Most disappointing plungerings
There have been a whole shit ton of them over the years, but the ones that stand out most to me were the ones that caught me off guard. There are surely at least a dozen other "great" examples, but these three stick out most to me.
3. 1996 vs. Notre Dame. Huskies went into South Bend ranked #16 to play Notre Dame (#11 at the time) and were brutalized 54-20.
2. 1995 Sun Bowl vs. Iowa. I told a buddy of mine who went to UVA that the Huskies were "going to drop a double nickle" on Iowa. Dawgs got run, badly, by fucking Iowa, well after Hayden Fry had lost it as a coach. 38-18
1. 2011 at Stanford Huskies came into the game 5-1 and ranked #22. They had lost at Nebraska 51-38, but I told myself that game had been closer than the score. "Sure, Holt's defense has issues, but they are getting them figured out, " I lied to myself, quite blatantly. All time plungering: 65-21.
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The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.
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More than the inevitable three game mid-season skids or the repeated trips to the desert that looked like footage from the Hills Have Eyes that had to be cut because they were "just too much"?doogsinparadise said:The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.
Maybe.
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2008 Oklahoma. UW would have lost 100 out of 100. Didn't think I would ever see UW with zero shot.
2011 @ LSU. Really thought UW had a shot to pull the upset. Fuck I'm an idiot.
2012? @ Oregon State. No Teeth Price? No worries. Montana was better than Heaps anyway. Fucking ASJ had a drop for the win. Winners win. Losers lose.
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2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.
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Good god, how could I have forgotten the prison gang rape in Miami in 2001?
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ITIWCANRCAIRWOLF said:Good god, how could I have forgotten the prison gang rape in Miami in 2001?
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Not that the game meant anything anyway and I was only in middle school but didn't Air Force plunger us? in the Hawaii (or Oahu) Bowl the year after we plungered Saban's sparty team? Those mid-late 90s teams all kinda bleed together for me.
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Sark was like the game of golf. He had a few good shots (USC, Nebraska bowl game, beating Coogs) to keep me coming back. But really I am just a shitty golfer (every other game Sark coached).doogsinparadise said:The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.
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Yeah, Aloha Bowl at the end of the 1998 season. Plungering by AFA got Lambo shitcanned.DugtheDoog said:Not that the game meant anything anyway and I was only in middle school but didn't Air Force plunger us? in the Hawaii (or Oahu) Bowl the year after we plungered Saban's sparty team? Those mid-late 90s teams all kinda bleed together for me.
Perhaps poetically, Air Force also administered the first beating of the Willingham Era, at Husky Stadium. I recall it being a nice day and the fly-over by the F15s was cool. That was the best thing that could be said of the next 4 years of Husky football. -
UWhuskytskeet said:
2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.
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Was that the game that ended the Husky win streak against Cal?BearsWiin said: -
2002 @ Husky Stadium ended the streak (27-34).BearsWiin said:
For anyone that wants a trip down plunger lane, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Washington_Huskies_football_team and work your way up to this season. -
There were some particularly painful ones in the Lambo years too, mainly because we hadn't yet gotten acclimated to expecting the worst.UWhuskytskeet said:
2002 @ Husky Stadium ended the streak (27-34).BearsWiin said:
For anyone that wants a trip down plunger lane, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Washington_Huskies_football_team and work your way up to this season. -
1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then
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That was disappointing as fuck, but it wasn't a plungering. Wasn't the final like 12-9 or something ridiculous like that?Tequilla said:1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then
Rob Waldrop and Teddy Bruschi did a pretty fair impression of Emtman and Donald Jones that day. -
Turns out it was 16-3. Against that Arizona defense a 13 point gap might as well have been four touchdowns.AIRWOLF said:
That was disappointing as fuck, but it wasn't a plungering. Wasn't the final like 12-9 or something ridiculous like that?Tequilla said:1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then
Rob Waldrop and Teddy Bruschi did a pretty fair impression of Emtman and Donald Jones that day.
The Apple Cup a few weeks later was far more upsetting to me personally. Fucking Bledsoe and the snow.
