10 Best Wins and 10 Most Devastating Losses Under CPJ

Folks who say anything about Gardner Webb fail to remember we were on our third string QB with both Nesbitt and Jaybo down. Calvin Booker was a transfer from Auburn during the Gailey era. He wasn't a system guy for Johnson, but got screwed by a coach firing. He bided his time and was a model citizen for the program. The weather wasn't great but it was a W.
 
gespacho_the_slender said:
Folks who say anything about Gardner Webb fail to remember we were on our third string QB with both Nesbitt and Jaybo down. Calvin Booker was a transfer from Auburn during the Gailey era. He wasn't a system guy for Johnson, but got screwed by a coach firing. He bided his time and was a model citizen for the program. The weather wasn't great but it was a W.
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Love Calvin for as you said. He got the ball to JD out in the flat who took it to the house! Win baby win! He brought us to victory, and they all count.
 
TechRush said:
Well then there was the Kansas take the ball out and then back into the end zone game.
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I know that happened against Miami one year (Orwin on a kick return, #7 on the list), did something similar also happen in that Kansas game?
 
I will have to examine the list but for me it is 14 UGA and for the worse probably 09 uga or 11 uva. Mtsu was a different animal in itself. They obviously knew what we were doing and had a helluva running back (Benny cunningham?) Tevin played his ass off in that game though. We put up a good fight in Clemson the week after, which was surprising.
 
The Thursday night white out demolition of the U has to be in my top 10. To me, that may have been the best a CPJ team played from start to finish in a game - totally dominant, similar to the Orange Bowl performance in '14.
 
The best wins for me have to be #1 the 14 uga win ans #2 the orange bowl. The first because one of the biggest emotional roller coaster games ever between two good teams that included a great last play fg. The second because national attention and we were awesome on offense. The 08 win against uga was nice but not nearly as big given we did not have a great team that year and game was not overly important. The honorable mention pick would be the win against Clemson in ACC championship game. Although I also loved the 15 win against Clemson.

Biggest losses #1 09 against uga - how disappointing - big GT crowd and just couldn't get it done #2 Iowa game in Orange bowl - again national attention and we got hammered. #14 uga loss hurt given big lead but in some respects was happy with how we played that night given how we had played that season. #3 would be Miami loss which I believe really spiraled that season downward and was a dumb loss given qb on 4th and 1 decided not to run the play called.
 
Best wins:
#1 2008 UGA
#2 2014 UGA
#3 2009 ACCCG
#4 2014 Orange Bowl
#5 2015 FSU
#6 2009 VPI
#7 2008 Miami
#8 2012 Clemson
#9 Southern Cal Sun Bowl
#10 2011 Kansas

Most Devastating Losses:

#1 2009 UGA
#2 2012 Middle Tennessee State
#3 2012 UGA
#4 2010 UGA
#5 2011 UGA
#6 2015 UGA
#7 2013 UGA
#8 2013 VPI
#9 2015 Notre Dame
#10 Sun Bowl Utah
 
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It's interesting how MTSU is such a fresh wound and Kansas is forgotten. Kansas is objectively the worse loss.

What I remember from MTSU is you had a white guy covering receivers who looked horribly out of position every play. I attributed it to bad talent at the time, but any coverage looks bad if the offense knows the coverage.

And having gone to the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 UGA games, the 2008 UGA game is easily the best win.
 
the reason I didn't list Kansas is for the reason you just said. No one really remembers bad P5 losses. They remember when a team loses to a middling conference squad or D1AA.
 
Deke said:
I know that happened against Miami one year (Orwin on a kick return, #7 on the list), did something similar also happen in that Kansas game?
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No you are right. ööööty losses just merge together in my mind.
 
QuadF said:
"it later came out that middle tennessee had al groh's defensive signals..."

I hadn't heard that. Did they just pick up on what was going on, or did they find them out another way? Isn't it illegal to steal other teams signals?
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I don't think that is true. I remember seeing our D looking to the sideline with their hands out when the ball was snapped. They can't steal signals that weren't there.

Groh was slow getting the defense called. Anyone who went hurryup on us got at least 7 free plays a game.
 
I drove to Lawrence, Shreveport, and El Paso the first time.

Still, the worst for me was 2012 Miami. Pretty much set the bar for being pissed off that I'd previously set in a 2002 loss to Wake Forest. Made the MTSU and BYU games later that season much easier to take though.
 
WracerX said:
I don't think that is true. I remember seeing our D looking to the sideline with their hands out when the ball was snapped. They can't steal signals that weren't there.

Groh was slow getting the defense called. Anyone who went hurryup on us got at least 7 free plays a game.
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It's hard to know how much is the signals and how much was Groh. In the call-in show or press conference after Groh was fired, CPJ said the scheme was far too complex. The signals may have been simple with few play calls but many changes based on offensive player action within a play. CPJ said something like "the defense won't have play calls where 6 guys on defense change position when 1 offensive player goes in motion."

GT was also #73 in S&P defense in 2010 and #76 in 2011. So it wasn't just first half of 2012.
 
gespacho_the_slender said:
Folks who say anything about Gardner Webb fail to remember we were on our third string QB with both Nesbitt and Jaybo down. Calvin Booker was a transfer from Auburn during the Gailey era. He wasn't a system guy for Johnson, but got screwed by a coach firing. He bided his time and was a model citizen for the program. The weather wasn't great but it was a W.
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I remember all those things.

I also remember one other pertinent fact... Ga Tech, a proud and storied program in a Power 5 conference, almost lost to Gardner Frickin Webb.
 
gtleviathan said:
I remember all those things.

I also remember one other pertinent fact... Ga Tech, a proud and storied program in a Power 5 conference, almost lost to Gardner Frickin Webb.
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I think we covered that previously.
 
77GTFan said:
The Thursday night white out demolition of the U has to be in my top 10. To me, that may have been the best a CPJ team played from start to finish in a game - totally dominant, similar to the Orange Bowl performance in '14.
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we pulled the dogs up 41-10 from what i remember so not necessarily
 
Many don't remember either, that Gardner Webb had one of the stoutest run defenses in college football.
 
No win over Clemson is better than beating UGA.

And no loss is worse than MTSU.

List sucks.
 
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