(11-07-2020 08:15 AM)bubbapt Wrote: Didn’t we lose 47-3 to Arkansas State not so long ago?
You would have to go back to the early 1960s for such a sustained level of success in our football program.
When Huge Freeze was coach there. 2010
Chuck Stobart had three 6-5 seasons, 92, 93, 94. playing a lot of sec schools. And was fired.
Memphis State went 6–5 in 1992.[309] They began the season on September 5, losing the Black and Blue Bowl to Southern Miss by a score of 23–21.[310] Another close loss came the following week in the form of a 16–15 loss to Louisville.[311] In the season's third game, the Tigers dropped another nail biter, falling to #24 Mississippi State by a margin of 20–16.[312] After the season's third game, 80 Tigers football players boycotted team practice, claiming they had lost respect for Coach Stobart for the way he handled the team.[313][314] However, after Stobart acknowledged the players' frustrations and promised to change his approach, the players returned after sitting out only one day.[315] On September 26, Memphis State won their first game of the season, defeating Arkansas by a margin of 22–6.[316] The Tigers defeated Cincinnati by a score of 34–14[317] and followed that with a 37–7 victory over rival Arkansas State.[318] On October 24, Memphis State defeated Tulsa by a margin of 30–25.[319] The team's winning streak was extended to five with a 62–20 shellacking of Tulane on Halloween.[320] Ole Miss snapped Memphis State's winning streak on November 7 with a 17–12 victory over the Tigers.[321] That was followed by a 26–21 loss to #23 Tennessee on November 14.[322] They finished the season with a 42–7 drubbing of East Carolina on November 21.[323]
The Tigers finished with another 6–5 record in 1993.[324] They opened the season with a 45–35 victory over #23 Mississippi State on September 4.[325] In the season's second game, Stobart's team got crushed by Louisville to the tune of 54–28.[326] The Tigers lost a closer 17–15 contest to Louisiana-Lafayette in their third game of the season.[327] The Tigers then notched their first win of the season, shutting out Arkansas by a margin of 6–0.[328] That was followed by a 34–7 thrashing of East Carolina[329] and a 45–3 drubbing of rival Arkansas State.[330] Stobart's squad lost to Tulsa by a score of 23–19[331] and Cincinnati by a count of 23–20 over the next two weeks.[332] The Tigers then defeated Ole Miss by a score of 19–3[333] and Southern Miss by a margin of 20–9.[334] In the season's last game, the Tigers lost to #9 Miami by a margin of 41–17.[335] Star wide receiver Isaac Bruce, a senior in 1993, finished his Memphis State career with 113 receptions for 1,586 yards (14.0 yards per rec. avg.) and 15 touchdowns.[336] He was selected in the second round with the 33rd overall pick in the 1994 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams.[337]
Memphis State University changed its name to the University of Memphis in 1994.[4][12] That year, the Tigers finished 6–5 for the third consecutive year.[338] On September 3, Stobart's squad lost to Mississippi State by a margin of 17–6.[339] Memphis won its first game of the season the following week with a 42–18 thrashing of Tulsa.[340] After a 20–3 loss to Southern Miss,[341] Memphis won their next four games; topping Arkansas in a 16–15 nail biter,[342] Tulane in a 13–0 shutout,[290] Arkansas State by a margin of 15–6[343] and Cincinnati in a 26–3 blowout.[344] On October 29, Memphis lost to Louisville by a score of 10–6.[345] That was followed by a 17–16 win over Ole Miss.[346] In the season's final two games, the Tigers lost to Tennessee by a margin of 24–13[347] and East Carolina by a count of 30–6.[348] On January 13, 1995, Stobart was fired as head coach of the Tigers.[349] His Tigers compiled a 29–36–1 record in his five seasons.[350]