What is your most disappointing Michigan Bowl Loss or losses
Epstein wild final play lost 54-51
I am most disappointed with the loss to South Carolina last year. It hurts so much because during the RichRod disaster, I dated a South Carolina grad who would talk SO much smack about the SEC's supiority over the B1G. I couldn't say much because Michigan was historically bad during our relationship and the rest of the B1G wasn't doing that great either.
I wanted so badly to win last years bowl game and it crushed me when we lost.
2 great teams that should have won their bowl games.
92, not that they lost to washington, and without everit on the field the oline was a mess for that game but still..... defense was on the field all game long... Injuries that yr imho cost a natty title...
07 rosebowl... seriously, that team was alot better than the showing they had. Still kills me to this day how passive Lloyd was in calling the defense...and how they just let sc throw without going after them at all.....
01 Citrusk vs Tennessee......that hurt but mainly cause they couldn't get out of their own way making mistakes and giving the ball back to tennessee....best part of the entire game is elmer fudd fulmer was tring to run up the score and once our defense got it's feet under them, they couldn't move the ball in the air or on the ground! But was too late by then!
11 Outback Bowl vs Miss st... just the way they lost, no fight, no nothing and total beat down by an okay sec team... The best part to that game watching it, I knew the RR era was over...there was no way Brandon was going to keep him around after that debacle....he wanted improvement and wanted to see how his coach could perform and he didn't. Bye bye rich!
Most difficult for me as a young fan: 1976, 16-14 loss to Purdue. I really thought they were going to go undefeated and win national championship.
Most angry I've been at quality of Michigan play: 2011, Gator Bowl loss to Mississippi State. It was not just the score, it was the culmination of all things I did not like about that 3 year era of Michigan.
Most disappointed by What Should Not Have Been: 2012, loss to Notre Dame where 6 interceptions were given up.
Vs UCLA at the Rose Bowl in 110 degree heat as Navarre Coughed up play after play and UCLA beat us. I sat on the 40 yard line a watched fan after fan drop from hear stroke, then I watched our Wolverines just flop.
Vs OSU after Bo passed really hurt me and made me sad! Still bothers me
Cried like a baby
But as far as games I've been to, it boils down to a couple:
2009 OSU: Terrelle Pryor had a pretty meh day and the game was definitely winnable. Forcier throws 5 picks, 3 in the OSU red zone, and Michigan beats itself to cap off a season meltdown. Typical Rich-Rod football. The loud O-H-I-O chant going through Michigan Stadium that day was one of the most embarrassing moments in sports I've ever personally witnessed, but what probably made me more angry was walking back home, and as I passed the Union, 4 OSU fans got on top of the Union sign, and did the stupid Ohio body spelling, took maybe 20 pictures of themselves doing it, too. And no one did anything about it. Its like we'd resigned ourselves to our fates of forever losing to OSU.
Wisconsin 2010: Watching their offensive line have their way with our maligned defense all frickin day. I don't remember how many straight times Wisconsin ran the ball (was it 27?), but it was embarrassing to say the least.
MSU 2010: So much hype going into the game, Denard's first real test and everyone thinks he'll have another breakthrough, put the team on his back and win the game. Wrong. Denard looks ordinary, out of sync, human. The defense gets manhandled again, Sparty fans talking shit all day.
2011 Gator Bowl: The only thing I enjoyed about my experience in Jacksonville that year was getting drunk on New Years Eve. Everything else was forgettable. Watching a meh SEC team that we could kick the crap out of now just embarrass us up and down he field all day. The team had quit, and RichRod was a dead man walking. In the end, it was for the best, as we got Hoke, but the hard part there was watching the team quit, and seeing the clear divide between fans at the game. I remember being around "fans" that were hoping Michigan would lose, guys holding up signs saying "Come home, Jim." I was almost ashamed to be a fan after that game.
2013 Outback Bowl: Just knowing we could have won this game so easily. A top-10 SEC team wasn't any better than us that day. This game was won and lost off of big plays, something Mattison prides himself on not giving up. Even-matched, hard-fought game, something I'm sure South Carolina fans weren't expecting, but seeing the Clowney play over and over kind of sucks, too. Any man who is unblocked like that can knock someone's helmet off, too. Just by that play, everyone assumes Clowney manhandled Michigan when in reality, Lewan kept him in check for essentially the whole game.
04 and 05 Rose Bowls were the killers for me. Definately a chance to solidify ourselves as solid Rose Bowl teams, but came up just short in 05 and looked pretty bad in 04. I was in Chicago for both of them watching it on a 100ft bigscreen. After 05, I never watched another football game there again.
but for me the worst ones were the season-ending losses (or tie) to Ohio State in '70, '72, '73, and '74. Imagine going 39-1-3 over four seasons and not playing in a single fucking bowl game.
If the Big Ten hadn't had that criminally stupid Rose Bowl-only rule in place, we would have very likely played in one of the other major bowls (Orange or Sugar or Cotton), and I've been convinced forever that Bo would have gotten his first bowl victory in one of them. We didn't match up all that great with the PAC 10 teams, but we would have been perfectly matched with the teams from the Big 8, SEC, or SWC conferences since they all were pretty much option running game teams like us.
