Correct. Lost to Florida St. and Tex A&M (S-Port) early. Beat Bama (Stallworth to Cangelosi) and ran off like 8 straight wins. Next to last week of season we were ranked #24 but lost the next week to USC and fell out.
Interesting sidenote: The week we got ranked was a bye week for us. Had a few in the polls to lose that week and we got in.
Yep, I was so disgusted with that game. Lost 45-19 if I remember. We scored 3 TD but went for 2 twice and didn't convert. I had never seen our receivers back then drop so many passes. I think they all had more drops in that single game than their entire career. Shame that it was Rattay's last game in a TECH uniform.
USC owned us the entire game. From Raytel fumbling to interceptions to just flat kickin' our butts. We scared the crap out of then #1 or #2 ranked Florida State at their house, for the 1st half anyway. We should have whipped TX AM here but some coach kept calling running plays when we were in the redzone (every stinking time and onece four in a row from 1st down to going for it on 4th) when we had the #1 passing QB in the nation
“Towie Barclay of the Glen, Happy to the maids, But never to the men.”
Squeakin' ain't gunna cut it.
If we make it in again, I predict ~#20. We have all the building blocks. We just need consistency to BUILD with the building blocks. DD laid the foundation for the road back to the Top 25, now SD is taking the wheel and driving this bus to a bowl.
Interesting fact: Sonny Dykes has been to a bowl game every single year since he entered coaching in 1999. I see no reason to break that trend this year.
Wait a freakin minute. First you boldly state that Tech has never been in the top 25 in D1a, then when proven wrong, you come up with "squeakin' aint gunna cut it." That's B.S. Coming from where we've been if we can end one of the next two seasons by "squeakin" into the top 25, I'll be ecstatic. One more pointer. You might want to research your future "facts" before you post them. As someone else has pointed out, the other fact you've thrown out there about Coach Dykes bowling every year he's coached is flat out wrong. He coached wr at ULM one year. Strike 2.
A simple "wrong again" will suffice.
I can take helpful criticism, thanks. I wasn't thinking clearly on either of those posts. Thanks for pointing that out.