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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 2:20 PM
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Obviously the Orange Bowl loss to West Virginia would be #1. What are some others that come to mind? Don't list losses when we were mediocre. This needs to be epic fails on a big stage (or at least a semi-big stage).
Would #2 be the loss to OSU last year?
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [105932]
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Those losses don’t count
Apr 14, 2021, 2:23 PM
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due to bad officiating.
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... and lousy defensive coordinator who, obviously, hated
Apr 15, 2021, 12:42 PM
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Clemson.
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Only a short peck-er-ed coot . . .
Apr 19, 2021, 6:21 PM
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would want to talk about Clemson losses . . . I’m outa here!
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 2:26 PM
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Dynasty Maker [3390]
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 7:47 PM
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I believe that this play cost us an ACC Championship.
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Dynasty Maker [3579]
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 2:29 PM
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Every time we lost to Duke or WF
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All-In [10774]
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I won't say the word
Apr 14, 2021, 2:29 PM
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Begins with punt and ends with rooskie. Played over and over on every sports reel for a week. Absolutely sucked. It was even worse being in the stands, gut punch, kick in the shorts, pie in the face, all at the same time.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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That's a good one. And it was even worse being in the stands
Apr 14, 2021, 2:33 PM
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soak and wet from the earlier monsoon.
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Tiger Spirit [9631]
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I was there, sitting in Burt Reynolds box***
Apr 14, 2021, 2:57 PM
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Tiger Spirit [9788]
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Re: I was there, sitting in Burt Reynolds box***
Apr 14, 2021, 3:31 PM
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I thought Burt was in Sally's box....
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Re: I was there, sitting in Burt Reynolds box***
Apr 20, 2021, 11:14 AM
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Burt always said that her box was the "One that got away". But, his own fault, he had her, and she only got away because he was a jerk.
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Re: I won't say the word
Apr 14, 2021, 5:26 PM
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Nailed it! It was a miserable drive home.
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Re: I won't say the word
Apr 14, 2021, 8:08 PM
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Had just read the week of FSU coming to CU for that game, in Sports Illustrated that Bobby Bowden refused to lose any game.We had them backed up and everybody just knew they’d punt. If they did, they’d lose. I argued with someone next to me that BB would do something to try to save the game,,, he said they had no choice but topunt.Well, the rest is history, and we can’t change history
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 2:32 PM
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uh..
Apr 14, 2021, 2:36 PM
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fuknuts in january sux. at best, they were equal to northwestern
uga and kevin freakin butler
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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Wouldn't call that an "embarrassing" loss..
Apr 14, 2021, 2:43 PM
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two great teams battling it out; basically equal but UGa made a freaky long field goal at the end.
Moran.
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Top TigerNet [32644]
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any loss to ugay is embarrassing***
Apr 14, 2021, 2:50 PM
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2004 vs. GT
Apr 14, 2021, 2:43 PM
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Just get the darn punt off and we probably win.
Honorable mentions: The last 3 games of the coot streak.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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To this day, I have never been more angry after a loss
Apr 14, 2021, 2:46 PM
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than I was after that one.
How do you blow a ten point lead with less than two minutes to go in the game??
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Re: To this day, I have never been more angry after a loss
Apr 14, 2021, 2:49 PM
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^^ I agreed with both above statements.
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Re: To this day, I have never been more angry after a loss
Apr 14, 2021, 4:52 PM
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The 1990 loss to Virginia, who had NEVER beaten Clemson in football. Virginia beat the Tigers 20-7 but Clemson never had a chance to win this game.
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CU Guru [1504]
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Bob....that is the day (night) I realized I had to calm down..
Apr 14, 2021, 7:23 PM
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It was right after my son was born...trying to stay quiet ....and destroyed a remote against the wall. Walked around the blocked for thirty minutes, then came to the realization that I simply could not act like that again.....although vaporizing a remote is very releasing...
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Orange Blooded [2286]
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I was at that game
Apr 14, 2021, 3:03 PM
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The punt/fumble was just unbelievable. I know the West Virginia game was bad but we never really had a chance to win that game.
