2018 @ Texas: Worst Loss in History?

[jsb]

Up there with the UAB loss in terms of performance vs my expectations...

Jesus. UAB was a terrible team. Texas is good.

 

[spitfyr36]

We lost to kstate with a 2 score lead with 1:20 left in the game and the ball...

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Yeah, maybe. I just remember they were pretty average most of the season, and then they were playing pretty good ball a few weeks before ISU, and ISU had been just getting worked. It was a disaster. By the end of that season, ISU really didn't even deserve a bowl game, which they proved....at the bowl game.

Yeah the blue turf bowl. One of the infamous road bowl games in our tortured history

 

[CentexCyclone]

Meh, Ut kicked our ass.

I was at the game tonight. From the second qtr on, it was pretty obvious the Texa$ just had more talent on both sides of the ball. Our O-Line especially has a long ways to go to be considered championship quality.

 

[madguy30]

Jesus. UAB was a terrible team. Texas is good.

Texas is decent but 200 yards of total offense on them is really awful.

I'd say it debunks all of the 'offensive shutting it down' talk from the last two weeks. I think the offense was just sucking.

 

[jsb]

Texas is decent but 200 yards of total offense on them is really awful.

I'd say it debunks all of the 'offensive shutting it down' talk from the last two weeks. I think the offense was just sucking.

Ahhh, the Iowa State fans way of never thinking we play a good team.

 

[83Clone]

I had a bad feeling going in-missed opportunity sure but I’m not going to go jump off a ledge. Program is still in the best shape ever

 

[83cy]

You're right. They had an NFL QB on their roster if I remember right. Orlovsky maybe? Spent years backing up Stafford in Detroit

ISU had an NFL QB just saying.

 

[Cyclone07]

Iowa State lost a terrible UCONN team at home on Seneca’s senior day. That was brutal.

 

[NorthCyd]

Another one was the UCONN game back in '02. Already a let down season at that point following our 6-0 start, that was one hell of a TKO

This is it for me. It's not even close. I still remember thinking "what the f**k happened to this team!" After that loss. #9 in the country after beating Tech, and then a complete free fall. UCONN loss was the sum of all fears.

 

[jsb]

I think some of you are thinking what lost games sucked the most, score or stat wise, while others (like me) and thinking what lost games means to a seasons' outcome. This was definitely the worst.

No. We played a good team and lost. We all knew that could happen.

 

[NorthCyd]

I would also throw the Baylor loss in 2005 (? Not sure on the year and too lazy to look it up). They were Terrible then and it ultimately cost us a shot at the championship. Then the Missou loss at home for a chance at the title was also horrible.

Good lord, just talking about this stuff is making me even more dipressed.

 

[NorthCyd]

I think some of you are thinking what lost games sucked the most, score or stat wise, while others (like me) and thinking what lost games means to a seasons' outcome. This was definitely the worst.

Well then by that measure losing to both Mizzou and Kansas and failing to make the championship game are both objectively worse. We should have won both of those games, and then who knows what happens in the championship game. You have to get there first.

 

[Bigman38]

Well then by that measure losing to both Mizzou and Kansas and failing to make the championship game are both objectively worse. We should have won both of those games, and then who knows what happens in the championship game. You have to get there first.

Those teams lose by 30+ on a good day in the championship game. They weren’t the same caliber as this years team.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Apparently lots of people never sat through all the drubbings of the 80's if they think this is the worst loss ever.

 

[Jiub]

This thread is just pathetic. This loss while disappointing isn't that bad of a loss. We are still having arelatively great year for football and I am very thankful to our guys for playing with effort against the texas on their senior day.

 

[atlantacyclone]

This team can purge some of the ISU ghosts of the past by beating K-State next week....

 

[WooBadger18]

Ahhh, the Iowa State fans way of never thinking we play a good team.

It’s schrodinger’s football team. The team Iowa State plays is both a great team we need to be scared of, and a team that isn’t that good.

I think some of you are thinking what lost games sucked the most, score or stat wise, while others (like me) and thinking what lost games means to a seasons' outcome. This was definitely the worst.

Eh, I’d say you can make the argument it isn’t even the worst loss in the last calendar year; K-State last year was worse. Chance to win the most regular season games since 2000, against a much more inferior opponent, and you have that ******** at the end.

 

[AuH2O]

Well then by that measure losing to both Mizzou and Kansas and failing to make the championship game are both objectively worse. We should have won both of those games, and then who knows what happens in the championship game. You have to get there first.

The big difference is the narrative going in to this game was ISU was the team nobody wants to face right now.

Back then it was maybe ISU is the least bad team in an absolute trash division that can earn the right to get curb stomped by OU or UT.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

This isn’t anywhere near our worst loss. Holding Texas to 24 would have been a moral victory for a lot of years.