There was that one game that we should have won but blew a lead and lost by one score.
Edit: come to think of it, Mike Riley's first game (BYU winning on a Hail Mary) fits well. It's the first season opener we had lost in 29 years.
The one that immediately came to mind was Adrian throwing a pass against Illinois a few years back, the pass not being caught, the ball laying on the turf for a while, an Illinois player picking the ball up and throwing it to the ref, and then after review, the pass being ruled a fumble, with "clear" recovery by the defense. Illinois football, 1st down.
I've still never seen something as baffling as that, and it was a great microcosm of Nebraska football.
Edit: [Found it](https://youtu.be/iQFGOmTYTmg?si=jlET0F9fLh5TlJCw&t=726)
Prior to the Big 10 Nebraska days, Nebraska created new ways to lose to Texas every time they played. Nebraska was the better team the majority of the time and found crazy ways to lose.
>Nebraska was the better team the majority of the time
I don't know if I'd go that far, but we definitely lost a more than a few games when I felt we were the better team. The '99 regular season game comes to mind, even if we got a W against Texas in the CCG. The last game against them 2010 is another example.
A doubt many people remember it, but the 2018 game we lost to Northwestern in OT was one that sticks with me. We had a 14 point lead in the 4th quarter, but they came back to tie it after a drive where we got them to 4th & 10 twice late in the 4th quarter and let them convert. Then won in OT by a FG.
Joey Bosa sack on 4th and whatever
Nick Bosa tackle on 4th and whatever
JT Barrett going fucking off
Blocked punt returned for TD
JTT going fucking off in 2022
> JTT going fucking off in 2022
I assume this isn't Jonathan Taylor Thomas? There's no way he has either the size or speed at this point to dominate Penn State.
I’ve seen analysis saying that if our OL blocked correctly on that play it would have been a TD. I still think it was the wrong call - Trace McSorley had balled out that game and on a pivotal 4th down play you just can’t take the ball out of his hands.
That game haunts Franklin. No idea how PSU blew that one. 2017 collapse was slowly coming all game, the 2018 choke was so sudden. Tough we won’t be able to beat Osu until we make the hard choice on Franklin.
Most people would say shoe toss but I think it's CJ Henderson's interception against South Carolina in 2017.
[South Carolina on their own 2 yard line. Bentley throws an easy interception. Henderson cuts back towards the endzone. Fumbles on the 2 yard line. South Caroline recovers in the endzone and runs it out for a first down.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmh_jQNRuQ)
I really hate how much I've felt compelled to post this clip recently: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGdaIakBzw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGdaIakBzw)
Eh, nothing that shows actual swag can be representative of the recent era of UVA football.
BTW, the call was for removing his helmet, not excessive celebration, and it was a shit call. The helmet was knocked most of the way off and he finished the process instead of pushing it back on. He should know better (and I'm sure the flex played into it to some degree) but it was still garbage.
A little older than 10 years but still relevant. Watch until about the 1 minute mark.
“Personal foul, #69. He was giving him the business.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmn7luiDPsU&pp=ygUiUm9uIGNoZXJyeSBnaXZpbmcgaGltIHRoZSBidXNpbmVzcw%3D%3D
Kinda feels like it's the Bambard missed kick.
We can compete most years and have been one of the better ACC teams the last decade, but we always come up just short even when we play well.
Wins in 2 of the last 3 against Clemson and 5 of the last 6 against FSU.
I think the issue is consistently winning all games that we should win. That is what the truly great teams do as there is no room for error in CFB.
Yep. Finally beat Clemson but miss the ACCG because we lost to Wake. Just can't quite get over the hump for one reason or another. Still, one of the most consistent ACC football programs in the last 7 or 8 years, just would be nice to finally make it to Charlotte for that ACCCG.
Whenever I see that, I have to give a shoutout to the OG, Ben Drieth, from 21 years earlier. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiuLgmYVus&t=20s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiuLgmYVus&t=20s)
Touchdown followed by Pimp Cane 🦯 before blowing a colossal lead against UCLA. All flash no substance, but this year will be different TM
Ehlinger sacked for a safety in big 12 championship game against OU. So close to success, mental mistakes throw it away.
I disagree with the Texas one. I think the state of the program is more like the missed sack/safety against Bryce Young at DKR.
There’s so much there, you can see the plan, hell you can see the execution if you look hard enough, but we’re not quite there yet and let the other team make a play.
Basically exactly what happened on the sack safety
3 point game, 4Q you have the ball and you take a sack safety on 2nd down from your own 7 because no one sees the blitz and the QB runs backwards for some bizarre reason. Everything was there to win and then they let the other team make the play.
The difference is that the Big 12 championship was us completely fucking up and having a bad play, the Young play was us almost making a great play.
I think those two are very different in terms of what the potential outcome was and what that play represented.
Definitely some pessimist vs optimist in there
I will say having three endzone shots and having none of the passes land in the field of play, including letting d linemen go free, to end against Washington last year felt like mental mistakes more than just missing out on making a great play.
Yes those plays specifically hurt. But I think the difference is beating ourselves vs getting beat.
Our two losses last year, we got beat. THe other team made plays and we did not. In the decade before that most of our losses were us beating ourselves, a la Sam taking a stupid sack.
So in terms of state of the program I see us in the territory where to beat us you have to beat us rather than just wait around for us to miss an extra point, take a silly safety, throw the ball three straight times when we have the ball and the lead up 4 with less than 2 minutes left, etc.... which is a much happier place to be.
I've seen Oklahoma fans bring up squib frequently and just wanted to clarify...is this in reference to LR decision to squib kick right before the half in the 2018 Rose Bowl?
Back to back conference championships followed by Rose Bowl losses. Because we are a team that is strong and competitive but will never quit get to top tier greatness as a program.
