Founded in honor of Railroad Tycoon James Vanderbilt who gifted them loads of money. Also a private school where the people who made money sent their kids to school. Football was for the elite back in the day. All that leads to Vandy being great at football in the early days
Never understood why these insanely rich programs in heavily football areas of the country just do not care about the sport. Now with NIL, some of these schools have endowments 20-50x the size of P4 universities. Last I looked, which was quite some time, Harvard had 50 billion.
Because sports success raises money and student application flow, neither of which a school like Vanderbilt needs. They get to have the image they want and still get the check from the SEC yearly.
I think it’s because they want to protect their image by saying how they put their cash to academics over sports. They could easily put together a great basketball team and for way less though
The habits/tastes of the super rich changed that's why.
They invest in the "rich people" sports like Rowing and Tennis now.
Football used to be an elitist sport but it's not as much anymore.
Real Sports did a segment a few years ago on how some elite East Coast preparatory schools had to recruit kids from poor inner city areas to play football because—although the parents and alumni are huge boosters and fans of football—they don't want their own kids getting CTE. I feel like this is a reason why a bunch of major schools gave up on football
[Dan McGugin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McGugin) retired.
Fielding Yost's former player and brother-in-law, dominated Southern football for most of his tenure and held his own against Yost a couple of times. 197-55-19. 11 conf titles. 1 perfect 9-0 season, 3 more lossless seasons.
After him we had some HOF coaches but they never really clicked at Vandy or stayed. Ray Morrison went 84-44-22 at SMU but struggled at Vandy. Red Sanders ("winning isn't everything, it's the only thing") did ok at Vandy and then left for UCLA - went 66-19-1 and won a NC. Bill Edwards was great at Western Reserve and Wittenberg, but was break-even at Vandy in between those stops.
Jess Neely, a former player, was inducted into the HOF as a coach 20+ year tenure at Rice. Wallace Wade, a former player and assistant, went to Bama when McGugin turned them down. He won 3 NCs there in 8 years, then went to Duke and went 110-36-7 with 6 conference titles.
Early football is full of weird shit like that. There were some schools that had legitimately good coaches who actually had solid athletes and understood the game because they learned from top guys or from people who invented the rules. Then you had other schools who basically had glorified student managers as "coaches" and those teams would be similar to rec league guys now. They would show up because football was a new thing and no one had any idea what was going on. You get a lot of weird ass beatdowns because one team understood the rules and the other just kind of shows up for gameday and gets smacked.
With time that kind of competitive advantage disappeared and private schools predominantly fall behind as they tend to not have the raw alumni/resource base to fund programs. Obviously some like Notre Dame and USC do fine, but by and large private schools have struggled to keep up.
The worst part is that uk wasn't a bad team and that score makes the game look closer than it actually was. I'm just shocked that no one handed kentucky a worse loss when they were a legitimate laughing stock.
Pretty much. People forget that the sport more-or-less started in the Ivies and the amount of death became a real national concern during Teddy Roosevelt’s admin. W/ way less concept of athletic scholarships, the “nerds” were just the best of society beating down intelligent farmboys at that point.
Robert Reese Neyland happened.
Neyland was hired specifically to eliminate the Vanderbilt problem, and he did it so well they’ve never recovered.
That and they will not relax their academic standards to allow for top football talent to enter the school.
Its the first of our 4.
Two were before the existence of the AP and the other two we finished 2nd in the AP.
GT has never spent even a single week #1 in the AP.
some more context on the season
There were 6 undefeated teams: GT, Pitt, Ohio State, A&M, Williams College, and Washington State
Pitt were the defending national champions and coached by Pop Warner at the time. GT and Pitt had 1 common opponent - Penn
GT beat Penn 41-0 and Pitt beat Penn 14-6
Heisman offered Warner a match at the end of the regular season but Pitt declined
Per Wikipedia which I never saw before today apparently GT was originally supposed to play Oregon for the 1918 (1917 season) Rose Bowl but the matchup was canceled due to college age men joining WWI - game was instead played between Mare Island Marines and Camp Lewis Army
Pitt did end up facing GT the next season (1918) and beat them 32-0 so maybe they should have taken Heisman up on his offer
I believe it is also the earliest a team from the southeast claims a national title. Alabama's historic Rose Bowl win didn't come until 1925
"While at Georgia Tech, he was also the president of the [Atlanta Crackers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Crackers) baseball team." - Wikipedia
He was president of the what now??
