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Most underachieving UW team in modern times?
DerekJohnson
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Most underachieving UW team in modern times? 49 votes
1983 (8-4)
2%
1 vote
1986 (8-3-1)
0%
1993 (7-4)
6%
3 votes
1994 (7-4)
28%
14 votes
1995 (7-4-1)
12%
6 votes
2002 (6-6)
4%
2 votes
2006 (5-7)
0%
2015 (7-6)
4%
2 votes
2019 (8-5)
26%
13 votes
Write-in
16%
8 votes
Comments
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Write-inHow does 2021 Jimmy Lake not make this pole?
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1994 (7-4)
Because that was a team that was probably never destined to win 10-12 gamesEwaDawg said:How does 2021 Jimmy Lake not make this pole?
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1995 (7-4-1)Lambo and either 94 or 95 coming off a natty run and not capitalizing on that success. 95 gets the vote because of bowl eligibility but fuck, even 93 was underwhelming.
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1994 (7-4)
The '94 team beat Ohio State and Miami and still finishes 7-4??CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Lambo and either 94 or 95 coming off a natty run and not capitalizing on that success. 95 gets the vote because of bowl eligibility but fuck, even 93 was underwhelming.
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1994 (7-4)
ThisCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Lambo and either 94 or 95 coming off a natty run and not capitalizing on that success. 95 gets the vote because of bowl eligibility but fuck, even 93 was underwhelming.
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2019 (8-5)I can only go with the ones I watched. 2019 was bad. 2014, despite having Cyler Miles, was also bad.
Edit: 1997. I was so pumped to see UW ranked #3 preseason. What a dud year, especially the way it ended losing to Oregon, plungered by UCLA, and Brock throwing 5 picks in the Apple Cup. -
2015 (7-6)
Pete was impressive in the way he deflected wins in 2014 and 15.RoadDawg55 said:I can only go with the ones I watched. 2019 was bad. 2014, despite having Cyler Miles, was also bad.
Edit: 1997. I was so pumped to see UW ranked #3 preseason. What a dud year, especially the way it ended losing to Oregon, plungered by UCLA, and Brock throwing 5 picks in the Apple Cup. -
Write-inOwen doesn't make the list?
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2019 (8-5)Too many good choices. I thought the 19 team had playoff potential. The floor was to at least be the NY6 discussion. Instead it was Pete's weakest team since his first at UW.
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Write-in1997. Buffet vs Gates bowl. Tui eligibility burned.
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2002 (6-6)I voted on behalf of Dave Samek.
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That was 2021RoadDawg55 said:I can only go with the ones I watched. 2019 was bad. 2014, despite having Cyler Miles, was also bad.
Edit: 1997. I was so pumped to see UW ranked #3 preseason. What a dud year, especially the way it ended losing to Oregon, plungered by UCLA, and Brock throwing 5 picks in the Apple Cup. -
Write-in1997 and it’s not close. They were picked #1 by a decent amount of pundits in the pre season and were loaded. As a young doog that is when I knew without a doubt lambo sucked.
Shehee
Reed
Pathon
Coleman
Kruetz
Olsen
Cleeland
Brigham
Tuiasosopo/huard
Parrish
Chorak
Issa
Towns
And they went 5-3 in conference. I hate lambo so much.
93
94
95
97
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Write-inHey @puppylove_sugarsteel queef something out of that Lambo loving twat or yours.
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1985, 1997
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1995 (7-4-1)Son of a bitch, the mid 90's... There was some big wins and then some head scratchers. If you weren't standing and making noise on 3rd down, you were told to fuck off and leave, now days, not so much.. Tim's have changed
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1994 (7-4)93, 94, 95, 97 and 2014. My god, no wonder I hate myself.
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Somehow this poll passes over the entire Sark era? That was a whole period of epic underachievement.
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Write-in2022
I will fill in the reason in a few months -
Write-in
Maybe not but that wasn't mentioned in the pole.DerekJohnson said:
Because that was a team that was probably never destined to win 10-12 gamesEwaDawg said:How does 2021 Jimmy Lake not make this pole?
It wasn't a stretch to think they should have won 9 games.
They lost five of those nine games.
5/9 is bigger than any season mentioned.
I am glad it happened but the team quit and ended up losing the apple cup in the greatest cuog blowout ever. Lost to Montana. Ore St and Colorado. And a perennially horrible UCLA.
2021 Jimmy Lake was the perfect dictionary definition of under performing.
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1994 (7-4)In retrospect, I think 1997 might have been worse than 1994. It's close.
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1994 (7-4)
Going into 1985 we were ranked #1 by Sports Illustrated, but in looking back that team was not loaded with talent.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:1985, 1997
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Write-inAs was mentioned before, 97 was one of the best rosters we've (?) had outside of 91, Even a back up TE got drafted, and he only had like 11 career catches, but not sure how 96 doesn't get mention also. Sure they won 9 games, but fucking Cory Dillon didn't even start the year as the starter. No way that team shouldn't have been in the RB. Losing to Rick and his soft bunch in the Bowel game, if anyone didn't know Lambo was a shit coach after losing a 21 point 4th quarter lead to SC in 95, it was cemented by then.
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1994 (7-4)The 97 Nebraska game at legendary Husky Stadium was on fire. Probably the last time. The classy Huskers beat the shit out of our boys and twisted Brock's ankle and took our women away when they left
While I had already long given up on Lambo that started me giving up on the whole thing. After a brief flirtation in 2000 it was over. Gone. Plenty or warning and gone
The 97 Nebraska team can be seen on Big 10 Elite even though they were Big 12 then. The Husky game was circled on the schedule because like 91 for the Huskies, it was their chance to show the nation they could beat a top team (allegedly) on the road.