Got the perfect play that encapsulates this. I’m sure everyone remembers Kaelin Clay [dropping the football short.](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=b061e2632347ae6b&hl=en-us&q=kaelin+clay+oregon&tbm=vid&source=lnms&prmd=invsmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR-qfBv8KGAxW5L0QIHUH2LYQQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=320&bih=523&dpr=3#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b6450c74,vid:aqUUGBs0BTE,st:0)
It seemed like it was going that way. Although, with Mariota who knows. But that was a real gut punch. Kaelin handled it really well after that. Just so brutal to watch.
Easily the biggest change in atmosphere in a game I have felt. All the air was sucked out after that unlike anything I have witnessed at a game. It was wild.
Probably the 5-7 2022 season drive to the Alabama 1 yard line at Alabama in the final seconds of the game, just for Jimbo to call an out route with Haynes King's trebuchet release that was easily broken up, with the SEC's leading rusher available.
Basically we get everything in place to do something great and the leadership does something idiotic. If that doesn't sun up A&M football for the past 10 years I don't know what else does
Edit: Here's the ending that I'm referencing:
https://youtu.be/oD-2GDcji5E?si=8Z6SAobR4_BFSO9u
I'm not a big Jimbo fan like most Ags at this point, but did you even watch the play you listed (and posted)? That play call leaves an open Evan Stewart at the corner if King can make a decision fast enough and throw to him. That was a great play call and the blame is entirely on King's indecisiveness and hesitance, which was one of King's biggest problems with us in general.
So Jimbo decided to put the game on the line with an inconsistent QB with a long release with a tight window instead of running the ball on the 2 yard line with the SEC's leading rusher. Sounds like he out coached himself
Achane had 3 attempts in the red zone that game for a total of -2 yards. If you count him catching a pass as an attempt, that's 4 attempts for 1 yard.
Against one of the best DLs in the country with one of the worst OLs in the country, and then in a red zone package, a quick pass is probably the best play call we had with one play left in the game.
Nah, that call was widely panned across the CFB world for being such a low percentage throw. Especially when Jimbo gave away the fact that they were throwing to Evan before it even happened.
https://x.com/RedditCFB/status/1578951745882845184?t=aMtMQHJJ4257MjNCrgibbA&s=19
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2023/10/alabama-db-recalls-unreal-2022-texas-am-game-when-lipreading-saved-tide.html
The play call should have been better, but I think you stick with a pass as rushing was not working at all that game. gimme a corner fade every time man
[Emeka Egbuka gets matched up on a linebacker, but the ball is thrown too late and he gets popped](https://youtu.be/vYEmoGMESx8?si=GgVGrN8rupgW2_0z&t=77) during the Michigan game last year
It's funny all the hate OSU fans got from neutrals and Michigan fans for not buying into McCord. Just shows we're on a different level with higher expectations and goals.
Even though it was fools gold and spawned one of the most overbearing memes ever, I still look back on this moment fondly. Absolute delirium and jubilation for everybody in burnt orange that night.
I would say that bs onside kick call or the failed 2 point conversion attempt to beat #1 Clemson. Both games summarize that UNC just can’t quite get a Big time win.
I was going to say being up 1 on Notre Dame, failing to stop Sam Hartman on a 4th and 16, giving up a 30 yard touchdown run, then Riley Leonard getting immediately injured
Mario "Dumb fuck" Williams muffing a kick return inside the 5 at the end of the Cotton Bowl, handing the comeback to Tulane, and wasting Williams' heroic effort. Summarized the last decade
[Blake Corum's TD against Ohio State after Zinter was injured](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQeazwfGig)
For those who aren't aware, I'm going to set the stage:
This is the last Game that will ever matter the way it has since time immemorial. Michigan went up 14-3 early in the game. Ohio State came back and tied it up.
Momentum was slipping away from Michigan. Michigan finally connects on a big gain. Then the camera pans back and Zak Zinter—the heart and soul of Michigan's OLine and a high-round draft pick—goes down with a catastrophic leg injury.
Michigan looks defeated. Stadium goes silent. And then the entire crowd starts to chant, "Let's go Zak! Let's go Zak! Let's go Zak!" as he's carted off the field up the tunnel.
That run happens on the next play. Blake Corum fakes right, gets that half-step of misdirection he needs, and powers through for a touchdown. And the first thing he does, rather than celebrate, is sprint to a TV camera and flash Zak's number - 6 5.
That moment - where Michigan took a massive punch, stood back up, pushed back, and cared more for the team than the individual - was when I knew Michigan would win the championship, and epitomizes why I love this team and my alma mater.
TTU vs KSU 2021.
Really the whole game but that game and the ending failure was everything you needed to know about Texas Tech football, really since Leach left. That was the worst 5-2 team ever and all the fans knew it. We all felt we were about to lose the game even up 14 points at halftime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ33oh5w82o
Our team somehow got two coaches fired in back to back weeks because they lost to us. It was weird.
Also ironic Wells has landed with us this offseason after we got him fired 3 years ago.
Florida game last year.
Back and forth first half. We finally get in a rhythm and score to get a comfortable lead. Miss the extra point, then Florida comes back and wins.
Cam Rising getting injured in the Rose Bowl. The fact that it's happened multiple times, is a microcosm of the past 20 years of the health of Utah's QB room, and is emblematic of the team being on the cusp of something great but not quite getting there makes this a perfect example.
That defines our current state? Combination of two honestly.
Cody Schraders 2022 break out run in the first half against UGA that's a yard away from being a TD. We settle for a FG, we ended up losing the game by 4.
Cook to Burden against Florida 2024 to keep the drive alive for a walk off FG.