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We were about to either take or increase the lead
Apr 14, 2021, 4:17 PM
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when the Ellington fumble / TD-in-the-other-direction happened. After that, a switch flipped for both teams - we couldn't do anything right and WVU could do no wrong, but had that one play been called correctly (TD Clemson yes a bad call I'm claiming it) we very well could have won that game, I think.
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Got to be one of the top 10 momentum shifting plays in
Apr 19, 2021, 1:36 PM
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college football history. That would be quite an interesting topic, actually. You could argue for Puntrooskie in that category, but it was outcome changing, not necessarily a momentum change, IMO. Two different topics.
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Get the punt off? How about picking up 1 foot
Apr 14, 2021, 3:15 PM
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On 2nd down instead of fumbling the ball or picking up 1 yard on a sneak attempt on 3rd down and not punting at all then run out the clock? What made it worse was that was the game the week Chan Gailey said that Clemson was just like all the other places.
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It was 2nd and 1
Apr 14, 2021, 3:25 PM
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all we needed was the first down and we could've run the clock out. We didn't get it. Had to punt. Botched it. And the rest is history.
We had started walking out of the stadium and going to the car during that drive, thinking we had it in the bag. As we were walking outside the South stands we heard a roar from the GT crowd. We scrambled over to some tailgaters watching the game on a projector and watched us lose in the final seconds.
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No way WVU is #1
Apr 14, 2021, 2:45 PM
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we had a 9-3 regular season and were thumped also by NCstate, GaTech, and South Carolina. Yes, it got out of hand and we were in a "BCS bowl" because we won the ACC that year, but I'd consider us a "smoke & mirrors" good team that year......very inconsistent anyway.
losing to South Carolina in 2012 when we were 10-1 at the time was embarassing.
2013 FSU was very embarrassing. Albeit they were a great team........we didn't show up AT HOME.
then follow that up with another South Carolina loss in same year. I know to a lot of fans the LSU win made up for those losses, but not to me.
2017 bama semifinal.....yet again not the loss, but the score was bad and we were handcuffed on offense.
2019- again not the loss itself, but the 17 point margin loss in title game vs LSU
then follow up in playoffs again with BAD loss to Ohio State.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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2013 loss to FSU would definitely be in the Top 5***
Apr 14, 2021, 2:47 PM
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17' loss was due to zero passing game
Apr 14, 2021, 3:02 PM
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Bama committed to stopping the run. They did. Couldn't throw a pass. Defense played great
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The last 3 games we played in New Orleans would be a good
Apr 14, 2021, 2:46 PM
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start outclassed, then out-talented, and finally just plain old out-coached, in that order
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Tiger Spirit [9631]
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Georgia Tech 04'***
Apr 14, 2021, 2:56 PM
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1996 Gator bowl would be high on the face plant list....
Apr 14, 2021, 3:00 PM
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45-0 Syracuse
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Clemson Icon [24719]
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We drove down in steady rain, sat through the rain
Apr 14, 2021, 3:20 PM
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and drove home in a steady rain. As we were leaving in the fourth quarter, a Clemson fan was yelling at us for leaving before the end of the game.
It was a miserable experience.
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Was waiting for someone to bring this one up
Apr 19, 2021, 1:33 PM
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I watched this one by myself in The Mangy Moose at the foot of Jackson Hole. Made myself suffer through the whole thing. Only saving grace was that I got the girl. Proposed on that tip and she said yes. We celebrate 25 years of marriage this summer.
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Clemson vs Alabama 2008
Apr 14, 2021, 3:18 PM
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The media really hyped us up and just about everyone thought we were going to have a chance at winning that game. Then....well y’all member....embarrassed
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Clemson Conqueror [11743]
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Re: Clemson vs Alabama 2008
Apr 14, 2021, 4:15 PM
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Then Tommy Bowden lets the world know that he called Saban after the game and asked coaching advise.
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bob...this is actually a great post. Every game mentioned
Apr 14, 2021, 3:21 PM
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sticks in my crawl. I can't think of which year,06-07(?) but we lost to the coots in Death Valley. We were driving for the winning score and Reggie was running wild. Down near the goal line, Bowden pulls him and put James Davis in. Nothing against Davis, but why take Reggie out? Did Bowden want Davis to have glory? I believe so. The decision, more than the loss, stuck with me.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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I should start a new thread on worst coaching decisions in
Apr 14, 2021, 3:31 PM
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Clemson football history. Taking Reggie out (2006 game) was probably the worst in-game decision I can remember. Jad Dean missed a 39 yard field goal attempt at the end of the game that would have tied it.
