Your team’s most heartbreaking loss

1986 Rose Bowl loss to UCLA. A win would have almost certainly clinched the NC.

Iowa's Ronnie Harmon fumbled 4 times and UCLA's Eric Ball ran for over 200 yds.

Iowa lost 45-28
 
Tennessee's 2001 SEC Championship Game loss to LSU really stings. 1997 loss to Florida. 2016 loss to South Carolina and Vanderbilt that kept Tennessee from winning SEC East and at least give an appearance of being back.
 
Hitman Hart said:
@Hu War Yu

are you old enough to remember South Carolina's 1984 season when they were ranked #2 in the country in mid-November and then proceeded to lose to Navy? My dad talks about that game every now and then
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Oh yes. I was 14 and remember listening to that game on the radio. It has been made worse as time goes on, because most of us realize that was our best chance ever at a natty. That team was loaded (in more ways than one). Of course we lost the Gator Bowl after that season, and people say that indicates that we would not have been able to hang with the Orange Bowl opponent, whomever that would have been.
 
Two other losses that were really bad were in 2015 when Tennessee lost to both Oklahoma and Florida despite having a 2 TD lead late in the 4th quarter. They choked both games away. Heck in 2015, Tennessee almost beat Alabama. Change a couple of plays and Tennessee wins the SEC and goes to title game. Butch Jones poor coaching really shined that season. We had talent in 2015 and 2016 to be BACK but we didn't have the coaching.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Oh yes. I was 14 and remember listening to that game on the radio. It has been made worse as time goes on, because most of us realize that was our best chance ever at a natty. That team was loaded (in more ways than one). Of course we lost the Gator Bowl after that season, and people say that indicates that we would not have been able to hang with the Orange Bowl opponent, whomever that would have been.
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well, that Gator Bowl loss was to an Oklahoma State team that finished top 5 in the polls. Oklahoma State was competitive with OU that season, and I'm guessing that is who South Carolina would have played in the Orange Bowl, if it wasn't for the Navy loss

Gamecock football seems to have the same type of rotten luck as Demon Deac basketball
 
outofyourmind said:
Hold My Beer
The first I remember in a long line.

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Man, woman and child!

Excited Ric Flair GIF
 
Hitman Hart said:
well, that Gator Bowl loss was to an Oklahoma State team that finished top 5 in the polls. Oklahoma State was competitive with OU that season, and I'm guessing that is who South Carolina would have played in the Orange Bowl, if it wasn't for the Navy loss

Gamecock football seems to have the same type of rotten luck as Demon Deac basketball
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Those Pokes had Thurman Thomas. He rushed for about 150 yards that game.
 


This one hurts, especially given the context of what happened five years prior and where Penn State had grew. Amazing game though, easily one of the best all-time.
 
JFC. They created a term just for our school and these kind of moments. The one I remember the most was 2010 at Auburn against Cam. Just coming off the ACC title the previous year. Jamie Harper made one of the best catches I've seen from a RB on wheel route for a td. Chances late to win it. Kyle Parker missed a wide open guy for a td. Catanzaro missed an easy fg to lose in OT. Parker was never the same. Team went 6-7.
 
steelerssb said:


I can still hear the dead silence after that doink
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I know that had to have sucked, but y’all still win the East and had a spot in the NCG had y’all beat Auburn(who only had a chance because of two miraculous plays against their two biggest rivals)
 
Personally I think Auburn’s Kick Six gets talked about a bit too much while the Prayer at Jordan-Hare doesn’t get enough attention.

Auburn was losing to Georgia. It was 4th and 18 with like 30 seconds left. Ball just thrown up for grabs and and gets tipped right into the hands of an Auburn receiver who has nobody between him and the end zone. What people forget is that UGA had just erased a 3 score deficit in the 4th quarter to take the lead to set that up. Went from great comeback to what the fuck just happened for we UGA fans. Could have been a second half bright spot after injuries derailed what started out as a promising season

If that play didn’t happen, Bama clinches the West, probably beats Missouri in the SECCG and plays for a natty with or without the Kick Six

And the game was tied, about to head to OT when the Kick Six happens, the game wouldn’t have been over if the Kick Sox didn’t happen. Auburn had all the momentum in that game and likely would have won in OT anyways
 
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Illustrious Potentate said:
I know that had to have sucked, but y’all still win the East and had a spot in the NCG had y’all beat Auburn(who only had a chance because of two miraculous plays against their two biggest rivals)
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Depends I guess if you define it as heart-breaker looking back or heart-breaker as it happened.

I think Auburn is the harder loss to think back on in hindsight, driving down to Atlanta with belief they could win, back-and-forth for the first half and change with a national title spot on the line. But it was also more drawn-out to reality when it happened once Auburn started running away with things making it easier to accept, whereas South Carolina that year was the had the most shock value because it was so sudden and it that gets brought up more from fans as the heart-breaker because of that in-the-moment feel. Also when the South Carolina loss happened it felt like they just blew their chance to win the division (obviously it worked out which makes it easier to swallow now).
 
I could say Northern Illinois in 2017 but it ultimately became the nail in the coffin for Shawn Eichorst and Mike Riley so, whatever.
 
I wasn't alive for it, but I have seen it many times... 83 against Miami, real men go for two.
 
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