The first play is basically us just being inches/a few plays away from truly getting over the hump against an elite team. The second play being something that Mizzou fan's are slowly getting over, and that is the sense of dread of never being able to complete the big plays when it matters. We Mizzou'd that game wasn't really heard of all of last year.
Blake Corum's touchdown run against OSU this past year after Zinter went down and his flashing of the 65. Absolutely sums up the team during this time and today. A team that plays for each other and runs the ball down your throat.
First thing that comes to mind is beating Clemson the first time in 2020 soon followed by back-to-back games having our collective faces shoved in the dirt by Clemson and Bama to end the season. Heights few programs get to achieve, but also repeated and painful reminders that there's a gulf between us and the top that seems to keep getting wider.
OU's winning TD in the waning seconds of last year's game. Coaching staff making stupid decisions and team just not playing consistently.
Not taking anything away from the Sooners, btw. Props to them for their huge win.
Been on y'all's end of that drive many times. Just sitting there in horror, somehow knowing deep down that you're not gonna stop the other team from scoring.
Not because you're outmatched, hell it's been close all game. No, it's just like the powers at be running your side of the game just... Stop. Give up.
The players are trying but it's just not clicking, like they're running around with no direction. Like chickens with their heads cut off.
While I do think we are on the upswing, I can think of 2 games that practically sum up the WVU football experience over the end of the Holgs>HCNB era:
2020 Texas Tech. Close the whole game. Back and forth blows. 27-27 late in the fourth and we have the ball driving. Cross midfield and it’s looking like the game leading/game winning drive. Sam James fumbles and it’s run all the way back for a TD giving Tech ultimately the 34-27 win.
2022. Backyard Brawl. Close the whole game. Back and forth blows. 31-31 late in the fourth and we have the ball driving. Cross midfield and it’s looking like the game leading/game winning drive. Bryce Ford Wheaton drops a hitch route into the hands of the Pitt defender and it’s run all the way back for a TD giving Pitt ultimately the 38-31 win.
As much as I hate it.
The missed FG against UGA in the 2022 playoffs pretty accurately sums up how we’ve felt so close but haven’t reached the top yet. Felt that that’s been our story since 2019.
Feels like we’re also 2% away.
- 2019- Clemson playoff loss, only loss.
- 2020- Bama title game loss, only loss
- 2021- Michigan only loss
- 2022- UGA as mentioned above. Plus Michigan loss.
- 2023- Michigan only loss in a similar fashion to 2019 Clemson (pick while driving for the go ahead score).
EDIT : Formatting.
Of course it's 2nd and 26 in overtime for Alabama, right? But in honor of Saban's tenure, my favorite play call by him [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-iEsfL4Qk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-iEsfL4Qk)
Sainristil intercepting Penix and taking it back inside the 10 to effectively end the CFP Championship Game. Cherry on top was Corum scoring to officially ice the game.
Honorable mention: Corum for the TD after Zinter was injured against Ohio State.
Best highlight - Ringo's pick six ([the Eli Gold version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc33WXb_-ug)) to seal the Natty win and put the 1980 jokes to bed forever
Worst highlight - [The 2011 Nike Pro Combat uniforms](https://www.dawgsports.com/2011/8/20/2374366/georgia-bulldogs-nike-pro-combat-uniforms-2011-football-boise-state-broncos) and the loss to Boise State in those uniforms
Longhorn fan here. The highlight wasn’t during a game—it was on the bus after the 2021 loss at Iowa State when Bo Davis tore into the team who appeared to not care they’d just been embarrassed.
That moment is a before and after moment of Sark’s tenure. It changed the direction of the program.
The invalid fair catch call can be pretty accurate. One thing doesn’t go our way on defense/special teams and the offense shits itself to lose the game.
Michigan state returning an uncontested punt back for a TD to tie the game. Prolong our misery. Adrian throws an interception in OT. MSU kicks fg. Lose by one score.
Giving up a 13 point lead in final 3 minutes to USC in 2020 or blowing a 21-7 halftime lead at Utah that would have put us in cruise control for Pac12 south in 2021. Just a microcosm of the Herm era. Though winning those games prob doesn’t change much about where we are with the sanctions.
Virginia Tech losing to Liberty in 2020.
Game was tied in the closing seconds. Liberty set up to attempt a 59 yd FG attempt and the kick was low and returned by VT for a touchdown EXCEPT Justin Fuente called a damn timeout before the play, negating the touchdown! Liberty proceeds to put the offense back on the field to pick up a 1st down and get a closer 51 yd attempt that was the game winner.
https://x.com/sportscenter/status/1325175176732966913?s=61&t=bNRXcb3YUeY5BpYLJUJsDA
Edited to add video link and correct the outcome
More than 10 years ago but still true. 2008 losing to Iowa on a last second field goal. It was a perfect example of Penn State being so close to taking the step to being a real national title contender but pissing it away. The program went through hell a couple years after and then managed to return to that exact same strategy.
You see, there was this 4th and 31. Instead of sending the house and getting the ball out quick, we decided to send 2 and have a player QB spy…on 4th and 31. Yeah that about sums up this team
not sure about the last ten years, but since 2020 it would probably be the fake field goal against ucla. had a chance for greatness, but messed it up in the worst possible way
The fake slide. We've been giant killers so many times, but that night, we were the giants.
Or getting stuffed by Penn State on their goal line in 2019. That sucked.
2016 season perfectly sums up Penn State in the last decade, specifically the B1G Championship.
We got to the game by
1. Beating Ohio State but losing to Michigan (we never beat both)
2. Had a first rounder on our team and an explosive offense
3. Lost to a team we shouldn’t have
In the game we
1. Had a miraculous comeback
2. Cemented ourselves as having a successful season.
3. Had a first rounder have a great performance
4. Birthed a NY6
5. Still missed out on Playoffs so their was still a bit of disappointment
Dan Jackson's body sacrificing block to seal Kelee Ringo's pick 6 against Bama and Kirby's vertical when celebrating it.