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Having Sammy Watkins throw a pass (which was intercepted)
Apr 20, 2021, 2:14 AM
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when we had momentum in Columbia would have to make that list as well. The main reason I was not as upset as others when Morris left.
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Was '06, remember b/c it was my senior year
Apr 14, 2021, 9:04 PM
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shouldn't have been in that point b/c we were up 28-14 @ half.
Sucked b/c the 1st & last games I attended as a student were atrocious (1st game was the '03 butt-cutting we took against UGA)
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I’m going with Clemson vs...
Apr 14, 2021, 3:22 PM
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Alabama, 2019. We won 44-16.
I refuse to participate in your negativity.
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Clemson Conqueror [11743]
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Re: I’m going with Clemson vs...
Apr 14, 2021, 4:16 PM
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Our inability to score that final TD when we had the ball for over 10 minutes made that game seem like a loss.
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Dynasty Maker [3316]
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2002 Tangerine Bowl
Apr 14, 2021, 3:28 PM
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Texas Tech and Kliff Kingsbury torched us 55-15. It was never even a game.
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Ouch! Bad memories there for sure!
Apr 20, 2021, 1:16 PM
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On a personal level - Bama 2008
Apr 14, 2021, 3:32 PM
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When I consider the amount of buildup, effort and cost associated with attending that game, And then to sit a few rows from the field and watch my tigers get steam-rolled in methodical fashion, I’m not sure I’ve ever been more angry at a Clemson coach after leaving that game.
to hand the ball to a true freshman Jamie Harper to start that game was the height of stupidity.
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Re: On a personal level - Bama 2008
Apr 14, 2021, 3:39 PM
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^ This one hurt
It was supposed to be one game that would cement that we were ready. Rebuilt. Focused. We weren't.
But then, the Maryland game a few weeks later was salt in the wound. Then the next one was a 12-7 loss to WF.
I am never embarrassed by a loss. I can only be embarrassed of how we lose. I don't care about WVU because our kids were outcoached but they didn't give up. Kept hustling. In that bama game, our kids quit because it was a fight. They folded.
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The Maryland loss was the final straw
Apr 14, 2021, 3:44 PM
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I think our admin forgave that abysmal showing against Bama but not that inexplicable loss to Maryland at home. That was the final nail in Tommy's coffin. I believe the wheels were finally in motion to relieve him of his duties. The WF loss only sped up the process.
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Re: On a personal level - Bama 2008
Apr 14, 2021, 4:01 PM
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Yes I put forth more effort on the MARTA getting to the game and they did playing it
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 3:35 PM
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Some of you guys don't go back very far. Not a loss but 18-18 tie against Duke at home in 1976. Duke kicked 6 field goals including the game "tie'er" of 50 plus yards at the buzzer.
Worst/and best for me - my very first game at Clemson - UNC and Don McCauley ran all over us 42-7 in 1970 and I loved every minute of my first football game ever.
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Syracuse in the Gator Bowl...& it rained like a dog 44-0***
Apr 14, 2021, 3:41 PM
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Orange Blooded [2102]
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Mine too. But it was 41-0******
Apr 14, 2021, 8:01 PM
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embarrassing losses that i was there...........
Apr 14, 2021, 3:48 PM
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The ones that I was in attendance where I was totally embarrassed go like this:
1. 1996 Gator Bowl (1995 season) Syracuse beat us 41-0. They could've named the score.
2. 2002 Tangerine Bowl Texas Tech 55-15. Never understood why TB stuck with CW so long that night.
3. 2002 NCSU on a Thursday night. They just destroyed us at home 38-6.
4. 1998 VPI beat us at home 34-0. It was 31-0 at half and we left. It was obvious what was going on.
5. 1995 UGA beat us in DV with a third team QB and a second team RB. They won 19-17.
I consider any loss to the chickens to be embarrassing because they are inferior to Clemson. Losing to them in football is unacceptable. And the worst part is you have to listen to their fans act like they will never lose to Clemson again. They get this attitude like "yep, the tide has changed". I really don't want to deal with that again.
