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#1 2017-08-29 13:48:25 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

Nugget's Ghostbuster (1627)
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Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

Penn St, California, Texas State, MS State(2015) or South Carolina?

I will go with Penn State. Coming off the Liberty Bowl win in 97 and ranked #21 to start the season that lopsided loss was beyond disappointing....especially with Keith Jackson calling our game on ABC.


"There was a great deal of character on that field today. They are for real, no doubt about it. This was no fluke." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

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#2 2017-08-29 13:52:06 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:

Penn St, California, Texas State, MS State(2015) or South Carolina?

I will go with Penn State. Coming off the Liberty Bowl win in 97 and ranked #21 to start the season that lopsided loss was beyond disappointing....especially with Keith Jackson calling our game on ABC.

I'm with you. Seeing the deference with which Bower treated that senile old pederast was nauseating back then, and only moreso in hindsight. That game completely killed our momentum and set the stage for a pretty nauseating season overall.


Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.

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#3 2017-08-29 14:03:35 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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State in 2015 wasn't that bad. We put up enough of a fight to where it was obvious we were much improved. Are you talking about State in 2014? That was the game we lost 49-0.

Texas State was an eye-opener in that it showed we were in for another long year. Like others, I thought it'd be a quick fix and we'd win 7-8 games in Monken's first year. Not so.

South Carolina takes the cake for me. Nationally televised game on ESPN to open the 2010 college football season and we just get smoked. I know SoCar ended up being pretty good (won their division and beat Bama), but it was embarrassing as hell at the time.


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#4 2017-08-29 14:23:00 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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beagle wrote:

State in 2015 wasn't that bad. We put up enough of a fight to where it was obvious we were much improved. Are you talking about State in 2014? That was the game we lost 49-0.

Texas State was an eye-opener in that it showed we were in for another long year. Like others, I thought it'd be a quick fix and we'd win 7-8 games in Monken's first year. Not so.

South Carolina takes the cake for me. Nationally televised game on ESPN to open the 2010 college football season and we just get smoked. I know SoCar ended up being pretty good (won their division and beat Bama), but it was embarrassing as hell at the time.

I was approaching it from openers where we should have won or should have been more competitive. Everyone knew we were not going to be good in 2014 so that beating was expected. I guess you could add Nebraska in 2012 as another option but we were in transition and I actually felt like we were doing well for a half in that game all things considered.

We ended up played 3 QB's in the Nebraska opener as well......


"There was a great deal of character on that field today. They are for real, no doubt about it. This was no fluke." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

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#5 2017-08-29 14:32:10 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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I actually had somewhat high expectations in 2014. Didn't expect to win the opener, but consider that, seven games into the season, we were 3-4. Then we collapsed completely. I went to that last home game against UAB, and that was as depressing a spectacle as I've ever witnessed on a football field. To lose that badly to a team we'd destroyed the year before was not encouraging.


Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.

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#6 2017-08-29 14:49:55 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Hopefully, insert BDR, Kentucky 2017 won't make this list

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#7 2017-08-29 14:54:26 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:

Penn St, California, Texas State, MS State(2015) or South Carolina?

I will go with Penn State. Coming off the Liberty Bowl win in 97 and ranked #21 to start the season that lopsided loss was beyond disappointing....especially with Keith Jackson calling our game on ABC.

It was a great trip though. Huge shitty old stadium and bad game.

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#8 2017-08-29 19:59:44 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Penn State...killed all hope of having turned the corner.  It was all downhill from there.


Still sleeping with a Dixie Darling!

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#9 2017-08-31 09:11:27 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Back in 93 we opened with Pitt on Thursday night ESPN.  We hyped that game and season like never before.   We lost.  HUGE disappointment.

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#10 2017-08-31 09:26:25 - Worst USM Opener Past 20 Years......

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Any opening game USM lost.

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