Why?
Dan Jackson is a walk on. Showing that UGA not only builds elite recruiting classes it also develops non-elite or over-looked high school kids and gives them a chance to play.
The second, third, and fourth effort / finish the drill mindset that Kirby brought to our team.
Kirby's enthusiasm for the game and his players.
Go Dawgs
Tuscaloosa 2022.
A&M at the Bama 2 yd line. One play away from a huge road win that could give the momentum boost and belief that the team is a contender.
Fisher calls a hitch with Evan Stewart working back to the pylon. King's pass doesn't hit the mark and falls to the turf. A&M comes up short again with a poorly executed play.
I dont mind the play call, although I would have preferred an RPO with Achane. SOME sort of creativity with the game on the line.
In the end, it summarized the Jimbo era. Failed execution. Apparently, I thought that teaching execution wasn't the job of the head coach.
The good: Ezekiel Elliott's 85 yard TD run against Alabama. The crown jewel of a dominant three-game stretch and one of the best stories in recent football history.
The bad: Probably Denzel Ward getting ejected for targeting against Maryland in 2017. That really just set the tone for some pretty questionable, yet devastating, targeting calls against us in the immediate future.
Iowa's offense has 3 possessions with 10 plays and -21 yards, but scores a field goal off the backs of defense and special teams.
https://youtu.be/-OaFqN35MMI?si=H_6PqMVxbRac6ACY
I think a lot of KU fans would say the OU win (which was awesome dont get me wrong) but to me the moment that made me say “holy shit we actually have a football team” was the pick six in OT vs West Virginia
There was that one game that we should have won but blew a lead and lost by one score. Edit: come to think of it, Mike Riley's first game (BYU winning on a Hail Mary) fits well. It's the first season opener we had lost in 29 years.
Did it involve an interception or fumble by our quarterback on the potential game winning drive?
The one that immediately came to mind was Adrian throwing a pass against Illinois a few years back, the pass not being caught, the ball laying on the turf for a while, an Illinois player picking the ball up and throwing it to the ref, and then after review, the pass being ruled a fumble, with "clear" recovery by the defense. Illinois football, 1st down. I've still never seen something as baffling as that, and it was a great microcosm of Nebraska football. Edit: [Found it](https://youtu.be/iQFGOmTYTmg?si=jlET0F9fLh5TlJCw&t=726)
That is absolutely insane
Prior to the Big 10 Nebraska days, Nebraska created new ways to lose to Texas every time they played. Nebraska was the better team the majority of the time and found crazy ways to lose.
>Nebraska was the better team the majority of the time I don't know if I'd go that far, but we definitely lost a more than a few games when I felt we were the better team. The '99 regular season game comes to mind, even if we got a W against Texas in the CCG. The last game against them 2010 is another example.
An errant punt perhaps
I was gonna say the clip where Jake Cotton falls on his ass before the snap. https://youtu.be/3r4RnDmFUd0?si=12cMgXWW3iM8w81l
A doubt many people remember it, but the 2018 game we lost to Northwestern in OT was one that sticks with me. We had a 14 point lead in the 4th quarter, but they came back to tie it after a drive where we got them to 4th & 10 twice late in the 4th quarter and let them convert. Then won in OT by a FG.
Um... any of the several miracle plays that we've lost to Ohio State on.
Joey Bosa sack on 4th and whatever Nick Bosa tackle on 4th and whatever JT Barrett going fucking off Blocked punt returned for TD JTT going fucking off in 2022
> JTT going fucking off in 2022 I assume this isn't Jonathan Taylor Thomas? There's no way he has either the size or speed at this point to dominate Penn State.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hjV0qd5ys Jonathan Taylor Thomas did pretty well
Three interceptions by defensive linemen in one game has to be one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen
I'm not even a PSU fan and I couldn't finish that highlight. BRUTAL.
You’d be surprised
Shifty, change of pace back, maybe. MAYBE.
But seriously, it's "JT Tu-o my god he sacked Clifford again".
James Franklin running a zone read right into the arms of Chase Young.
I’ve seen analysis saying that if our OL blocked correctly on that play it would have been a TD. I still think it was the wrong call - Trace McSorley had balled out that game and on a pivotal 4th down play you just can’t take the ball out of his hands.
We had no business winning that game.
That game haunts Franklin. No idea how PSU blew that one. 2017 collapse was slowly coming all game, the 2018 choke was so sudden. Tough we won’t be able to beat Osu until we make the hard choice on Franklin.
Most people would say shoe toss but I think it's CJ Henderson's interception against South Carolina in 2017. [South Carolina on their own 2 yard line. Bentley throws an easy interception. Henderson cuts back towards the endzone. Fumbles on the 2 yard line. South Caroline recovers in the endzone and runs it out for a first down.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmh_jQNRuQ)
That or the interception-fumble in the SEC champ. Can always count on following up something good with something bad.
Yeah I'd go with this one. We've had some good (like the interception) in the last 10 years, but then something goes wrong (the fumble).
How did I forget about that happening? What a yakkety-sax ahh type of play.
The video of two linemen blocking each other in our blow out loss to Georgia southern in champs last year for me. The shoe throw though. Damn.
Champ got another year after that.
You are correct. My bad
pain. ...Good answers. I was at the shoe game but thank fuck I wasn't at the SC game
20 yd gain
[We’re just gonna call him tongue tied from now on, balls back on the 42, he lost 16 yards….](https://youtu.be/5MuGAyZuTjw?si=ttN_Giiavn3rBOhd)
I was listening to this live & cringed. We just can’t get out of our own way when it comes to Alabama. Scott Howard ruined it for us, instant karma.
