What is the Worst Loss in UM Football History?

[CaneSince4Ever]

The fact u don't have the 97 loss to fsu in here..... Joke

That team while it had Reed, James, & Starks...was garbage.

 

[HTXCane]

P. S. Richt Apologists, even you can't defend the Pitt Failure, but you will try. LOL

There are Richt Apologists? Who are they?

We just had our best season since 2003. I wouldn't think Richt would need apologists. Unless there are dumb asses that are not happy with winning.

 

[ddann]

We had a very Capable backup QB, who won a NC the next year.

Geoff Torretta won a NC in 1987? Wow. Guess I need to review my Canes history.

Either that, or you need to stop trolling.

 

[stormsurge]

1987 Fiesta Bowl

The better team threw (literally) the game away

Why I never consider Vinnie a true Cane (that and the egg he payed against Tennessee the year before in the Sugar Bowl). Fiesta Bowl was the very worst. I have hated OSU with a passion ever since. Them getting left out of the playoffs this year makes me very, very happy. Douches deserved this, especially now with ***.

Vinnie deserves plenty of Blame, but Jimmy allowed VT throw all those **** Ints. against PSU, especially that last one. We had a very Capable backup QB, who won a NC the next year.

Plus PSU still hasn't stopped Alonzo Highsmith running the ball.

 

[513CincycaneOSUSucks]

This is a laughable proposition. Whether we win or lose the Pitt game, we would be in the same position: Orange Bowl against Wisky. That loss has virtually no impact on our season.

Correct. Also a win over #1 Clemson would have not only won us the ACC title but also a spot in the top 4. Therefore, Pitt may have been one of the least significant losses in Miami history.

Bingo...

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[Awsi Dooger]

The loss to Penn State in the ‘87 Fiesta Bowl was the worst by far IMO because on paper and statistically in the game, we should have crushed them. It cost us a national title due to 7 turnovers.

That's the only answer. I am astonished it isn't a landslide consensus, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

The losses to Penn State, Alabama and Ohio State may be bunched in memory. They were anything but equivalent on the field. Alabama pushed us around physically for the bulk of that game and Ohio State either controlled matters physically for long stretches, or managed a stalemate.

There was nothing similar in the Penn State game. Jerome Brown was in the backfield immediately. Paterno conceded they had no way to block him. Likewise Danny Stubbs and Bill Hawkins were wrecking havoc. All we had to do was avoid a string of senseless turnovers and that game was a routine victory. The stats were lopsided. Everything was lopsided.

And the '86 team would be legendary right alongside 2001. There would literally be debate among those two squads for all time best, along with 1995 Nebraska and maybe one of the recent Alabama teams.

The revolting aspect is that Barry Switzer showed us the way a year earlier in the Orange Bowl. Essentially the same Penn State team was unbeaten and ranked first heading into the bowl game against Oklahoma. Paterno had a similarly brilliant plan to stop the wishbone. But instead of panicking and throwing into coverage, Switzer chose to patiently rely on defense and field position. It played out perfectly. Low scoring game in which the Sooners popped two big plays on offense...one deep ball to Keith Jackson and one 80 yard fullback plunge up the middle. Nothing else was necessary.

The Canes could have done exactly the same thing a year later. No reason that Highsmigh wasn't allowed to dictate that game. Heck, we probably win it anyway if Vinnie merely doesn't check out of a running call to Highsmith from inside the 10 yard line on the final drive. Our coaches in the booth went nuts because it looked like Highsmith would have scored if Testaverde just left the call alone.

In 1992 I was worried about Alabama all season and in 2002 I was petrified of Ohio State. That was the one team the Canes could not afford to face. Blue collar and so relentless and talented. I'll never forget desperately rooting for Ohio State to lose just once. They had so many close calls, like Cincinnati and Purdue and Illinois and Michigan. If we avoid the Buckeyes we cruise against anyone else.

I'll never understand why fans seem to think that just because a team wins close games it means that same team will get blown out against a top rated flashy foe. I mean, we've only had dozens of examples, like Villanova basketball '85 and so forth.

The Ohio State game hurt due to the way it ended but it was not an all-time defeat like Penn State. I fully believe if those teams played a series of games the Buckeyes win nearly half the time. That was my appraisal prior to the game. I posted it on the sports forum of a political site.

Pittsburgh 2017 could not be more irrelevant. I could probably think of games in the '70s that hurt more. This was not a championship level team and we were going to be brutally exposed somewhere, if not multiple times. I posted on the Notre Dame board on Rivals after our game with them that our season would go down with a thud, that the Canes were like the 2012 Notre Dame team that over reached and got massacred by Alabama in the title game.

