Best bowl win

#6
#6
My top 5

1. 85 Sugar - Huge underdogs - as an almost teenager I still remember Keith Jackson continuing to talk about Miami winning the national championship until Jeff Powell puts the last nail in the coffin. Helped start a great 20 year run in Tennessee Football

2. 98 Fiesta Bowl - National Championship Game - Just felt like was never in danger of losing this game and FSU 3rd string QB pushes it down to number 2

3. 2022 Orange - Kind of felt like the “we are back” moment. Biggest bowl win in 20 years.

4. 89 Cotton - Beat a really talented Arkansas team as Chuck Webb goes off for 250.

5. Tie 95 and 2002 Citrus - Beating 2 Ohio State and Michigan both great wins for the program.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
My top 5

1. 85 Sugar - Huge underdogs - as an almost teenager I still remember Keith Jackson continuing to talk about Miami winning the national championship until Jeff Powell puts the last nail in the coffin. Helped start a great 20 year run in Tennessee Football

2. 98 Fiesta Bowl - National Championship Game - Just felt like was never in danger of losing this game and FSU 3rd string QB pushes it down to number 2

3. 2022 Orange - Kind of felt like the “we are back” moment. Biggest bowl win in 20 years.

4. 89 Cotton - Beat a really talented Arkansas team as Chuck Webb goes off for 250.

5. Tie 95 and 2002 Citrus - Beating 2 Ohio State and Michigan both great wins for the program.
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Agree, the natty was great. But oh that Sugar Bowl and the way the Vols dominated the Canes. Tops for me.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
My top 5

1. 85 Sugar - Huge underdogs - as an almost teenager I still remember Keith Jackson continuing to talk about Miami winning the national championship until Jeff Powell puts the last nail in the coffin. Helped start a great 20 year run in Tennessee Football

2. 98 Fiesta Bowl - National Championship Game - Just felt like was never in danger of losing this game and FSU 3rd string QB pushes it down to number 2

3. 2022 Orange - Kind of felt like the “we are back” moment. Biggest bowl win in 20 years.

4. 89 Cotton - Beat a really talented Arkansas team as Chuck Webb goes off for 250.

5. Tie 95 and 2002 Citrus - Beating 2 Ohio State and Michigan both great wins for the program.
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I’m going to add the not actually a bowl game “Rosebonnett”bowl over UCLA in Memphis. Swamp Rat Dewey Warren put TN back on the map!
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
The Sugar Vols was the highlight of my fandom. Even more so than the Natty. For one thing I was still a kid then and it meant more then. Second, Miami dominated football in the 80's and we had been down a long time prior to that.
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It wasn't the most talented team we have ever fielded, but that game marked the most complete and most inspired performance by a Tennessee team that I have seen in 58 years of Big Orange fandom.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
My top 5

1. 85 Sugar - Huge underdogs - as an almost teenager I still remember Keith Jackson continuing to talk about Miami winning the national championship until Jeff Powell puts the last nail in the coffin. Helped start a great 20 year run in Tennessee Football

2. 98 Fiesta Bowl - National Championship Game - Just felt like was never in danger of losing this game and FSU 3rd string QB pushes it down to number 2

3. 2022 Orange - Kind of felt like the “we are back” moment. Biggest bowl win in 20 years.

4. 89 Cotton - Beat a really talented Arkansas team as Chuck Webb goes off for 250.

5. Tie 95 and 2002 Citrus - Beating 2 Ohio State and Michigan both great wins for the program.
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The 2002 Citrus is a tough bowl to place. I don't think of it fondly. Far from it; I only taste ash and bitterness when I remember that game. I don't like to watch it. Tennessee had no business being relegated to that Citrus Bowl. They thrashed Michigan, sure, but that's because Tennessee was worlds better than just about everyone that season. The Vols should have been playing Miami for the national title. Clausen, Stallworth, Kevin Burnett, Boo Moore, Jabari Greer, Washington, Witten, Stephens, Fleming, Weary, Big John Henderson, Haynesworth, Overstreet, Ritzmann, Eddie Moore, Dominique Stenvson, Andre Lott ... oh and Colquitt. And there was more talent than those names, too, I just feel like the point is made. No reason for that kind of talent to be relegated to the Citrus Bowl. None. And that failure was the beginning of the decline.

