What was your toughest, hardest, most depressing, gut-wrenching loss to take?

[tusks_n_raider]

My honest answer is still the '94 SECCG but I would in no way ever admit on here that the 2013 game bothered me so much.

You know 'they' read this site so why give them the extra satisfaction?

I mean I will admit it sucked....of course it was bad for us.... but it just didn't bother as much as maybe it should?

I guess I've become desensitized to their brand of Voodoo Magic since 2010.

Couple that with the most ridiculous way they won just the week before against UGA on a literal prayer that ricocheted into their lap....

I mean you almost just have to shake your head with a begrudging half smirk over the unbelievability of their luck.

I just kind of zoned out watching it but it didn't really tear me up or anything. Probably because I already sensed dread heading into a possible OT anyway.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

[FONT="]What was your toughest, hardest, most depressing, gut-wrenching loss to take?

For me, it's Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.

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You have asked and answered your own question. I'm still trying to recover from the trauma of losing that one.

 

[wishbonedays]

1972 Iron Bowl...I was 10, listening to it with my cousin who was an AU fan...he was poor mouthing his team until the blocked punts then he was...well...insufferable. It was awful.
1973 Sugar Bowl vs Notre Dame. Just a frustrating and horrible game.
1973 Cotton Bowl vs Texas (end of 1972 season)...I STILL say that the Texas QB (Alan Lowery?) stepped out of bounds on their last TD
1983 Penn State...We all know Gothard caught it in bounds...we all know...
1982 Iron Bowl...we dominated in almost every category except turnovers and the score.

 

[grlindsey08]

The 2010 Iron Bowl. It was my first Iron Bowl as a student, and that ticket didn't come in my package so I had to buy one from another student for $100. Also, the game was Friday, so I had to come back to Tuscaloosa early. Had to leave my family's thanksgiving dinner to make it back. It wouldn't have been so bad had the first half not been so electric. I've never experienced an atmosphere like that before....and then the second half happened. The 2013 iron bowl is a close second. Senior year, first time to ever get prime seats (visting section in the lower bowl, 4 rows behind MDB), and so I was in the endzone he returned that kick to. Auburn fans took on a mob mentality after the game, and I had a couple get in my face. It solidified my hatred for the barn a to new level I didn't know was possible. Lucky buttholes.

 

[BamaMoon]

I haven't read the thread but a few come to mind:

One of the IB's in the early 80's (can't remember which) was one of the first times I ever felt enraged after a game.

The OT (can't remember how many) loss to UT when all we had to do was stop them on 4th and long.

The (hate the term) "camback" - if I'm being totally honest, that one hurt the most.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I haven't read the thread but a few come to mind:

One of the IB's in the early 80's (can't remember which) was one of the first times I ever felt enraged after a game.

Could only have been 82 or 83.

The OT (can't remember how many) loss to UT when all we had to do was stop them on 4th and long.

2003

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Wasn't actually a loss but: Alabama and Tennessee were tied 7-7 in 1965. Clock running down, Bama driving. Stabler got us down to around the four yard line with a few seconds left and quickly threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock and set up a David Ray chip shot to win the game. However, in the mad scramble during the last drive, Snake forgot which down it was, threw the ball out of bounds on 4th down (thinking it was 3rd down), and TN took over the ball. I still think about that tie and how it sure felt like a horrible loss.
( IIRC that might have been the game CPB had an officer shoot the lock off of the locker room door which was still locked as the team arrived)

 

[ALA2262]

Wasn't actually a loss but: Alabama and Tennessee were tied 7-7 in 1965. Clock running down, Bama driving. Stabler got us down to around the four yard line with a few seconds left and quickly threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock and set up a David Ray chip shot to win the game. However, in the mad scramble during the last drive, Snake forgot which down it was, threw the ball out of bounds on 4th down (thinking it was 3rd down), and TN took over the ball. I still think about that tie and how it sure felt like a horrible loss.
( IIRC that might have been the game CPB had an officer shoot the lock off of the locker room door which was still locked as the team arrived)

And now the rest of the story:

Coach Bryant was alternating Sloan and Stabler EOP on that drive. Stabler was in on first down on that last series of downs. Sloan was sacked at the 18 on second down. Stabler ran 17 yards to the one on third down. There was no time to get Sloan back into the game, much less the FG unit. When you don't know if you are coming or going and you have just run 17 yards, it is not unreasonable to think you have just made a first down. The irony of the throw is that at the time the rules required the pass be close to an eligible receiver to not be intentional grounding and Stabler threw the ball about a foot over the head of a WIDE OPEN Ray Perkins in the end zone!

 

[BamaJama17]

The Big 8 became dominate over that period. Coach Bryant's brand at Bama was to out quick the competition then the Big 8 began recruiting bigger faster players and it was game over. It was brutal to see Bama being completely out manned over these years. Southern teams quickly found they they were going to have to recruit the athletes that were being forced to go north to play if they were going to be competitive.

I think Nebraska was one of the first schools to put an emphasis on strength training and proper nutrition on a position by position basis.

 

[UAH]

And now the rest of the story:

Coach Bryant was alternating Sloan and Stabler EOP on that drive. Stabler was in on first down on that last series of downs. Sloan was sacked at the 18 on second down. Stabler ran 17 yards to the one on third down. There was no time to get Sloan back into the game, much less the FG unit. When you don't know if you are coming or going and you have just run 17 yards, it is not unreasonable to think you have just made a first down. The irony of the throw is that at the time the rules required the pass be close to an eligible receiver to not be intentional grounding and Stabler threw the ball about a foot over the head of a WIDE OPEN Ray Perkins in the end zone!

