Just curious what you guys think?

When is the last loss that we've had that was worse in terms of status and prestige of the team that beat us?

9/12/2006 3:15:46 PM

Wake and UNC.

I don't know which one was worse last year, but that's on par.

9/12/2006 3:16:41 PM

the one after we went 9-0 in 2002

[Edited on September 12, 2006 at 3:17 PM. Reason : because it was the beginning of the end]

9/12/2006 3:16:49 PM

1998 - Baylor

(After beating #3? FSU the week before)

[Edited on September 12, 2006 at 3:18 PM. Reason : ]

9/12/2006 3:17:41 PM

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"1998 - Baylor (After beating #3? FSU the week before) "

yep, that is what i was going to put

9/12/2006 3:20:01 PM

And then beating #15 Syracuse the next Thursday

9/12/2006 3:21:01 PM

FSU was #2 when we beat them in 1998 and subsequently lost at Baylor before kicking Donovan McNabb's ass the following week. That loss to Baylor still hurts.

The loss when we were 9-0 was to GT and required a huge second half collapse by us. That game still hurts too. The worst part was during the third quarter (I think), we were controlling the game and GT just threw an incomplete pass on like 3 and 15. So we were set to get the ball back. But the refs had called a false start or illegal motion or something and so GT got another shot on 3rd down and completed like a 24 yard pass. They took that momentum into the endzone on that drive and for the rest of the game. I'll never forget how shitty it felt leaving the game that night.

9/12/2006 3:26:14 PM

Wake Forest, 2003 - at one point we were down 24-3 in the 3rd quarter I think.

9/12/2006 3:34:34 PM

I still contend that losing to wake and unc last year is just as bad, but i realize y'all want the answer to be longer ago.

9/12/2006 3:38:05 PM

UNC last year.

Furman back in the 80's before Sheridan came.

ECU in 1996.

UNC in 1999 in Charlotte hurt.

9/12/2006 4:14:18 PM

The worst part about Baylor if I remember correctly is that we got shut out.

9/12/2006 4:21:09 PM

good god, these guys won their conference last year and gave PSU a good game

i mean, it was a bad loss, but you guys are acting like it is a program ender.

9/12/2006 4:21:26 PM

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"good god, these guys won their conference last year and gave PSU a good game i mean, it was a bad loss, but you guys are acting like it is a program ender."

9/12/2006 4:27:39 PM

UNC 1999.

Senior Quarterback Jamie Barnett vs. "You with the Pretzels"

Curry was hurt, their backup was hurt, shit, the third stringer was even out. They had a WR who played QB in HS under center, AND they had lost to Furman a few games before that.

That game really hurt.

This isn't as bad as that, but its bad. I honestly thought that App State had a better chance of beating us than Akron did though.

9/12/2006 4:29:08 PM

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"good god, these guys won their conference last year and gave PSU a good game"

So? Its Akron. They are called the Zips and they have a freakin' kangaroo for a mascot.

9/12/2006 4:42:44 PM

losing to ECU at the end of the MOC era, cause we knew he had to go after that. that's worked out well for us...

9/12/2006 4:59:34 PM

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"The worst part about Baylor if I remember correctly is that we got shut out"

Nope.... lost 33-30

... Baylor's only other victory that year was friggin Kansas. (Yes, I looked this up )

9/12/2006 5:02:08 PM

we missed a tying field goal, i was not please with this result.

9/12/2006 5:03:01 PM

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"losing to ECU at the end of the MOC era, cause we knew he had to go after that."

losing to ECU had no effect... it was over as soon as he lost to UNC that year.

9/12/2006 5:12:11 PM

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"So? Its Akron. They are called the Zips and they have a freakin' kangaroo for a mascot."

A kangaroo with tennis shoes

9/12/2006 5:21:18 PM

wake and unc last year were both worse than this one.

9/12/2006 5:25:33 PM

Funny thing is that we were down like 24-0 in that Baylor game.

I say that at Wake PR's senior year was the worst.

38-24.

9/12/2006 5:44:57 PM

last years wake and unc games. those teams were worse than akron. akron prolly bowling

9/12/2006 6:15:37 PM

^I've been thinking that since the game.


^^and thats absolutely correct. Going into the season with the most serious championship hopes we've had in a long time and lose to fucking wake second game of the season. Terrible

9/12/2006 6:29:42 PM

The 98' Baylor loss was much worse than anything in the Chuck Amato era.

WRAL interviewed the team before the Baylor game, and over half the starters didn't even know what state Baylor was in. They were so preoccupied with Syracuse that they didn't even bother to prepare for a Big 12 school.

[Edited on September 12, 2006 at 7:31 PM. Reason : .]

9/12/2006 7:29:20 PM

Ever

9/12/2006 9:24:04 PM

haha i remember a really shitty one

That game in 2004 where we were whomping UMD until TA fumbled and it cost us the game on P. Rivers' Senior night was pretty fucking upsetting. The worst part of all was the UMD player stomping all over the WolfPack letters in the end zone. Totally ruined my buzz.