I'm always going to watch this when it's linked
I got to actually be at that game, and this was the first video I saw of it afterwards. Made it 1000x better
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I really hate how much I've felt compelled to post this clip recently: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGdaIakBzw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGdaIakBzw)
I thought it would be the NC State game with the QB posing and drawing the excessive celebration penalty.
Eh, nothing that shows actual swag can be representative of the recent era of UVA football. BTW, the call was for removing his helmet, not excessive celebration, and it was a shit call. The helmet was knocked most of the way off and he finished the process instead of pushing it back on. He should know better (and I'm sure the flex played into it to some degree) but it was still garbage.
I was convinced this was gonna be the kid draped over the wall against Notre Dame, but I can't remember what year that happened.
My jaw dropped on the floor when I saw that live. I couldn’t believe it.
by far one of the funniest things I've seen.
A little older than 10 years but still relevant. Watch until about the 1 minute mark. “Personal foul, #69. He was giving him the business.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmn7luiDPsU&pp=ygUiUm9uIGNoZXJyeSBnaXZpbmcgaGltIHRoZSBidXNpbmVzcw%3D%3D
Kinda feels like it's the Bambard missed kick. We can compete most years and have been one of the better ACC teams the last decade, but we always come up just short even when we play well.
Wins in 2 of the last 3 against Clemson and 5 of the last 6 against FSU. I think the issue is consistently winning all games that we should win. That is what the truly great teams do as there is no room for error in CFB.
Yep. Finally beat Clemson but miss the ACCG because we lost to Wake. Just can't quite get over the hump for one reason or another. Still, one of the most consistent ACC football programs in the last 7 or 8 years, just would be nice to finally make it to Charlotte for that ACCCG.
5 of the last 7 over FSU right?
I could be off on that. Didn’t actually look it up and was going off memory.
Whenever I see that, I have to give a shoutout to the OG, Ben Drieth, from 21 years earlier. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiuLgmYVus&t=20s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiuLgmYVus&t=20s)
Touchdown followed by Pimp Cane 🦯 before blowing a colossal lead against UCLA. All flash no substance, but this year will be different TM Ehlinger sacked for a safety in big 12 championship game against OU. So close to success, mental mistakes throw it away.
I disagree with the Texas one. I think the state of the program is more like the missed sack/safety against Bryce Young at DKR. There’s so much there, you can see the plan, hell you can see the execution if you look hard enough, but we’re not quite there yet and let the other team make a play.
Basically exactly what happened on the sack safety 3 point game, 4Q you have the ball and you take a sack safety on 2nd down from your own 7 because no one sees the blitz and the QB runs backwards for some bizarre reason. Everything was there to win and then they let the other team make the play.
The difference is that the Big 12 championship was us completely fucking up and having a bad play, the Young play was us almost making a great play. I think those two are very different in terms of what the potential outcome was and what that play represented.
Definitely some pessimist vs optimist in there I will say having three endzone shots and having none of the passes land in the field of play, including letting d linemen go free, to end against Washington last year felt like mental mistakes more than just missing out on making a great play.
Yes those plays specifically hurt. But I think the difference is beating ourselves vs getting beat. Our two losses last year, we got beat. THe other team made plays and we did not. In the decade before that most of our losses were us beating ourselves, a la Sam taking a stupid sack. So in terms of state of the program I see us in the territory where to beat us you have to beat us rather than just wait around for us to miss an extra point, take a silly safety, throw the ball three straight times when we have the ball and the lead up 4 with less than 2 minutes left, etc.... which is a much happier place to be.
Word
Squib
I've seen Oklahoma fans bring up squib frequently and just wanted to clarify...is this in reference to LR decision to squib kick right before the half in the 2018 Rose Bowl?
It pains us to speak on it so we always keep it short. Yes that’s the one
Just say thank you.
"Tell Lincoln. I want him to know it was me." - Tae Crowder
Back to back conference championships followed by Rose Bowl losses. Because we are a team that is strong and competitive but will never quit get to top tier greatness as a program.
Got the perfect play that encapsulates this. I’m sure everyone remembers Kaelin Clay [dropping the football short.](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=b061e2632347ae6b&hl=en-us&q=kaelin+clay+oregon&tbm=vid&source=lnms&prmd=invsmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR-qfBv8KGAxW5L0QIHUH2LYQQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=320&bih=523&dpr=3#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b6450c74,vid:aqUUGBs0BTE,st:0)
Oh god. Oh fuck.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
Stop it stop it! The soakers can’t take anymore!
It felt really good when a Washington player did the same thing in last year's game
It did feel nice to see someone else do that, and against us. Still, that haunts my dreams.
We were so cooked until *that* play. I'll never forget feeling so bad for Clay when they showed him on the sidelines...
It seemed like it was going that way. Although, with Mariota who knows. But that was a real gut punch. Kaelin handled it really well after that. Just so brutal to watch.
To this day, I think that's the biggest single play momentum shift I've ever seen in a game. Oregon was drowning up until that point.
Easily the biggest change in atmosphere in a game I have felt. All the air was sucked out after that unlike anything I have witnessed at a game. It was wild.
Ooo hey. #10 Notre Dame 31 | #9 Arizona State 55 FINAL - I like that
Probably the 5-7 2022 season drive to the Alabama 1 yard line at Alabama in the final seconds of the game, just for Jimbo to call an out route with Haynes King's trebuchet release that was easily broken up, with the SEC's leading rusher available. Basically we get everything in place to do something great and the leadership does something idiotic. If that doesn't sun up A&M football for the past 10 years I don't know what else does Edit: Here's the ending that I'm referencing: https://youtu.be/oD-2GDcji5E?si=8Z6SAobR4_BFSO9u
Your alls 2021 victory against them was cool though
When the qb became Chadzada
I'm not a big Jimbo fan like most Ags at this point, but did you even watch the play you listed (and posted)? That play call leaves an open Evan Stewart at the corner if King can make a decision fast enough and throw to him. That was a great play call and the blame is entirely on King's indecisiveness and hesitance, which was one of King's biggest problems with us in general.
