Most disappointing plungerings

[AIRWOLF]

Given the theme of the week, I thought this might be fun(?) to revisit.

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.

 

[doogsinparadise]

The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.

 

[AIRWOLF]

The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.

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"?

Maybe.

 

[TommySQC]

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.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

 

[UWhuskytskeet]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

 

[AIRWOLF]

Good god, how could I have forgotten the prison gang rape in Miami in 2001?

65-7 and not that close.

 

[AZDuck]

Good god, how could I have forgotten the prison gang rape in Miami in 2001?

65-7 and not that close.

ITIWCANRC

 

[AIRWOLF]

Good god, how could I have forgotten the prison gang rape in Miami in 2001?

65-7 and not that close.

ITIWCANRC

???
Sorry, I don't do Soduku.

 

[DugtheDoog]

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.

 

[2001400ex]

The 65-21 game and 41-0 game against Stanford sum up so much of what was wrong with the Sark regime.

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).

 

[AIRWOLF]

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.

Yeah, Aloha Bowl at the end of the 1998 season. Plungering by AFA got Lambo shitcanned.

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.

 

[BearsWiin]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

 

[AIRWOLF]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

Was that the game that ended the Husky win streak against Cal?

 

[BearsWiin]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

Was that the game that ended the Husky win streak against Cal?

No

 

[UWhuskytskeet]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

Was that the game that ended the Husky win streak against Cal?

No

2002 @ Husky Stadium ended the streak (27-34).

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.

 

[AIRWOLF]

2003 @ Cal ...lost 54-7 while needing a win to secure a bowl.

Was that the game that ended the Husky win streak against Cal?

No

2002 @ Husky Stadium ended the streak (27-34).

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.

 

[Tequilla]

1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then

 

[AIRWOLF]

1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then

That was disappointing as fuck, but it wasn't a plungering. Wasn't the final like 12-9 or something ridiculous like that?

Rob Waldrop and Teddy Bruschi did a pretty fair impression of Emtman and Donald Jones that day.

 

[AIRWOLF]

1992 at Arizona ... I never thought UW would ever lose another game up until then

That was disappointing as fuck, but it wasn't a plungering. Wasn't the final like 12-9 or something ridiculous like that?

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.

The Apple Cup a few weeks later was far more upsetting to me personally. Fucking Bledsoe and the snow.