What is the most humiliating loss in Colorado football history?

[leftybuff]

I thought about that one but after the game was over I was happy. I knew they couldn't keep HaLk around after that.

+1 even bohn could not leave the corn studded turd floating in the bowl any longer after that one......

 

[Duff Man]

Montana State. Signaled the start of a rough era.

 

[Daaah]

It was pretty embarassing when we got worked at cal just after joining the pac 12.

 

[CVilleBuff]

Fresno. Having a WAC/MWC program work you like that (let's be honest, they could have gone over 100 with ease. Only scoring 69 was literally generous on their part) is utterly humiliating beyond anything else.

 

[boulder77]

I said Texas because that was teh conference Championship game. We were the Northern Conference Champions. And got gang raped on national TV. Not sure if Drake was on tv. Not sure how good we were in 1980. But..in a conference championship game? losing by 67?

Horrid.

This is the correct answer.

 

[BuffUp]

This is the correct answer.

man $25 seats...amazing how times have changed

 

[seattlebuff]

I said Texas because that was teh conference Championship game. We were the Northern Conference Champions. And got gang raped on national TV. Not sure if Drake was on tv. Not sure how good we were in 1980. But..in a conference championship game? losing by 67?

Horrid.

Yep. This was the exact moment that we went from being relevant nationally, being in the conversation for pre-season rankings, etc. This one game was where all ties to the McCartney glory days were severed. All those challenges that people talk about with coaching at CU (fan/alumni apathy, hostile administration/faculty, state limits on contracts, etc.), those were all magnified once we lost national relevance. Set us back 20 years ... or more.

 

[rynobuff]

Yep. This was the exact moment that we went from being relevant nationally, being in the conversation for pre-season rankings, etc. This one game was where all ties to the McCartney glory days were severed. All those challenges that people talk about with coaching at CU (fan/alumni apathy, hostile administration/faculty, state limits on contracts, etc.), those were all magnified once we lost national relevance. Set us back 20 years ... or more.

Maybe that is true symbolically, but that game itself was not the reason for our fall from grace (firing Barnett (because of the scandal), then hiring Hawkins, etc). While extremely humiliating... we were in the Big 12 Championship against maybe the greatest player and team in CFB history (debateable but both VY and the 2005 UTerus team are in the top 10 all time). 2012 Fresno game was against a WAC team... and a culmination of 6-7 years of horrible football... it was the pinnacle of humiliation if you ask me. Followed by Drake, then the kansas disaster, then the Mizzou blowouts.

 

[Jerry]

Fresno, and it isn't even close IMO. Maybe because I wasn't around when we were losing to Drake. Texas wasn't embarrassing to me for a couple reasons----One, they won the national title that year. Two, the only thing most of us remember about that game is Joel Klatt getting blown up now.

Klatt got ****ed up. Has never been the same since.

 

[aik]

Though I was a fan of the school for many years before, CU FB was out of my TV market so they weren't really on my radar until 2001 or so. In that time I believe Toledo was the worst game I've ever seen. It was a weeknight so I had people calling me asking "What's up with your team?" with it being the only option on TV.

 

[FlatironsBuff]

This all reminds me of why things could get ugly this week. DeRuyter eased up...he was public about wanting the CU job when open...and since he didn't get it, he might just love to make a point that we should have hired him. We might see the 100 if he can get there this time. (Still happier than a pig in **** with MM though)

 

[Uncle Ken]

I dunno, there's a case to be made for all of them.

But I'd like to list last year's victory against Washington State as the most embarrassing victory, followed closely by Eastern Washington.

 

[FLounder]

How about that 80 point Oklahoma game in the 80's?

 

[CUBUFF80]

How about that 80 point Oklahoma game in the 80's?

But we scored 42, I was at that game and it was actually very entertaining.

Drake was the worst, no question.

 

[DBT]

I was way more embarrassed by the Montana State game than the ut game

 

[Alfred91]

This all reminds me of why things could get ugly this week. DeRuyter eased up...he was public about wanting the CU job when open...and since he didn't get it, he might just love to make a point that we should have hired him. We might see the 100 if he can get there this time. (Still happier than a pig in **** with MM though)

I dunno about that. There's no denying our kids quit within the first five minutes of the game. While there's no doubt that DeRuyter called the dogs off, there's also no doubt that the situation was in large part due to our ****ty coaching staff. We may not win this game, we may not even be within 3 TDs, but I don't see any way this game gets that far out of control.

 

[96BUFFS5504]

I voted Fresno. The team quit, so I quit too. Quit going out of my way to watch, listen, or otherwise follow the team. I was doing something different with my fall Saturdays. I've endured a lot of the losses on that list, but none made me abandon what was a 20+ year fall tradition like the Fresno game.

I've obviously resumed my tradition in light of recent happenings.

 

[krom]

I voted for other (SacState) purely for personal reasons as my wife went to SacState and barely a day has gone by where she hasn't reminded of that game. We will likely never play SacState again. I will never get revenge. She will always have that on me. She won the marriage. **** Coach Water Bottle. That is why it is the worst loss in history.

 

[Waldo]

Bailer 04 or 05 in Waco

 

[CVilleBuff]

Bailer 04 or 05 in Waco

'03. Cost us a bowl

 

[J.R. Ewing]

I voted for other (SacState) purely for personal reasons as my wife went to SacState and barely a day has gone by where she hasn't reminded of that game. We will likely never play SacState again. I will never get revenge. She will always have that on me. She won the marriage. **** Coach Water Bottle. That is why it is the worst loss in history.

That sucks man. Only thing worse would be if we played them back to back seasons under Embree and lost like the Drake series.