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Is 1990 UCLA the most painful loss in UW football history?
When it single-handedly costs you a national championship, and the opponent is awful, I can't imagine a loss stinging more. Glad I can't remember that one! What were some other heartbreakers?
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Other dishonorable mentions: 1990 Colorado, 1992 Arizona, 1992 WSU (Bledsoe was good, but we? should have stuck with running Darius Turner up the gut), 1995 ND (left their receiver uncovered for an easy TD - FML).
There are many more, but those ones jump out at me at the moment. I'm sure others will chime in with some other steaming turds that should have never happened.
Top 2 worse losses
Too long ago for most folks here
Yes, the wefs scwewed us, but it was such a bullshit call.
2000 at Oregon would be #2 for me. At least that was a good duck team though.
1992 at Arizona and at WSU were not real surprising losses for me. The Huskies were still good but far from great. The defensive team speed we were used to from 1990 and 1991 had mostly moved on, as had Empterman who was irreplaceable as a one man plug on the interior dl. Zona was just real good, was playing at home, and was playing Lambo's defense better than Lambo's guys were.
Miami and Washington tracked each other for two seasons back then. First in 1990. Miami lost in a freak shootout to the Detmer Mormons in Provo and then to No. 6 Notre Dame at their house. If Washington gets one of two losses back, then so does Miami.
At the end of the year, there wasn't a nastier team in the country to play than Miami. The ass kicking they put on a good Texas team in their own backyard is fucking legendary, love 'em, hate 'em, whatever. You don't spot the other guy over 220 yards in personal foul penalties, basically begging the refs to make you lose, and still limit them to a field goal w/o being pretty tuff. There wasn't a team in the country that would have beaten them that day. Every single Miami hater I knew was wearing burnt orange that day, just sure Miami was going to be a no-show because of the 2 losses. One of my favorite games of all tim. That was a pretty good Texas team too.