Worst Way to Lose a Game

[bccards13]

So I was recently playing a game in one of my dynasties. It was only week 2 so I wasn't concerned about losing too much. Down 28-24 I get a kick return TD with 6 seconds left in the game but a holding penalty brings me back to the 16 and needless to say the hail mary didn't work.

On top of that the next week I lose because of glitch in the game. I had seen this before but in the 2010 version of the game. My safety goes for the swat and the ball literally goes right through his hand. The receiver gets it and because he burned my corner he has no problem getting to the endzone. Its only the second time I've seen this happen and I've played the past 3 games, but the fact that it happened in the final minute of the game with a TD being win or lose really got me going.

So that got me thinking, whats the worst loss any of you guys have had?

[aarontab]

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Not a close loss, more of an EA Sports patented "Eff You" Game. Iowa 's RB Johnson had 2 straight td runs to start the game, each for 75 yards on the dot (which was weird). He ended up running for 414 yards, and their QB threw for 350. I ended up losing 56-35, most of those points for me coming in garbage time after getting beat on for 3 quarters.

[waytofailself]

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I've had games lock up at the end and I have gotten ridiculous bugs at the end that won't let me finish the game. But each of those times I was winning.

So what about losing? It's worst when it's my own fault. Like fumbling or throwing an INT when I'm trying to run out the clock. Probably the worst was when I blew an 18 point 4th quarter lead from fumbling on a run, fumbling on a KO return, and then getting intercepted on 3rd and long.

[ClearTheBong]

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I just beat an opponent in a league game with a 31 yard QB scramble run on 3rd down in OT. Was just trying to get away from the pressure at first but then I saw daylight.

[jello1717]

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This has happened to a couple of guys in my OD, but this particular situation was the worst. My commish is undefeated MSU, playing the B1G CCG against another user. They have an awesome game and the commish won 41-35 which got him his first shot @ a national championship in his 3 years over @ TSO. When we advanced, the OD got bugged and his win was erased and replaced with a sim in which his team lost.

Bye bye NC shot.

[gbpackers94]

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I hate two ways:
1) The CPU driving all the way down the field in under a minute with timeouts.
2) Getting blown because of multiple 50+ yard runs by the CPU RB with 20 broken tackles

[SalemChief]

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LSU at 'Bama. Down 20-16 with 1:45 left. Heart is pounding. I complete seven--that's seven passes in a row, march 68 yards to the 'Bama 6 yard line. LB whaps down a pass. LB whaps down another pass. Third and goal from the six. Stick pass, caught the LB shifting away from the slant in man coverage, bullet to the WR, who has a step and the inside on the CB, and.........

CB morphs through the entire left side of the WR's body to intercept my pass. Game over.

Watched it five times on instant replay, after I picked up the controller that I tossed.

I shouldn't toss controllers. It's bad for them. But ooooh, sometimes...this @$%= game. Oooh, sometimes.

Worst loss for me. Dumped from #1 to #8, out of SEC championship.

But I took my frustrations out on TCU in the Capital One Bowl. 45-17. Ha.

[ghettoqball]

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Maybe not my worst ever, but the worst I can think of right now...

I was playing a game against Michigan in NCAA 10, and I think I was down by 4. My starting QB was injured, so I had my redshirt freshman backup starting. Anyways, there was like 20 seconds left in the game. I hit my slot receiver (also a freshman) right in stride in the endzone. It bounced right off his hands, and a michigan defender picked if off to put an end to my chances . I was pissed. I HATE losing to Michigan. That QB and receiver both developed into studs though, and they didn't lose to michigan ever again.

[jacketit10]

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This has happened to a couple of guys in my OD, but this particular situation was the worst. My commish is undefeated MSU, playing the B1G CCG against another user. They have an awesome game and the commish won 41-35 which got him his first shot @ a national championship in his 3 years over @ TSO. When we advanced, the OD got bugged and his win was erased and replaced with a sim in which his team lost.

Bye bye NC shot.

Same here, only in week 2 of the season. First game as USF, beat ND 21-3, then for some reason after it gets advanced it says I lost 20-16. Really pissed me off right there.

As far as playing goes, me and a friend of mine used to always play each other in NCAA 11, and the games almost always come down to the last possession. He got me one time when I got a pick-6 called back for clipping with like 10 seconds left in the game, and then he won in OT. Another time I iced him before he took the game winning 50 yard field goal, and it ricoched off the post and in. And finally when he was trying to set up a game tying field goal, his RB broke literally 6 tackles and scored to win that game.

[johhnywave]

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I had a game a couple seasons ago in my dynasty where I had my WR wide open on the slant and, of course, he doesn't attempt to catch the ball. The ball hits him on the helmet and a linebacker intercepted it.

Kind of pissed me off. Yea.

To make matters worse, I tried to strip the ball with my QB and he ended up getting injured for a few weeks.

[MK Redline]

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Just lost two heart breakers today to two top 25 teams:

Stanford: I got to the 5 yardline and down by 2 with 9 seconds left. I didnt have enough time to select FG and had to run a play. Ran a slant route and got sacked! Felt bad because I had no more timeouts!

Oregon: Played a killer game! Went into overtime after us scoring back to back several times, they went for 2 and failed! I got ball back and couldnt complete one pass to get into the endzone!!!! I needed a TD with XP to win. Final score 52-58...These wins would of put me in the top 25 with Colorado

[cparrish]

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Mine was actually in Madden against a friend in a Madden tourney of ours. I was Minnesota and he was the Eagles. I scored to go up with something like 4 seconds left, so I squibbed the kickoff and it hit one of his guys and he fell on the ball with 1 second left around midfield. He then threw a hailmary that TO caught in the endzone with no time left on the clock. It was horrible. I heard about the game from him for months...

My worst NCAA loss was to the same friend. I was FSU and he was Texas with Vince Young at QB, and of course he just cheesed with him all game. I scored a TD on all five of my possessions, and I stopped him for a field goal on one of his. The only problem was he got six possessions, so he beat me 38-35. He couldn't come close to stopping me all game but I still lost the game. Such a crappy feeling.

[redcometix]

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I'm playing for the Big Ten championship, it's 4th and 5 in my opponent's territory, and my TE is wide open and planted, and my QB is planted, he throws it, and it flies off 6-7 yards at least to the right of my TE, who's a couple of yards beyond the line. Combine that with the fact I couldn't get full power on 2 FGs that I barely missed(Why must online kicking be so much harder ), and one of the best defensive jobs I've done against the guy I was playing against, and this is one of those losses where it's a barrage of gut punches.

[xBaBaBooeyx]

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Missed extra point in OT. Yeah, I'm THAT guy. Needless to say I had to buy a new controller after that one.

[Redacted01]

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Just lost two heart breakers today to two top 25 teams:

Stanford: I got to the 5 yardline and down by 2 with 9 seconds left. I didnt have enough time to select FG and had to run a play. Ran a slant route and got sacked! Felt bad because I had no more timeouts!

Oregon: Played a killer game! Went into overtime after us scoring back to back several times, they went for 2 and failed! I got ball back and couldnt complete one pass to get into the endzone!!!! I needed a TD with XP to win. Final score 52-58...These wins would of put me in the top 25 with Colorado

If you had enough time to run a slant route, you should have spiked the ball, unless it was 4th down.