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Re: embarrassing losses that i was there...........
Apr 14, 2021, 4:18 PM
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Good call in the 1996 gator bowl I had actually blocked that game from my mind. Worst hangover and longest ride home ever
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I'd add the '92 Citrus Bowl vs. Cal to those.
Apr 20, 2021, 2:17 AM
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I was only eight so not much detail to the memories but we got curbstomped and didn't even look competitive.
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 3:51 PM
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My worst were when our players gave up. It hasn't happened since 2008. Not that we haven't been blown out but even the WVU orange bowl, FSU in 13, or any sugar bowl, our kids played hard despite a shellacking'. I can live with that... uneasily but that is just motivation for next time. No, when we would quit and you could watch our guys give up, that was always the rub. So on to West/Bowden...
West's final season, especially vs VT... actually VT for a few. UNC 97/01, NC State 2003, those few games in 2004, vt 2006/2007
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 3:52 PM
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At home against Nancy State in 2002. I was done with Tammy B from this point on. What a painful 6 additional years after that. ??
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2001 UNC...
Apr 14, 2021, 3:54 PM
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Got destroyed 38-3 and it was Homecoming. Julius Peppers was unblockable.
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 3:57 PM
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West Virginia, but a great loss for Clemson improvement, Texas Tech and Kentucky
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2006 VPI....
Apr 14, 2021, 4:01 PM
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Came out in all purple and got destroyed by Beamer ball special teams 24-7.
Barney the dinosaur memes all next week.
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Nope that was 2007***
Apr 14, 2021, 4:02 PM
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CU Medallion [20875]
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Based on personal experience ... 1992 Florida Citrus Bowl
Apr 14, 2021, 4:12 PM
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Cal Berkeley 37 Clemson 13. Hatfield's 2nd year coaching. Cal team was good not great, but it put a hit on ACC champ Clemson who did not want to play. The demise of the stocked Tiger team, and Hatfield's relevance in college football continued its decline that day. It was the last ACC championship until 2011.
I remember being supremely confident in a Tiger victory that day, as were the bookmakers. And what a one-sided hopeless beatdown it became. Bad memories.
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Re: Based on personal experience ... 1992 Florida Citrus Bowl
Apr 14, 2021, 4:45 PM
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84 loss to the Coots. That really hurt at the time and got my picture on the front of the State paper, which I did not care about one way or another. Got home with my fiancee (4 weeks until we were married) and found out her sister was killed in a tree cutting accident. That just made the whole month SUCK!
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Re: Based on personal experience ... 1992 Florida Citrus Bowl
Apr 14, 2021, 4:46 PM
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84 loss to the Coots. That really hurt at the time and got my picture on the front of the State paper, which I did not care about one way or another. Got home with my fiancee (4 weeks until we were married) and found out her sister was killed in a tree cutting accident. That just made the whole month SUCK!
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National Champion [7986]
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Alabama blow out opener in Atlanta was rough
Apr 14, 2021, 4:58 PM
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Bama had a national championship team that year but we were preseason #8 that year for the first time in eons and Tommy B proved that it was way too early to give us that respect. We were not in Bama league yet. Not close.
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Re: Alabama blow out opener in Atlanta was rough
Apr 14, 2021, 5:08 PM
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What was the name of that gigantic DL that Bama had, and did he make it in the pros?
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Valley Protector [1408]
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Re: Terrence Cody
Apr 14, 2021, 10:21 PM
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Thanks. Mt. Cody was truly that in college.
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Re: Alabama blow out opener in Atlanta was rough
Apr 14, 2021, 8:15 PM
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They didn't win it that year but they were #1 until Tebow beat them in the SEC and then they didn't bother in their Sugar invite.
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Gridiron Giant [15424]
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 5:15 PM
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Looking back last 50 years thank goodness unlike the coots Clemson hasn't suffered really really embarrassing losses to the likes of Appalachian, Furman, Citadel, Navy, Pacific etc. At least those being mentioned are Power 5 schools.
USF in the bowl and Marshall in TB's opening game in 99 are the worse non p-5 losses by the tigers I can think of.
