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Originally Posted by
MoreCowbell
Some of you have mentioned some games from 2020 and 2021. Idk if Covid, Air Raid, NIL or just life but after 2018-2019, I remember zero games. Leach-Wendys-Lebby years I legit do not remember how any games played that I remember besides maybe 2020 LSU.
Like 2009-2019 I remember every significant game from that year if you say 2012 ____, and how they played out and how I felt and the implications it had.
I think after 2018 I checked out because I knew deep down we missed our only chances ever as a program (2014,2017,2018) and were cooked going forward.
I could probably give you 2 paragraphs on any game of the Leach Era, but just a couple of sentences on 2023-24 games.
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Walking out of the Stadium after beating Louisiana Tech 21-14 in 1988. I had a really bad feeling I had just seen our only win in the very first game of the season knowing the team we just beat by 7 was probably the better team that day. 😳
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Originally Posted by
Rawdawg
08 Georgia Tech. They beat the living shit out of us and we weren?t even pretending to be competent on either side of the ball. Factor in it was 95 degrees and we basically saw the sun rise, it made for a perfect storm of anger and frustration.
Yeah. And how about the Orange Bowl where Tech ran over our a$$ for almost 500 yards. I was there for that debacle.
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Originally Posted by
MoreCowbell
Same. Someone started a thread a few weeks back when do you think the decline started and I know, for me, after that game I haven?t felt the same about football program. That game was soul crushing.
I have that last play, Fitz dropping back and their safety sprinting 20 yards untouched and just cracking Fitz helmet so hard. That sound is seared into my brain.
It was losing to Kentucky that year for me. My wife said i was being a huge baby after that game but she didn?t understand the Dan years were gone for good and not coming back. Florida just made it even worse
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2022 LSU- I think we win that one we have real momentum to get to 10+ regular season wins that year but it just felt flat afterwards.
Every 2018 loss- Moorhead was a disaster and it was evident every time we stepped on the field even in the wins.
I cannot believe no one has said it but 2017 Bama. The blitz at the end was too aggressive and felt like a knife in the heart stabbed by Grantham
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For me it's the '99 Bama game in Tuscaloosa........Pig Prather ran back a punt for a TD and it was called back for a "block in the back"........I've watched that video multiple times and there's no effing block in the back..........That call costs us the game.........The '91 Bama game was another one........We had those mf'ers beat.........Down 13-7 with a couple of minutes left in the game and we had the ball on the two yard line..........That POS John Sullins (Bama LB) was barking out the cadence and Michael Montgomery reacted and was flagged for a false start........Sleepy ended up throwing a pick a play or two later and we lost..........
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"The QB and the receiver weren't on the same page there, but hey its only week eleven". (Jack Cristil)
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Was a freshman in 1961 so I have lost count of the times I've left a game angry and frustrated. Thank goodness I have matured to the point that I no longer get angry or upset. Makes my remaining few years so much calmer.
"Live every day like it was your last one.....And one day you're gonna be right"..Willie Nelson
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Originally Posted by
AROB44
Was a freshman in 1961 so I have lost count of the times I've left a game angry and frustrated. Thank goodness I have matured to the point that I no longer get angry or upset. Makes my remaining few years so much calmer.
Amen to this!
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Originally Posted by
AROB44
Was a freshman in 1961 so I have lost count of the times I've left a game angry and frustrated. Thank goodness I have matured to the point that I no longer get angry or upset. Makes my remaining few years so much calmer.
Good points!
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Originally Posted by
NWADAWG
I'll add 1988 Georgia. David Fair (sp?) running all over the other dogs and Felker played it safe at the end and cost us a chance to win.
David Fair was going to be a bad mf'er had he not gotten hurt. One of the best RB signees we ever had. I remember watching him run track. For a big guy he was unbelievable.
"The QB and the receiver weren't on the same page there, but hey its only week eleven". (Jack Cristil)
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Originally Posted by
State82
Easy one. 1981 Battle for the Golden Egg. Phantom pass interference call in the end zone at the end of the game. Worst call in collegiate football history. And John Fourcade can still kiss my ass. Along with Dick Pace. What an appropriate name.
Agree with this, but also blowing our chance for an SEC West championship by losing to a beat-up Arkansas team in 2000. Terrible loss.
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This thread speaks to all of us as forlorn State fans. It's a hard road.
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3 to 2 Auburn sucked all time.... but the light at the end of the tunnel was Byrne realizing Croom had to go, so some solace a little later on
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Originally Posted by
MoreCowbell
2016 Offense ? Remind me what roster was because that does not stick out as being a good offensive team. Did we not go 5-7 and beat Miami OH on last second field goal to win a bowl game 17-16?
Yeah and we scored 55 on OM. 42 on Arkansas. 38 on Kentucky. 35 on A&M. 56 on samford and needed everyone of them. So yea. That offense
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LSU, late 90s in BR... rained the whole time, we sucked that night even though we were the better team. They ran a KO back for a TD, horrible... just horrible. *Bonus: 1997 Egg Bowl when they came from behind, scored late, went for 2 and got it for the win. My eyes were buried in my hands as they scored that 2pt conversion. I knew from the moans what had happened...
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Originally Posted by
basedog
Good points!
I was in college for "Tech and 10"... nuff said.
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Originally Posted by
R2Dawg
14 Ole Miss - never should have lost to them that year, cost us a playoff spot
THIS... this is what I remember most when fans start pleasuring themselves thinking about 2014 and DM. Bama, OM and GT were freaking embarrassing, in our "banner" year of being #1 for five weeks.
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Originally Posted by
AROB44
Was a freshman in 1961 so I have lost count of the times I've left a game angry and frustrated. Thank goodness I have matured to the point that I no longer get angry or upset. Makes my remaining few years so much calmer.
Matured or become numb?
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Originally Posted by
Turfdawg67
I was in college for "Tech and 10"... nuff said.
I'm really blessed to have been at MSU from 1996-1999. REALLY BLESSED!
It's funny because high school day my senior year was the day we lost to Northeast Louisiana. My Mom didn't want to go to Starkville or the game so she made me watch ULM celebrate because she wanted me to "know what it was going to be like when I was in school." Then we had our best era of the modern age while I was in school! LOL.
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