This is the most embarrassing loss in U of M history.

[thailleagle]

Let's not rewrite history. Mason had some real stinkers as well. I don't think they're on the same level as the loss last week but IMO they certainly rival 55-0 and the loss to NDSU.

'97 - at Hawaii - Lost 17-3 (Hawaii was a bad team)
'97 - at Iowa - Lost 31-0 (Iowa was unranked)
'98 - at Purdue - Lost 56-21 (Purdue was unranked)
'00 - Ohio - Lost 23-17 (not OSU but Ohio)
'00 - at Indiana - Lost 51-43 (bad Indiana team after big win at OSU)
'01 - at Toledo - Lost 38-7 (Lost by 31 to MAC team in Mason's 5th year)
'03 - Michigan - Lost 38-35 (blew 21 point 4th quarter lead)
'04 - at Mich St - Lost 51-17 (MSU was unranked)
'05 - at Penn St - Lost 44-14 (PSU was unranked)
'06 - Texas Tech - Lost 44-41 (blew 31 point lead)

That's 3 bad losses to non-BCS teams, 5 losses to unranked teams by 30 points or more, and 2 of the most epic collapses in college football history.

No doubt Saturday was possibly the lowest of lows in my life as a Gopher FB fan. However, there were many, many, many, many lows under Mason.

97? Mason's first game? They were *BOTH* bad teams...way to mention coming out the next week & lighting up Iowa State by putting 54 points on the board...

Again...97 Iowa? We weren't that good...

That Toledo team beat Penn St. 24-6 & finished with 8+ wins the previous season so they were not a cupcake. Not to mention 9 games in 2001...

'05 Penn St. finished the Season in the Top 10 if I recall. Not only that but nobody took them serious until they beat Minnesota...goes to show you how Minny was viewed back then, as an actual good team.

Can't argue with anything else...if anything add 44-0 in what was that? 2006? OUCH...

Mason did give us some Gems though, something Brewster has not done yet...

 

[ruralgopher]

Why was this more embarrassing than the first time we lost to usd? Because you happen to be alive and paying attention? When did our sense of history get so truncated? This sounds like a bunch of vadger fans with the shallow depth of history being provided.

 

[SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI]

Why are people even associating these games with what happened Saturday???

You were disappointed in our performance in these games?

2) We accumulate the most yards rushing EVER allowed by a Michigan team, let alone a Michigan team that went to the rose bowl, and you call that disappointing? I don't call that disappointing. It sucks to lose that game the way we did, but that was the best I've ever seen a Gopher team play in my lifetime that night, and many on this board have echoed that sentiment.

5) Losing at home to a ranked team on a once-in-a-generation mistake is not what I would term a "disappointing performance."

The team that trotted out on the field Saturday would have been done by 40 against those teams.

I know what you're trying to say, but for me, at the time, and ever since, that loss was like having a carving knife plunged into my abdomen and twisted around. I remember watching on ESPN and seeing

20 MICH
19 MINN

in the top of the screen. I was filled with Maroon & Gold Gopher Pride. The humpty dump was rockin, the nation was watchin, and we were smashing an elite program in the mouth. Lloyd Carr didn't know what to do. For all the other horrible losses under Mason, I'll always remember the first half of this game.

It's funny, despite how traumatizing this game was, how I would love to have it all over again. We were ...RIGHT...THERE. And after the '05 game, of course, Ol' Lloyd -- in awe of our rushing attack that he couldn't stop -- installed it it at Michigan.

The losses under Brewster are horrible, but in a different way. Under Brewsterball, there's nothing at stake because you know you have no chance. It's a fight just to get out of the damned bottom-20 in Division 1A. When we beat MTSU -- Middle Tennessee State!!! -- no offense to MTSU, but they can kiss my a$$ -- we're patting ourselves on the back for beating a "solid team." I'm sorry but *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# that *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#! *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# you!!

Under Brewster, we're never contenders for anything and we have no chance to be. We just plain suck balls. So these losses to teams like USD just numb me. How I miss the days when two respectable teams, one of them my Gophers, could battle it out... not for a win against a "solid Sun Belt team" but for the BIG TEN FRICKING TITLE.

BREWSTER MUST GO.

 

[TAW]

2005 Badger Game

I don't think this can be called an embarrassing loss, but it certainly was a gut-wrenching loss. Barry couldn't even explain it, except to accept what the football gods had given him.

Don't think pic is showing, here's the link.

 

[SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI]

I don't think this can be called an embarrassing loss, but it certainly was a gut-wrenching loss. Barry couldn't even explain it, except to accept what the football gods had given him.

Don't think pic is showing, here's the link.

Yup, similar to Michigan 2003. 2nd best axe battle of last decade. We were both ranked at the time. By the time we play them this year they'll likely be top 10 while we're top-110. (If we're lucky)

 

[thailleagle]

Neither game was embarrassing...just hard to tackle the *WAY* we lost...

2000 Ohio...*THAT* was embarrassing...

I remember looking at the ticker wondering if they had switched the teams scores by mistake, lol...I was in shock...

 

[Formo]

I know what you're trying to say, but for me, at the time, and ever since, that loss was like having a carving knife plunged into my abdomen and twisted around. I remember watching on ESPN and seeing

20 MICH
19 MINN

in the top of the screen. I was filled with Maroon & Gold Gopher Pride. The humpty dump was rockin, the nation was watchin, and we were smashing an elite program in the mouth. Lloyd Carr didn't know what to do. For all the other horrible losses under Mason, I'll always remember the first half of this game.

It's funny, despite how traumatizing this game was, how I would love to have it all over again. We were ...RIGHT...THERE. And after the '05 game, of course, Ol' Lloyd -- in awe of our rushing attack that he couldn't stop -- installed it it at Michigan.

The losses under Brewster are horrible, but in a different way. Under Brewsterball, there's nothing at stake because you know you have no chance. It's a fight just to get out of the damned bottom-20 in Division 1A. When we beat MTSU -- Middle Tennessee State!!! -- no offense to MTSU, but they can kiss my a$$ -- we're patting ourselves on the back for beating a "solid team." I'm sorry but *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# that *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#! *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# you!!

Under Brewster, we're never contenders for anything and we have no chance to be. We just plain suck balls. So these losses to teams like USD just numb me. How I miss the days when two respectable teams, one of them my Gophers, could battle it out... not for a win against a "solid Sun Belt team" but for the BIG TEN FRICKING TITLE.

BREWSTER MUST GO.

Holy crap.. I've been willing to keep Brew until the end of this season.. but after this post.. I gotta give it to ya.. I'm sold.

You sure you aren't a closet Brew fan? Ice. Eskimo. You got me.