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I would put the Jameis Winston "We ain't leaving here
Apr 14, 2021, 5:59 PM
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without a victory" 2013 Clemson / FSU 51-14 HOME debacle on National TV right up there.
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Re: I would put the Jameis Winston "We ain't leaving here
Apr 14, 2021, 6:22 PM
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1989 at Duke, the big white tailback carried us up and down the field all day, and oh yea, some tool named Spurrier !
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Re: I would put the Jameis Winston "We ain't leaving here
Apr 14, 2021, 6:38 PM
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Duke had Bama transfer QB Billy Ray who was legit.
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Re: I would put the Jameis Winston "We ain't leaving here
Apr 14, 2021, 7:09 PM
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I was at the Duke game... my very first Clemson game and then was a student later with spurrier as head coot
even worse, as a Washington fan, the only time Spurrier was horrible was when he was in the NFL with my team
he would not stop causing me misery
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Cuthberson, was his name- only FB game in my 4 year time at CU I ever missed- hugo
Apr 15, 2021, 8:22 AM
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Had to go home to Charleston to help clean up. Didn’t travel with tiger- pep band. Listened to it on the radio.
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 7:09 PM
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How about Ball State????
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 7:11 PM
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Glad this just for football. If it was Most embarrassing losses in Clemson basketball history this could be the longest thread in Tigernet history.
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 7:13 PM
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Glad this just for football. If it was Most embarrassing losses in Clemson basketball history this could be the longest thread in Tigernet history.
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Dynasty Maker [3363]
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The only time my team would be
Apr 14, 2021, 7:22 PM
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if they stopped fighting. As bad as the WVU game was and even though my Tigers were shell shocked, I don’t think the gave up. Come to think of it, I can’t remember a game when they did. So, at no time has my team embarrassed me. They’ve made my heart ache for them, but I’ve never been embarrassed to be a Tiger.
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Orange Blooded [2102]
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VATek Gator Bowl 1996 41-0. Bigger point differential
Apr 14, 2021, 7:54 PM
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than WV.
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Orange Blooded [2102]
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Syracuse not VT***
Apr 14, 2021, 7:58 PM
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Yup, Donovan McNabbs.
Apr 20, 2021, 10:59 AM
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Orange Blooded [2102]
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1993 FSU 57-0***
Apr 14, 2021, 8:05 PM
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 8:51 PM
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Clemson was up at halftime 19 -3 in Auburn w/ Cam Newton as QB. That loss hurt along with Calvin Johnson fades in the corner. Plus Joe Hamilton putting the hurt on Clemson. Also the DW4 fumble in Tallahassee went over his head. Any loss to Duke , WF , VA. Md.
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Did someone say 2003 at Weak Florist? 45-17 -Now THAT was
Apr 14, 2021, 8:52 PM
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embarrassing. Especially because we showed up in droves and got spanked. I'm pretty sure we left when it was 45-0.
I was also at the Bama game in Atlanta. Ugh
And the FSU game in 2013 - came back from Penn State from that one. even my students felt bad for me and didn't heckle me that next Monday.
That GT game in '04 was also despicable. I remember my coworker (an OSU alum) was with us and right before the punt he turned to us and said, "I think you have this locked up". He took the the blame and voluntarily uninvited himself to any future games after that, btw.
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Re: Did someone say 2003 at Weak Florist? 45-17 -Now THAT was
Apr 14, 2021, 10:26 PM
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I think that you've got all of them here.
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Game Changer [1605]
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 14, 2021, 9:08 PM
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Losing 5 straight years to UsuC!
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Legend [6779]
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1982 vs Boston College
Apr 14, 2021, 10:34 PM
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Defending national champion who lost the opener in a titanic matchup of the last two national champions on Labor Day night versus the dawgs 13-7. We come back home and find ourselves in a dogfight with a team nobody ever heard of and a little 5 ft 6 in QB named Flutie. It wasn’t quite a loss but it sure felt like it coming off the first Natty and going 0-1-1 to start the season. Oh yeah, BC went on to be pretty good the next 3 years but at the time we didn’t know that.
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Apr 14, 2021, 10:37 PM
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Alabama 74 Clemson 7
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 15, 2021, 8:21 AM
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Any loss to the Lamecocks.