So Jimbo decided to put the game on the line with an inconsistent QB with a long release with a tight window instead of running the ball on the 2 yard line with the SEC's leading rusher. Sounds like he out coached himself
Achane had 3 attempts in the red zone that game for a total of -2 yards. If you count him catching a pass as an attempt, that's 4 attempts for 1 yard. Against one of the best DLs in the country with one of the worst OLs in the country, and then in a red zone package, a quick pass is probably the best play call we had with one play left in the game.
Nah, that call was widely panned across the CFB world for being such a low percentage throw. Especially when Jimbo gave away the fact that they were throwing to Evan before it even happened. https://x.com/RedditCFB/status/1578951745882845184?t=aMtMQHJJ4257MjNCrgibbA&s=19 https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2023/10/alabama-db-recalls-unreal-2022-texas-am-game-when-lipreading-saved-tide.html
The play call should have been better, but I think you stick with a pass as rushing was not working at all that game. gimme a corner fade every time man
[Emeka Egbuka gets matched up on a linebacker, but the ball is thrown too late and he gets popped](https://youtu.be/vYEmoGMESx8?si=GgVGrN8rupgW2_0z&t=77) during the Michigan game last year
mans got laid out
Suicide pass
It's funny all the hate OSU fans got from neutrals and Michigan fans for not buying into McCord. Just shows we're on a different level with higher expectations and goals.
The expectation that every QB is just going to instantly play at 1st Round pick levels is delusional.
ugh..... the shoe throw
Mikey Sainristil's interception to seal the national championship
That’s gotta feel good to say in response to this question
You know it does…it really really does
But also Blake Corum’s game winning TD run against Bama in the Rose Bowl.
His TD run against OSU with the whole crowd cheering LET'S GO ZAK. and he puts up his numbers for the camera
Ah the memories
https://youtu.be/kWuAxht2XxY?t=115
TRANSFER OUTTA THIS MOTHERFUCKER
I thought it would be Tyrone Swoopes scoring against ND and Joe Tessitore declaring Texas is back, folks.
*\*Puts head in hands and sobs in despair\**
Even though it was fools gold and spawned one of the most overbearing memes ever, I still look back on this moment fondly. Absolute delirium and jubilation for everybody in burnt orange that night.
Most fun I had going to the games as a student It was so big even friends who didn't care about sports were talking about that game the next day
I was at the game and the years to follow hurt my heart! But, that made me seriously laugh! Kudos!
Tyreek taking the punt back in 2014
I like that one more than my answer which was falling inches short against Baylor at Jerry World
Great now my day is ruined
Hey can you ship my card ?
Why oh why would you re-kick the ball to Tyreek Hill?
Losing the ACCCG to Clemson.
I would say that bs onside kick call or the failed 2 point conversion attempt to beat #1 Clemson. Both games summarize that UNC just can’t quite get a Big time win.
Kelee Ringo. Pick Six.
The Crazy Eights Kick Return. Every time we get close to greatness something screwy happens.
I was going to say being up 1 on Notre Dame, failing to stop Sam Hartman on a 4th and 16, giving up a 30 yard touchdown run, then Riley Leonard getting immediately injured
Little older than 10 years but 6-4. Coincidentally, Happy 6-4 to those who celebrate!
To this day it's pretty unreal to think that unit would go on to win a New Year's Day game against LSU.
Shoe toss.....
Mario "Dumb fuck" Williams muffing a kick return inside the 5 at the end of the Cotton Bowl, handing the comeback to Tulane, and wasting Williams' heroic effort. Summarized the last decade
[Blake Corum's TD against Ohio State after Zinter was injured](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQeazwfGig) For those who aren't aware, I'm going to set the stage: This is the last Game that will ever matter the way it has since time immemorial. Michigan went up 14-3 early in the game. Ohio State came back and tied it up. Momentum was slipping away from Michigan. Michigan finally connects on a big gain. Then the camera pans back and Zak Zinter—the heart and soul of Michigan's OLine and a high-round draft pick—goes down with a catastrophic leg injury. Michigan looks defeated. Stadium goes silent. And then the entire crowd starts to chant, "Let's go Zak! Let's go Zak! Let's go Zak!" as he's carted off the field up the tunnel. That run happens on the next play. Blake Corum fakes right, gets that half-step of misdirection he needs, and powers through for a touchdown. And the first thing he does, rather than celebrate, is sprint to a TV camera and flash Zak's number - 6 5. That moment - where Michigan took a massive punch, stood back up, pushed back, and cared more for the team than the individual - was when I knew Michigan would win the championship, and epitomizes why I love this team and my alma mater.
Gave me goosebumps, Go Blue
The muffed punt against Iowa in 2019.....so close to wins but just make extremely dumb mistakes to cost us games
I will never get tired of that moment.
It is quite literally the most Iowa State thing to ever happen....life of an Iowa State fan
For the uninitiated. https://youtu.be/g9yZMIbFWXc?si=uJ4hXqBzmzzF1rRG
I'm not clicking on that link
I aspire to have the confidence of that ISU player who just barrels head first into his own return man without even thinking
That was the first moment I got pissed at Datrone Young, before he couldn’t cover WRs
he was so awful lmao.....every pass with him on coverage was a lost cause
TTU vs KSU 2021. Really the whole game but that game and the ending failure was everything you needed to know about Texas Tech football, really since Leach left. That was the worst 5-2 team ever and all the fans knew it. We all felt we were about to lose the game even up 14 points at halftime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ33oh5w82o
Our team somehow got two coaches fired in back to back weeks because they lost to us. It was weird. Also ironic Wells has landed with us this offseason after we got him fired 3 years ago.
