Really. So that compares to this? Some losses are shocking. Others are ordained by the gods.

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The 2007 Stanford vs. USC football game was an NCAA college football game held on October 6, 2007, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. In a remarkable upset, with USC favored by 40 points, the visiting Stanford Cardinal won 24–23. USC entered the game with a 35-game home game winning streak (its previous home game loss also happened to be to Stanford, in 2001) which included a 24-game home game winning streak in Pac-10 play. By contrast, Stanford had compiled a Pac-10 worst 1–11 season in 2006, which included a 42–0 loss to USC. To compound the situation, Stanford's starting quarterback T. C. Ostrander had suffered a seizure the previous week and backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard had never started a game and had thrown just three passes in official play.

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The other loss was to Oregon at Autzen. Both LSU and USC had two losses but SC could never get past the Stanford loss at home.

Then Pitt beat WVU in the worst loss in WVU history.
It was so bad that Rich Rod, a WVU alum, felt compelled to leave the program for Michigan.

Yes 2003 was very fortunate - 2007 was a fricking miracle.

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Posted by dukke v

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Posted on 5/22/15 at 6:56 pm to matt314

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Needed OU to lose there conference championship game to a crappy K State team. If not the game was OU vs USC.

OU winning the big12 game would not have made a difference in 2003.......

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Posted by matt314

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Posted on 5/22/15 at 6:59 pm to matt314

...and I do like Les. It would be hard not to like the guy. He's a top five recruiter. That's the track he's used in his career. Top five HC... no. He's right there with Mark Richt though.

Right now he's a modern Cholly Mac marking time toward retirement. Cholly was a really good coach who was the only player of the Bear who ever beat him twice and almost always played him tough. His record started sliding late in his career as complacency set in. Not being able to do more than that sent Cholly on his way.

Les needs to turn around the current trends.

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Posted by chilge1

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Posted on 5/22/15 at 7:18 pm to matt314

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The 2007 Stanford vs. USC football game was an NCAA college football game held on October 6, 2007, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. In a remarkable upset, with USC favored by 40 points, the visiting Stanford Cardinal won 24–23. USC entered the game with a 35-game home game winning streak (its previous home game loss also happened to be to Stanford, in 2001) which included a 24-game home game winning streak in Pac-10 play. By contrast, Stanford had compiled a Pac-10 worst 1–11 season in 2006, which included a 42–0 loss to USC. To compound the situation, Stanford's starting quarterback T. C. Ostrander had suffered a seizure the previous week and backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard had never started a game and had thrown just three passes in official play.

Considering Stanford was 5-1 against USC from 2007-12, I'd say this was just a matter of USC being vastly overrated (shocking) and Jim Harbaugh being incredibly underrated.