Even worse in 2012 because both of us thought the flag was on the defense because of the obvious hold on the receiver..,
Best & Worst RU Football Games You've Ever Attended...
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There have been several but for me it was the Va.Tech win with Brian Fortay to Chris Brantley connecting on a final second pass.
Obviously, louisville 2006 is the best
Other best - 2005 navy . Just to become bowl eligible was a huge deal.
2008 - Uconn . Homecoming game and the season was a disaster . But defense played great and we got a little help from the Uconn kicker. It turned the season around
1991 or 1992 - Pittsburgh . First night game at rutgers stadium ! Fun time !
Worst - 2010 army game at MetLife . (Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned).
Other worst -2012 louisville
2014 - Penn state.
2007 - Maryland and Cincinnati games . That season had high hopes and BCS goal was derailed.
2009 - cincy opener . Another season and the BCS goal was over on Labor Day
Other best - 2005 navy . Just to become bowl eligible was a huge deal.
2008 - Uconn . Homecoming game and the season was a disaster . But defense played great and we got a little help from the Uconn kicker. It turned the season around
1991 or 1992 - Pittsburgh . First night game at rutgers stadium ! Fun time !
Worst - 2010 army game at MetLife . (Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned).
Other worst -2012 louisville
2014 - Penn state.
2007 - Maryland and Cincinnati games . That season had high hopes and BCS goal was derailed.
2009 - cincy opener . Another season and the BCS goal was over on Labor Day
hmmm... I have a very feint echo of a memory of a sad story from that time where someone lost someone just prior to that game... a longtime fan as well. But I don't "know".Worst:
Texas Bowl (if you know, you know....)
Best 1961 against Columbia
Worst: the next year, 1962, Virginia 41, RU 0.
Worst: the next year, 1962, Virginia 41, RU 0.
Best- Louisville’06
Worst- in Morgantown in ‘-01.. 80-7 beat down and having Mountaineer hillbillies yell obscenities to us on the way out of the Stadium.
Worst- in Morgantown in ‘-01.. 80-7 beat down and having Mountaineer hillbillies yell obscenities to us on the way out of the Stadium.
Similar story, my fiancé, a few days later headed back from Houston when I got the news.
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Best - Lville 2006
Worst - Russell Athletic Bowl
Edit worst may actually be a Thursday Night game against Pitt we played at Giants Stadium. Felt like we would never get anywhere near respectable as Pitt destroyed us in evry facet.
Worst - Russell Athletic Bowl
Edit worst may actually be a Thursday Night game against Pitt we played at Giants Stadium. Felt like we would never get anywhere near respectable as Pitt destroyed us in evry facet.
The post originally stated that the game was in Detroit, not Toronto. RUinOhio fixed it.
+1 - Nov 9th, 2007 was the worst experience I ever had at a Rutgers game and we won like 41-6.
We all knew that was likely to be a lousy game…then the rain…and rain…and more rain. Plus the party scene in Orlando SUCKED ***.
That game sums up the Shea era in a nutshell.
Best and worst for me -- '92 Virginia Tech.
The comeback victory was great! Unfortunately, it was a damp, rainy day sitting on wood benches with some of my buddies and we left early when it looked like a beatdown so we could start homecoming drinking! What a mistake that was!
The comeback victory was great! Unfortunately, it was a damp, rainy day sitting on wood benches with some of my buddies and we left early when it looked like a beatdown so we could start homecoming drinking! What a mistake that was!
The best was Louisville in '06. The worst was Louisville in '12. Phantom illegal man downfield penalty.
I was going to pick covering the 80-7 loss at West Virginia as the worst, until you reminded me of this one.
It was 1987, I was a sophomore and they were playing Duke at the Meadowlands in a driving rainstorm. Terrible conditions, worse game. Henry Henderson ripped off a big run (for that afternoon, that meant about 10 yards) to spark literally the only drive of the game and my friend starts jumping up and down celebrating. We hear a Duke fan behind us yelling "Get that (n-word)." I turn around, see who they're pointing at, and I tell my friend "Oh man, they ain't talking about Henderson. They're talking about YOU." My friend steps right over the two rows of chairs and punches the guy. There is a fight, security throws us all out, and we miss the only score of the day, Henderson's TD with five minutes left. RU wins 7-0 while we're being tossed out in the parking lot.
Does that qualify as best or worst?