I wonder who has the most national championships without ever being ranked AP number 1
Obviously for awhile it was impossible. But now maybe it’s possible again? 10 seed goes on a run and AP doesn’t put them at number 1?
They were pretty good the year before too, they beat Cumberland 222-0..still the biggest beat down ever I think.
Georgia Tech ran a relatively low 29 offensive plays, all rushes, for 501 total yards (17.3 yards per play). Cumberland finished with negative-28 total yards.
Cumberland did not gain a first down...
Cumberland also pretty much just fielded a team for that game alone, as GA Tech wouldn’t let them out of the game contract.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game
> Cumberland had disbanded its football program the previous year but was still obligated to play this game against Georgia Tech. The Engineers' head coach, John Heisman, had been the coach of Georgia Tech's baseball team when it was defeated 22–0 by the Bulldogs earlier in 1916, and was looking to avenge that game. Heisman insisted that the Bulldogs fulfill their obligations to play the game and threatened legal action if Cumberland backed out. Cumberland tasked George E. Allen, its baseball captain, to assemble a football team for the game; he recruited his fraternity brothers and students from Cumberland's law school to play in Atlanta.
I mean they were coached by the legendary John Heisman himself, a man so good at what he did that they named a trophy after him.
“ Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.” — John Heisman
And he's not the only Georgia Tech coach to achieve that, as we also have the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year award. So basically the highest honor you can achieve as a player and the highest honor you can achieve as a coach, both named after Tech coaches.
Same coach that beat Cumberland by a million. The (John) Heisman.
He was pretty vengeful.
Obligatory link to a classic YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4
Along with Florida like the Gator below mentioned, Tennessee's is also very wrong. I wonder how many of these are incorrect?
Edit: Georgia's is wrong as well, they lost to North Carolina 55-0 in 1900 and 60-0 to USC in 1931.
Edit 2: Ole Miss is also wrong. They lost 91-0 to Vandy in 1915.
Edit 3: As is Mississippi State, who lost 74-0 to Houston in 1965.
Edit 4: Auburn is wrong. They lost 64-0 to North Carolina in 1892.
Edit 5: And finally, LSU is wrong. They lost 58-3 to Florida in 1993.
That team so bad Oklahoma fell forward for 4 yards each play. It was the first year of my life rc slocum wasn’t on the sidelines. As bad as that team was they still beat Baylor 73-10 which is objectively hilarious.
People don't remember how bad the pre-Briles Baylor teams were. To think they got blown out by another team having that much of a down year is almost unheard of these days.
Oh yeah Baylor historically is just awful. 2003 was the first season with a new coach who replaced a coach that went an impressive 9-36. The new coach was significantly better racking up an eyebrow raising 18-40 record before Baylor moved on
My family had Texas season tickets in that era and every time Baylor would visit Austin, there was this very audible groaning when Baylor would score points. They were so bad that the expectation was always to shut Baylor out.
OU got the ball late in the 3rd quarter with a 77-0 lead and ran a 14 play, over 18 minute drive, that ended with a turnover on downs inside the A&M 5.
> that ended with a turnover on downs inside the A&M 5
Pretty much intentionally - the OL just stopped blocking altogether once they got inside the 10.
Not quite for Arkansas State. The 73-0 loss to Oklahoma this past year was the 3rd biggest loss.
The 2nd biggest loss was an 82-0 loss to Central Arkansas in 1922 (ASU would go on to not score a point all season and the closest game they played was a 42-0 loss to Arkansas-Monticello).
The biggest loss was a 95-0 loss, also to Central Arkansas, in 1937 (ASU would go on to not score a point all season... EXCEPT for a 16-7 win over Tennessee JC).
Don't worry though, Arkansas State's biggest WIN in program history was 101-0 over Central Arkansas in 1917 (ASU would finish with a winning record, beating Memphis and tying with Ole Miss, but still losing to Ouachita Baptist 40-0)
I keep thinking about our first conference game against each SEC member when they’ll put up a graphic comparing the two programs. Just for them to see who they’ve let into their conference.