I loved that team and I went into the game thinking we would shock the world. i couldnt hate USC more since they were just rollling everyone. it was a crappy game. offense looked terrible.
The Game, 2006
#1 vs #2
on that gut wrenching kick when the Michigan player almost blocked it. That hurt.
Being embarassed by Tennessee hurt to, but that was expected.
listed in this post. Here's to far fewer in the coming years!
Gotta go with the 2007 Rose Bowl. 2006 was a great season. So much excitement and defensive destruction. The ohio game was a heartbreaker, and getting robbed by the damn computers for a NC rematch was confusing and frustrating. Those rough couple of weeks passed, and was really looking forward to dumping USC and putting the "Agony in the Armpit" behind us.
Instead, it was a lifeless display against a Trojan team we made look a lot better than they actually were. Have never felt as empty at 11-2 than that year.
1985 Iowa, 1986 Minnesota, 1987-1990 ND and 2006 OSU.
Probably the Rose Bowl in the early 90s when they lost to that Washington team. Desmond was coming off of his Heisman win and only caught one pass. Washington totally shut Michigan down that day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3adBAzuh0
That 28-14 loss to USC in Navarres last year was also very disappointing.
Look at the rosters. USC had lots of NFL talent, but Michigan was LOADED in that category. Leon Hall, Lamar Woodley, David Harris... Top line NFL defenders. Henne, Hart, Breaston, and Manningham were at least equal to anything USC could put out there.
The material was there. And USC embarrassed Michigan.
It was that game that proved, once and for all, that the struggles of Michigan in the 00 decade were a result of coaching.
In 2006 Carr did not have a rebuilding defense (00) or a poor quarterback (01, 02) or a young roster (04) or major injury problems (05). He had a terrific roster, a healthy roster, and a dream destination in the Rose Bowl.
And his team was crushed by an equal.
1. 2005 Rose Bowl
2. 2007 Rose Bowl
Anytime you lose the Granddaddy of them all, it SUCKS
First two games of the 2007 season. I remember throwing my jersey across the room and not picking it up until the next day after the blocked field goal. Then the Oregon game happened and I barely remember even watching that game. The next week against Notre Dame was the first game I hadn't watched in 5 years. I played football with my buddies instead.
I was 8 years old when Michigan lost a close game to Stanford 13-12. If I remember correctly Michigan was leading this game 12-10 with minutes left but Stanford had a last minute drive and kicked a long game winning FG! I remember feeling quite depressed when school started the next day! Just think if Bo could have won his first Rosebowl in only his 3rd season. No chance for a national championship since number 1 NE played number 2 AL, though if Michigan would have won and NE and AL tied, Michigan could have leap frog both teams. I think NE blew out AL and won the UPI /AP mythical championship.
The '85 team had a great defense, we were NO.2 at IA NO.1. Defense played great against Chuck Long, but long directed a long enough drive for IA to kick the game wining FG!
I thought the '86 team was going to potentially win a National Championship. They were either NO.1 or NO.2 in the country and had to beat the Gophers at home. But Ricky Foggy had a great running and passing game. Michigan almost came back to win after being outplayed for much of the game! That game was a big let down! Though the guaranteed win over OSU on the road by Harbaugh was great!
It was all 3 Rick Leach losses in the Rose Bowl's in the late 70's, dominating teams and we were ranked #1 at some point all 3 years and in '76, we were #1 for most of the year up until that damn Purdue game where we lost 16-14 because we missed a FG at the end of the game yet again.
Another one that really bugged me was the '79 Gator Bowl where we were leading and pretty much dominating a Lawrence Taylor led UNC team when he tackled John Wangler and tore his knee up and we couldn't move the ball after that losing 17-15. We had Woolfolk & AC on that team, I thought for sure that would get Bo his 1st Bowl win, but alas.
the 2007 Rose Bowl bugged me because of the talent we had and after a 3-3 score at the half, USC made adjustments and we, well I don't understand WTF Carr was doing in the 2nd half of that game.
The 2004 Rose Bowl against USC, for as talented as we were that year, that was a special SC team, just loaded, we had no chance IMO.
but the 2007 OSU game. I had the "pleasure" of attending, and it was miserable. It was probably about 35 degrees and raining, and by the 2nd half everyone was so cold and wet that there wasn't much cheering. OSU won 14-3, and it was all around the sloppiest football game I've ever witnessed. I remember one specific play in the 4th quarter where Manningham just dropped a perfect slant throw, and I remember thinking to myself, "My hands are so cold that I can't blame you at all, Mario."
We got totally screwed by the refs and still almost forced it into overtime. If we win that game plus the state game who knows what happens.
It was a very good year don't get me wrong.
I will have to go with the latest bowl. That TD was really horrible but what I will never forget is poor Vincent Smith. That hit really defined the game and I will never forget how bad I felt after watching it originally and then being reminded of our loss over and over and over and over on ESPN