IMO ...78-0 games drive fan indifference. Losing meaningful games that could have launched the program into a Top Bowl and Contending ranking are the ones that are heart breaking.
Best & Worst RU Football Games You've Ever Attended...
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IMO ...78-0 games drive fan indifference. Losing meaningful games that could have launched the program into a Top Bowl and Contending ranking are the ones that are heart breaking.
I can't stick with just one:
Best: 2006 Lousiville, 1992 VaTech, 1980 Alabama (loss), 2012 @Arkansas
Worst: 1977 Penn State - that 45-7 first "big time" era game loss was a wake-up call after the 1976 season
2010 Army - That hit was loud and I had the sickening feeling someone (52) wasn't getting up from it.
2007. Maryland: We lost at home and the visiting MD fans were totally key-jangling horrible to us afterwards. Looking back we were ranked #10 and dropped to #21 .
Best: 2006 Lousiville, 1992 VaTech, 1980 Alabama (loss), 2012 @Arkansas
Worst: 1977 Penn State - that 45-7 first "big time" era game loss was a wake-up call after the 1976 season
2010 Army - That hit was loud and I had the sickening feeling someone (52) wasn't getting up from it.
2007. Maryland: We lost at home and the visiting MD fans were totally key-jangling horrible to us afterwards. Looking back we were ranked #10 and dropped to #21 .
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Understand your point. It doesn’t make me not a fan though as you suggested earlier😉
Best- easily 2006 Louisville game at home! In fact that is the single best sporting event I have ever been to.
Worst-!oh god I can’t even remember but I think we got a massive beat down at home in embarrassing fashion.
Worst-!oh god I can’t even remember but I think we got a massive beat down at home in embarrassing fashion.
Ha...just reading it I see what you mean...should have specified it was away. David Booth Stadium is a piece of poop. But we were the poop that day...demoralizing.
Thank you for adding color...though I tried to forget that day to be honest. Horror show against probably the worst team ever. I had another miserable away experience...similarly, my son and I had a great time the day before the away Washington Game. Space Needle, fish market, all that crap. Nice tailgate on a beautiful Udub campus. Then the beatdown. I must have looked like i was going to cry because a guy called us over to his tailgate on the way back to the car...offered me a beer and a hug. I took both. Nice fans there...but we were losers once again.
Best was Rutgers Michigan 2014 followed by Rutgers WVU 1994.
Worst was Rutgers Washington 2016 (First of many nightmares from the Ash error)
Worst was Rutgers Washington 2016 (First of many nightmares from the Ash error)
Our time so far in the Big 10 hasn't been memorable. The beatdowns were too frequent so no one game (other than the Michigan 78-0) stands out, and really no good games either (IMO).
unfortunately 2006 Louisville was the only home game I couldn't attend since I work in the city and often late... I'd say the upset of USF and the game with the famous image of Brian Leonard lifting the sword at the end during the alma mater.
Worst game hard to say... one of the many many drubbings we took in the old Big East days in the late 90s/early 2000s. Been pretty fortunate to happen to not attend the more recent ass kickings haha
Worst game hard to say... one of the many many drubbings we took in the old Big East days in the late 90s/early 2000s. Been pretty fortunate to happen to not attend the more recent ass kickings haha
The one thing about the Arkansas away game, we had two solid sections of RU fans that made a ton of noise
Going in as a ten point dog, i believe, we played very well and was just a great game experience
As I mentioned above, the Louisville home game that cost us a major bowl was bad
I also would like to mention the away Maryland game last year
A real beat down And ranks high on the negative side
I also add for best: 2006 South Florida (away), 2007 South Florida (Home). Our crowd noise caused at least one USF false start penalty.
About that 1977 Penn State game in the Meadowlands. Everybody's favorite B1G booth analyst Matt Millen may have played in it. Remember the game program and the PSU players pics and how huge their necks were, Keith Dorney and Matt Suhey in particular, probably tilting their heads back in the pose for effect.