Reminder that OU took a knee at 1st and goal early in the 4th
Reminder that Texas A&M had more penalty yards (63) than offensive yards (54) and more punts (12) than first downs (3), none in the second half. The Aggies (4-6, 2-4) didn't even cross their own 40 all game.
Walk-ons easily marching the length of the field only for OU to purposefully not score by just running up the middle while the offensive line didn't even bother to block was one thing - the A&M defenders dancing and gyrating after the tackles was another.
Same here! My dad and I stayed the entire damn game and watched every second. I think it was also raining the whole time? We were salty about losing in College Station the previous season so it was especially sweet.
Up until the "game" at the end of the year this year, FSU was *also* in that group, with the worst loss being by 49.
Edit: Looks like the twitter account got this wrong, much like they got Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Auburn, and LSU wrong. Georgia lost 55-0 to North Carolina in 1900 and 60-0 to USC in 1931.
Something something COVID year, I guess. I remember the start of the game. We got the ball first, immediate first down pass, then on 3rd and 6 we snapped the ball over the QBs head, recovered and punted. Then they scored a TD on their opening drive and I was ready for a bloodbath. But then we came back and had a long drive and kicked a short FG the next possession, and I was like “Oh, are we in this?”.
We weren’t in this. They scored a TD the next possession, we snapped the ball past the kicker on another short FG attempt, and I don’t *think* we ever crossed midfield again after that.
Was really expecting it to be four. Strangely relieved that we had a loss worse that the beat downs you put on us under Stoops.
Of course I guess Route 66 was worse.than any of those too.....
Vandy showed no mercy to anyone, apparently.
Edit: Slightly unrelated, but Alabama has given up 52 points only four times in program history. 3 of those were to teams from Tennessee. Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Sewanee.
The other was to Auburn.
Big Ten Juggernaut UChicago
Imagine if that nerd Robert Maynard Hutchins wasn't around, UChicago could be making that Power 5 money, although then we probably wouldn't be in the Big Ten so thanks Mr. Hutchins.
Would be interesting to know which program owns the most blowout wins over other programs. I see Nebraska over Oklahoma in '97. I bet Nebraska and Oklahoma have several others over other programs. Would be an inte stat.
This list would be so much better if Texas didn’t get their asses kicked by Chicago in 1904, and instead one of them ass kickings by Stoops’ teams was there instead.
Tech hasn't been part of the conference for 60 years, and still has more SEC titles than Kentucky, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt COMBINED.
I remember we had to buy that game on PPV cuz we weren’t living in OK at the time. Boy was my dad simultaneously happy and pissed. I swear it was like $60 or something and the game was over so quickly lmao
Perhaps in Neyland, but Tennessee's biggest loss in Knoxville was a 56-0 loss to Kentucky in 1893, which was their season opener.
That Tennessee team would go on to lose at Wake Forest 64-0, at Duke 70-0, and at North Carolina 60-0.
Them listing Tennessee's worst loss as Vandy in 1909 is very much wrong.
Points wise, the 2020 loss may be it for Kentucky.
Actual program wise, was the 2012 blowout loss to Vandy like 40-0. Almost immediately after that game our coach Joker Phillips, an Alum, was fired.
This tweet is laughably bad. It's wrong about Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Auburn, and LSU.
That's HALF of the teams in the graphic. Truly terrible.
I remember that 77-0 ANM loss pretty vividly. Media blowing up Oklahoma all year talking about being the greatest team ever until they shit the bed against Kansas State, then again against LSU in the Sugar Bowl.
Vandy in the 1900s ... what happened to them?
Vanderbilt was a Death Star back then
Now they are just that pesky design flaw in the Death Star
No, now they're the R2 unit that the rebellion can stuff the plans into without any pesky FOIA request getting in the way.
Somehow… Vanderbilt returned.
The nerds took over and refused to let go
Founded in honor of Railroad Tycoon James Vanderbilt who gifted them loads of money. Also a private school where the people who made money sent their kids to school. Football was for the elite back in the day. All that leads to Vandy being great at football in the early days
Correction but just college in general was for the elites only.