 

[Rellyrell]

A lot fun good ones mentioned...no question the Fiesta Bowl was vs OSU is #1


Haven't seen it mentioned but Alabama crushing us in the Sugar Bowl for the National title still haunts me

This. Remember that game like yesterday. I was a kid then and I vividly remember that was the 1st game I actually cried looking at. But that 03 Fiesta Bowl, it has a deeper impression on my mind b/c my gf’s father, at the time, was a Buckeye fan and I was w her family watching that game. He was a super mild dude, and I just remembered her entire family jumping around and celebrating around me....including her. We broke up shortly after. Lol.

I was 14 when Bama trounced us and I've never cried harder over a game.

But yeah the OSU game is something I'll go to the grave with still feeling pain from.

Yeah man...btw, looking at your username, are you a Cubs fan?

 

[Rellyrell]

The loss to Penn State in the ‘87 Fiesta Bowl was the worst by far IMO because on paper and statistically in the game, we should have crushed them. It cost us a national title due to 7 turnovers.

That's the only answer. I am astonished it isn't a landslide consensus, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

The losses to Penn State, Alabama and Ohio State may be bunched in memory. They were anything but equivalent on the field. Alabama pushed us around physically for the bulk of that game and Ohio State either controlled matters physically for long stretches, or managed a stalemate.

There was nothing similar in the Penn State game. Jerome Brown was in the backfield immediately. Paterno conceded they had no way to block him. Likewise Danny Stubbs and Bill Hawkins were wrecking havoc. All we had to do was avoid a string of senseless turnovers and that game was a routine victory. The stats were lopsided. Everything was lopsided.

And the '86 team would be legendary right alongside 2001. There would literally be debate among those two squads for all time best, along with 1995 Nebraska and maybe one of the recent Alabama teams.

The revolting aspect is that Barry Switzer showed us the way a year earlier in the Orange Bowl. Essentially the same Penn State team was unbeaten and ranked first heading into the bowl game against Oklahoma. Paterno had a similarly brilliant plan to stop the wishbone. But instead of panicking and throwing into coverage, Switzer chose to patiently rely on defense and field position. It played out perfectly. Low scoring game in which the Sooners popped two big plays on offense...one deep ball to Keith Jackson and one 80 yard fullback plunge up the middle. Nothing else was necessary.

The Canes could have done exactly the same thing a year later. No reason that Highsmigh wasn't allowed to dictate that game. Heck, we probably win it anyway if Vinnie merely doesn't check out of a running call to Highsmith from inside the 10 yard line on the final drive. Our coaches in the booth went nuts because it looked like Highsmith would have scored if Testaverde just left the call alone.

In 1992 I was worried about Alabama all season and in 2002 I was petrified of Ohio State. That was the one team the Canes could not afford to face. Blue collar and so relentless and talented. I'll never forget desperately rooting for Ohio State to lose just once. They had so many close calls, like Cincinnati and Purdue and Illinois and Michigan. If we avoid the Buckeyes we cruise against anyone else.

I'll never understand why fans seem to think that just because a team wins close games it means that same team will get blown out against a top rated flashy foe. I mean, we've only had dozens of examples, like Villanova basketball '85 and so forth.

The Ohio State game hurt due to the way it ended but it was not an all-time defeat like Penn State. I fully believe if those teams played a series of games the Buckeyes win nearly half the time. That was my appraisal prior to the game. I posted it on the sports forum of a political site.

Pittsburgh 2017 could not be more irrelevant. I could probably think of games in the '70s that hurt more. This was not a championship level team and we were going to be brutally exposed somewhere, if not multiple times. I posted on the Notre Dame board on Rivals after our game with them that our season would go down with a thud, that the Canes were like the 2012 Notre Dame team that over reached and got massacred by Alabama in the title game.

So I wasn't into CFB back in 86....I became a fan in 87. However, just re-watching the Canes v. PSU game hurt. Literally dominated that game in every single facet and those ints were thrown directly to those PSU players. Literally not a Cane around any of those throws. I don't care what anyone says, Vinny threw that game. It would be different if he threw into double coverage, led a receiver too long, or threw behind them...he was throwing it straight to PSU defenders! Even w/ that slop job, we still had an opportunity to win it at the end and on his 5th int, threw it directly in the numbers to the PSU linebacker. That's a head scratcher on some many levels.

 

[Gatorhater]

IMO, it's this year's loss to Pittsburgh, and it is not even close.

