Does Texas hold this dubious record?

Knoxville-Horn

Knoxville-Horn

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Speaking of the all-time worst showing against the line...

I was having a conversation with a friend and last year's USC/Stanford game came up. He said he thought that USC had one of the all-time worst showings against the line in that particular game. In it, USC was favored by 41 and lost by 1. Meaning they lost by 42 points to the line.

Well, in '98 when we lost to UCLA by 63 points we were favored by 10. That's a 73 point swing.

Can someone please put me at ease and come up with a worse showing?
 
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I'll rank the Cobb salad at Jo's up there pretty high. Had it yesterday, in fact. Their house oil and vinegar dressing was exceptional.
 
Michigan was not a 70 point favorite, so it was still less of a spread loss than ours.

USC is the biggest favorite to lose ever, I believe. We probably own the worst spread loss ever.
 
That particular coaching regime also owns the record for biggest year-to-year turnaround in a head-to-head matchup, I believe.

We beat Oklahoma State 71-14 in 1996 for a 57-point margin of victory. They beat us 42-16 in 1997 for a 26-point margin of victory. I think that 83-point swing in a single season is a record. Stanford, of course, pulled off a 55-point swing going from a 52-point loss to a 3-point win. But that's still four touchdowns less than the Okie State situation.

(I didn't want to mention the 59-point swing Oklahoma put on us from 1999 to 2000, but I guess I'm obliged).
 
Hey, that loss was the nail in Mackovic's coffin. He had to be canned to get Mack in and start things going the right direction.

That's all I got.
 
assuming cumberland wasn't more than a 148 point dog to georgia tech back in 1916 (someone had to have bet on that game), i think they've got us beat.
 
Yeah. I have bad memories of it as well. Though, I was at least insulated by almost 1,000 miles.

Makes me appreciate what we have now.
 
I was there.

At one point, a UCLA player held up a hook'em sign and went on saying "What does this mean anyway." A fan shot back, "It means **** YOU" to loud applause. That's was the only good thing to happen that entire day.
 
I will look up the particulars on the Coconut Grove fire in the 1940s. I think that was a +45 and ended a -45. With 100s of lives saved that night in Boston.
 
November 28, 1942, undefeated Boston College (9-0) need only to beat lowly Holy Cross (1-7) to play in the Sugar Bowl at old Tulane Stadium. The Eagles are a 42 point favorite and a group of rich alumni have reserved the storied Coconut Grove in downtown Boston for the team dinner and celebration that evening.

Holy Cross crushed BC in front of 41,350 fans packed into Fenway Park. The party at the Grove was cancelled and the club began accepting regular Saturday night reservations from the adjoining Statler Hotel.

A 42 point favorite losses by 43, for a net swing of 85 which I beleive beats anthing on this forum. Sadly that is not the real story.

At 7:42pm the first fire alarm in the Grove is sounded. It turned into a 9 alarm fire that lit up the Boston skyline; claiming 492 lives, all from inside the Grove and the Statler.

I will give you a few minutes and you can think of a way to blame it on John Mackovic.

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