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Post by JOCAZTEC on Aug 11, 2012 10:13:58 GMT -8
In football?
One.
HAM Tax
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Post by monty on Aug 11, 2012 10:16:48 GMT -8
While the rest of you are still thinking about it, I'll tell 'ya. It was Dennis Shaw(QB) with the Buffalo Bills. WINNER WINNER! CHICKEN DINNER! He played there with a then-notable Running back and future murderer. Thurman Thomas? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 15:20:38 GMT -8
yes, football. no, not 1
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Post by mySTRAS on Aug 11, 2012 15:32:19 GMT -8
Drew Bledsoe... another honor stolen from Marshall by an un-worthy QB.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 15:41:29 GMT -8
I think three. Arizona back in like 1977, Wyoming in 1996 and AFA two years ago. That's all that come to mind, as pathetic as that is. BTW, the Throwin' Samoan was Jack Thompson. Sonny Sixkiller was a Native American. Oh and Lam Jones and Jam Jones had to be the most overrated duo in college football history. No surprise they attended UT since there's a little known NCAA rule that Texas and ND must have at least one super overrated player per year. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 16:49:54 GMT -8
I think three. Arizona back in like 1977, Wyoming in 1996 and AFA two years ago. That's all that come to mind, as pathetic as that is. . I'll say 4 or 5.... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 17:02:52 GMT -8
I think three. Arizona back in like 1977, Wyoming in 1996 and AFA two years ago. That's all that come to mind, as pathetic as that is. . I'll say 4 or 5.... After I posted, I remembered one I had forgotten. However, I'm now pretty sure Hot Airizona is wrong so I'll stick with three. |
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Post by 78aztec82 on Aug 11, 2012 18:35:15 GMT -8
I remember stuffing a ranked Hawaii team and also beating ranked Wyoming in the 90s.
I believe we beat AFA when they were ranked. Can't remember which year. 2009?\\
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Forgot the big win over Iowa State when I was a senior, '81.
so probably, 6-7 wins/
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 9:22:51 GMT -8
I remember stuffing a ranked Hawaii team and also beating ranked Wyoming in the 90s. I believe we beat AFA when they were ranked. Can't remember which year. 2009?\\ ---------memory add------------- Forgot the big win over Iowa State when I was a senior, '81. so probably, 6-7 wins/ You're right about Hawaii. As for Iowa State, they might have been ranked at some point that year but I doubt they finished the year that way. Same with AFA a couple years back. I don't think they finished the season ranked. I guess the answer depends on the question. If we're talking about beating teams that finished ranked, I'd change my answer to THREE thanks to you. If we're talking about "ranked at the time," we shouldn't be. After all, how good could a team be if our beating them precipitates their fall from the polls? Hawaii was a good call. I'd forgotten about that one. I just checked and we blew them out 52-28 during a season in which they otherwise lost just one game and beat Illinois in the Holiday Bowl. The 1979 Arizona team couldn't possibly have been ranked. As you said earlier, John, we beat them about three times in the seventies but always when they were mediocre or worse. That said, it should be remembered that until 1969, we were playing at the DIAA level. Fact is, under the circumstances Aztecs football was a powerhouse. In fact, I'd say that 1969-1979 football run was similar to our 2002-2012 basketball run, excluding a couple of bad hoops seasons in the middle. Hopefully we can keep it going in basketball and not seriously regress like we did in football. BTW, I doubt we've ever beaten a team which finished in the top 25 at the end of the season. Maybe BYU once when they went on to a bowl game upset but I'd have to think about that one. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 9:40:24 GMT -8
BTW, in hindsight, our victory over BYU in 1988 might have been the biggest upset in school history. They were really good that year while we were otherwise just miserable:
1988-San Diego State (WAC)
9/3 @ UCLA (10-2) L 6 59
9/11 vs. *Air Force (5-7) W 39 36
9/17 @ Stanford (3-6-2) L 10 31
10/1 vs. Oregon (6-6) L 13 34
10/8 vs. *Wyoming (11-2) L 27 55
