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alphadog
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 03:54 GMT
11 points
Good quiz. Love the fact that ESPN uses the horse race where the phrase "Upset" came from.
SportsGuy21
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 04:19 GMT
1 point
FCS Appalachian State beating Michigan in the Big House should be on this list...period.
thebishop
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 05:06 GMT
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@SportsGuy as an Ohio State fan i could not want to agree with you more... but not a chance. that was just the beginning of their downfall. Also Appalachian State was a very good FCS team. That game (also a season opener, not a championship of any kind) does not compare to the greatness of any of these games.
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SportsGuy21
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 05:39 GMT
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It absolutely belongs on this level because it had NEVER happened to that magnitude in college football history. I don't care how good App State looked vs other FCS teams or how poorly Michigan began to look vs FBS teams. The fact that App State had about half the amount of scholarship players and normally play in front of crowds around 1/10 the size of the Big House. On top of all that, although Michigan was falling, they still had Mike Hart, Chad Henne, and future #1 pick Jake Long that year. And while I agree that the listed upsets were memorable, NO ONE will forget App State beating Michigan. This was a once in a near-lifetime upset.
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SportsGuy21
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 05:48 GMT
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More perspective: "We'll still be talking about it a few decades from now. Especially in the locker rooms of every huge underdog, where they'll say, "If Appalachian State can beat Michigan, why can't we shock the world, too?" -Pat Forde, ESPN; ... "For everything that Boise State’s historic Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma said about the new era of college football, Appalachian State just trumped it ten-fold." -Dan Wetzel, Yahoo!
eleven
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 07:09 GMT
6 points
The fact that Page 2 put Nova in there but not Chaminade/UVA demonstrates how awful this list is.
bmo1616
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 10:37 GMT
0 points
Thank you ESPN for sparing me the Giants/Pats game and UConn/George Mason game, phew.
y2jdilemma
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 11:23 GMT
2 points
OK. I knew Man o' War was the horse that got beat...and I couldnt remember the name of the horse that beat him. Because Im a frickin moron!
rockgolf
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 16:22 GMT
8 points
Let's be honest, people: How many got Ben Hogan in Golf when trying a different Hogan in Wrestling?
tikibarber
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 18:19 GMT
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yeah i go to app state, its the biggest college football upset of all time
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addicted1
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 19:13 GMT
-5 points
I went to all of these events they were great. Sincerely, "That guy that whatever you are talking about he says he was there"
epigone
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:29 GMT
0 points
I'm with sports guy, Appalachian State's upset over Michigan was pretty epic.
BillyMumphrey
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:58 GMT
-1 points
@rockgolf: Totally thought it was gonna The Rock vs. Hogan!
budleno
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:13 GMT
3 points
I'm a huge Michigan fan, and while there is not doubting that game was an epic bumble on our part. I would like to pose a question, however, without preseason rankings (which artificially elevate tons of teams) is that really as big of an upset as it appeared to be at the time (not to say that either way it wouldn't be a massive upset)?
yankeespurs101
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:05 GMT
3 points
MIracle on Ice
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yankeespurs101
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Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:06 GMT
-11 points
Who cares about Villanova and Georgetown game. Georgetown whupped Villanova;s but this season.
teddy109768
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:01 GMT
1 point
thebishop you never said that it had to be championship match and sportsguy complain to ESPN about your Appalation State over Michigan problem
btroup1
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 01:27 GMT
3 points
Kudos for those who said Chaminade over UVA. For those pining for App St and providing us with perspective, try this on for size: There were about 300 D1 schools in 1984. You know all those awful teams the big conferences fatten up on? Chaminade is the D2 bait that ensures the Prairie Views and Longwoods of the world get at least one win. Virginia and Ralph Sampson were #1 in D1. So if we're comparing games to open a season, the 1AA champ beating a mediocre team pales in comparison.
thesauce
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 02:15 GMT
7 points
1969 was not a good year to be a Baltimore sports fan...
