List: Greatest College Football Upsets of All-Time
Posted by deaconcat08 on August 1, 2010
Now that I have posted my entire college football guide, I thought I should keep hyping up the start of the season by posting my list of the greatest college football upsets of all-time. I will apologize in advance for showing a strong bias towards the past two decades, as those are the games I actually watched live. Feel free to comment about the list.
| 1 | Stanford over USC (2007) |
| 2 | Appalachian St. over Michigan (2007) |
| 3 | Temple over Virginia Tech (1998) |
| 4 | Oregon St. over Washington (1985) |
| 5 | Pitt over West Virginia (2007) |
| 6 | BC over ND (1993) |
| 7 | Ohio State over Miami-FL (2003) |
| 8 | Syracuse over Louisville (2007) |
| 9 | NC State over Florida St. (1998) |
| 10 | Carnegie Tech over ND (1926) |
| 11 | Miss. St. over Florida (2004) |
| 12 | Columibia over Army (1947) |
| 13 | Centre College over Harvard (1921) |
| 14 | Boise State over Oklahoma (2006) |
| 15 | Oklahoma over Florida St. (2000) |
| 16 | Kansas State over Oklahoma (2003) |
| 17 | Navy over Army (1950) |
| 18 | Texas over Nebraska (1996) |
| 19 | Michingan over Ohio St. (1969) |
| 20 | Georgia Tech over Alabama (1962) |
| 21 | Notre Dame over Oklahoma (1957) |
| 22 | TCU over Oklahoma (2005) |
| 23 | Michigan St over Ohio St. (1998) |
| 24 | Cal over Stanford (1986) |
| 25 | Stanford over Ohio St. (1971) |
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm
has to be app number one. i think you have to evaluate the upset at the time it happens. of course, in hindsight that michigan team was not good. but sitting there on my couch at the time, it was the craziest thing i had ever seen.
August 2nd, 2010 at 7:49 pm
I think you’re showing a great deal of local bias when you say that. If Cal Poly, Montana, or some other school you didn’t know anything about had pulled that upset you probably wouldn’t have cared as much. Also, the point spread on the game was only 28 points, compared to 41 from USC-Stanford.
August 3rd, 2010 at 8:32 pm
fair enough. and i will admit that app was clearly a great team that year which takes away from the upset. but, at the end of the day, usc v. stanford is a conference game and clearly stanford is a bigger school than app. no matter the spread, it is still a D-III team winning in the big house – think there is an argument at least.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
D-III??? Try Division 1-AA. And I hope you realize that App and the other 1-AA powerhouses could beat most non-BCS teams in 1-A. Also, that Michigan team was a mediocre 7-5 squad, so that upset ended up being meaningless in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, Southern Cal would have gone to the national title game had they not lost to Stanford. The clincher though is the point spread. Never will you see a team win a game that they are over 40 point underdogs again.