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Ultimate Tiger [33593]
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The orange bowl wasn't even the worst loss that year
Apr 15, 2021, 9:32 AM
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Nc state was.
Do you even follow clemson football?
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Rival Killer [2608]
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I felt two bowl games under TB were horrible, embarrassing
Apr 15, 2021, 12:14 PM
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Kentucky, Texas Tech (don't remember the years or bowls). My memory automatically blanked them out.
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Clemson Sports Icon [52948]
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With Dabo your worst loss means your best success is NEXT
Apr 15, 2021, 12:56 PM
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I don’t know our record since that 70 million to 33 loss but I can tell you that we have the best coach ever after a big setback. Even the Notre Dame games this past season tells you what our coach is made of.
We will have a great season because Dabo plans to overcome in the long term & win.
My prediction is we will win another Natty in ‘21. That loss to O31O was the first of 5 games but Dabo will correct our deficiencies. Injuries happen & if we are truthful about how different this team would have been with Justin Ross healthy, Ngata & Marshall healthy. We were close to another Natty & who knows if we had been healthy we may have won it all but top 3 in an off year is pretty good, 2nd in ‘19 & a championship in ‘18.
We really need to count our blessings!!
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Rival Killer [2846]
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Only game I've ever left early
Apr 15, 2021, 1:46 PM
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was when we hosted FSU in 2013. Both teams undefeated, we were #3, they were #5. End of the first, Tajh hit Sammy to make it 17-7 FSU. Still felt like a game. Couple of minutes into the 4th, Freeman ran one in to make it 48-7 and I think that's when I left.
Final score was 51-14, but Stoudt ran in the garbagiest of garbage time TDs with like 13 seconds left. So it was really more like 51-7, and it felt worse than that. Tajh couldn't get anything going and ole Crab Legs whipped us like a rented mule. I agree that the Orange Bowl was probably the worst, but man, FSU in 2013 was a sickening game to attend.
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Biggest Loss Ever Was Having The Coots as Our Rival
Apr 15, 2021, 2:29 PM
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Total garbage, program numbing anchor around our neck.
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October yer 18th 1980. Duke at home. Lost 34-17
Apr 15, 2021, 3:20 PM
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4-1 coming into the game with only a close loss on the road at UGA.
Very poorly played game. Went on to lose 3 of the next 5 (did beat the coots tho)
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Re: October yer 18th 1980. Duke at home. Lost 34-17
Apr 19, 2021, 12:46 PM
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I was on the last row of the upper deck in the rain and some sleet in my freshman year. Bennett wore us out. Miserable.
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Where do I start?
Apr 15, 2021, 3:52 PM
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2000: Ga Tech.. Godsey lit us up. They didn't stop us either but...
2001 Tx Tech... Kingsbury. Maryland bc should never lose to MD..
2010: Any loss that year..
2011: any loss that year..
2016: Pittsburgh.. Was at that game embarrassing..
2017: Syracuse.. Defending Champs should never play on Friday..
2020: 1-4-I-0 State.. Just bc it's the bucknuts...
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Top TigerNet [30393]
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Basically any of your Tommy losses
Apr 15, 2021, 4:07 PM
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West or Bowden
45-0 season opener at UNCheat - West
45-17 at Wake - Bowden (Thankfully Grobe put in his scrubs so Clemson could get on the scoreboard)
Last second FG loss to Dook - Bowden - Dook students got wind of the score and started flooding into the stadium mid 3rd quarter
55-15 Texas Tech bowl - Bowden - I bet Whitehurst is still sore from the pummeling he took
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Game Changer [1809]
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 19, 2021, 7:06 PM
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FSU 2013
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 19, 2021, 9:02 PM
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2008 season opener against Bama in Atlanta. A Bowden masterpiece.
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Most embarrassing are the few times we lost to the Coots!***
Apr 20, 2021, 4:27 AM
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Re: Most embarassing losses in Clemson football history
Apr 20, 2021, 4:07 PM
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I think losing to a number 11 by three touchdowns and a partially injured qb would be pretty embarrassing
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101533]
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You seem a little salty. But I'd probably be that way if I
Apr 21, 2021, 8:27 AM
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had to live in Columbus, Ohio.
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