re: 10 most depressing losses in CFB history

I remember watching every single one of those games post-2000. Was too young or wasn’t born for the other ones. Those games made me feel things. Good list.

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Plus the fact that they won a national title 3 years prior. It's also widely accepted that Oklahoma State would've been steamrolled by LSU in 2011, yet their loss at Iowa State is universally ranked higher on the pain index due to both their lack of a national title and the fact that it was a generational season for them.

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At least Okie State won a national title a few years later.

1998 Arkansas Tennessee. My life changed that day

1. Does Arky still lose to Moo St the next week?
2. Regardless of what happens the next week, there would've been a rematch in the SEC title game. Losing so late in the season for both teams probably puts Ohio St in the title game.

12-0 Arky against 11-1 Vols. Probably for a spot in the Fiesta Bowl since undefeated UCLA and K St had already lost. Probably against either FSU or Ohio St.

BCS before Arky/Vols game:

1. Tennessee 8-0
2. UCLA 8-0
3. Kansas State 9-0
4. FSU 9-1
5. UF 8-1
6. A&M 9-1
7. Arky 8-0

Both UF and A&M lost again so that takes them out.

Probable BCS before the final weekend with Arky beating Vols and Moo St:

1. UCLA
2. K St
3. Arky
4. Tenner
5. FSU
6. Ohio St

UCLA and K St both lost. So yeah, Arky/Vols SEC champ vs FSU and their 3rd string QB.

Imagine needing to decide between Arkansas and Tennessee with their only loss being to each other.

ok st vs iowa st gets my vote...Iowa st was just pathetic, how in the hell do you lose that one

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How is kick 6 not on this list? It took Bama out of the title game and vaulted their hated rivals into it.

Not to mention the absurdity of the play.

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BC Alabama already had a zillion natties to its name by then so they just took a nap then then won the SEC and went to the playoff the next year

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I think the football can pass over the top of the goalpost if none of the ball passes outside the post.

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If any part of the ball passes over the post, it's no good.

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2. Kansas State 33 vs. Texas A&M 36 2OT (1998/Big 12 Championship Game)

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That was huge at the time. America was rooting for the Cinderella...the ultimate Cinderella... It was the greatest feel good story in CFB history and Aggies had to frick it up because they were tone deaf to the nation living out there on that College Station outpost on the outskirts of civilization.

Its impossible to put into words how bad K-State was the preceding decades...think Temple...maybe 80s Oregon Stats, shite Northwestern going to the Rose Bowl in the 90s made them look like Ohio State compared to K-State.

K-State was so bad they went 6-27 in 3 years in the 70's and were still put on probation by the NCAA for cheating. They couldn't even cheat to a 25% winning %.

(While all of America was rooting against you Aggies, did you go to Mary Lou Retton's house after the game and piss on her Gold Medal? Did you break Keri Strug's other ankle with Nancy's lead pipe? Did you flip he bird to he 1989 Olympic Hockey team?

After that cheating scandal where K-state went 6-27, they went another 5 years without a winning season which resulted in their first ever bowl bid in school history in 1982 where they scored 3 points against 6-5 Wisconsin and lost.

The next two years K-State won 3 games each year against 1-8-2 TCU and then opened 1985 with loses to two 1AA schools.

In 1989 Bill Snyder took over a program that had the worst record in NCAA Division I-A (FBS) history at the time and had gone 27 consecutive games without a win (0–26–1) dating to October 1986.

From 1935 to 1988, the last year before Snyder's arrival, Kansas State had won 137 games in total.

Since the 1982 Independence Bowl season, the Wildcats had won a total of seven games. Snyder then presided over one of the most successful rebuilding projects in the history of college athletics.

And you fricking self-absorbed, obtuse, isolated cult Aggies had to frick it all up. For what? You weren't going to play for the title.

This is the genesis of hundreds of thousands hating Aggie to this day. You fricked the nation of a great story only to fart out a boring loss in the Sugar Bowl.