Who tf is James Vanderbilt? It was founded by a $1M donation from Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon. source: my alma mater and Google
Never understood why these insanely rich programs in heavily football areas of the country just do not care about the sport. Now with NIL, some of these schools have endowments 20-50x the size of P4 universities. Last I looked, which was quite some time, Harvard had 50 billion.
Because sports success raises money and student application flow, neither of which a school like Vanderbilt needs. They get to have the image they want and still get the check from the SEC yearly.
Plus no one wants Super Vanderbilt returning to run up the score on everyone
I think it’s because they want to protect their image by saying how they put their cash to academics over sports. They could easily put together a great basketball team and for way less though
The habits/tastes of the super rich changed that's why. They invest in the "rich people" sports like Rowing and Tennis now. Football used to be an elitist sport but it's not as much anymore.
Haha, I wish the tennis part was true
Golf.
Real Sports did a segment a few years ago on how some elite East Coast preparatory schools had to recruit kids from poor inner city areas to play football because—although the parents and alumni are huge boosters and fans of football—they don't want their own kids getting CTE. I feel like this is a reason why a bunch of major schools gave up on football
Their namesake’s fortune dried up? Haha
[Dan McGugin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McGugin) retired. Fielding Yost's former player and brother-in-law, dominated Southern football for most of his tenure and held his own against Yost a couple of times. 197-55-19. 11 conf titles. 1 perfect 9-0 season, 3 more lossless seasons. After him we had some HOF coaches but they never really clicked at Vandy or stayed. Ray Morrison went 84-44-22 at SMU but struggled at Vandy. Red Sanders ("winning isn't everything, it's the only thing") did ok at Vandy and then left for UCLA - went 66-19-1 and won a NC. Bill Edwards was great at Western Reserve and Wittenberg, but was break-even at Vandy in between those stops. Jess Neely, a former player, was inducted into the HOF as a coach 20+ year tenure at Rice. Wallace Wade, a former player and assistant, went to Bama when McGugin turned them down. He won 3 NCs there in 8 years, then went to Duke and went 110-36-7 with 6 conference titles.
What's the opposite of a revenge tour? It's been 115 years of that.
Early football is full of weird shit like that. There were some schools that had legitimately good coaches who actually had solid athletes and understood the game because they learned from top guys or from people who invented the rules. Then you had other schools who basically had glorified student managers as "coaches" and those teams would be similar to rec league guys now. They would show up because football was a new thing and no one had any idea what was going on. You get a lot of weird ass beatdowns because one team understood the rules and the other just kind of shows up for gameday and gets smacked. With time that kind of competitive advantage disappeared and private schools predominantly fall behind as they tend to not have the raw alumni/resource base to fund programs. Obviously some like Notre Dame and USC do fine, but by and large private schools have struggled to keep up.
Nerd schools vandy and tech were going crazy before black people were allowed to play lmao. Honestly Kentucky is the most impressive loss here.
The worst part is that uk wasn't a bad team and that score makes the game look closer than it actually was. I'm just shocked that no one handed kentucky a worse loss when they were a legitimate laughing stock.
Pretty much. People forget that the sport more-or-less started in the Ivies and the amount of death became a real national concern during Teddy Roosevelt’s admin. W/ way less concept of athletic scholarships, the “nerds” were just the best of society beating down intelligent farmboys at that point.
Robert Reese Neyland happened. Neyland was hired specifically to eliminate the Vanderbilt problem, and he did it so well they’ve never recovered. That and they will not relax their academic standards to allow for top football talent to enter the school.
If this is a viewable stat in the new NCAA game, I'm doing a Vandy run and scheduling all Big Ten teams as well.
They Blew the Admiral
I’d guess the same thing that happened to powerhouse Princeton
1917 Georgia Tech must have been a juggernaut. Won a game 83-0 and 68-7 in the same season😬
they were 9-0 and picked as national champs by some random selectors they also beat Carlisle 98-0 that year
Random selection is my preferred method of choosing national champions.
