Biggest Football Heartbreak

[appfanjj]

Georgia Southern last year and Auburn in 1999. Tennessee a very close third.

[TurfMonkey]

Gee, thanks for cheering me up Guys.
All of the above and Wake 84-87, 90, 92-94, 96, 01 and 17.
We were so close so many times in Camel City.

[MAD Doctor]

Penn State hurt but I was so proud of the showing and our new QB, I couldn’t feel that bad. Wake and UT stung because we were the better team all game. Stink just was a horrible feeling all night. Sickening. Even when we had the two chances to win, nothing felt right.

[BambooRdApp]

Penn State since I was sitting right in the middle of the Nittany Lion Club section at the 50! yard line. When Moore broke the initial tackle, I was yelling fall down at one yard line and the Penn State fan behind me yelling let him score. We laughed at each other after he scored. Second fir me is Stephen F-ing" Austin. This was my last year at App. St.

[goapps]

Not necessarily a top heartbreaking loss, but one of notable frustration was the 1994 VMI OT loss at home (only win for VMI that season with 1-11 record) that possibly cost us a seeding and extra home game in the playoffs. We ended up losing to Boise St. in the 2nd round on the road by a field goal. We beat Marshall that season, and they went on to win the conference and get a 2 seed in the playoffs because of the loss.

I was there, Haskins carved up our defense all day. We won the playoff opener the next week at 10-1 UNH. I've never bothered to look it up but I would imagine that no college football team has ever lost to a 10 loss team one week and beaten a 10 win team in back to back games.

[bigdaddyg]

Now that I have read some takes when you term it heartbreak Montana might take it. Most pissed off- Stink last year. Wife and I were in Raleigh watching that game before we went to Carter Finley for the state championship game her school she teaches at was playing in. They got mauled and it was freezing. Horrible night all around

[InFor6More]

Lots of great stuff here. Even though Tennessee and Wake were brutal losses, we were still learning to win big games. We can all remember the dark days following that Charleston Southern loss and how we legitimately had to learn to win again as a team and coaching staff. The Penn St. loss was the one though because we had been through the fire as a team and that was our day. I’ve never been critical of Satterfield. He did great things for this program and the coaching staff was great that day but we didn’t quite have the kids prepared to win in the fourth. Of course Jalen doesn’t run out at the one unless the staff instructs him to leading up to that drive and even then how do leave it up to the kicking game given our recent history at that time? The second guessing over the years on the proper way to close out that game has haunted me because if we win that game I think it advances the program forward substantially. It’s hard to be too upset though because of all the success we’ve had since.

[ah59396]

We need to add to the list the 2014 loss to, then FCS Liberty, which prompted questions about Satterfield's coaching ability and David Jackson had to suspend the post-game call-in radio segment. That was a dark day...

I went to Portofinos after the game and people THERE were talking about firing Satterfield. Dark day indeed.

[AppOrange]

Wake Forest a few years ago #1, the stats looked like we Won by 21. Illinois State on the missed extra point, just shocking, STephen FA, man their players gave it to us as we left, and the VMI debacle. Liberty was embarrassing, but looking back i get it with all the players we were sitting.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

1937 loss to Southern Miss in the unnamed bowl game after we had a perfect regular season with a score of 206-0, though there was the 0-0 tie so I guess not perfect perfect.

Then to loss to Southern Miss by 1 in 2014. Uggh.

Then we clearly had their number is 2018 and H. Florence leads to a cancellation. That is the biggest heartbreak of a game that never happened.

[BUTCH1991]

1987 Semifinal against Marshall
2009 Semifinal against Montana
2012 Illinois State - Sickening thud
Every loss to WCU

[AppYosef!]

Thanks for pointing out my mistake on the Ga. Southern score. I have corrected it on the original post. Sorry about that!
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The only reason I corrected you is because you about gave me a heart attack because I was thinking I was perhaps completely confused on the game. I figured if you gave me a heart attack you may give it to someone else. It is no problem now. I'm still alive. lol
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AppStFan1...Sorry for any trauma my error caused. I think the score I originally used was from the 2018 game. Glad you are still with us!!

[AppYosef!]

1987 Semifinal against Marshall
2009 Semifinal against Montana
2012 Illinois State - Sickening thud
Every loss to WCU

That 87 game against Marshall still hurts. I was already trying to figure out how I could get to Idaho for the Nat'l Championship game.

[fjblair]

2009 at Montana. Heartbreaking. Soul crushing. End of an era.

Was going to post the same. You described it perfectly. It still hurts.

The 2019 GSU game was bad, but we never showed up to play and deserved to lose. It was weird.

[WataugaMan]

The 2019 GSU game was terrible, totally unprepared (top to bottom). The worst part was/is we let them do it to us two years in a row! Hope it doesn't rain at The Stink again this year.

[ASUPATCH]

Liberty OT loss in 2014. The final was like 55-48 .They scored on us more than a pool boy with Falwells wife.

[EastHallApp]

I have always disagreed with the criticisms of poor game management against Penn State. Yes we would have had a better chance by running the clock down rather than Moore scoring a TD at that point. But first of all, there's no way you tell him to go down; otherwise you'd just take a knee. And you have to keep in mind the context of how many times our kicking game had cost us big games in recent years before that; that was one year after Wake and two years after Tennessee (among others).

The what-if I think about from that day - besides what if Moore hadn't tip-toed the sideline and stayed in bounds - is the shoestring tackle we just barely missed at the 10 on the ensuing kick return. What if they'd had to go 90 yards instead of 50?

[Appst86]

2018 Penn State. On our last TD, had the safety made the tackle on Jalin Moore or Jalin stepped out of bounds, we would have won the game on a field goal as time expired. Tough, tough loss.

[gsoappfan]

I have always disagreed with the criticisms of poor game management against Penn State. Yes we would have had a better chance by running the clock down rather than Moore scoring a TD at that point. But first of all, there's no way you tell him to go down; otherwise you'd just take a knee. And you have to keep in mind the context of how many times our kicking game had cost us big games in recent years before that; that was one year after Wake and two years after Tennessee (among others).

The what-if I think about from that day - besides what if Moore hadn't tip-toed the sideline and stayed in bounds - is the shoestring tackle we just barely missed at the 10 on the ensuing kick return. What if they'd had to go 90 yards instead of 50?

Some people just enjoy complaining and/or second guessing. If Moore had stepped out rather than scoring a TD and then we ran down the clock and missed a FG, the same people would question why in the world Moore would give up the guaranteed points and leave it up to the kicker to win the game.

I agree with you - the error occurred on the kick return.

[App91]

Surprised no mention of Vanillanova. But that said, the gumroot game from last year. just couldn't get out of our own way and then started pressing. To quote Shane "Footsteps" Falco: Quicksand.