Nebraska from 94 to 97 was totally roided and filled with criminals because Osborne was tired of losing the right way and wanted some national titles. Mission accomplished
Meanwhile our DAWGS were going the other way towards soft fucking loserdom -
2015 (7-6)In 2015 Pete took a playoff roster that even had a better pass rush and more depth at the position than 2016 and won 7 games, with losses to Cal, Utah, and ASU in addition to a pathetic performance against Oregon where he just sat in prevent and punted the entire game.
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1994 (7-4)
That was 2014, 8-6.That season is one of my least favorite ever. I was so stoked to have a proven adult in charge. He took a team that even with Cyler should have gone no less than 10-4 and barely went .500. Booted Peters, had Shaq at RB and Ross at DB. Setting his culture was more important than winning games. With my career choice I need this team to WIN GAMES. This one didn’t do it enough and it killed me.haie said:In 2015 Pete took a playoff roster that even had a better pass rush and more depth at the position than 2016 and won 7 games, with losses to Cal, Utah, and ASU in addition to a pathetic performance against Oregon where he just sat in prevent and punted the entire game.
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I was in first grade. My parents let me watch the BYpUke game while they were clearing out my late grandma's stuff out of her house, probably to keep me occupied. At a young age, I still thought, "What the hell is this?" I don't know who we lost to graduation after the Orange Bowl, but it seemed like an underachieving team coming off a lot of top 20 years.DerekJohnson said:
Going into 1985 we were ranked #1 by Sports Illustrated, but in looking back that team was not loaded with talent.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:1985, 1997
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2015 (7-6)
I'm talking about 2015, where they started Browning and Gaskin and the first game was a pathetic missed fg loss to Boise.theknowledge said:
That was 2014, 8-6.That season is one of my least favorite ever. I was so stoked to have a proven adult in charge. He took a team that even with Cyler should have gone no less than 10-4 and barely went .500. Booted Peters, had Shaq at RB and Ross at DB. Setting his culture was more important than winning games. With my career choice I need this team to WIN GAMES. This one didn’t do it enough and it killed me.haie said:In 2015 Pete took a playoff roster that even had a better pass rush and more depth at the position than 2016 and won 7 games, with losses to Cal, Utah, and ASU in addition to a pathetic performance against Oregon where he just sat in prevent and punted the entire game.
2014 was horrible too because Kikaha had a ton of sacks, Shelton was a top DL in the conference and you had Shaq and Peters.
That team probably wasn't as much of a contender as 2015 since a ton of offense players transferred out and our running backs/qb were awful but only winning 8 games with that schedule was an abortion. Pete lost the Stanford game with the dumb ass fake punt, lost the Arizona game via that fumble, but most losses were pathetically similar to the 2021 team's losses. Not enough players on offense and the one player who could have carried them (Shaq) didn't want to. -
1994 (7-4)
That’s fair. I know they kicked a bunch of winnable games those first two years of Pete but I always looked at 2015 as a rebuilding year. True freshman QB, true freshman RB, a true freshman LT, RS freshman right tackle, Ross was out, sophomore Dante played like a pussy and the defense was replacing a ton of upper class talent.haie said:
I'm talking about 2015, where they started Browning and Gaskin and the first game was a pathetic missed fg loss to Boise.theknowledge said:
That was 2014, 8-6.That season is one of my least favorite ever. I was so stoked to have a proven adult in charge. He took a team that even with Cyler should have gone no less than 10-4 and barely went .500. Booted Peters, had Shaq at RB and Ross at DB. Setting his culture was more important than winning games. With my career choice I need this team to WIN GAMES. This one didn’t do it enough and it killed me.haie said:In 2015 Pete took a playoff roster that even had a better pass rush and more depth at the position than 2016 and won 7 games, with losses to Cal, Utah, and ASU in addition to a pathetic performance against Oregon where he just sat in prevent and punted the entire game.
2014 was horrible too because Kikaha had a ton of sacks, Shelton was a top DL in the conference and you had Shaq and Peters.
That team probably wasn't as much of a contender as 2015 since a ton of offense players transferred out and our running backs/qb were awful but only winning 8 games with that schedule was an abortion. Pete lost the Stanford game with the dumb ass fake punt, lost the Arizona game via that fumble, but most losses were pathetically similar to the 2021 team's losses. Not enough players on offense and the one player who could have carried them (Shaq) didn't want to. -
2019 (8-5)I wasn't alive for the 80s teams so gotta throw those out.
The Lambo years were confounding, and like recent years, a complete miss to dominate a shitty Pac-10 at the time. Outside of ASU in 96 the teams that won the conference were super beatable with the talent UW had on the roster those years.
I assume you left off 1997 because of the injuries? That team legit had a terrible injury run. I'll always remember getting the Athlon season preview that year back when that was a huge deal and the only real college football preseason prognosis you got and seeing Washington at number one.
Hard to call Sark teams underachieving to me because their coach was Sark so what do you expect? And Oregon and Stanford were legit really good most of those years.
Might be recency bias, but I went 2019. That team played like shit other than like 2.5 games and still 4/5 losses were games they should have won. They also got all of the "toughest" games on their schedule at home. That team at the very worst should have went to an NY6 bowl.
