Did not remember that at all. Fitz/Damien Williams year?
Probably not my most angry, but the first one that comes to mind is the 2016 loss to South Alabama at 11:00 am opening game after we won 9 games the year before. It felt like the entire year was over before it even got started.
I really think the GT game was many players not wanting to get hurt on D impacting their NFL draft stock. GT with the blocking down at the knees. Our O was good that game, I think Dak set an orange bowl record. Our D never tried to stop the option and that dirty blocking tactic GT used.
But yeah I was really mad about that followup from the egg bowl.
OK who can ever forget the BYU game at home. Talk about bad officiating with the Sunbelt officials and the dirty SOBs from BYU.
You completely forgot about them shooting off the cannon as if we'd made it. We were watching the game in the Junction and one of my buddies started high fiving everyone when the cannons went off and just said "WTF" when we missed it and I think he was silent for like an hour.
LOL - I was in the NEZ suites and had no idea they fired the canon. That ranks high on the "How MS State Was That?" scale.
The worst part about that weekend was we left a High School football game in Orlando that Thursday night before, and literally drove through Hurricane Hermine as it made landfall to get to a hotel in Lake City FL before driving to Starkville the next day.
I was dead by the time we kicked off that Saturday. So was the team.
I remember talking to a player that Saturday night and they were just like, "Mullen wasn't even mad. It was almost like he was enjoying how much hell he was going to put them through that next week." Then I talked to Nick later on in the week because I had heard Damian had gotten some of the receivers together to throw on Sunday, basically to try and gain favor for him to keep the starting job. Said Mullen walked in on either Monday or Tuesday and said "Nick is the bleeping QB and if you don't like it the door is right there." And then started calling out some of the receivers by name who had been trying to sow dissension on the Nick vs Williams stuff. Said he crawled up Fred Ross' ass pretty good.
either the '81 or '83 Egg Bowls
dick Pace sucked and the wind blew too hard
I have not attended a State game in awhile since I live far away, but the most frustrating one for me that I attended was South Carolina in 2011. I thought we would win at least 8 or 9 games after the 2010 season. I traveled from Pennsylvania to see that one and it was one we really blew. We should have won that game and I believe lost 14-13 or something along those lines. That game made me question Mullen more than any game during his tenure. Just watching on TV, the worst games were UK 2018 because what I knew about Moorhead showed up to be true. It was just as bad in 2019 when we lost to KState at home because when we hired Moorhead I wanted Cohen to hire Kleiman as our replacement for Mullen. The 2021 Egg Bowl was frustrating too because even though Ole Miss was the better team, it seemed as though we were not prepared. We have been so bad the last two years I wouldn't say I have been "frustrated". While in college, 3-2 was definitely the worst or Tulane 2006.
1. Tulane post-Katrina under Croom. Everyone talks about Machine, but that game was worse.
2. 08 Auburn. Final score: 3-2. Enough said.
3. 09 LSU. Y'all have covered it. Give Dixon the damn ball.
4. 09 Houston. Refs absolutely stole it, cost us a bowl game.
5. 99 Bama. Phantom holding on the Pig Prather punt return. Game completely swings on that call.
6. 18 Florida. Jughead gets embarrassed and exposed as a fraud by Mullen.
Not ranked in order of anger, just how they came to my mind.