. The pass was lobbed softly...perfectly into his breadbasket. Very easy catch. But he took his eye off the ball and dropped it so that McNeese had to settle for a field goal in a game it eventually lost by one point.

2) One turnover in the game...and it was McNeese throwing an interception on second and one. It was a real momentum changer that occurred when it looked like McNeese was in control and they could've played 10 games without YSU being able to scoring a TD.

3) On the drive following the interception, YSU's quarterback was sacked for a loss on third and goal, but the tackler commited an inadvertent facemask penalty.

4) McNeese stopped YSU again after the penalty. On fourth and goal YSU fumbled. But YSU was called for illegal motion...dead ball penalty...and got one more chance. On fourth and goal from about the six the Penguins scored to take the lead 10-9 in the fourth quarter.

I think you can see why that would be such a frustrating and disappointing loss...but there's one more thing:

Youngstown State was the Gateway's third place team that year. McNeese beat the league's second place team, Northern Iowa, during the regular season and the Gateway champion, Western Illinois, in the quarterfinals.

VERY tough to see all that happen and see the the Cowboys SO close to a national championship but miss it as a result of losing to the third place team from a conference after having beaten the first and second place teams from that league.

[GOKATS]

Without a doubt the '97 MSU/UM game. 'Cats have the lead late in the game and the K shanks a kickoff OB giving the griz great field position and they win with a game ending FG. I've never been so emotionally drained at the end of any other game.

[GSUhooligan]

1998 NC UMass loss: Still burns, not taking anything away from UMass. We had fumble-itis. Granted our D was anemic and they took it to us on O. They did deserve the NC. We got our revenge the next in the Boro and NC #5.
2001 WKU: semis loss to WKU. heartwrenching. Great game and they had a great team. Their O-line was massive
2004 UNH & 2005 TSU: I'm grouping these together b/c they were uncharacteristic Southern 1st round losses. We gave up big leads in both cases ultimatley resulting in Sewak's firing(everybody knows this already. I'm still numb from these games.

The WKU Semi-Final loss was in 2002 and it sucked then too...

[ButlerGSU]

the loss to UNI last year. that's all i'm going to say.

Our playoff loss to you guys, what a total meltdown.

[Maroon&White]

Every game Tim Day played in was painful. I would like to forget the end of the 2002 season, the entire 2004 season, and last years game against Colgate.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

The entire 2001 season for the Hens was painful to watch.

[DTSpider]

2001 @ UVA. Losing 17-16 hurts. Even worse is when it comes on the road, against an ACC team, in-state 1A program, missed extra point at the end, fumble in the red zone with a minute left, 4 starts injured, dropped interception in the end zone (UVA scored on the next play at the very end of the first half). Heart breaker game to lose, but even worse was the number of kids who ended their season in the opener.

[TheValleyRaider]

2005- Colgate vs. CCSU and Colgate at Dartmouth
So poor, and yet still so close in both instances :(

2003- vs. Delaware
I've never watched a game in any sport where I felt my team was that far out of it :( :( :(

[slostang]

2004 36-33 loss to UC Davis. Davis scored the winning TD with 14 seconds left the game. Any loss to Davis is bad, but that one hurt.

[AmsterBison]

NDSU lost the DII national championship on a last-second 50-yard field goal against Troy State back in 1984 - that's when 50-yard field goals were almost unheard of.

Since joining DI-AA I'd have to go with the 0-9 loss to Southern Illinois last year. It's one thing to lose a game but having your QB get his knee wrecked and getting shut out for only the second time since 1981 made it so much worse.

[Killtoppers90]

The WKU Semi-Final loss was in 2002 and it sucked then too...
Why did that suck? I enjoyed myself that game. And your crowd was SO awesome that day and quite nice in a defeat. I would love to come back soon!

[GannonFan]

The entire 2001 season for the Hens was painful to watch.

Wait, we had a 2001 season? My therapist insists we didn't. ;)

[UD1993]

the last second playoff loss to mcneese.

[ErkPeterson]

The WKU Semi-Final loss was in 2002 and it sucked then too...
My bad...Thx, I've tried to forget.

[Mr. Tiger]

Jackson State University's 12 playoff losses. But one loss really sticks out. I was about 13 and I went through a stage of emotions during that game. :) :( :confused: :eek: : smh : :bang: :bawling:

1. 1987 JSU vs Arkansas State -- Jackson State appeared to be on its way to a playoff win --FINALLY I thought -- then it happened. Arkansas State went on a drive late in the fourth quarter. They moved the ball inside the 20 but JSU's defense got stiff and Arkansas State was running out of time. Arkansas State got inside the 10 and the next play they snapped the ball and it seemed to disappear. JSU's defense look baffled. I was baffled. The next thing I know Arkansas State was celebrating a TD. IT WAS FUMBLEROOSKIE PLAY. Center snaps ball and leaves it on ground. QB rolls out like he is going to throw and running back picks up the ball on the ground and scores the winning TD. :bawling: :bawling: I was SICK.
Arkansas State 35, Jackson State 32. Mr. Tiger needs a tissue.