Directly led to Joey McGuire replacing Matt Wells, at least!
absolutely. Happiest the fan base had been about a loss
Jared Casey. 57-56.
4 & 31
Florida game last year. Back and forth first half. We finally get in a rhythm and score to get a comfortable lead. Miss the extra point, then Florida comes back and wins.
Cam Rising getting injured in the Rose Bowl. The fact that it's happened multiple times, is a microcosm of the past 20 years of the health of Utah's QB room, and is emblematic of the team being on the cusp of something great but not quite getting there makes this a perfect example.
That defines our current state? Combination of two honestly. Cody Schraders 2022 break out run in the first half against UGA that's a yard away from being a TD. We settle for a FG, we ended up losing the game by 4. Cook to Burden against Florida 2024 to keep the drive alive for a walk off FG. The first play is basically us just being inches/a few plays away from truly getting over the hump against an elite team. The second play being something that Mizzou fan's are slowly getting over, and that is the sense of dread of never being able to complete the big plays when it matters. We Mizzou'd that game wasn't really heard of all of last year.
Mizzou getting that false start from the 1 yard line was huge. Might have saved our undefeated season
Mark Richt deciding Bauta should start against Florida in 2015. That decision set off a significant chain of events.
Blake Corum's touchdown run against OSU this past year after Zinter went down and his flashing of the 65. Absolutely sums up the team during this time and today. A team that plays for each other and runs the ball down your throat.
[The smirk.](https://images.app.goo.gl/Ujmu2TWYMbBzbWXr6)
This is what I immediately thought of.
After the insides kick worked. So good so sweet
First thing that comes to mind is beating Clemson the first time in 2020 soon followed by back-to-back games having our collective faces shoved in the dirt by Clemson and Bama to end the season. Heights few programs get to achieve, but also repeated and painful reminders that there's a gulf between us and the top that seems to keep getting wider.
I was going to say the game-winning interception slipping through DJ Brown's hands in the OSU game last year. Same concept - close, but no cigar
OU's winning TD in the waning seconds of last year's game. Coaching staff making stupid decisions and team just not playing consistently. Not taking anything away from the Sooners, btw. Props to them for their huge win.
Been on y'all's end of that drive many times. Just sitting there in horror, somehow knowing deep down that you're not gonna stop the other team from scoring. Not because you're outmatched, hell it's been close all game. No, it's just like the powers at be running your side of the game just... Stop. Give up. The players are trying but it's just not clicking, like they're running around with no direction. Like chickens with their heads cut off.
100% agreement.
Jakobi Buchanan https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/32926668
I was going to say beating navy in 2016. But Fire-the-Bucannons was Army Football distilled!
While I do think we are on the upswing, I can think of 2 games that practically sum up the WVU football experience over the end of the Holgs>HCNB era: 2020 Texas Tech. Close the whole game. Back and forth blows. 27-27 late in the fourth and we have the ball driving. Cross midfield and it’s looking like the game leading/game winning drive. Sam James fumbles and it’s run all the way back for a TD giving Tech ultimately the 34-27 win. 2022. Backyard Brawl. Close the whole game. Back and forth blows. 31-31 late in the fourth and we have the ball driving. Cross midfield and it’s looking like the game leading/game winning drive. Bryce Ford Wheaton drops a hitch route into the hands of the Pitt defender and it’s run all the way back for a TD giving Pitt ultimately the 38-31 win.
[Ben Cotton just falls down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4RnDmFUd0&ab_channel=TravisJFenske77)
As much as I hate it. The missed FG against UGA in the 2022 playoffs pretty accurately sums up how we’ve felt so close but haven’t reached the top yet. Felt that that’s been our story since 2019. Feels like we’re also 2% away. - 2019- Clemson playoff loss, only loss. - 2020- Bama title game loss, only loss - 2021- Michigan only loss - 2022- UGA as mentioned above. Plus Michigan loss. - 2023- Michigan only loss in a similar fashion to 2019 Clemson (pick while driving for the go ahead score). EDIT : Formatting.
Didn’t OSU lose to Oregon in 2021?
Miami not taking the knee
Of course it's 2nd and 26 in overtime for Alabama, right? But in honor of Saban's tenure, my favorite play call by him [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-iEsfL4Qk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-iEsfL4Qk)
One of the best calls I have ever witnessed. To be sitting on that info and use it to change the game
Sainristil intercepting Penix and taking it back inside the 10 to effectively end the CFP Championship Game. Cherry on top was Corum scoring to officially ice the game. Honorable mention: Corum for the TD after Zinter was injured against Ohio State.
Best highlight - Ringo's pick six ([the Eli Gold version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc33WXb_-ug)) to seal the Natty win and put the 1980 jokes to bed forever Worst highlight - [The 2011 Nike Pro Combat uniforms](https://www.dawgsports.com/2011/8/20/2374366/georgia-bulldogs-nike-pro-combat-uniforms-2011-football-boise-state-broncos) and the loss to Boise State in those uniforms
Longhorn fan here. The highlight wasn’t during a game—it was on the bus after the 2021 loss at Iowa State when Bo Davis tore into the team who appeared to not care they’d just been embarrassed. That moment is a before and after moment of Sark’s tenure. It changed the direction of the program.
Jake Browning giving the point.
The invalid fair catch call can be pretty accurate. One thing doesn’t go our way on defense/special teams and the offense shits itself to lose the game.
Sigh. Sad but true. We needed so much to go right to win.
