SMU and the lost season of 1997

[SMUstang]

That being said, I was at the game and it was the 3rd biggest SMU heartbreak (#1 - 1995 at A&M 20-17 loss on last play of the game, #2 - 1994 vs. A&M 21-21 tie (missed FG on last play)).

Those were heartbreakers allright. But do you remember the Ole Miss game in the Cotton Bowl. We had them down by 3 touchdowns at least in the 2nd half and let them come back to beat us. How can that happen?

[deepellumfrog]

I was a freshman on the scout team that season...it was fun to play with those guys and your brother was a good player and was always a very nice guy, even to the nobody scout teamers like me.

That TCU game was a total shock. I know I for one was pretty dang certain we were gonna beat an 0-fer Froggie team.

I was pretty dang sure we were gonna lose. That was a fun win though, esp since it was against you guys, and it was the last game of the year, so we it came at the perfect time for sunshiny thoughts about the next year. Which came true, in that we beat USC in the Sun Bowl that next year.

Here's to your 1 win season producing similar results in the following year.

[Walter Sobchak]

That being said, I was at the game and it was the 3rd biggest SMU heartbreak (#1 - 1995 at A&M 20-17 loss on last play of the game, #2 - 1994 vs. A&M 21-21 tie (missed FG on last play)).

Those were heartbreakers allright. But do you remember the Ole Miss game in the Cotton Bowl. We had them down by 3 touchdowns at least in the 2nd half and let them come back to beat us. How can that happen?

Yeah, we were up 41-22 with 10 minutes left before Romaro Miller started slinging the ball all over the place. A bunch of my friends from Mississippi were in town for the game and they'd all left the Cotton Bowl before Ole Miss started making their comeback. Thank God...I couldn't have handled sitting with them through that. It was bad enough having to face them afterwards, though...that Ole Miss game was my most heartbreaking game on a personal level.

The TCU game is a close second, though. I was a freshman that year and remember how it seemed like half the school drove over to Ft Worth to watch the game that was going to send us to a bowl for the first time in many years...such a disappointment.

[Dutch]

That being said, I was at the game and it was the 3rd biggest SMU heartbreak (#1 - 1995 at A&M 20-17 loss on last play of the game, #2 - 1994 vs. A&M 21-21 tie (missed FG on last play)).

Those were heartbreakers allright. But do you remember the Ole Miss game in the Cotton Bowl. We had them down by 3 touchdowns at least in the 2nd half and let them come back to beat us. How can that happen?

yes, lost a BUNCH of money on that one.