10/15 vs. *Hawaii (9-3) L 30 32
10/22 @ *Colorado State (1-10) L 7 13
10/29 @ *Utah (6-5) L 20 41
11/5 vs. *Brigham Young (9-4) W 27 15
11/12 @ *Texas-El Paso (10-3) L 7 58
11/19 @ *New Mexico (2-10) W 18 10
3-8-0
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Check it out. That year's loss to CSU was a bit of a premonition to 1996.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 9:46:12 GMT -8
BTW, I doubt we've ever beaten a team which finished in the top 25 at the end of the season. Maybe BYU once when they went on to a bowl game upset but I'd have to think about that one. No, I think we've beaten three teams that finished in the top 25: Florida State Hawaii Wyoming Since Andre has apparently just asked the question and then left the rest of us to figure it out without giving us the answer, I'm pretty sure you're correct about that. Speaking of Andre, here's a Wyoming, Who Cares? moment. In 1996 when an 8-3 SDSU team beat the Cowboys by just four points, Wyoming otherwise lost just once, by a FG to BYU in the WAC championship game. That year BYU went 14-1 and finished the season with a win over 9-3 K-State in the Cotton Bowl. Bottom line is that was a very, very good Wyoming team. Know where they went bowling? Nowhere. Edit: That said, we shouldn't gloat. Fact is, SDSU hasn't finished the season ranked since 1977 and hasn't beaten a team which finished the season in the top 25 in the last 15 years. How awful is that? |
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Post by monty on Aug 12, 2012 10:20:15 GMT -8
Aztec football is the biggest underachiever in college sports. Maybe we'll actually grow a sack and go 4-0 OOC
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 10:50:13 GMT -8
The answer is 7 Florida State in 1977 41-16 Iowa State in 1981 52-31 Byu in 1988 27-15 Hawai'i in 1992 52-28 Cal in 1994 22-20 Wyoming in 1996 28-24 Air Force in 2010 27-25 Our record vs. ranked teams? 7-62  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 11:11:29 GMT -8
I never would have guessed Iowa State was ranked when we played them. I graduated that June and was so engulfed in my horrible job that I had absolutely no life and don't remember a thing about that football season.
Checking up on it, THAT game was also a huge SDSU victory. ISU finished just 5-5-1 but it's obvious they must have been decimated by injuries on offense since they scored just 32 points in losing their final four games. In the first six, they tied a good Oklahoma team and beat good Iowa and Missouri teams, losing only to us. And we ran up 52 on them despite the fact they didn't give up more than 31 the rest of the season.
Just why did we fire Claude Gilbert again?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 11:41:18 GMT -8
John, doncha think Coryell left for NFL bucks? I can't believe he didn't at least quintuple his income by going to the Cardinals.
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Post by myownwords on Aug 12, 2012 11:51:54 GMT -8
Before anyone goes ballistic on me, understand that (taking everything into account) I consider Gilbert to have been our best HC ever. I see some of your reasoning for that opinion about Gilbert, however, displacing Coryell from the top is questionable. But you raise a very provocative question: Why didn't Coryell take him to the pros? Did he know something we did/do not? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 12:46:13 GMT -8
I presume you're counting teams who were ranked on the day we played them as opposed to ranked at the end of that season That is correct. When the teams lined up. Can't control what happens after. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 13:17:15 GMT -8
The Aztecs have had 5 Freshman recieve All-American recognition. Can you name them?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 13:26:30 GMT -8
I see some of your reasoning for that opinion about Gilbert, however, displacing Coryell from the top is questionable. But you raise a very provocative question: Why didn't Coryell take him to the pros? Did he know something we did/do not? Well I might have been hasty in "displacing" DC. It's just that people forget what CG did here, which in terms of wins that mattered was more than what DC did. Granted DC built the thing. Gilbert's .697 winning % is second only to Saint Don's .840 (wow!) and came ahaginst stiffer competition. |
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