Its the first of our 4. Two were before the existence of the AP and the other two we finished 2nd in the AP. GT has never spent even a single week #1 in the AP.
some more context on the season There were 6 undefeated teams: GT, Pitt, Ohio State, A&M, Williams College, and Washington State Pitt were the defending national champions and coached by Pop Warner at the time. GT and Pitt had 1 common opponent - Penn GT beat Penn 41-0 and Pitt beat Penn 14-6 Heisman offered Warner a match at the end of the regular season but Pitt declined Per Wikipedia which I never saw before today apparently GT was originally supposed to play Oregon for the 1918 (1917 season) Rose Bowl but the matchup was canceled due to college age men joining WWI - game was instead played between Mare Island Marines and Camp Lewis Army Pitt did end up facing GT the next season (1918) and beat them 32-0 so maybe they should have taken Heisman up on his offer I believe it is also the earliest a team from the southeast claims a national title. Alabama's historic Rose Bowl win didn't come until 1925
"While at Georgia Tech, he was also the president of the [Atlanta Crackers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Crackers) baseball team." - Wikipedia He was president of the what now??
Even better the wiki page for the team says it might have actually come from the meaning you’re implying
Much different time, then. Crazy.
That is interesting because we finally played in the Rose Bowl in our second national championship season...1928 (1929 Rose Bowl).
I think this streak still has staying power.
I wonder who has the most national championships without ever being ranked AP number 1 Obviously for awhile it was impossible. But now maybe it’s possible again? 10 seed goes on a run and AP doesn’t put them at number 1?
I’m guessing one of the Ivy League schools
Yale has the most natties and literally has 0 #1 AP weeks. Only 3 weeks top 5!
They were pretty good the year before too, they beat Cumberland 222-0..still the biggest beat down ever I think. Georgia Tech ran a relatively low 29 offensive plays, all rushes, for 501 total yards (17.3 yards per play). Cumberland finished with negative-28 total yards. Cumberland did not gain a first down...
Cumberland also pretty much just fielded a team for that game alone, as GA Tech wouldn’t let them out of the game contract. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game > Cumberland had disbanded its football program the previous year but was still obligated to play this game against Georgia Tech. The Engineers' head coach, John Heisman, had been the coach of Georgia Tech's baseball team when it was defeated 22–0 by the Bulldogs earlier in 1916, and was looking to avenge that game. Heisman insisted that the Bulldogs fulfill their obligations to play the game and threatened legal action if Cumberland backed out. Cumberland tasked George E. Allen, its baseball captain, to assemble a football team for the game; he recruited his fraternity brothers and students from Cumberland's law school to play in Atlanta.
Fun fact though, Cumberland actually had more yards passing.
1 yd would have done it!
I mean they were coached by the legendary John Heisman himself, a man so good at what he did that they named a trophy after him. “ Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.” — John Heisman
And he's not the only Georgia Tech coach to achieve that, as we also have the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year award. So basically the highest honor you can achieve as a player and the highest honor you can achieve as a coach, both named after Tech coaches.
Cool that two of the pioneers in the sport coached at GT and UGA with Heisman and Pop Warner.
Same coach that beat Cumberland by a million. The (John) Heisman. He was pretty vengeful. Obligatory link to a classic YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4
Their coach was some chump named Heisman, doubt you've heard of him
Kentucky lost to Florida 7-73 in 1994 and 0-65 in 1996
Spurrier just loved to kick the shit out of UK.
and Peyton Manning (0-3) "You can't spell Citrus without U-T"
Florida also lost 75-0 to Georgia in 1942, during the war
Along with Florida like the Gator below mentioned, Tennessee's is also very wrong. I wonder how many of these are incorrect? Edit: Georgia's is wrong as well, they lost to North Carolina 55-0 in 1900 and 60-0 to USC in 1931. Edit 2: Ole Miss is also wrong. They lost 91-0 to Vandy in 1915. Edit 3: As is Mississippi State, who lost 74-0 to Houston in 1965. Edit 4: Auburn is wrong. They lost 64-0 to North Carolina in 1892. Edit 5: And finally, LSU is wrong. They lost 58-3 to Florida in 1993.
Ooooh, self burn. Those are rare!