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It takes me 2.5 hours to drive up for the games. I was in my seat less than 1.5 hours and was swilling beer at Schultzy's before end of halftime.doogsinparadise said:The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.
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Funny, I did that from 1990 earlier this week with my duck friend. He's only 24 years old so all he knows is the Ducks are good. Doesn't know anything about the pick. But I had to explain why I still think we get plungered by Oregon.UWhuskytskeet said:
2002 @ Husky Stadium ended the streak (27-34).BearsWiin said:
For anyone that wants a trip down plunger lane, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Washington_Huskies_football_team and work your way up to this season. -
I was at the the Clink for that game. After the first quarter my friend leans over to me and says "I feel the losing setting in again. Don't you?" I didn't disagree and eight more losses later we? had successfully lost 19 of our last 22 games. Christ.AIRWOLF said:
Yeah, Aloha Bowl at the end of the 1998 season. Plungering by AFA got Lambo shitcanned.DugtheDoog said:Not that the game meant anything anyway and I was only in middle school but didn't Air Force plunger us? in the Hawaii (or Oahu) Bowl the year after we plungered Saban's sparty team? Those mid-late 90s teams all kinda bleed together for me.
Perhaps poetically, Air Force also administered the first beating of the Willingham Era, at Husky Stadium. I recall it being a nice day and the fly-over by the F15s was cool. That was the best thing that could be said of the next 4 years of Husky football. -
1997 classy Nebraska. Top ranked (almost) Washington at home in the lid lifter and we're off sanctions and we're back and the place is rocking and the crowed is crazy and the Huskers run a 70 yard full back dive and we get boat raced.
A not so classy Husker twists Brock Huard ankle, the back one that he needed to throw off of, and Tui burns his redshirt.
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So many fond memories. So hard to choose. At least in the '97 Nebraska game Pathon arrived. I believe it was Christian Peters who pulled the Gaines on Huard...not that I remember that game after 19 years... btw, @CokeGreaterThanPepsi stadium was electric, pre-game was amped. Awesome September day.
I was at Haas during the 54-7 game. Literally the first game I've ever seen where a team quit on the 2nd play of the game.
SC 45 UW 0 at halftime in the Colesium in 2008 was special. Randomly crushing beers in the parking lot next to Shane P and Tommy Smith was a highlight.
Stanford 65 UW 7 was special and a good miss. I had a chance to attend and passed. I was so dooged up I wanted to watch it on TV.
JJ Stokes murdering UWs secondary was the first heartbreak I remember while living in NorCal.
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Jesus. Fuck.AEB said:
JJ Stokes murdering UWs secondary was the first heartbreak I remember while living in NorCal.
I had put that shit out of my mind.
190 yards receiving and 4 TDs for JJ Stokes that day. It sure felt like more.
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And then the bastard goes and beats possibly the most stacked Stanford Cardinal team in forever. Only other team to beat them was the title game runner ups.doogsinparadise said:The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.
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It was Hook Great Grant Wistrom.AEB said:So many fond memories. So hard to choose. At least in the '97 Nebraska game Pathon arrived. I believe it was Christian Peters who pulled the Gaines on Huard...not that I remember that game after 19 years... btw, @CokeGreaterThanPepsi stadium was electric, pre-game was amped. Awesome September day.
I was at Haas during the 54-7 game. Literally the first game I've ever seen where a team quit on the 2nd play of the game.
SC 45 UW 0 at halftime in the Colesium in 2008 was special. Randomly crushing beers in the parking lot next to Shane P and Tommy Smith was a highlight.
Stanford 65 UW 7 was special and a good miss. I had a chance to attend and passed. I was so dooged up I wanted to watch it on TV.
JJ Stokes murdering UWs secondary was the first heartbreak I remember while living in NorCal.
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I like Oregon in this one.
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2016 @ Oregon
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But seriously the 2001 Miami game and it isn't close. We were one year removed from a semi legitimate argument at a spot in the natty game. Earliest I ever turned a UW game off.