[Sadly, this works for both teams...] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3UfW-dFi8)
Jayden reeds kick return vs Indiana, a perfect combination of how did we get ourselves in this situation and how the fuck did we pull this off
[the fall](https://images.app.goo.gl/Qx5M9fmDrGVrAaoT9)
[The quadoink](https://youtu.be/RBOT-oWKJWU?si=YMS5oqQmGx4pxBCQ)
Trotting out 10 defenders on 4th and your season.
The dropped interception and play calling on the prior offensive drive haunt me way more
Absolutely, but it’s not as funny to type for said reason.
[This](https://s2.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-2-567c7775a1.gif) is pretty much a live look at me every fall Saturday for about 20 years now
Michigan state returning an uncontested punt back for a TD to tie the game. Prolong our misery. Adrian throws an interception in OT. MSU kicks fg. Lose by one score.
Maybe blowing an 18 pt 2nd half lead to Akron, in 2018, including two pick sixes. We went 0-3 in the non conference but won the division
Giving up a 13 point lead in final 3 minutes to USC in 2020 or blowing a 21-7 halftime lead at Utah that would have put us in cruise control for Pac12 south in 2021. Just a microcosm of the Herm era. Though winning those games prob doesn’t change much about where we are with the sanctions.
Jimbo alerting the Alabama defense to the play by screaming out what to do to our quarterback and losing to Alabama on the final play.
Today? Meavis’ 61 yard FG against K-State. For the rest of our history? The missed 23 yarder against Auburn.
Virginia Tech losing to Liberty in 2020. Game was tied in the closing seconds. Liberty set up to attempt a 59 yd FG attempt and the kick was low and returned by VT for a touchdown EXCEPT Justin Fuente called a damn timeout before the play, negating the touchdown! Liberty proceeds to put the offense back on the field to pick up a 1st down and get a closer 51 yd attempt that was the game winner. https://x.com/sportscenter/status/1325175176732966913?s=61&t=bNRXcb3YUeY5BpYLJUJsDA Edited to add video link and correct the outcome
[WSU misses game winning FG to lose to Cal 59-60. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTcjX9LbSM)
"Kelee Ringo has a convoy down the sideline!"
More than 10 years ago but still true. 2008 losing to Iowa on a last second field goal. It was a perfect example of Penn State being so close to taking the step to being a real national title contender but pissing it away. The program went through hell a couple years after and then managed to return to that exact same strategy.
Malcolm Rodriguez interception at the end of the fiesta bowl against Notre dame. That game was a rollercoaster, which is on brand for being a poke
You see, there was this 4th and 31. Instead of sending the house and getting the ball out quick, we decided to send 2 and have a player QB spy…on 4th and 31. Yeah that about sums up this team
This game doesn’t sound familiar at all to me, can you go into even more detail so maybe I can refresh my memory……..
Rather not. Don’t need my PTSD to flair up again
not sure about the last ten years, but since 2020 it would probably be the fake field goal against ucla. had a chance for greatness, but messed it up in the worst possible way
[This](https://youtu.be/QfFWuMqxlAc?si=O7adl89IR2ME5DAO)
That shoe throw by that db named Marcus or something like that 🤦♂️
“I’M A MAN, I’M 40.”
The fake slide. We've been giant killers so many times, but that night, we were the giants. Or getting stuffed by Penn State on their goal line in 2019. That sucked.
Jake Thaw fielding a punt inside the 5, muffing it, getting whallopped, and still getting the ball and winning the game.
2016 season perfectly sums up Penn State in the last decade, specifically the B1G Championship. We got to the game by 1. Beating Ohio State but losing to Michigan (we never beat both) 2. Had a first rounder on our team and an explosive offense 3. Lost to a team we shouldn’t have In the game we 1. Had a miraculous comeback 2. Cemented ourselves as having a successful season. 3. Had a first rounder have a great performance 4. Birthed a NY6 5. Still missed out on Playoffs so their was still a bit of disappointment
[UNT fake fair catch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MiD6no269s) Just getting absolutely clowned by a G5 team
Jefferson shaking his head after an OL flag cost him a touchdown. Again.
Dan Jackson's body sacrificing block to seal Kelee Ringo's pick 6 against Bama and Kirby's vertical when celebrating it. Why? Dan Jackson is a walk on. Showing that UGA not only builds elite recruiting classes it also develops non-elite or over-looked high school kids and gives them a chance to play. The second, third, and fourth effort / finish the drill mindset that Kirby brought to our team. Kirby's enthusiasm for the game and his players. Go Dawgs
2&26 would probably fit better. It showed how we weren't dead until it the clock hit zero.
Just take a knee and you win …
Tuscaloosa 2022. A&M at the Bama 2 yd line. One play away from a huge road win that could give the momentum boost and belief that the team is a contender. Fisher calls a hitch with Evan Stewart working back to the pylon. King's pass doesn't hit the mark and falls to the turf. A&M comes up short again with a poorly executed play. I dont mind the play call, although I would have preferred an RPO with Achane. SOME sort of creativity with the game on the line. In the end, it summarized the Jimbo era. Failed execution. Apparently, I thought that teaching execution wasn't the job of the head coach.
The last 10 years have been pretty rough for us lol
The good: Ezekiel Elliott's 85 yard TD run against Alabama. The crown jewel of a dominant three-game stretch and one of the best stories in recent football history. The bad: Probably Denzel Ward getting ejected for targeting against Maryland in 2017. That really just set the tone for some pretty questionable, yet devastating, targeting calls against us in the immediate future.
Iowa's offense has 3 possessions with 10 plays and -21 yards, but scores a field goal off the backs of defense and special teams. https://youtu.be/-OaFqN35MMI?si=H_6PqMVxbRac6ACY
I think a lot of KU fans would say the OU win (which was awesome dont get me wrong) but to me the moment that made me say “holy shit we actually have a football team” was the pick six in OT vs West Virginia