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re: What is the biggest upset in the history of sports?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:24 pm to themetalreb
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:24 pm to themetalreb
Maybe not the biggest, but Puerto Rico beating team USA by 20 points in the Olympics, (the shitty 2004 one but still had Lebron, hence the nickname Lebronze).
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Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:30 pm to chalmetteowl
Considering they had just gotten promoted to the EPL in dramatic fashion 2 years prior and win the EPL in the era where oil money was/is running rampant amongst the big clubs… it’s Leicester City and it isn’t particularly close. They not only won the title, they ran the frick away with it.
I mean shite, they have since been relegated, making the accomplishment even more random.
I mean shite, they have since been relegated, making the accomplishment even more random.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:34 pm to MasterAbe1
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ULM over Bama was a big one
It was a 24 and a half point upset.
For perspective, that doesn't even come close to being one of the 10 biggest upsets of just the last 25 years-- those are all upsets of 32 points or more from the spread.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:37 pm to themetalreb
Leicester City
USA over Russia hockey
Anything else is second/third tier
USA over Russia hockey
Anything else is second/third tier
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:37 pm to themetalreb
Miracle on Ice - not even close.
This is a mashup from a few different sources:
In the late 1940s, the Soviets were only learning to play hockey. But within eight years, they built one of the most feared hockey teams in the world. The Red Machine went on to dominate hockey for four decades...In 1954, only eight years after the first match between two amateur student teams took place, Soviet athletes debuted at the 1954 World Championships in Stockholm and won gold, beating Canada to everyone’s surprise...
The Soviet hockey team was in 9 Olympics. Won gold in 7 of them. The only times they did not win gold were at events in the US.
In February 1979, they faced an NHL All-Star team that featured an astounding 20 future Hall of Famers in a three-game series. The Soviets won two of the matchups, including Game 3 at Madison Square Garden in a 6-0 rout.
"They practiced and trained around 1,200 hours a year," said Alpo Suhonen, former Team Finland head coach and the first NHL head coach from Europe. "In Finland, we practiced about a third of that, and the Swedes were about 100 hours ahead of us.
Between 1954 and 1991, the team won almost every world championship and Olympic gold medal.
I don't remember specifically, but there was a long stretch of years where they never lost in international play.
They were the most dominant international team of all time. Even after 1980 they remained dominant. The only thing that ended it was the fall of the USSR.
This is a mashup from a few different sources:
In the late 1940s, the Soviets were only learning to play hockey. But within eight years, they built one of the most feared hockey teams in the world. The Red Machine went on to dominate hockey for four decades...In 1954, only eight years after the first match between two amateur student teams took place, Soviet athletes debuted at the 1954 World Championships in Stockholm and won gold, beating Canada to everyone’s surprise...
The Soviet hockey team was in 9 Olympics. Won gold in 7 of them. The only times they did not win gold were at events in the US.
In February 1979, they faced an NHL All-Star team that featured an astounding 20 future Hall of Famers in a three-game series. The Soviets won two of the matchups, including Game 3 at Madison Square Garden in a 6-0 rout.
"They practiced and trained around 1,200 hours a year," said Alpo Suhonen, former Team Finland head coach and the first NHL head coach from Europe. "In Finland, we practiced about a third of that, and the Swedes were about 100 hours ahead of us.
Between 1954 and 1991, the team won almost every world championship and Olympic gold medal.
I don't remember specifically, but there was a long stretch of years where they never lost in international play.
They were the most dominant international team of all time. Even after 1980 they remained dominant. The only thing that ended it was the fall of the USSR.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:37 pm to themetalreb
#16 seed UMBC blowing out #1 Virginia.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:42 pm to POTUS2024
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Miracle on Ice - not even close.
What Leicester did was way less patriotic but way more impressive
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:47 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:underrated comment
Goliath was heavily favored over David
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:55 pm to themetalreb
It's gotta be the US Hockey team's gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980. That just came totally unexpected
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:58 pm to themetalreb
UAB beating Coach Saban at LSU.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:00 pm to themetalreb
For me personally it was Serra beating GSP.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:05 pm to Arthur Bach
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Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson
My pick too. Douglas was a 42-1 underdog in that fight and KO'd the self-professed "Baddest Man on the Planet".
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:19 pm to themetalreb
Miracle on Ice, but my favorite was Pitt over West Virginia in 2007. LSU doesn't win a title if it wasn't for that miracle.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:21 pm to UltimaParadox
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I know it's an LSU site, but two people mentioned this game. Not even sure how it even registers in the same stratosphere as the other upsets.
Exactly. ULM upset a then top 10 ranked Arkansas in 2012. 2007 Alabama was 6-4 and had just lost to Mississippi State for the second straight year. If Mike Shula had still been the Alabama coach in 2007 not one person would mention that game. App State over Michigan was a way bigger upset that year.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:31 pm to themetalreb
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:32 pm to tarzana
The gold medal wasn’t the upset. It was USA beating Russia in the semi finals.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:48 pm to tigerfan84
Everyone remembers Pitt over WVU because it was at the end but if it weren’t for this one USC plays tOSU for the title.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:54 pm to themetalreb
Mighty Ducks beating Iceland
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:11 pm to chalmetteowl
Trump over Hillary
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:12 pm to mizslu314
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Michigan was shite. That was just the media overhyping them going into the season.
did mich end up 10-2?
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 11:14 pm
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