9/12/2006 9:29:20 PM

^2003, agreed.

9/12/2006 9:30:52 PM

haha yeah that was my freshman year

i thought we were going to be good in a few years

9/12/2006 9:35:43 PM

The question wasn't a shittier loss or one that hurt more, but in terms of a team that beat us with less prestige and status in college football.

So all those Wake and Carolina comments go right out the window.

Sounds like Baylor in '98 is the winner.

9/14/2006 8:47:55 AM

Baylor is a bottom feeder in the big 12
Wake and UNC are bottom feeders in the ACC

so i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

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"The worst part about Baylor if I remember correctly is that we got shut out."

They did shut us out in '95.

9/14/2006 9:26:31 AM

^So you're saying that in terms of prestige, Baylor is equal to or greater than UNC/Wake?

Wow.

9/14/2006 10:15:52 AM

Baylor is every bit as good as Wake.

I mean look at Wake's stadium.

And yet we keep losing to them.

9/14/2006 10:51:42 AM

^^ don't confuse football prestige with basketball.

UNC was fairly respectable when Mack Brown was there, but they were no more than mediocre other than that.

9/14/2006 11:24:03 AM

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"Brown took North Carolina to six straight bowl games (UNC won four of them) and eight consecutive winning seasons (the longest streak in modern Tar Heels history). UNC's 54-18 (.750) record during his last six years ranked as the ninth-best nationally during that period. His record was even more sparkling in his final two seasons. He compiled a 20-3 (.870) mark and led the Tar Heels to a No. 4 final national ranking in the USA Today/ESPN poll and No. 6 ranking by The Associated Press in 1997. "

9/14/2006 12:00:26 PM

^ Thanks.

I hate Carolina as much as the next, and I'm not saying they're prestigous in football or anything, all I said was that Baylor was not even close to comparable to Carolina and possibly even Wake.

So yes, Baylor in '98 is the last time a team with a worse prestige in football has beaten us.

9/14/2006 12:12:19 PM

ok, i'll concede carolina.

But wake?

9/14/2006 12:42:27 PM

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"I say that at Wake PR's senior year was the worst. 38-24. "

This loss started the end of Amato's success because the next week we lost to OSU in a way only NCSU could lose.

9/14/2006 1:20:26 PM

yeah, piss poor coaching


WHAT? that play didnt work the first 2 times? run it again!!!

9/14/2006 1:22:11 PM

Maryland in 03' (rivers last home game)

9/14/2006 1:22:33 PM

^^ Phil audibled the third attempt.

9/14/2006 1:25:20 PM

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"That game in 2004 where we were whomping UMD until TA fumbled and it cost us the game on P. Rivers' Senior night was pretty fucking upsetting. The worst part of all was the UMD player stomping all over the WolfPack letters in the end zone. Totally ruined my buzz. "

My buzz started to fade when Maryland started to fight our band.

9/14/2006 1:53:31 PM

I still say Wake>Baylor.

They've been ranked and not suck-ass recently. Baylor cannot say the same. Plus, Wake's in conference, so even if they were even, it'd be harder to forgive losing to the nonconference foe. Add in the rivalry, and Wake's not even close to being as bad of a loss as Baylor.

9/14/2006 1:53:45 PM

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" WHAT? that play didnt work the first 2 times? run it again!!! "

TA up the middle, TA up the middle, TA up the middle, PUNT!

9/14/2006 2:45:09 PM

Seton Hall in Basketball.

Or FSU, or WVU, or UVA, or any of those other teams we lost to on our home court who had no business beating us...

and also the St. johns game in NYC that was pitiful.

[Edited on September 14, 2006 at 2:48 PM. Reason : .]

9/14/2006 2:47:30 PM

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"Or FSU, or WVU, or UVA, or any of those other teams we lost to on our home court who had no business beating us..."

Um, WVU was .5 seconds from being a Final Four team. I'm pretty sure they were better then us that year..

9/14/2006 2:54:35 PM

Yeah WVU was good as hell when we played them

i'd say the st. johns loss was probably the most embarassing loss I've seen

ACC games are landmines, so losing to anyone is possible

9/14/2006 5:21:51 PM

Baylor is the only team to ever shut out State in Carter-Finley Stadium. The game was in late September in '95 and it was a cold, rainy, miserable day. The only 1st down we got in the whole 1st half was from back to back offside penalties on Baylor.

Oh yeah, and losing to duke in '93 was pretty friggin' embarrassing.

9/14/2006 6:42:14 PM

ok maybe not in terms of status and prestige of the team that beat us, but in my mind the worst loss was the blown lead in the ACC tourney vs. Duke

[Edited on September 14, 2006 at 6:55 PM. Reason : 5555 bitches]

9/14/2006 6:55:05 PM

GT beat us 128-0 in 1918!

9/14/2006 10:04:57 PM