I was listening and have always had the assumption that Stabler went out on the one and believed that he had made a 1st down. I had never realized that he could have hit Perkins in the end zone. Isn't it true that Bama lost several fumbles during the game which had kept it close. Of course Tennessee had Steve Delong on their defensive line and were not a push over at all.

The fact that fate ran in Bama's favor so greatly to give them an opportunity to win the NC salved that wound quite a bit

The next year in the rain in Knoxville fate played its hand again. After a tremendous Bama comeback in the second half, gaining the lead with under a minute to play, Tennessee managed to get the ball to Richmond Flowers of Montgomery out of bounds within easy field goal range. The kick sailed wide and Bama returned from Knoxville with a win.

 

[Crimson White]

Probably Clemson. That game still irritates me.

 

[Al A Bama]

The Mississippi State game prior to Coach Shula receiving his walking papers was the most depressing loss until that ILLEGAL Play Clemson used to win Clemson it's Naty! What in the heck is a "Naty"? In the Mississippi State game the Alabama football team did NOT play like an Alabama football team! In the National Championship game they did EXCEPT the O left the D on the field toooooooooooooooo long!

 

[GP for Bama]

1976 Sweet 16 loss to Indiana in Baton Rogue. Bama was better than Indiana and would have won NC.

Bama got to BR by running UNC completely out of the building in Dayton. A UNC whose HC and FOUR of their players would be wearing Olympic Basketball Gold Medals later that Summer.

I was in Baton Rouge with my Dad for that game against Indiana. Indiana had been undefeated the year before also and lost in the tournament to Kentucky. With about a minute to go it looked like were going to pull it off.

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[Padreruf]

I was in Baton Rouge with my Dad for that game against Indiana. Indiana had been undefeated the year before also and lost in the tournament to Kentucky. With about a minute to go it looked like were going to pull it off.

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Bobby Knight still says that Bama team was the best team he ever coached against...high praise.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I was at the 82 auburn game. Thought Bama pushed them all over the field. Painful loss. CPB last year.

That was one of those games where statistically we pwned Auburn - and lost.

I've seen a couple of those. LSU beat our brains in in the 1998 Zow comeback game for over 500 yards, but their kicker kept missing field goals and PATs.

That's one I'm not ashamed to say they SHOULD have beat us.

 

[81usaf92]

That was one of those games where statistically we pwned Auburn - and lost.

I've seen a couple of those. LSU beat our brains in in the 1998 Zow comeback game for over 500 yards, but their kicker kept missing field goals and PATs.

That's one I'm not ashamed to say they SHOULD have beat us.

The weirdest win I can remember is the 2001 Iowa St game. It felt like they were the better than us, and we won because the ref had to make a tough call at the goal post. Well they did give ISU a makeup call 10 years later against the fighting gundys :biggrin2:

 

[B1GTide]

The weirdest win I can remember is the 2001 Iowa St game. It felt like they were the better than us, and we won because the ref had to make a tough call at the goal post. Well they did give ISU a makeup call 10 years later against the fighting gundys :biggrin2:

My wife and I were at that game and I had no idea until now that there was any controversy over that missed FG call (just looked it up).

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Two games here that receive prominent mention, well three -

1973 Sugar Bowl - I'm sure this would make me consider suicide missions to South Bend but.....I was four and didn't know what
football was.


2016 Clemson - this should bother me more than it does, but it didn't really even get me at the time. It's not like Clemson was an upstart
or bad team. Should we have won? Absolutely, and they'd be considering us the greatest team ever. I guess it's because I'd never been on
the losing end in a national title game like that before.

It bothers me more NOW from the historical standpoint than it bothered me then.


1983 Penn State. I was living in Germany at the time, and I was about to turn 14, so you have to allot for that. Calculate the time
difference. I went to bed with us in a 34-7 hole. The next day I ran into a buddy on my way to get some fat pills and he asked me
if I'd watched the game. I told him I went to bed early and he told me the riveting story about how we came all the way back only
to get hosed at the end (though he misremembered the receiver as Joey Jones I recall).

I've never seen that game, but it would have really set me off to stay up that late and lose like that, too.

 

[81usaf92]

My wife and I were at that game and I had no idea until now that there was any controversy over that missed FG call (just looked it up).

It was pretty dang close.

I think the funny thing is when I moved to Nebraska in 2008, I had so many cyclone fans still bring that game up because they felt cheated. I think its funny because only a handful of Alabama fans really ever bring it up because its one of those forgettable bowl games in the dark ages, but a cyclone fan will bring it up in a heartbeat.


But like I said, the refs made up for it 10 years later.... and to Bama's benefit as well.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

My wife and I were at that game and I had no idea until now that there was any controversy over that missed FG call (just looked it up).

It's funny you mention this because I was listening to Eli that night. I was in Mississippi on a country road with my now ex and my 3-year old.

Eli was describing this because even he thought initially it was no good.

Tide fans really have no reason to chuckle about it, though - I mean, it was the Independence Bowl for Pete's sake.

Who even cares? It wouldn't have bothered me if Iowa State won.