Blowout wins/losses in sports

coolerifyoudid

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Blowouts happen in sports at every level. Having been on both sides as a sports fan and father, I generally tend to not enjoy them from a spectator standpoint as much as competitive games.

However, there are certainly exceptions.

What are you favorite/most hated blowout losses? Any level (pro, college, high school, intramural) and any sport is open game. It can be one that you were a player, coach, fan or parent.
 

coolerifyoudid

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I have an example of each, and both involved my daughter's soccer team and the same opposing team.

My daughter was 12 at the time and she was playing a team from Oklahoma in a tournament. We were playing in an older division since they didn't have enough teams, and the size difference in girls was very apparent at that age. We had a flu bug hit our team and were only able to bring 9 to the game, but the team didn't want to forfeit, so they decided to play short-handed.

Our coach explained the situation and asked the opposing coach if he'd consider playing a person or two short. We'd find out later that the coach's response was, "We came he to win and that's what we're going to do."

Needless to say, we were undermanned, undersized and got completely routed, losing 12-0. The girls were obnoxious, talked ****, fouled a ton, and even trucked our keeper. The parents were also over-the-top, going crazy with every goal. They even brought cow bells. (Friendly tip, don't bring cow bells to your kid's games. You look and sound like a jackass)

Fast forward a year and we ended up playing the same Oklahoma team in the same tournament. This time, we had a full roster, a few new players and a very vivid memory of what happened the prior year.

It. Was. Glorious.

Our girls, now on a much more level playing field in terms of size, played with total revenge on their minds. We were crazy physical (4 yellow cards were given to us - which is pretty much unheard of at that age) and just sprinting to everything on the field. The coaches were jawing back and forth all game. The players were shoving and yelling at each other. The parents were yelling at each other. I'm amazed a fight didn't break out. We had the field marshal sitting between benches for most of the second half.

We ended up winning 13-0 and it is still the most satisfying dismantling of a team that I've ever experienced in person.
 

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Least favorite: Woodward Academy was in my high school conference. Playing them in baseball was depressing, we’d be up 10+ runs after the first inning. The next 2 hours racing to complete 4 innings were just as bad.

I played baseball in college, but was a starting pitcher so I had to sit around and watch 3/4 games every weekend. I had to do charts for a game where we gave up 21 runs. To make matters worse it was a freezing cold NW Iowa night.

Favorites: My senior year of HS we absolutely throttled Roland-Story in substate to make it to the state baseball tournament for the first time.

As a fan:
Best - Iowa State vs Texas Tech in 2016
Worst - Iowa State at Oklahoma 2023
 
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BoomerClone

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Favorite: blowing the doors off Texas Tech with Mahomes as their QB in 2016

Worst: Freshman year. 1997 Iowa game. Met some of the football players at a kegger afterwards. One happened to be a guy that got juked big time and gave up a long run. I was sufficiently lubricated and told him he sucks. I’m glad he didn’t kill me that night. Wish I remembered his name.
 

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I think I have the grades right. Johnston torched us in 8th grade basketball as they had Danner & Sunblad (sp?) that never missed. Next year they move up to JV/Varsity and we throttled their 9th grade team. Johnston coach loses his mind towards the end and accuses us of running up the score.
 

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As a player:
Was in a high school game where the wheels fell off while the opponent not only was good, but had 'one of those nights' where everything was clicking.

We were decent, they were very good and it felt like they had 20 guys on the field. Blocked punts, fumbles ran in for TDs, just awful and I think it was 42-0 at the end of the 1st quarter. Only positive was (kind of) they didn't 50 point us until roughly 2 minutes left in the game and they had kept their starters in. So other than that 42-0 start, not bad!

As a fan:
Worst for ISU: probably the 49-3 '02 game at OU.

Best: For some reason the 2016 Tech game comes to mind, I'm sure there's others. ISU wasn't good that year but it was fun seeing them come out and have a day.

Favorites as a general fan: The day Colorado broke Nebraska football in 2001.
 
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Favorite blowout is easily the Big12 MBB conf champ last year. Just on top from the get go and never in doubt. Amazing and unexpected.

2nd place: Naz, Georges & company demolishing the Fainting Frannies in IC.
 

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Unrelated to Iowa State but a funny story.

My freshman football team was horrible. We played SEP and our coach gave us the rousing pre-game speech of "Boys, I've been involved with football for a long time and I've never been 50 pointed before. Let's keep it that way tonight".

We got 50 pointed in the 3rd quarter.
 

Drew0311

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In football if you are running the ball at the end, it's not running it up. It's football

If you are Tennessee and you are doing onside kicks up 30 in the first half against a crap mid major. That is running it up

Colorado ran it up on us once probably 30-35 years ago in their prime. They were throwing the ball all over the place up a ton of point. Rick Neuheisle was the coach. Throwing touchdowns with like 25 second left up 30 or some crap. Rick almost died that day.
 

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I remember going to the ISU/Oklahoma game in '87 as a kid. We were 0-3 and hosting #1 Oklahoma. My brother had introduced me to RB Joe Henderson the day before the game and I was convinced that we were going to pull off the upset.

We lost 3-56.

I learned what reality looked like.
 
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Texas 2007 was brutal. It was raining too.
That was family weekend my freshman year and it was the first time my parents ever went to Jack Trice. My mom, who's admittedly not a big sports fan, still has no interest in coming back.
 

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