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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4391918, member: 289"] Notable Downs: 11/1/80 SU 6 Pittsburgh 43 Maybe the best team we ever played. Marino on one side and Hugh Green on the other. We were no match for them. 9/18/82 SU 10 Illinois 47 Jim Ridlon: “This is goona be a great game Illinois took that opening kickoff and marched right down the field and scored and now SU has the ball and you can see they are really trying very hard!” 9/22/84 SU 0 Rutgers 19 the storm before the clam: the week before the Nebraska game, we kept fumbling the ball over the Scarlet Knights and they gleefully took advantage of it. We now had Nebraska right where we wanted them. 9/6/86 SU 17 Mississippi State 24 and 9/20/86 SU 17 Virginia Tech 26 Two stillborn ‘revenge’ games from the year before. 10/7/89 SU 10 Florida State 41 The end of a 17 game Dome winning streak. I remember a Seminole watching a punt hit the ground, SU players surrounding it, waiting to down it and then the Nole scoops it up and runs for a touchdown. 10/14/89 SU 12 Penn State 34 Those two wins over the Lions in 1987-88 sure were fun but we haven’t beaten them since. 11/23/89 SU 17 West Virginia 24 The Mountaineers gain revenge for ’87. Afterwards, in a sleet storm, the person with the flashlight at the bus line gets mixed up and directs Manley people to the left and Skytop people to the right, then reverses. I get stuck in the culvert in front of Slocum with mobs of confused people going in different directions. This is days after all those people got crushed to death in the English soccer stadium and it was a scary situation. I stepped out onto the road just as a bus was pulling in and just got out of the way in time. 10/12/91 SU 20 East Carolina 23 We’d been undefeated going down to Florida State where we went down hard, 14-46. We had a 20-10 halftime lead on the Pirates, (admittedly their best team ever at 11-1). A scoreless second half costs us the game. 9/19/92 SU 12 Ohio State 35. We’d just beaten these guys eight months before in the Hall Of Fame Bowl. Kirk Herbstreit has a big game. It was one of those games where we kept stubbornly running the near-side option into the waiting arms of the defenders. You can’t block the sideline. 11/21/92 SU 10 #1 Miami 16 Chris Gedney gets tackled at the 3 yard line. 10/30/93 SU 0 West Virginia 43 The ‘Neers’ run for 457 yards, the most ever against SU. This came a week after a 0-49 loss at Miami. Lee Corse demanded on the air that the network never put SU on again. 9/3/94 SU 29 Oklahoma 30 We almost land another big fish only to lose because Kdevin Johnson, who was redshirting, gets call for a celebration penalty because he hopped up and down when we scored what appeared to be the winning TD and accidentally hopped onto the field. We kicked off from our 20 and they got a chance to kick the winning field goal. 9/9/95 SU 24 East Carolina 27 A week after Donovan McNabb’s successful debut in a road upset of North Carolina, we have an instant replay of the 1991 game. 9/7/96 SU 10 North Carolina 27 The Tar Heel’s revenge to open the season. 11/30/96 SU 31 U of Miami 38 The worst call in the history of everything: Our kick returner gets leveled trying to catch a punt and the refs claim the ‘Cane who did it was “blocked into” our guy. Film shows the block was in the other direction. We wind up in a three way tie for first in the Big East. The Canes and the Hokies, (who we had crushed, 52-21), get major bowl gams and we’re in the Liberty Bowl. 8/30/97 SU 31 NC State 32 A week after blowing out Wisconsin 34-0 on national TV in the kickoff classic and dreaming of a national title, freshman Dee Brown, instead of letting us win it with a chip-shot field goal, decides to play ‘hero ball’ and stick the ball across the goal line. It gets knocked away and we lose in OT. 9/5/98 SU 33 Tennessee 34 A ‘uniform violation’ and a very late interference call from 40 yards away give the Vols a chance to kick the winning field goal – and then go on to win the national championship. 9/18/99 SU 13 Michigan 18 Jubilation T. Nunes’ 35 yard retreat into the end zone. At the end we have to try for a touchdown rather than a field goal because of the safety. 10/21/00 SU 14 Virginia Tech 22 Michael Vick still sees Dwight Freeney in his dreams but Dwight injured his spleen and had to miss the second half as a 14-0 lead evaporates. 10/5/02 SU 24 Pittsburgh 48 This ends the 16-1-1 streak and starts a 3-17 streak. The Panthers led 3-48 at one point. 10/9/04 SU 13 Florida State 17 If the great Walter Reyes hadn’t fumbled going across the goal line at the end of the first half… 9/9/06 SU 13 Iowa 20 The infamous seven plays from the 1 game. 10/13 08 SU 14 Rutgers 38 I believe this was the infamous “walk away laughing form the handshake” game. 9/6/08 SU 28 Akron 42 The game that sealed G-Rob’s fate. He saw ‘flashes’. 9/13/08 SU 13 Penn State 55 The week “The Express“ opened at the landmark. 9/1/12 SU 41 Northwestern 42 Jerome Smith thought the pass he’d dropped was a forward pass and didn’t bother falling on it, just in case it wasn’t. It wasn’t. 10/5/13 SU 14 Clemson 49. It’s not 1995 anymore. 9/9/16 SU 28 Lamar Jackson 62. Lamar jumps over a guy on the way to the end zone. Eric Dungey tries the same thing and can’t quite make it. 9/9/17 SU 23 Middle Tennessee State 30 “We’ve played in Domes before…” Scott Sahfer with that big cigar in his mouth. 11/11/17 Halftime: SU 35 Wake Forest 24. The crowd give the home team a standing ovation. Final score: SU 43 Wake Forest 64. 11/25/17 SU 14 Boston College 42 Ground and Pound. How did we ever beat Clemson? 9/14/19 SU 6 Clemson 41 Game Day was goona be here. They didn’t miss much. 10/10/20 SU 24 Duke 38 A team we’d beaten the year before 49-7, out-rushes us 28-363. 10/17/20 SU 21 Liberty 38 We’d beaten them 24-0 the previous year. And it was Liberty! 9/11/21 SU 7 Rutgers 17 Aloha, Tommy DeVito. 10/9-15/21 SU 37 Wake Forest 40 and SU 14 Clemson 17. The second and third of three straight defeats by a field goal in a 5-7 season. [/QUOTE]

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