re: What game marked the low point of the 1990s

So many to choose from, but '98 Bama game was particularly painful. Outplayed them but they got two TD's on passes that bounced off our DB's hands and Abram Booty had a TD pass in his hands that would have ended the game but allowed a Bama defender to wrestle the ball away from him.

Crushing....

UAB

Lots of good answers (and unfortunately lots to chose from), for me it is Colorado state because
1992 it was a loss to a nondescript non power team (usm was a solid program in 80-90s, csu has NO history)
One of the biggest aholes IMHO we ever payed was osu coach Earl Bruce, who lucked out against us in 88 (up 14 with the ball we lost game), and this was after 87 when a missed fumble call and a very rare Hodson pick cost us a certain win over them...before game Bruce refused t have his team come out on field when t was supposed to, jerk

He had gotten fired at OSU AND WAS CSU Coach, they were 0-3 coming in and had lost to Idaho, they ended 5-7 and this was a loss that to me showed Hllamn would never win here.
Usm was 6-5 and had played a decent schedule in 94...
86 Miami of Ohio was bad, but they were a bowl team and were very good that year, we had beaten 3 ranked Texas a&am badly and had a week off! We were a very good team in 86, we just lost focus, but Miami in 86 crushes CSU of 92 etc

USM 1994

I lived in TN during the late 80's and most of the 90's so got to watch the interception game and (barn burning down) at Auburn and the loss at Vandy. They were both terrible and embarrassing but the game that was the toughest and most infuriating was loosing to Auburn 41-7 in 99 and watching Tuberville smoke cigars on the Eye of the Tiger. I was so pissed I sold my season tickets. Watching my beloved Tigers had gotten so painful that it was bad for my health. I was actually hoping Auburn would score again so we would fire Dinardo, not good.
I also got to watch some incredible Tiger victories at Knoxville and Athens. Geaux Tigers!

The Vandy loss in 90 really woke everyone up to how bad we were. We lost a lot of close one in 89, very similar to 98. But when we lost to Vanderbilt (Their only victory), it was eye opening.

I'd have to vote for the AU game of 94. That was the beginning of the end for Curly.

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November 12, 1994, USM 20, LSU 18 - Curley Hallman's last season. I've been to every home game since. But at the time, things were so bad that I stayed home and painted cabinets in the kitchen. It was the smallest Death Valley crowd since 1974 (announced attendance was 51,718, but LSU officials estimated the actual crowd was closer to 40,000). To date, Hallman is the only LSU coach since the formation of the SEC to have never tallied a winning record or coached in a bowl game.

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This one above, I didn't care to go or get a date.
I stayed at the fraternity house and hoped Hallman would lose and get fired.

This game would pay off and bring in Dinardo and Faulk.
This would wake up the Big Sleeping Tiger and lead to the last 16 years of glory and it seems as though we are still in it for years to come.

Thankful I was too young to remember much of the Hallman era. DiNardo era was bad enough.

Not the lowest point but a low point, the loss in Athens in '99

After the miracle TD to Robinson on 4th and 19, Gerry elects to go for 2.

Booty scrambled to his right, had no one open, then threw it way across to the other side of the field. I had upper deck seats in that EZ. From our angle it looked like the guy was wide open, then at the last second a Georgia linebacker appeared out of nowhere to bat it away.

Such a tease. Thought we were gonna pull one out only to have it snatched away. Went on to lose the next six ballgames. Saban would be hired two months later and the rest is history.

The 93 Fla game celebrated some great milestone iirc