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Yeah, I was just thinking of worst AQ team

2004 Fiesta Bowl Pitt was memorably bad as well, though not the worst. Blasted by Urban Meyer's Utah team quarterbacked by Alex Smith.

edit: I see Orange already listed this team back a few posts.

I think I read the 65-7 was the largest bowl game blow out.  I'd guess in regular bowl games, once it's 38-7 the horses get pulled and pulled again.

my fav bowl blowout

1996 Fiesta - Florida - = Tempe W 62-24

Sadly (for us and for Purdue), LSU's record was not really underperforming, it was actually probably overperforming considering the depleted roster Orgeron left us with.  Really, we shouldn't have beaten Alabama last year, we kind of stole one there, and UGA consequently treated us like the team we actually were in the SEC CG.

I think Purdue was without their starting QB last year when we played.  Definitely didn't help their cause.  I knew holding them to 7 was fool's gold, but DAMN did I not see this year's travesty of a defense coming.  But on offense, that was probably the beginning of what would be this year's record-setting group. 

I remember posting here last year that I thought we had the best overall WR group although perhaps not the best WR or even #2 WR.  Some of the Buckeyes asked who we had like Marvin Harrison, Jr. and....??...whoever their #2 was last year.  I explained again, maybe nobody, but overall I thought we had a fantastic group of about 5 guys who really looked the part and played well.  I feel more justified in that now, with Nabers smoking the yardage records and BTJr. leading the TD receptions, with both in the top 10 of each category, and another guy who did well when called on.  Last year's group also had another excellent guy we missed this year.  Looking back at the Purdue bowl game, maybe that's when things started really clicking for our QB. 

But what I really remember about that bowl game was the traitor Drew Brees coaching for the Boilermakers, actively working against many fans and players who idolized him.  Da hell was he thinking....helping his actual college team and stuff?  

The bowl season means less and less, and next year, even less than that.

Will I watch UGA-FSU?  Probably, though I may be on a plane.  Will I watch some other vague bowl game?  Probably, channel surfing and dozing off.  Will I watch the final rematch between Texas and Bama?  Probably not.  

I have always thought once they get to the 5-7 teams,  they should take the 5-7 team that has gone the longest time without a bowl.  That would be the team with the fans most excited to go to a bowl.  Minnesota went to a bowl last year and lost their last 4 games this year.  Is there any Minnesota fan excited to go to Detroit for a bowl this year?

On the other hand,  being an Iowa fan,  there is a part of me that likes that Nebraska has not gone to a bowl since 2016 and wants to see that streak keep going, and I want Iowa to be the team that keeps Nebraska out of a bowl each time.  

But then again part of me wants Nebraska to make a bowl because that would make Fearless happy.

We all know the pluses of having your team make a bowl game, any bowl game, and they are fairly significant.  Some of us think it's a time to play mostly underclassmen, maybe give the uppers a couple series if they want.  We get AP rankings after the bowls which now makes little sense, to me.  We've gone back to the Olden Times.