14 Days until Kickoff

by One Man To Beat on Aug 15, 2008 8:16 PM EDT

Let's keep the ride of realistic Rebel-dom rolling to the number 14 worst moment of the last four years. We've seen out of conference losses to Mizzou and Wyoming along with the loss of a few handfuls of Rebel players.

Now we face a harrowing loss to a team that is hated because of their scrappiness and inability to know their place in the SEC hierarchy. Most die hard fans probably have more than one team in their mind, but only one comes to my narrowly thinking mind: Vanderbilt.

14th Worst Moment of the Last Four Years: 2007 loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville, 31-17.

Mike Wallace had one of his best games ever, so no shame to you, Burnell...Mike...whatever. However, Cassen Jackson-Garrison, who gets my award for frattiest name for a running back in the SEC, scored three touchdowns and rushed for 127 yards to lead the Commodores AND THAT DAMNED FOGHORN to victory.

I've been hit like this before. I was doing time in Parchman.

Coach Orgeron continued his stretch of losses to start SEC campaigns extending the streak to three, well, four if you count Cutcliffe's last year. Seth Adams was replaced by Brent Schaeffer late in the game and nearly led the Rebels to a come back cutting their lead to seven points in the fourth quarter, but Chris Nickson, ON A SORE HAMSTRING, passed his way to 200 yards while rushing for 78 yards to keep the Commodore lead safe.

Now I know what you're thinking, how in the hell are there 13 worse moments than what I remember that fateful September day? It's all perspective I suppose. The worst kind of loss in my opinion is a close loss, because it means that you had a chance to win. A chance to win that you squandered by some fateful decision. Getting blown out of the water hurts, but a last second loss hangs with you for decades.

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A guess at some of the remaining moments in Rebel awfulness, in no particular order:
-The 2006 beatdown at the hands of Wake Forest. I sat through the entire rain delay. Yeah. True ass Rebel.
-The 2003 loss to LSU, 17-14, including 2 missed FG's by Groza award winner Jonathan Nichols
-The 2004 loss to LSU in Baton Rouge. Think we lost by 3 again and finished the year with 4 wins.
-The 2006 loss to LSU. We're up 20-7 going into the 4th. LSU mounts a comeback, aided by a screwed up fumble recovery on our part. And, I think, they scored a TD as time ran out to stay alive. The game goes to OT, where Brent Schaeffer fumbles on our possession. LSU kicks the easy FG for the win.
-The 2007 loss to MS St., featuring the dropped pass by Hodge, and 'the call' by Ed O.
-The 2007 loss to Bama when they called a penalty on a replay, seriously.
-The 2003 loss to Memphis
-The 1999 loss to Vandy
-The 1999 loss to MS St.

That's all I got. That's also all I care to remember at the moment.

by warchief on Aug 16, 2008 12:37 AM EDT reply actions

Just this year...

The almost come back from Northwestern.

The 44-8 loss at home, filled with fireworks disasters, to Arkansas.

guhh.

by David on Aug 16, 2008 12:50 PM EDT reply actions

Arkansas game is easily my least favorite I have sat through. I stayed the entire game for Wake Forest (rain and all) but have never been more disgusted at our team/coaches than during the Arkansas game.

by The One That Got Away on Aug 16, 2008 1:39 PM EDT reply actions

To add salt to the Wake Forest wound, a buddy of mine who is a MS St. fan, when they do well, came to Oxford for that weekend and spent the whole game telling me he was disappointed in the "atmosphere". I'm like dude, we just sat through 2 hours of rain to watch us get handled by Wake Forest. Excuse our somber attitude.

by warchief on Aug 16, 2008 5:22 PM EDT reply actions