BamaGuy
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 02:27 GMT
1 point
everyone else is so busy taking about Appy State i'd like to point out: i'm a huge golf fan but i have to admit, i've never heard of Jack Fleck in my life. beating Hogan in the US Open was huge but it hardly resonates with anyone now. if you were gonna include a golf upset i probably would have gone with Y.E. Yang over Tiger Woods last year or possibly even Larry Mize over Norman and Ballesteros at the '87 Masters.
btroup1
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 02:28 GMT
2 points
sauce - The above doesn't even include the Knicks beating the (then) Baltimore Bullets that year (not an upset, but a continuation of your theme)
RetepAdam
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 06:14 GMT
1 point
No Chaminade/Virginia? Also, did anyone else try typing in "The Rock" or "Stone Cold" for #9? lol
bsd987
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 08:04 GMT
1 point
Should be stated this list is the better part of a decade old.
saban4pres
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 21:04 GMT
-2 points
App State over #5 (at the time) Michigan.... it didn't mean much but it's still the biggest upset ever
ISBLP
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 22:06 GMT
3 points
Biggest college football upset of all time: Centre 6, Harvard 0. Harvard had not been beaten in over 2 years, and at the time, Centre had around 100 students (not football players... students).
littlekeed
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 00:14 GMT
0 points
Why is the 100 win New York Mets winning the World Series a massive upset? It's baseball too, where all time great teams only win 60% of the time anyways. In terms of unlikeliness, there is probably a "bigger" upset on a typical college football Saturday than a baseball series between two very good teams.
EyeKanFly
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 18:28 GMT
0 points
great quiz, it would be a nice touch if you said which team/person/horse won and which one was upset.
geowiz85
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Mar 4th, 2010 at 00:25 GMT
2 points
i dont get how everyone thinks that app st-michigan upset was so big, it was a season opener and michigan dropped the following game. i cant believe no one has mentioned the Giants over the undefeated Patriots (a game for a championship where one team had already proven its dominance for a season, which isnt applicable for that michigan upset)
MMayes
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Mar 4th, 2010 at 00:34 GMT
0 points
The other golf possibility would be assistant Bushwood Country Club greenskeeper Carl Spackler winning the Masters championship as a Cinderella boy would be a good addition.
SportsGuy21
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Mar 4th, 2010 at 02:00 GMT
0 points
@geowiz: are you kidding me? when you exit from your underground layer you will hear of this phrase refering to the NFL: "Any Given Sunday". I am literally laughing while writing this. The Giants and Pats doesn't even compare to App State vs Michigan. Were the Pats favored, yes. Did most think they would win, yes. Did ANYONE think twice about the fact that App State was even playing Michigan that day? No. You are comparing fourth tier athletes vs top tier athletes at Michigan. Pats and Giants, ya, they are pretty damn similar in talent.
lftyg33
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Mar 8th, 2010 at 03:29 GMT
1 point
when there was five seconds left, in a desperation effort, i thought of hulk hogan for the wrestling. i typed in "hogan" and i was right...for golf :-)
ETUB
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Aug 2nd, 2010 at 18:52 GMT
0 points
sportsguy21 no, i agree with geowiz85 michigan sucked that year and i'm not denying that it was impressive but i mean honestly who cares about appalachian state. villanova beat temple last year in football and no one talks about that and temple was better last year than michigan was the year appalachian state beat them. btw appalachian state lost last year and everyone said villanova could never win the fcs championship but they did (i go to villanova btw) so obvisouly glad that villanova georgetown is on there. and a lot of people care that it's on there actually considering villanova was the lowest seed ever to win the championshiop or even make it that far and especially since they won against the patrick ewing led hoyas. ps appalachian state sucks.
ncAsu
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Sep 29th, 2010 at 07:21 GMT
1 point
ETUB, really no one cares about appalachian state? comparing temple to michigan is like comparing villanova to App state in the sense that people are surprised when they find out that temple and villanova actually have a football team. yes congratulations on your championship last year because i know that is your come back.The Temple record in 2009 was 9-4, and the Michigan record in 2007 was 9-4. Any difference in the Big Ten and MAC? dont say anything about villanova beating temple as a comparison to App state beating number 5 Michigan.
burns
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May 23rd, 2011 at 21:26 GMT
1 point
i said russia instead of the soviet union. do you think you could accept russia?
SwiftyBeagle
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Mar 17th, 2012 at 02:21 GMT
1 point
i feel that instead of Fleck/Hogan, it should be Francis Ouimet defeating Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in the 1913 U.S. Open
abernier3
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Aug 31st, 2012 at 01:58 GMT
1 point
Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson has to be #2...Tyson was a DESTROYER at that time...Douglas had NO chance...except he won...
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