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Given the extensive list of sports upsets in this article, should we divide the list of events up according to sport? Just throwing it out there and seeing what you guys think. Usharimau (talk) 19:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
vcu over duke wasn't one of the biggest upsets in sports history! it was a regular, 11 seed over 6 seed upset. 20% of people predicted it. WIZARD826 19:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
1) UCLA v. #2 USC Reason: it is an pset in that the result was unexpected, but it is not prominent enough to merit inclusion; plenty of times #2 will lose. In fact, this occured ~6 time in the 2007-8 season. 2) ALCS red sox and yanks Reason: an upset occurs when a team disfavored from the beginning wins. Going into the series, the teams were evenly matched, so the result is not an upset. It's akin to a team losing despite leading by 5 runs in the ninth inning, also not an upset. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.160.40 (talk) 02:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC) 3)Boise State vs. Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. A #8 Team beating a #10 team is not an upset Frank Anchor Talk to me (R-OH) 01:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I wonder about including the semifinal match of the 1999 Rugby World Cup between New Zealand and France. New Zealand we're heavily favored, but France beat them in a match that the BBC referred to as: "Without question this ranks as the greatest game in World Cup history". ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/rugby_world_cup/history/2966114.stm ) Peoplesunionpro (talk) 19:11, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sure Argentina's run deserves a mention, beating half the of Six Nations and reaching the semi finals, despite not being part of any of the other regular international competitions 82.13.190.199 (talk) 20:33, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Surely there have been political upsets outside the USA? 1992 UK general election perhaps?
This whole article is a mess and suffers terribly from recentism as well as parochialism. The Indianapolis mayoral race? Give me a break! Theshoveljockey (talk) 18:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I proposed wiping anything unsourced and readding verifiable text. Any thoughts? --neon white talk 18:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I've added a mention of the term "cupset" which has been used somewhat often in reference to the FA Cup, in the Association Football section. Not sure that's the best place on the page, but I think this - and any other specific terms for upsets in specific sports or competitions - do merit inclusion on the page. 94.194.66.92 (talk) 21:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
This is such a bad article it's difficult to know where to start. The one significant fact on the page (the surprising defeat of the horse Man o' War by the horse Upset being the root of the term) is uncited, and possibly untrue as the article admits itself. The rest is a massive list of "examples" where the only thing verifying them as "upsets" is the opinion of the editors who contributed them. Consequently it's all original research, 90% of it is POVs. There are a few examples that may stand up to some scrutiny and may be citable, but as the article isn't List of events that some may think are an upset I'd delete practically all of it. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 23:15, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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The 2007 New England Patriots had a 16-0 regular season record headed into Super Bowl XLII/42 as a 12 point favorites against the New York Giants where they would lose 17-14 the loss is considered by many to be one of the greatest upsets of all time in Super Bowl history. https://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/2013/06/24/greatest-upsets-sports-history https://vault.si.com/vault/2012/02/06/1714-hindsight https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/sports/football/04game.html 88thD (talk) 21:39, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately, this article is heading back to the state it was 13 years ago (see above discussion). It's again becoming dominated by an arbitrary list of events, when all it should contain is some examples. There is no established criteria for inclusion, so editors keep piling on examples that they believe qualify.
The article needs to decide what it is. Is it a list of upsets, of an explanation of what an upset is? A list, I would argue, is a futile endeavour that would be difficult to define and impossible to maintain. Thousands of events can be called an upset. It also seems inappropriate to be including sports and politics in the same article.
So again, I would suggest that this article is pruned back to contain a few, extremely well known, examples, and stop pretending it can be an article documenting every event that has ever been called an upset. Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)