The most Kentucky comment you’ll see.
The best part about the A&M game? It was 77-0 in the *third* quarter. We essentially took a knee for the entire fourth quarter
That team so bad Oklahoma fell forward for 4 yards each play. It was the first year of my life rc slocum wasn’t on the sidelines. As bad as that team was they still beat Baylor 73-10 which is objectively hilarious.
People don't remember how bad the pre-Briles Baylor teams were. To think they got blown out by another team having that much of a down year is almost unheard of these days.
Baylor was Big 12 South team you liked to see on your schedule.
Oh yeah Baylor historically is just awful. 2003 was the first season with a new coach who replaced a coach that went an impressive 9-36. The new coach was significantly better racking up an eyebrow raising 18-40 record before Baylor moved on
My family had Texas season tickets in that era and every time Baylor would visit Austin, there was this very audible groaning when Baylor would score points. They were so bad that the expectation was always to shut Baylor out.
OU got the ball late in the 3rd quarter with a 77-0 lead and ran a 14 play, over 18 minute drive, that ended with a turnover on downs inside the A&M 5.
When OU took a knee on 1st and goal, the crowd boo'd lol
> that ended with a turnover on downs inside the A&M 5 Pretty much intentionally - the OL just stopped blocking altogether once they got inside the 10.
If you listen closely you can still hear Mike Lupica bitching about OU running up the score in that game.
The sound of his not watching the game, then writing a bitchfest article about sportsmanship is still hilarious and infuriating.
That is still my second-favorite OU game attended (behind the 2000 natty of course). I can still feel the schadenfreude.
That game is the best thing OU has ever done imo :)
Wait, I thought A&M lost because they ran out of time.
Honestly should've just went for the record
Nice list. I’d love to also see biggest blowouts in the last 60 years though
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Would still be the same answer for you guys anyway
Was an unbelievable game
Yes let's not
Biggest blowout I've ever seen in person was in 1993 A&M 73 Mizzou 0
https://x.com/CFBTalkDaily/status/1791202058256736587
Oklahoma is a bully confirmed
Florida Southern woke up feeling some type of way that day Jesus Christ
I'm almost positive it's the other way around E: unless the joke is they were feeling like the bubonic plague. My b
A&M’s biggest victory and worst loss had the same score, 77-0/0-77
A&M's biggest victory was a 110-0 win over Daniel Baker in 1920.
That doesn’t count, it was only one guy /s
Everyone’s is from so long ago but then Mizzou is at 2011 lol
No thanks
If I had a nickel for every time Oklahoma beat somebody 77-0, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
I'm more concerned about OU's absolute obliteration of the whole state of Arkansas
Might be why we never got to play them again recently.
103 seems a lot unnecessary
They did more damage than the Germans that year.
Hello Bison
Meet you after chapel for a chicken biscuit
That 2003 game wasn't even as close as the 0-77 score suggests it was. Y'all could have put up 100+ if you wanted to.
Oddly…I get a dopamine rush when you mention it.
Oh my
Oklahoma being responsible for three sec teams’ largest losses sure does warm the heart.
I'm pretty sure they're responsible for both of my flairs' biggest losses
Not quite for Arkansas State. The 73-0 loss to Oklahoma this past year was the 3rd biggest loss. The 2nd biggest loss was an 82-0 loss to Central Arkansas in 1922 (ASU would go on to not score a point all season and the closest game they played was a 42-0 loss to Arkansas-Monticello). The biggest loss was a 95-0 loss, also to Central Arkansas, in 1937 (ASU would go on to not score a point all season... EXCEPT for a 16-7 win over Tennessee JC). Don't worry though, Arkansas State's biggest WIN in program history was 101-0 over Central Arkansas in 1917 (ASU would finish with a winning record, beating Memphis and tying with Ole Miss, but still losing to Ouachita Baptist 40-0)
Damn, we shouldn’t have pulled the starters
Makes me curious how many ou owns throughout cfb. Someone smarter than me hopefully chimes in
I know I’m not supposed to like this but I do
Here's a reason that might help: It's another data point against the Aggies who say UT and OU will struggle in the SEC like they did.
