10 Teams That Had No Business Winning in 2015

We've all seen crazy comebacks in sports before, but there are some that are a little more ridiculous than others, making fans wonder how in the hell one team came from behind or pulled off a ridiculous play to come out on the winning end.

It's those moments where, just when you think it's safe to change the channel or leave the stadium, you find out that something crazy happened and the assumed winner was actually the loser.

There have been a lot of those moments in the past 12 months—and here are the craziest, as these are the teams who had no business winning in 2015.

Baltimore Ravens Beats Cleveland Browns

Being a Cleveland Browns fan, I can't even begin to tell you how immune I am to watching the factory of sadness that the team has been since returning in 1999.

Losing in ways that no team could ever imagine, proof that God might really hate Cleveland, happened during a Monday Night Football game against the Baltimore Ravens that will be talked about for a long, long time. And, of course, the Brownies came out on the losing end.

After coming back and tying the game in the second half against Baltimore, when the Browns lined up for a game-winning field-goal attempt, the Dawg Pound believed the team was going to steal the victory.

Then Cleveland sports happened.

The field-goal kick was blocked and scooped up by Baltimore's Will Hill, who outran everyone down the sideline to score as time expired, sending everyone in attendance into shock, rage and disbelief that bad luck continues to haunt the Cleveland Browns.

Golden State Warriors Beat Los Angeles Clippers

Already developing quite the rivalry with their in-state rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, when the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors battled the Clips in an early-season game this season, everyone knew it would be epic.

Carrying an undefeated record into the matchup, the Dubs kept their perfect season going as they overcame a 23-point deficit as last year's league MVP, Stephen Curry, dropped a cool 40 points on L.A. in helping his team reward those hoops fans who stayed up late to watch the end of this one.

It wasn't a playoff series or anything, but it's a loss that the Clippers haven't seemed to get over, as they've gotten off to a slow start.

Northern Iowa Beats North Carolina

With all due respect to the Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team, when they hosted the North Carolina Tar Heels a couple of weeks ago—the No. 1-ranked team in the nation at the time—they had no business being as close as they were in that game, let alone actually winning it, 71-67.

With the Heels playing without star point guard Marcus Paige, Northern Iowa took advantage, playing at the pace they wanted and making UNC look like the underdog.

The victory by the Panthers was one of the biggest in school history. While upsets happen in all sports, this one so early in the college hoops season was one that was shocking against a team like North Carolina who is looked at as a serious national title contender.

Ohio State Beats Alabama and Oregon

Look, it's not as if the Ohio State Buckeyes football team wasn't talented or undeserving of their ranking and inclusion into last season's College Football Playoff, but with a third-string quarterback in Cardale Jones, no one had given the Scarlet and Gray much of a chance against the Alabama Crimson Tide or the Oregon Ducks.

Little did fans know just how perfect the Bucks would play both teams in back-to-back weeks to claim the national title.

With Jones doing enough to make big plays when he needed to and riding the shoulders of beastly running back Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State captured a championship that few would have ever imagined was possible when their team's starting quarterback all season, J.T. Barrett, was carted off the turf against Michigan in late November.

Sometimes, though, all it takes is some belief, luck and a hell of a lot of hard work—which all came together for the Buckeyes last season.

Nebraska Beats Michigan State

While the Michigan State Spartans football team was on the winning side in a remarkable win against the Michigan Wolverines this season, they also got the shaft byway of an awful call by the refs that led to their only loss of the year.

Playing against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln, when Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. hit receiver Brandon Reilly with a touchdown pass along the sideline in the closing seconds, refs botched the call and killed Sparty's hopes of an unblemished record.

As Reilly hauled in the catch, replays clearly showed that he had been out of bounds and came back into the field of play—a penalty that should have been called against the Huskers—never reestablishing himself yet still becoming the first player to touch the ball.

There was a big stink about the officials messing up the call, with many believing that the Spartans' national title hopes were tarnished. But thankfully, that wasn't the case as Michigan State finds itself in the College Football Playoff just a few weeks after the devastating loss.

Japan Rugby Beats South Africa

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not much of a rugby fan, but after interviewing a player from the U.S. squad, Mike Petri, prior to the Rugby World Cup this summer, I gained an understanding of just how big the six-week event actually is.

That's why after I heard of the result between Japan and South Africa in their group-stage matchup, I was shocked, as Japan stunned the Emerging Springboks by winning and capturing one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's history.

Like a few others on this list, upsets happen in all of sports, but when they come on a global stage like this, where the underdog is almost given no chance to actually win, it comes as a surprise that's both cool and too unbelievable to believe.

Give credit to Team Japan, though, because they might have been the only people on the planet who thought they could steal a victory in this one.

Houston Rockets Beat Los Angeles Clippers

I don't mean to pick on the Los Angeles Clippers here, but in the past half-year or so, they've had trouble closing out teams.

While the aforementioned 23-point blown lead against the Golden State Warriors earlier this season was a heartbreaker, blowing a 3-1 series lead against the Houston Rockets in last year's Western Conference Semifinals was a hell of a lot worse, as they just crippled under the pressure of trying to win that fourth game of the matchup.

The Rockets played out of their minds in those final three games to take the series and never gave up hope in coming back. But, wow, the Clippers seemed to take their foot off of the gas by letting the Rockets believe they could advance to the conference finals.

Georgia State Beats Baylor

It's one of the best upsets of the NCAA tournament in the past few years, as the No. 14th-seeded Georgia State Panthers came from behind to shock the No. 3-seeded Baylor Bears in their second-round matchup.

With Baylor leading with just a few minutes to play, Georgia State's leading scorer, R.J. Hunter, wouldn't let his team lose, willing the Panthers to a comeback for the ages by scoring 12 of his team's final 13 points to close out the game, hitting a deadly three-pointer with just seconds left for the victory.

For those who didn't believe in a No. 14 seed, the Panthers busted those fans' brackets in a big way by winning this one, reminding us all why the tourney's referred to as March Madness.

Michigan State Beats Michigan

It's one of the most insane endings I've ever seen in my entire life, with the Michigan State Spartans football team defying the odds against their archival, the Michigan Wolverines, earlier this season in a classic game that no one will son forget.

With the Wolverines mismanaging the clock and heading onto the field to punt with under 10 seconds left in the game, the unthinkable happened, as Michigan punter Blake O’Neill botched the snap and, rather than just sit on it, actually tried to punt the thing away.

It was in that moment that the pigskin was deflected off of O’Neill's hand and into the Spartans' Jalen Watts-Jackson, who returned it to the end zone for a game-winning score that shocked college football.

Had Watts-Jackson not gotten in for the score, Sparty wouldn't be in the position they're currently in—in the College Football Playoff and competing for a national title.

Miami (FL) Beats Duke

While a lot of these games are hypothetical situations where one team blew a big lead and another one took advantage to grab a victory from their opponent, the Miami Hurricanes-Duke Blue Devils football game this season is one that the Canes actually had no business winning.

That's because, after an incredible eight-lateral kickoff return for the winning touchdown as time expired, the ACC conference admitted following the game that the refs botched the call and proceeding review, mistakenly awarding the Canes the victory.

The officials were suspended for their failure in recognizing that a Miami player was actually down before the madness in the return, but the damage was already done with the Dukies getting a loss that should have never happened.