Top 5 Heart-Breakers

[MLawrence]

Here are mine:

1. Amber
2. Shelby
3. Katelyn
4. Emily
5. Michelle

Wait... What are we talking about?

[fsanford]

nothing should be below the Missouri game in 2004 or the Kansas game the year after. I still have nightmares about the MU game. Shoulda ran the dive with Hicks!!!

Didn't Hicks try to improvise on that play?

Had that staff actually RECRUITED a scholarship worthy kicker , the results might have been different, regardless of where Hicks ran with the ball.

[jsmith86]

Completely agree. Here's how I'd order them and why.

1.) @Kansas 21-24 OT (2005) - B12 championship game birth, blew a huge lead, ref's
2.) Missouri 14-17 OT (2004) - B12 championship game birth, laid an egg
3.) Florida State 31-38 (2002) - Seneca was in!
4.) Alabama 13-14 (2001) - Wide right!
5.) Nebraska 30-31 OT (2010) - Chance for B12 championship birth, last chance to beat nebby in a while, etc.

I hope you mean berth. Hopefully there aren't any births on the football field.

[KneeGusto]

Alex Giffords wide right from 23 yards against Oklahoma in 1981. Game ends in 7-7 tie.

This thread could get long ....

The '81 OU game was crushing. I just remember everyone hugging Giffords. They probably checked on him hourly that night.

[justcynn]

OU 2002, not because it was close by any stretch, but it crushed a dream of being one of the big boys, ranked #9 at the time

[drlove]

Alex Giffords wide right from 23 yards against Oklahoma in 1981. Game ends in 7-7 tie.

Last year's game against KSU at Arrowhead.

The OT game at Nebraska in 2005ish (where we dropped the INT)

This thread could get long ....

OU in 1981 still hurts.

[WaverlyCy]

These would probably be my top 5:
1. KU 2005
2. MU 2004
3. Mich State MBB
4. Nebbie 2010
5. UCLA MBB

I definitely put the Kansas/Mizzou losses 1 and 2 because we had a guaranteed Big12 title game in front of us had we took care of business and beat two inferior opponents. Those 2 games were catastrophic for me mentally. Especially Kansas because we had a chance to redeem ourselves the following year after the Missouri debacle, we were up in the game, and blew it. I remember I had to go to a family Thanksgiving immediately after the KU game and my wife's cousin, who is a huge Hawk fan, told me it was the greatest day of his life. A week later his father died unexpectedly. Karma's a bi+ch, I guess.

[temperflare]

You got em right but in the wrong order.

KU and MU should be 1 and 2 - so much was on the line

I just gotta say this because its been eating at me for some time now.

No one pays attention to anything you say.

It isn't your fault.

It's hers:

[dmclone]

This last game was nothing compared to Florida State and Alabama. It makes it a lot worse when you have to drive or fly as long way home after one of these losses.