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Ugh - the '14 game vs. PSU is another that haunts me. Even with Nova's 5 INTs, RU still could've/should've won that one. With 2 min left, PSU was lined up to punt from the 30 on that final drive before KF took a timeout. Franklin put the offense back on the field and they hit a long pass that got them inside our 5. Bill "big time football" Belton" punched it in.
My best is quite possibly the 1988 win at Penn State. Freshman year, in the band. That stadium sure got quiet once their last 4th down pass fell incomplete!
Worst... I cannot really say off the top of my head.
But good news, everybody! We can all watch the 1987 Duke vs. Rutgers game!
Worst... I cannot really say off the top of my head.
But good news, everybody! We can all watch the 1987 Duke vs. Rutgers game!
Cal was 0 -10 and RU 1 - 10 as my bro from Cal Berkeley visits. Used to be My Bears, my return to NJ saw them win the first game on their last game of the season. Lamest. Year anyone?
Best
Louisville 06
Holloween game against VA Tech
Worst
New Hamshire
Ped State home first year in Big
We were better and gave it away
November 23, 2001
California 20 Rutgers 10
Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium 18,111
That was the game rescheduled from 9-15-2001 because of the 9/11 attacks.
Rained all day and it was not cold enough to freeze but still close - that's worse than snow.
By fourth quarter there few people in in the stands, and I was sitting near Ray Rice's mother Janet.
I heard on the radio that Rice broke RU's single game rushing record.
I told her what I heard and she just had a "whoa!" look on her face.
A few weeks later I heard Janet in an interview decribing how "someone" told her Ray had broken a record at Army and she was "stunned."
Earlier in the morning the Army prachute team was practicing when one jumper's chute didn't open
I was at a tailagte in the upper lot when we saw jumper fall below the sloping tree line.
We assumed he was toast but he got his emergency chute out in time.
Kinda crazy that they were jumping in that weather because I've seen them cancel over less weather
Even if I drink as much as I did that day in the parking lot, I don't think I can bring myself to watch it again. The only way to possible to make it through that game a second time is to turn it into some sort of drinking game to keep it interesting.
The win at Penn State was nice. And now I can finally see the touchdown I missed; thanks!
That experience started my lifelong hatred of Duke.
The best was L’Ville in 06 followed closely by the first two bowl games ( Phoenix and Houston ). Third is a nerd one. Playing Miami in 03 or 04. We ended up
Losing the game but I remember sitting in the stands at half time feeling we belonged on the field versus Miami. Sucked we had to lose that one
Losing the game but I remember sitting in the stands at half time feeling we belonged on the field versus Miami. Sucked we had to lose that one
My favorite / least favorite have probably been mentioned, but:
Underrated great game- Navy ‘05
Underrated kick in the nuts- Maryland ‘07
Underrated great game- Navy ‘05
Underrated kick in the nuts- Maryland ‘07
Mine are not necessarily Best or Worst but, instead, for purposes of comparison:
1991 vs. BC in the very first Big East football game. And, our first conference win.
2014 vs. Michigan in our first B1G conference win.
The changes to the program over that quarter-century couldn't be any more striking.
1991 vs. BC in the very first Big East football game. And, our first conference win.
2014 vs. Michigan in our first B1G conference win.
The changes to the program over that quarter-century couldn't be any more striking.
We bolted at halftime to get to D'Jais closing party instead of watching the inevitable during the 2nd half!
Best:
2006 Lousville
Insight Bowl
2014 away 25-3 MD comeback (road win always great watching other teams fans cry and a great ride home!)
Worst:
Shea ‘Cuse and Va Tech annilations at home
Kent State
2006 Lousville
Insight Bowl
2014 away 25-3 MD comeback (road win always great watching other teams fans cry and a great ride home!)
Worst:
Shea ‘Cuse and Va Tech annilations at home
Kent State
This was the game...I knew THAT day that Flood was gonna start the "******* it all up" process....we were 7-0, having won at Arkansas BUT we had struggled against Howard - HOWARD - at home winning only 26-0. Anyway....I saw Kent come out with a game plan that worked to perfection (run, run, and run some more) and Flood had NO CLUE how to stop it. So freakin' embarrassing. This team SHOULD have been 10-0 going to Pitt but FLUBBED to....again...KENT STATE, at HOMECOMING, for ****'s sake!!!
That Pitt game sucked too. Doesn’t make the list for me because I wasn’t there; but holy hell that was a stinker
We were there. It was FREEZING there that day, the winds off the rivers WHIPPING through that stadium, and we STUNK UP the place. Just awful. We NEVER had a chance that afternoon.