Here are a few that I am sure will be mentioned:

2007: 5-6 Miami, a team with a 1st year Head Coach, headed absolutely no where and then loses 48-0 to Virginia (#2 1, 8-2)

2015: 4-2 Miami, a team lead by an incompetent Al Golden, that lost to Cincinnati and then loses 58-0 to Clemson (#6, 6-0).

2017: 10-0 Miami, a team Ranked #2 in the CFP Poll, control their own destiny and then loses to 4-7 Pittsburgh, who started a True Freshman QB.

Again, IMO, it is not even close! The Loss to Pitt was Historic and a Failure of Epic Proportions!

What are your Thoughts?


P. S. Richt Apologists, even you can't defend the Pitt Failure, but you will try. LOL

Come out of mommy's basement. Any loss Larry Coker had after he took over from the NFL Hall of Fame team Butch left him is a 100 time worse than finally running out of gas after 10 straight games with depleted team. JJ's loss to PSU was worse. At least Coker had to get cheated out of the OSU game. JJ just got used by a child rapist. Mind you Howard started this whole thing, but Jimmy Johnson Miami the beast we love so much.

 

[ddann]

All-Time Worst UM Losses:

1987 Fiesta vs. PSU--Totally inexplicable loss that cost an NC. To this day we still can't get any clear answers on why Vinny kept throwing to the other team like it was his job.

2003 Fiesta vs OSU*--One of the all-time great rip-offs in major sports history. Cost another NC.

1988 at ND--Cleveland crossed the plane. Another one of the all-time great rip-offs. A win would have most likely led to another NC.

1993 Sugar vs Bama--Wasn't a close game, but was a huge disappointment. Could've had back-to-back titles, but got dominated instead.

1985 Sugar vs Tennessee--Total failure to show up with a national title on the line. Total failure to adjust to what Tennessee was doing defensively.

2000 at Washington--Not a NC game like the others, but ended up keeping the Canes out of the NC game in the end.

(Dis) Honorable Mention:

1984 vs Boston College--Didn't make a difference record-wise, but the stupid Flutie-Dootie never should've happened and now we're stuck constantly seeing replays of it 30+ years later.

1994 vs Washington--5 minutes of madness in the middle of the game led to the end of the 58-game home winning streak.

1997 vs FSU--Just a major low point for a program used to being on top for more than a decade.

2005 Peach vs LSU--Another major low point for a team that was supposed to be in the national title hunt. Signaled a downward spiral.

2007 vs Virginia--Last game in the OB. Enough said.

2015 vs Clemson--Another major low point. Expectations weren't that high to begin with, but it was just so pathetic.

1995 Orange Bowl vs Nebraska--Miami had owned Nebraska in Orange Bowl games 3 times prior to this one and had come out of 2 of those with national titles. It was just unthinkable that the Canes could let Nebraska come from behind in the 4th quarter to win like that.

1990 at ND--This game (along with the BYU game that year) kept the Canes from having a shot to repeat as champs. The ND game fits here because Miami would have to wait 27 years to beat ND again. That's disgusting.

Thanks for provoking the trip down (bad) memory lane.

 

[TheEye]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...e3b-97db-964f11f0d652/?utm_term=.733666b42e7c

Wait wait...Jimmy Johnson's #6 ranked team lost to Maryland 42-40! Isn't that more significant? Did you want JJ gone that year?

 

[HarryCarayisGoat]

A lot fun good ones mentioned...no question the Fiesta Bowl was vs OSU is #1


Haven't seen it mentioned but Alabama crushing us in the Sugar Bowl for the National title still haunts me

This. Remember that game like yesterday. I was a kid then and I vividly remember that was the 1st game I actually cried looking at. But that 03 Fiesta Bowl, it has a deeper impression on my mind b/c my gf’s father, at the time, was a Buckeye fan and I was w her family watching that game. He was a super mild dude, and I just remembered her entire family jumping around and celebrating around me....including her. We broke up shortly after. Lol.

I was 14 when Bama trounced us and I've never cried harder over a game.

But yeah the OSU game is something I'll go to the grave with still feeling pain from.

Yeah man...btw, looking at your username, are you a Cubs fan?

Grew up in the 80s and 90s die hard with Cubs on WGN. Loved me some Steve Stone and Harry. But over the years my love for the Cubs waned a bit.