And, I'll add, if any team had the players to threaten Miami in 2001, it was Tennessee. Just didn't have the organization / preparation / focus to get there. Well, all that, and a guy to spy a backup QB, apparently.
 
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Voltopia said:
The 2002 Citrus is a tough bowl to place. I don't think of it fondly. Far be it, I only taste ash and bitterness when I remember that game. I don't like to watch it. Tennessee had no business being relegated to that Citrus Bowl. They thrashed Michigan, sure, but that's because Tennessee was worlds better than just about everyone that season. The Vols should have been playing Miami for the national title. Clausen, Stallworth, Kevin Burnett, Boo Moore, Jabari Greer, Washington, Witten, Stephens, Fleming, Weary, Big John Henderson, Haynesworth, Overstreet, Ritzmann, Eddie Moore, Dominique Stenvson, Andre Lott ... oh and Colquitt. And there was more talent than those names, too, I just feel like the point is made. No reason for that kind of talent to be relegated to the Citrus Bowl. None. And that failure was the beginning of the decline.

And, I'll add, if any team had the players to threaten Miami in 2001, it was Tennessee. Just didn't have the organization / preparation / focus to get there. Well, all that, and a guy to spy a backup QB, apparently.
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Yep, we butt fumbled that opportunity away. I still don't think we'd have beaten Miami, but if we had a 1 in 10 shot I'd have liked to have rolled those dice.
 
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Big Orange Captain said:
I was there too. That was a great win over a very talented Ohio St. team. Didn’t John Cooper accuse us of having longer cleats or something lol.
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The weather put a damper on field conditions. So, Tennessee panic ordered new cleats to prevent slipping on a soggy, grass field.

Tennessee ordered some cleats from a company in Cookeville, Tennessee, and they screwed up the order,” said Hyams. “They sent Tennessee soccer cleats. The soccer cleats were a little bit longer than football cleats, and they were longer than regulation football cleats.”

19 players wore them, but only 8 saw action in the game.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
My top 5

1. 85 Sugar - Huge underdogs - as an almost teenager I still remember Keith Jackson continuing to talk about Miami winning the national championship until Jeff Powell puts the last nail in the coffin. Helped start a great 20 year run in Tennessee Football

2. 98 Fiesta Bowl - National Championship Game - Just felt like was never in danger of losing this game and FSU 3rd string QB pushes it down to number 2

3. 2022 Orange - Kind of felt like the “we are back” moment. Biggest bowl win in 20 years.

4. 89 Cotton - Beat a really talented Arkansas team as Chuck Webb goes off for 250.

5. Tie 95 and 2002 Citrus - Beating 2 Ohio State and Michigan both great wins for the program.
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Trade 1 and 2, but spot on.

I was at the 89 Cotton Bowl. One helluva college football game with two Top-5 teams throwing haymakers. My senior year.

I sat beside Quin Grovey on a flight many years ago. Great, great dude. I rubbed in the Pickens interception a bit, but it was all in good fun. I enjoyed meeting him. He also had a great game that day.
 
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Cobb-Webb 1989 said:
Edit:

The weather put a damper on field conditions. So, Tennessee panic ordered new cleats to prevent slipping on a soggy, grass field.

Tennessee ordered some cleats from a company in Cookeville, Tennessee, and they screwed up the order,” said Hyams. “They sent Tennessee soccer cleats. The soccer cleats were a little bit longer than football cleats, and they were longer than regulation football cleats.”

19 players wore them, but only 8 saw action in the game.
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And I think that it was a 5 yard penalty if the refs had noticed.
 
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