I keep thinking about our first conference game against each SEC member when they’ll put up a graphic comparing the two programs. Just for them to see who they’ve let into their conference.
Reminder that A&M allowed 77 by the third quarter
Reminder that OU took a knee at 1st and goal early in the 4th Reminder that Texas A&M had more penalty yards (63) than offensive yards (54) and more punts (12) than first downs (3), none in the second half. The Aggies (4-6, 2-4) didn't even cross their own 40 all game.
The OU line was told not to block, and the RBs were told not to score and the Aggies D still couldn’t tackle.
And OU's band played Alabama's fight song to rub Fran's nose in it
Wait...who taught the band something besides Boomer Sooner?
Walk-ons easily marching the length of the field only for OU to purposefully not score by just running up the middle while the offensive line didn't even bother to block was one thing - the A&M defenders dancing and gyrating after the tackles was another.
I was at that game! Realizing the clock was running soccer-style in the 4th quarter was the most glorious schadenfreude that I will ever experience.
I was in my living room listening to my dad yell at the TV and i can still remember that scene vividly like it wasnt 21 years ago!
Same here! My dad and I stayed the entire damn game and watched every second. I think it was also raining the whole time? We were salty about losing in College Station the previous season so it was especially sweet.
Imagine losing a game by 50+ points, couldn’t be us 😎
Up until the "game" at the end of the year this year, FSU was *also* in that group, with the worst loss being by 49. Edit: Looks like the twitter account got this wrong, much like they got Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Auburn, and LSU wrong. Georgia lost 55-0 to North Carolina in 1900 and 60-0 to USC in 1931.
I reject your reality and choose to live in mine
I didn’t know we had the best worst loss. By far in most cases. Just another fun fact to store away.
Guess you never met early 1900s Vanderbilt
We lost 47-0 to them in 1901 so only 1 point away from our worst ever blowout loss. Combined score of 4 games between 1900-1915 Vandy: 143 Georgia: 0.
We lost to USC 60-0 in 1931. Either this is different conditions than I understood, or the data here is incorrect.
I was at that Oklahoma blowout! Tom Osborne's 250th win. Fuck, those were the days.
None in the last 20 years and then you have Kentucky
It's not even correct either, we lost to #1 Florida 65-0 in 1996
Poor Kentucky. :(
Something something COVID year, I guess. I remember the start of the game. We got the ball first, immediate first down pass, then on 3rd and 6 we snapped the ball over the QBs head, recovered and punted. Then they scored a TD on their opening drive and I was ready for a bloodbath. But then we came back and had a long drive and kicked a short FG the next possession, and I was like “Oh, are we in this?”. We weren’t in this. They scored a TD the next possession, we snapped the ball past the kicker on another short FG attempt, and I don’t *think* we ever crossed midfield again after that.
Oklahoma clapping everyone’s cheeks
I like how we're responsible for 3
Was really expecting it to be four. Strangely relieved that we had a loss worse that the beat downs you put on us under Stoops. Of course I guess Route 66 was worse.than any of those too.....
Same
Vandy showed no mercy to anyone, apparently. Edit: Slightly unrelated, but Alabama has given up 52 points only four times in program history. 3 of those were to teams from Tennessee. Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Sewanee. The other was to Auburn.
🎵🎶 The Sooners beat us - in nineteen-eighteen The score was zero - to a hundred and three 🎵🎶
This is wrong. We lost 74-0 to Houston in 1969.
All I see is Georgia is the only school in the SEC that has never been beaten by 50
We lost to USC 60-0 in 1931. I'm not sure why they don't have that here.
Them dawgs truly is hell.
Yet :) Oh hey Kirby Smart is calling me....
Big Ten Juggernaut UChicago Imagine if that nerd Robert Maynard Hutchins wasn't around, UChicago could be making that Power 5 money, although then we probably wouldn't be in the Big Ten so thanks Mr. Hutchins.
What I’m seeing is Vandy, Oklahoma, and Georgia Tech know how to play SEC football 🤷♂️
Bring Tech back to the SEC cowards!