 

[Rellyrell]

A lot fun good ones mentioned...no question the Fiesta Bowl was vs OSU is #1


Haven't seen it mentioned but Alabama crushing us in the Sugar Bowl for the National title still haunts me

This. Remember that game like yesterday. I was a kid then and I vividly remember that was the 1st game I actually cried looking at. But that 03 Fiesta Bowl, it has a deeper impression on my mind b/c my gf’s father, at the time, was a Buckeye fan and I was w her family watching that game. He was a super mild dude, and I just remembered her entire family jumping around and celebrating around me....including her. We broke up shortly after. Lol.

I was 14 when Bama trounced us and I've never cried harder over a game.

But yeah the OSU game is something I'll go to the grave with still feeling pain from.

Yeah man...btw, looking at your username, are you a Cubs fan?

Grew up in the 80s and 90s die hard with Cubs on WGN. Loved me some Steve Stone and Harry. But over the years my love for the Cubs waned a bit.

Got you. Well I'm from the Southside (originally). Grew up right around the corner from Old Comiskey (refuse to call it "The Cell") so I'm a die hard White Sox fan who's dying b/c of the direction that Reinsdorf is taking my team. I wish he and his family would leave Chicago, period. I now envy how the Cubs are being ran. Top notch mgmt.

 

[MiamiMD93]

.....You are kidding right?

Hail Flutie?

Fiesta Bowl vs. Penn State?

Terry Porters Phantom PI call?

BYU breaking our home winning streak?

Virginia pounding us in the last OB game?

Cleveland Gary 'fumble'?


....And you pick us losing to Pitt this year as the worst loss in UM history?

You're probably being a troll....I hope.

Terragon, check your history. Washington ended our Home winning streak, not BYU.

Oh, and to the OP...worst post I’ve read in a long time. The Pitt loss doesn’t even deserve to be mentioned in a discussion about worst UM losses.

 

[deleted4697]

The fact u don't have the 97 loss to fsu in here..... Joke

Funnily enough, this was the first game I watched as a Canes fan.

xD

In person or ever? ****..... Tough start lol

Ever.

Thats why the Al Golden era wasnt the worst. The mid 90s probation years were lol

Naaah.... At least we knew we were trash during the probation years.... Going into the 97 game vs fsu I had no hope of winning..... The loss to asu that yr solidified it for me

 

[deleted4697]

The loss that showed the end was near was the 05 loss to gt.... No way in ******* **** should we have loss that game. And the way we lost it.... ******* Kyle Wright throws a ******* lob to Olson who is tripled teamed on first down.... Not 4th down.... First down.... 2 weeks after we scrapped vt too.... That loss showed me were were gonna suck for a bit.... Didn't know it would be over 10 years

 

[Pete]

IMO, it's this year's loss to Pittsburgh, and it is not even close.

Here are a few that I am sure will be mentioned:

2007: 5-6 Miami, a team with a 1st year Head Coach, headed absolutely no where and then loses 48-0 to Virginia (#2 1, 8-2)

2015: 4-2 Miami, a team lead by an incompetent Al Golden, that lost to Cincinnati and then loses 58-0 to Clemson (#6, 6-0).

2017: 10-0 Miami, a team Ranked #2 in the CFP Poll, control their own destiny and then loses to 4-7 Pittsburgh, who started a True Freshman QB.

Again, IMO, it is not even close! The Loss to Pitt was Historic and a Failure of Epic Proportions!

What are your Thoughts?


P. S. Richt Apologists, even you can't defend the Pitt Failure, but you will try. LOL

Buck Teeth(ie:no teeth) strikes again!

 

[80cane]

I don't think any of the losses this year are even worth considering for "worst" loss. The worst loses come when a ring is on the line, especially when we were good enough to have won. 87 Fiesta is a prime example.

We have been fortunate enough to play in a lot of NC games and lost our share. Those losses cost the program something significant. Those NC games, plus maybe the 1988 ND game because a win would have given us an MNC, are by far worse than any losses the team got this year. This years team is nowhere near the cusp of a NC. No loss since the 2002 Fiesta Bowl are anywhere near the worst losses. Embarrassing, yes. Worst, no. Not even close.

 

[BoxingRobes]

There are plenty of "bad" losses that would qualify as "worst" whether they be program or momentum deflaters, historically significant losses, losses to rivals, etc ...but I can not think of a game more embarrassing to the program and the history of college football then that final game in the Orange Bowl against Virginia.

It was just embarrassing in every single way. Was ashamed to be there.

 

[simplycanes]

This dude is a clown. Geeezuz.

He's a Buckeye. No other way to justify that Fiesta Bowl loss in 2002 as anything less than devastating. It was so bad they made a second 30 for 30 about how far back it set the program. Truly "Champs to Chumps."