Your Take: What Was the Toughest Hogs Loss in 2009?

by John Expat on Dec 9, 2009 10:47 AM CST in Arkansas Razorback Football

Yesterday we began our 2009 season wrap-up project by asking you to pick your favorite win of the year. Today, we move on to what will be a much more difficult topic - toughest loss.

The Hogs had a number of hard losses that could have gone our way had just one or two things happened differently or were particularly unpleasant for various other factors (Ole Miss, I'm looking in your direction). Picking the most painful out of that bunch won't be easy, but we know that Razorback fans never shy away from a challenge.

So, let us know what you think - and we encourage you share your thought process in the comments section when you're finished. It's theraputic.

Poll

Looking back on the 2009 season, what was the toughest loss?

Georgia (41-52)

27 votes

Alabama (7-35)

5 votes

Florida (20-23)

155 votes

Ole Miss (17-30)

29 votes

LSU (30-33)

40 votes

256 votes | Poll has closed

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Florida because

We haven’t beaten those damn Gators since coming into the SEC. Here was a great opportunity that we let get by us. And the refs! THOSE CALLS! Painful stuff.

by KevinHog on Dec 9, 2009 12:14 PM CST reply actions

Florida

Because we had their number. Because, like KevinHog said, we’ve never beaten them since we joined the SEC. Because it would have been nice to ruin their season as payback for the SECCG in 2006. Because it would have spawned another Tebow speech that Florida would have memorialized with another plaque.
But most of all: I truly believe that if we had won against Florida, we wouldn’t have laid an egg in Oxford.

by dxf04 on Dec 9, 2009 12:26 PM CST reply actions

I also voted for Florida

for all the reasons above and so many more!

Arkansas Expats: Calling the Hogs from points way yonder.

by John Expat on Dec 9, 2009 12:44 PM CST reply actions

Although the Florida game hurt

Guys the Georgia game hurt because it was the one that we had pointed to all summer long as a measuring stick of how far we had come along. And to have the big lead before franklin got kicked out, to me that one really hurt.

by arky-chief on Dec 9, 2009 1:26 PM CST reply actions

Painful year

I voted FLA, but I thought about LSU, UGA, and even OM. In hindsight, I realize that the Hogs had more painful losses this year than any other year I can remember. But that is better than years like last year where we just get our asses kicked pretty much every game… I guess, right?. I hope I don’t start drinking the kool-aid for next year’s team until we win a road game (at UGA)…

by marquisc51 on Dec 9, 2009 2:18 PM CST reply actions

Ole Miss gets my vote

I feel Ole Miss was the toughest because we played so badly. We made Snead and McCluster look like superstars. Defense played out of position all day, took bad angles, didn’t tackle, etc. Mallet was “off” most of the game by missing open receivers or trying to impale them with the ball from 6 yards away. We seem like we were really never in the game. Most on here will pick Florida as the toughest loss because we were so close score-wise. I disagree because I still count that as a win as does most everyone (except dilusional UF fans) who saw the game. I still see references made by fans across the country pretty much saying the same thing. Second place was the LSU game because of the way we lost it. Defense and special teams being the culprit, once again.

by Hog 'n Iowa on Dec 9, 2009 2:50 PM CST reply actions

Georgia

This was the one game that we really, really should have won. This took the season in a negative direction that I believe impacted our final results more than most folks realize.

by T-towner on Dec 9, 2009 3:07 PM CST reply actions

Hog 'n Iowa

I think I need to change my vote after reading your post. Losing that game was the hardest to stomach.

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by RazorWOP on Dec 10, 2009 11:38 AM CST reply actions

In hindsight

My vote: Georgia

1) Unlike any of the other losses, this one was a home game
2) It was the conference opener (really, the season opener as Missouri State just shouldn’t count) and the loss more or less immediately dropped us from the radar
3) It turns out UGA wasn’t that good this year, I’d say they were the least talented of the teams to beat the Razorbacks

LSU was a nail biter, UF was a missed opportunity sprinkled with controversy and OM was a Nutt factored misfire, but losing right off the bat at home to equal talent hurt me the most.

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by RATW on Dec 12, 2009 11:36 PM CST reply actions