Biggest Choke in School History

[cayin]

'05 KU football is still the king.

I think it would have been anyway since it was the last game.

Last night's scenario still needed a win next week.

Loved Dan, but he was so stubborn in that game. Conservative to a fault. Thought he could win that game with defense and field position. He didn't have the awareness that Leaders and Curvey played every darn snap all year and by the 4rth Q of the last game they were spent and couldn't stop KU. KU should have never even been in that game, that 2005 team thrived when they opened up the offense with the passing game. They really got it going agains OSU, KSU, Colorado and Texas A and M and then against KU he was content on getting a lead and sitting on it.

 

[RagingCloner]

Thread looks suspiciously like a reverse jinx…

Just like you drew it up eh…..?

 

[Frak]

Would have been a tough loss to swallow. Looking on the bright side without those 3 big plays/mistakes we outplayed them big all game. The offense has been clutch multiple times at end of games this season, big-time drive to get the lead back.

I agree with that. We played better here than we did vs TT or UCF...definitely KU. Noel rarely even bobbles a PR. It was surprising to see him drop one. We also have been pretty clean on punt protection all season. Obviously, Rocco needs to quit throwing pick sixes and that's been an issue of his for awhile now. He seems to throw those short passes too hard and loses his accuracy. That was an easy pass to Noel and it was way off. Noel had no chance of catching that one. Now, it should have been a pick and immediate tackle, but the kid had a really nice return.

Overall, I thought that our offense played well and the defense was much better. Still the same problems in the alley with the long QB run. We've had issues there (alley) all season. North Dakota did it, iowa did it, UCF, TT, KU. And, you can be damn sure that KSU sees it and their QB and RB are licking their chops. I've given up hope that we're going to "fix" that this year...just try to control the damage. The only way Utah was going to beat us with a backup backup QB was to bust a long run and he did just that.

 

[CyDude16]

I disagree, I'm not talking about worst in terms of the score. I'm talking about whats on the line and what is the Cyclone's ceiling.

I'm assuming the game you are referencing was when Briles was at Baylor and the year they tied with TCU and the B12 got screwed out of a playoff contender. I can't remember ISU that year but I don't think we had a lot of expectations and what little ISU did it wasn't anywhere close to a conference championship.

Watching us not even compete from the get go was absolutely terrible.

 

[madguy30]

04 Missouri was worse

I think the game in '04 was worse for how the game played out with so many missed opportunities. Piss around, miss the chip shot, and also there was a dropped TD pass in the OT iirc.

'05 KU sticks out more because it was a shot at redemption from '04 and they just went out there and flailed around to get beat again.

 

[madguy30]

I disagree, I'm not talking about worst in terms of the score. I'm talking about whats on the line and what is the Cyclone's ceiling.

I'm assuming the game you are referencing was when Briles was at Baylor and the year they tied with TCU and the B12 got screwed out of a playoff contender. I can't remember ISU that year but I don't think we had a lot of expectations and what little ISU did it wasn't anywhere close to a conference championship.

The 71-7 mess at Baylor was 2013.

ISU was bad that year and worse in 2014 (the TCU/BU year you're referring to).