Which Big XII Title Game.....

[SteelClip49]

was the biggest shock?


1996
Texas defeats Nebraska to eliminate NU's clear shot at a 3peat NC

1998
TAMU defeats #1 Kansas State to end KSU's NCG slot

2001
Colorado defeats Texas to end UT's Rose Bowl NCG slot with Miami

2003
Kansas State defeats Oklahoma to reduce OU's BCS #1 points lead

2007
Oklahoma ends #1 Missouri's bid for their second ever NC opportunity

[Leroy Lizard]

2003 by a long shot.

[CORNholio]

1. 1998
2. 1996

[soonercastor]

2003

[MeMyself&Me]

I say 2003. The media was going ga ga over OU that year saying things like "best team in the history of college football" and KSU wasn't anywhere near on the same level as OU that year and the game was a blow out.

[SoonerMarkVA]

I'd say '03. Although both '96 and '98 were pretty shocking.

[olevetonahill]

Shoulda been a pole
Where in hell is Franken ?

[boomersooner28]

03 cause we didn't lose, we got THROTTLED! That game was disgusting.

[SoonerinSouthlake]

2003
We were getting some play on the airways about possibly being the best cfb team ever.

My jackass buddy from LSU wont let me forget it.

[kansascitysooner]

I can still see sproles running down the middle uncovered all game long. They gave us a good ol' woodshed beating that day and since then I don't think we have been the same team. I think we lost more than the game that day.

[Leroy Lizard]

I can still see sproles running down the middle uncovered all game long. They gave us a good ol' woodshed beating that day and since then I don't think we have been the same team. I think we lost more than the game that day.

Did we lose our innocence?

[ouwasp]

2003, easy. Probably the only other OU loss that was as shocking was the '78 Orange Blow against Arky.

The 01 CU-tex game was really unexpected as well.

[kansascitysooner]

Did we lose our innocence?

that, Mike and our swagger.

[yermom]

that '01 CU team had just humiliated Nebraska. they were on fire.

KSU wasn't as bad as their record. we were a little overconfident :O

[royalfan5]

2003 by a hair over 1996. I thought that OU team was just going to cake walk to a title.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Did we lose our innocence?har!

[TheLadiesMike]

that, Mike and our swagger.

Cause swagger of guys like Stills and Jefferson was vicariously lost when they were 11?

[Dwight]

2003

[Boomer_Sooner_sax]

By far 2003, from best team ever to getting railroaded by K-State. That game was miserablly cold, but I think losing was making it colder.

[agoo758]

The 2003 Oklahoma Sooners were considered by many to be arguably the greatest team in the history of college football leading up to thegame so losing by even one point to Kansas state would have been a HUGE shock, to lose by 28 was unthinkable.

Therefore what many thought could be the greatest team of all time turned into the greatest meltdown of all time. :(

[MyT Oklahoma]

Yep.. '03.

[Salt City Sooner]

'96 UT, & by a pretty wide margin for me. Some points:

As previously stated, '01 CU was hot going into their game w/ UT. Although it was a blowout, their only other loss other than opening week was in Austin to the 'horns.

'98 A&M was a solid (& IMO underrated) 11 win team that year. 10 points was their biggest margin of defeat.

'07 MU had already lost to OU


That leaves '03 KSU, & '96 UT.

'03 KSU was a pre-season top 5 team (6 in the AP). I personally don't think they'd have lost a game (save possibly the Fiesta, tOSU got 'em pretty good there) had Roberson A) not been injured earlier in the year, & B ) he kept his fly shut in bowl week) As far as the game itself, when Kejuan scored so easily on that first drive, I looked over at my wife & said oh, crap. Why? Because they had just went through the KSU D like a hot knife through butter in a game that virtually every single expert & media pundit had spent the entire week leading up to that game saying that OU did not have to win in order to go to the NC game. Scoring with the ease that they did just screamed letup to me due to that fact, & if there was one thing that KSU was NOT going to do, it was let up. Say what you want about OU having Snyder's number under Stoops, they always fought us tooth & toenail until the final gun went off. The fact that winning that game would be the crowning achievement in their program's history only served as extra incentive.

Now, '96 UT. They were 21 point 'dogs in this game (FWIW, OU was favored by 14 vs. KSU). They were a 5 loss team that year, going against a Nebraska team who, after that loss to Arizona St. (& remember, ASU went to the Rose Bowl that year so it was a quality loss to say the least) had only one game the rest of the regular season that was closer than a 2 TD margin, & was in all probability going to the NC game w/ a win in St. Louis vs. the 'horns.

The tiebreaker for me is quite simple. That UT team was so good that they lost a John Blake-led OU team that went 3-8, & was so good that they didn't win one single game on Owen Field that entire year, which included a loss to a 4-7 Tulsa team who was playing their backup QB that day in Norman.

Think about that statement. 1996 UT LOST TO JOHN FREAKIN' BLAKE. As bad as that KSU loss to Marshall was, it was nowhere near the caliber of that loss that the 'horns sustained in Dallas. Marshall was a solid team who caught KSU reeling from the loss of their leader. '96 UT has no such excuse on either front.