Best
Louisville 2006
Alabama 1980 if there ever was a glorious loss
Michigan 2014
Hon Mention - 2005 Cincy with Bowl Reps waiting to offer an invite
Worst
Pretty much any game under Ash.
Louisville 2006
Alabama 1980 if there ever was a glorious loss
Michigan 2014
Hon Mention - 2005 Cincy with Bowl Reps waiting to offer an invite
Worst
Pretty much any game under Ash.
I was away on vacation for the 80 PT game, and not able to get info on the game at all
In the hotel room the iTV intro into the college sports was
" we'll give all the scores after commercials, including a game where a team got 80
So, I had about 2 minutes to think about that, and thought, ah, what are the odds its our game, can't be!
And then it was
I have to also that on a very personal note-
Hated the 2005 game against USF - they had been recruiting Kevin hard and he almost selected them. I actually really liked Coach Leavitt. Their OL coach was pretty cool too.
And as they beat us in 2005- we were at the tunnel when Coach Leavitt was exiting and he actually pointed up to me and the wife telling us that Kevin should have signed with him. It sucked, but it was actually in good fun.
And then some of the best was not only traveling to South Florida the next year for the close win- and me getting to point back down at Coach, tis time as he was exiting. But the following 3 games as well when we crushed them each time.
Funny thing with USF- well, maybe not so funny. In the years that Kevin and AD went against Selvie and then JPP- I don't know if either of them ever had any impact at all- always shut them down completely. But, the final game in 09 when we crushed them- JPP beat Kevin for the first an only time. All game- JPP would do a fake to the outside and then try to pull a swim move on Kevin and he shut him down every time. Toward the end of the game- Kevin read the play again "says to himself, you can't be stupid enough to try it again" so, he figures JPP figured it out and would go outside. Wouldn't you know it- JPP was dumb enough to do it again - and since Kevin didnt think he would be so stupid- JPP beat him for the first and only time.
Wouldn't you know it- when the Giants drafted JPP- that was the play they showed...
Hated the 2005 game against USF - they had been recruiting Kevin hard and he almost selected them. I actually really liked Coach Leavitt. Their OL coach was pretty cool too.
And as they beat us in 2005- we were at the tunnel when Coach Leavitt was exiting and he actually pointed up to me and the wife telling us that Kevin should have signed with him. It sucked, but it was actually in good fun.
And then some of the best was not only traveling to South Florida the next year for the close win- and me getting to point back down at Coach, tis time as he was exiting. But the following 3 games as well when we crushed them each time.
Funny thing with USF- well, maybe not so funny. In the years that Kevin and AD went against Selvie and then JPP- I don't know if either of them ever had any impact at all- always shut them down completely. But, the final game in 09 when we crushed them- JPP beat Kevin for the first an only time. All game- JPP would do a fake to the outside and then try to pull a swim move on Kevin and he shut him down every time. Toward the end of the game- Kevin read the play again "says to himself, you can't be stupid enough to try it again" so, he figures JPP figured it out and would go outside. Wouldn't you know it- JPP was dumb enough to do it again - and since Kevin didnt think he would be so stupid- JPP beat him for the first and only time.
Wouldn't you know it- when the Giants drafted JPP- that was the play they showed...
“The” Louisville game is No. 1 for sure, followed by the epic comeback win against V-tech In the Halloween thriller game of 1992. So many ugly games over the years, but the UNH game is certainly up there, along with losing to Miami 64-6 in 2000.
See I disagree with your latter point as well. Beating Michigan was one of the biggest thrills I’ve experienced as a fan.
Much as I hate to even bring them up, the day we beat Pedd state again will potentially overtake Louisville 06’ (I’m not exaggerating either)
Was the 2007 game when the Maryland defender literally ripped a dreadlock out of the RU RB's head?
Jordan Brooks...he was a good back. I remember it happening, but don't remember the game.
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