Iowa is #1...worst loss of the year

[bandit]

Iowa's loss to W. Michigan is the worst loss of the year, great job EIU:
FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Loose Ends: NCAA's 10 worst losses

 

[keepngoal]

great find.

 

[wolverine68]

Fun read! Although all of the talk about losing to a Division I-AA school stings a bit.

 

[SuperCy]

Although I think it's funny, I still think that the USC loss at home to Stanford is the worst loss.

 

[Cyano]

HAHAHA, great find!

 

[frontrangeclone]

Uhh... Mr. Schrager, KU beat Neb. in Lawrence in 2005 40-15.


10. Kansas 76, Nebraska 39; Nov. 3: Nebraska's season was already pretty much in the tubes by the time these two squads squared off, but the nation really took notice after this one. Nebraska, winner of 36 straight games against Kansas entering the noon showdown in Lawrence, was exposed and exploited by its long-time punching bags. The fifth straight loss for the Huskers, it was the nadir for Nebraska football. As I wrote then, on November 3rd, "After 76-39, it's time to put an end to the Bill Callahan era. Dig that grave and start stenciling in that tombstone." A month later, it's already been buried.

 

[Go2Guy]

Also mentioned at the bottom of the article is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers will play the half-time show at the superbowl. Ugh; that'll remind me to make a beer run.

 

[KMAC_ATTACK]

The funniest part of this is that three of the top ten losses in this guys opinion are from the big ten and all i ever hear from my Hawk friends is that the big ten don't have the great records because everyone beats up on each other....well from the looks of things, so does everyone else.....

Great find, i will enjoy sending this to every hawk fan i know!!!!

Go clones stay off this list!!!!

 

[Jer]

I loved the Iowa loss but I really don't think it's close to the worst loss of the year. I'd have to say the Michigan loss to App St or the Nebraska thumping would have to go before it. All are bad losses but this year was full of bad losses.

 

[ISUFan22]

Yeah, I'm not seeing that as the worst one. In the top 5 probably, but not the worst.

 

[wolverine68]

I think part of his point was how the loss affected your season. Michigan still got to a bowl game, despite that loss. Iowa's loss was to a team that they should have beat and it kept them out of a bowl game, combined, that makes it huge. But I have to agree, it's not the worst.

 

[ColoradoClone]

I think part of his point was how the loss affected your season. Michigan still got to a bowl game, despite that loss. Iowa's loss was to a team that they should have beat and it kept them out of a bowl game, combined, that makes it huge. But I have to agree, it's not the worst.

I agree... but if you really think about it, losing to W. Michigan kept Iowa from going to a low end bowl. Losing to Stanford kept USC from playing for the National Championship.

 

[bjwitt]

hilarious

 

[ISUFan22]

I agree... but if you really think about it, losing to W. Michigan kept Iowa from going to a low end bowl. Losing to Stanford kept USC from playing for the National Championship.

Yup.

And losing to App. State likely kept Michigan out of the BCS. Yeah, they still have 3 losses, but so does Illinois.

And we all know, any Big 10 team with 3 losses is greater than any other 2 loss team. :biglaugh:

 

[DaddyMac]

Yeah, I don't even think that's even close to being worst.

USC/Stanford. Mich/App St. Notre Dame and just about anybody

 

[ianoconnor]

Navy over Notre Dame was the worst loss of the year in my eyes...

 

[Wesley]

What was Iowa State's worst loss of the year?

I nominate Toledo since we had the game won and self destructed. Kent State would be a close second where we played with little emotion.

Iowa Hawkeye fans would propbably claim their worst loss was not Western Michigan (what town are they from?), but the Clone game.

 

[AirWalke]

Worst game for us was definitely Kent State/UNI. We lost against Kent State and had a chance to come out and correct things versus UNI, and still laid a clunker. I still have no idea how we lost those two games.

 

[LindenCy]

I liked the line after #1 in the story:

Of course, this is all subject to change. We still haven't seen what LSU's going to do to Ohio State.

 

[jumbopackage]

I think Toledo was the worst loss of the year for us. That was a game we absolutely should have won, and we let it get away right at the end.

We were outplayed, and deserved to be beat, by Kent State, UNI, Texas Tech, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri. We shot ourselves in the foot at Nebraska and in the Oklahoma game. We shot ourselves in the forehead at Toledo.

As far as Iowa goes, I think the Indiana loss was actually way worse than any of the other losses they had. They just got whipped, at home, by a distinctly mediocre team, after playing well against a top 10 team. Sure, they lost to a bad Western Michigan team, but they didn't get dominated like they did when Indiana came to town.