The Orange Man
07-19-2003, 02:36 PM
Here are a few questions for TCY players (with my own answers as well):
What is your own longest winning streak?
Syracuse - 22
What is the longest winning streak for anyone?
UCLA - 46
How do the number of championships stack up (has anyone been the dominant force over the years themselves?):
24 seasons:
UCLA 13
Syracuse 3
I actually count performance ranking as well when determining titles - so there can be split national champions - by that measure I have 3.5.
Does anyone have what stands out as their toughest loss?
I just had mine. Last season's title game. Halftime score: Syracuse 31 UCLA 7
UCLA comes up with a 4th down outside our 40 but we keep their drive alive with a Roughing the Kicker penalty. Play after that is a 28 yard TD pass. After the miss the 2 point conversion it's 31-13. We come back with a long TD pass, making it 38-13. Unfortunately, that was just about our last 1st down of the game (we had returned the opening kickoff 105 yards for a TD and a blocked FG for a TD in the first half - for some background).
Anyway, UCLA drives quickly to make it 38-20 and then a couple of plays later my QB fumbles it away on a sack - defense holds them to a FG. We punt and they drive down to make it 38-30 with a full quarter to go. We do nothing again - they drive inside our 10 but we hold them to a FG (38-33). I think there was one drive in the second half where we actually stopped them in the 4th quarter. Anyway, nothing for us again - they drive down for the lead at 39-38. That was the final - we actually had the ball twice more in the last 2 1/2 minutes but did absolutely nothing (in part due to some great calls by my offensive coordinator - wasting one series by running on the first two downs with a single back offense and one of the best passing attacks in college football).
Yes, they don't get any worse than that - in the championship game no less.
P.S. Several years back UCLA had come up to the Carrier Dome and trailed 31-0 with about 17 minutes to go. They managed to get that game to OT - tying it up with about :05 to go - but we won 38-31 in OT.
Are there any particularly amazing game, season or career records that should be shared with the rest of us?
I'll come back to that one myself later.
What is your own longest winning streak?
Syracuse - 22
What is the longest winning streak for anyone?
UCLA - 46
How do the number of championships stack up (has anyone been the dominant force over the years themselves?):
24 seasons:
UCLA 13
Syracuse 3
I actually count performance ranking as well when determining titles - so there can be split national champions - by that measure I have 3.5.
Does anyone have what stands out as their toughest loss?
I just had mine. Last season's title game. Halftime score: Syracuse 31 UCLA 7
UCLA comes up with a 4th down outside our 40 but we keep their drive alive with a Roughing the Kicker penalty. Play after that is a 28 yard TD pass. After the miss the 2 point conversion it's 31-13. We come back with a long TD pass, making it 38-13. Unfortunately, that was just about our last 1st down of the game (we had returned the opening kickoff 105 yards for a TD and a blocked FG for a TD in the first half - for some background).
Anyway, UCLA drives quickly to make it 38-20 and then a couple of plays later my QB fumbles it away on a sack - defense holds them to a FG. We punt and they drive down to make it 38-30 with a full quarter to go. We do nothing again - they drive inside our 10 but we hold them to a FG (38-33). I think there was one drive in the second half where we actually stopped them in the 4th quarter. Anyway, nothing for us again - they drive down for the lead at 39-38. That was the final - we actually had the ball twice more in the last 2 1/2 minutes but did absolutely nothing (in part due to some great calls by my offensive coordinator - wasting one series by running on the first two downs with a single back offense and one of the best passing attacks in college football).
Yes, they don't get any worse than that - in the championship game no less.
P.S. Several years back UCLA had come up to the Carrier Dome and trailed 31-0 with about 17 minutes to go. They managed to get that game to OT - tying it up with about :05 to go - but we won 38-31 in OT.
Are there any particularly amazing game, season or career records that should be shared with the rest of us?
I'll come back to that one myself later.