WE WANT VANDY
Would be interesting to know which program owns the most blowout wins over other programs. I see Nebraska over Oklahoma in '97. I bet Nebraska and Oklahoma have several others over other programs. Would be an inte stat.
you know i’m something of a navy fan myself
SC couldn’t even muster the 17 that time
Let’s not forget Navy (who was 2-6-1 against FBS teams that year) also ended their undefeated season in 1984 when they were #2 in the country
Let's actually.
And yet we beat y'all the next week
Imma tell my kids it was the Chicago Bears Texas lost to
The fact that, out of 16 teams, Vandy and GA Tech make a combined 7 appearances is pretty wild ngl
10 of the 16 are from 3 teams….
This list would be so much better if Texas didn’t get their asses kicked by Chicago in 1904, and instead one of them ass kickings by Stoops’ teams was there instead.
UCLA would be there instead. 66-3 in ’97.
Georgia Tech owns the SEC
GT 🤝 Oklahoma
Tech hasn't been part of the conference for 60 years, and still has more SEC titles than Kentucky, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt COMBINED.
No wonder the SEC doesn't want Georgia Tech
Was not expecting Georgia Tech to be on here three times considering they haven’t been in the SEC since the 60’s?
2 of those 3 came from when Heisman was their HC, the year after their infamous 222-0 slaughter of Cumberland College.
Tech was a beast back in the day.
Pump this chart into my veins
John Heisman did not GAF about sportsmanship sheesh
I remember we had to buy that game on PPV cuz we weren’t living in OK at the time. Boy was my dad simultaneously happy and pissed. I swear it was like $60 or something and the game was over so quickly lmao
I don’t miss those times
Fun Fact Tennessee losing to Georgia 41-0 in 2017 was Tennessee biggest blow out at home in school history.
You lied to me about that being a fun fact.
Perhaps in Neyland, but Tennessee's biggest loss in Knoxville was a 56-0 loss to Kentucky in 1893, which was their season opener. That Tennessee team would go on to lose at Wake Forest 64-0, at Duke 70-0, and at North Carolina 60-0. Them listing Tennessee's worst loss as Vandy in 1909 is very much wrong.
Yeah, but that’s Old Testament Tennessee. We only pay attention to the New Testament.
Points wise, the 2020 loss may be it for Kentucky. Actual program wise, was the 2012 blowout loss to Vandy like 40-0. Almost immediately after that game our coach Joker Phillips, an Alum, was fired.
Kentucky lost 65-0 to #1 Florida in 1996, so not even points wise is 2020 the worst blowout.
Dang, Navy's got it in for South Cackalacky. Wrecked their undefeated season in 1984 too.
1917 must have been a hell of a year to be a Georgia Tech fan
Was really hoping UCLA 66 Texas 3 would make this list.
It’s certainly the one people alive today remember.
Well done, Midshipmen.
Hey I’m just glad ours wasn’t the [63-17 beatdown from 2003](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/233262579/clemson-south-carolina)
Chicago lol
What the *fuck* was Vandy on before WW1, damn
This tweet is laughably bad. It's wrong about Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Auburn, and LSU. That's HALF of the teams in the graphic. Truly terrible.
Oklahoma and Vandy are here to fuck shit up.
UCHICAGO MENTIONED 🙌🙌
.......aaaand of course, we are the worst. Awesome.
Goddammit.
1904 Vanderbilt..... Nice
A majority of these are against Vandy, Georgia Tech or Oklahoma. Lol
Early 1900s vandy was not to be trifled with.
It’s still so fucking weird seeing ou and Texas in the sec
Those scores in the 1900s were crazy. 103 to 0 is a crazy score
Hey, I don't want to click on this
I already knew ours. I’ll never forget one of our D-Lineman celebrating a sack when we were down 77
1906 lol
Go Vandy!
Florida beat Kentucky worse than that in 1994.
I remember that 77-0 ANM loss pretty vividly. Media blowing up Oklahoma all year talking about being the greatest team ever until they shit the bed against Kansas State, then again against LSU in the Sugar Bowl.
Vandy 78-0 on Bama is hard to believe
So that’s why we haven’t played Oklahoma in decades
1906 aside, seeing a 78-0 victory for Vandy over Bama is crazyyyy.
There’s 2 teams in that picture that don’t belong just yet