Rank the top 5 biggest wins in MT football and basketball history...

[Matt Dossett]

top 5 for each

 

[MightyRaider]

Michigan State x 5

 

[blueraiderJT]

Football:
1. GT 2012
2. Southern Miss 2009 - Bowl Game
3. Maryland 2008
4. Maryland 2009
5. Vandy 2005


Basketball:
1. Michigan State 2016 - NCAA Tourney
2. UK 1982 - NCAA Tourney
3. Florida State 1989 - NCAA Tourney
4. Minnesota 2017 - NCAA Tourney
5. UT 2012 - NIT 2nd round

 

[C-Bow]

Football:
1. GT 2012
2. Southern Miss 2009 - Bowl Game
3. Maryland 2008
4. Maryland 2009
5. Vandy 2005


Basketball:
1. Michigan State 2016 - NCAA Tourney
2. UK 1982 - NCAA Tourney
3. Florida State 1989 - NCAA Tourney
4. Minnesota 2017 - NCAA Tourney
5. UT 2012 - NIT 2nd round

Hard to argue with that..

 

[SigmaNuBlue]

Football:
1. GT 2012
2. Southern Miss 2009 - Bowl Game
3. Maryland 2008
4. Maryland 2009
5. Vandy 2005


Basketball:
1. Michigan State 2016 - NCAA Tourney
2. UK 1982 - NCAA Tourney
3. Florida State 1989 - NCAA Tourney
4. Minnesota 2017 - NCAA Tourney
5. UT 2012 - NIT 2nd round

I agree with JT except I would rank the 2001 Vandy game above the '05 game. First time we played them since moving to 1-A. That game was YUGE.

 

[blueraiderJT]

I agree with JT except I would rank the 2001 Vandy game above the '05 game. First time we played them since moving to 1-A. That game was YUGE.

Yeah, I definitely agree with you on that. I wrestled with it and I think why I put the 2005 team there because it was Jay Cutler led and Vandy was undefeated when we played them and I think they were about to be ranked.

 

[Iback????]

Football:
1. Alabama- 2002
2. Vandy 1- 2001
3. Vandy 2- 2002
4. Vandy 3-2005
5. Georgia Tech 2012

 

[SmithO1906]

Umm we didnt beat Alabama in '02. We should have but we didnt

 

[RandallThomason]

Football has no clear cut number 1 IMO. I'll go with:

1) Vandy 2001
2) USM NO Bowl 2009
3) Maryland 2009
4) Georgia Tech 2012
5) Vandy 2005

Hoops:

1) Michigan State 2016
2) Kentucky 1982
3) Minnesota 2017
4) Florida State 1989
5) WKU 1982 OVC championship

I don't go back to the 80s personally but I've heard enough to consider myself a decent historian of MT hoops. Curious if anybody would rank the USSR exhibition win as a top 5 win?

 

[SpaceRaider]

...I don't go back to the 80s personally but I've heard enough to consider myself a decent historian of MT hoops. Curious if anybody would rank the USSR exhibition win as a top 5 win?

I would. But hell, I don't think our basketball media guides even mention it...

That was in the 88 portion of the 88-89 season and the same squad that beat FSU in the first round of the NCAA tourney. I consider the win over the USSR squad better than the NCAA win.

 

[Blueraider_Mike]

Why are some saying Maryland 2009 and not 2008 - in 2008, I had that same feeling when we beat Vandy in 2001. The beauty of 2008, it was at home.

 

[blueraiderJT]

Also 2008 Maryland team beat no. 25 Cal the following week and they won 8 games and went to a bowl and won it too.

GT also went to a bowl the year we crushed them and beat the crap out of USC. That's why I had those in my top 5 and GT at no.1. The GT game was at their house and on TV and we had a national ESPN player of the week and got tons of press from that game.

Every Vandy team we beat was crappy except the 2005 team which was undefeated at 4-0 when they faced us and had a NFL first round draft pick at QB who played in a superbowl and still plays now. That's why I had them lower and didn't mention the other 2 wins. If you go top 10, we can put them in. I think 2013 Marshall and last year's LaTech win were very good wins too. Those were very good teams. Better than any of the Vandy teams and 2009 Maryland team.

 

[VicVegas89101]

Jay Cutler did not play in a super bowl.... Sexy Rexy Grossman did.

 

[Iback????]

Umm we didnt beat Alabama in '02. We should have but we didnt

It may say we last that game on the scoreboard, but from where I was sitting... we won that game, but the refs wouldnt allow it. Holding on player that wasnt even playing.

 

[RandallThomason]

Why are some saying Maryland 2009 and not 2008 - in 2008, I had that same feeling when we beat Vandy in 2001. The beauty of 2008, it was at home.

My justification for it is based in part on what the win meant to the season. The win in 2009 allowed us to get to 10 wins for the year, plus the win occurred right at the end on a huge final drive and walk-off field goal. In 2008, we ultimately didn't do anything with the win and finished with a losing record.

 

[Raiderclyde]

Football:

1. Georgia Tech - 2012
2. Vanderbilt - 2001 (the first)
3. Indiana State - 1984 (triple OT 1-AA playoffs, first playoff date & got us to the semifinals to play La Tech)
4. Southern Mississippi - New Orleans Bowl 2009
5. Presbyterian - Tangerine Bowl 1959 (believe it our not, its a bowl win that still appears in annual almanacs)
Honorable Mention- Tennessee Tech - 1985 (clinched our last undefeated regular season)

Basketball:

1. Michigan State (NCAA) - 2016
2. Kentucky (NCAA) - 1982
3. Florida State (NCAA) - 1989
4. Tennessee (NIT) - 1988 (85-80 at home)
5. USSR National Team - 1988
Honorable Mention - Vanderbilt - 1995

 

[blueraiderJT]

Jay Cutler did not play in a super bowl.... Sexy Rexy Grossman did.

My bad. He's been Vandy's best QB that they ever had at least in this century.

 

[blueraiderJT]

 

[SpaceRaider]

My bad. He's been Vandy's best QB that they ever had at least in this century.

still had problems escaping vandy campus cops, though, after he destroyed a campus emergency phone in a late night alcohol induced act - that's why he didn't play against Middle Tennessee in 2002 as a freshman.

 

[Blueraider_Mike]

Hicks and Lee, they were so physical. In fact, our team in the early days was physical, the o-line move Bama's D-line. The game was stolen from us.

 

[JohnDavidBlue]

FB:

I'm sticking with the FBS era. attended 3 of those games
1. Georgia Tech - 2012
2. Vanderbilt - 2001
3. Southern Miss - 2009
4. Louisiana Tech - 2000 First FBS 1-A win * Goalposts came crashing down
5. Maryland - 2008

Basketball - attended 2 of those games
1. Michigan State - 2016
2. Kentucky - 1982
3. Florida State - 1989
4. Minnesota - 2017
5. Tennessee - 1988