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Countdown to September 2nd vs UVA. (Top 150 Vols wins)
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THE most stressful game I have ever watched.
Was watching at friends house, and one of the people there didn't understand the UT/UF dynamic. Guy kept telling us to calm down we had it in the book. no way Florida could come back. After every score, he would say we were fine and there was nothing to worry about. Late in the fourth quarter we were straight up glaring at the guy. seemed like he was doing it on purpose to jinx us.
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35 days……
#35 - 28-21 vs #6 Penn State (1972)
I already documented the 1971 Penn State victory, but the 1972 victory over the Nittany Lions was twice as sweet for a variety of reasons.
JoPa had whined extensively about playing a day game in the south due to the heat. Just months after Tennessee spoiled Penn State’s perfect season in emphatic fashion at Neyland Stadium in 1971, the Nittany Lions’ head coach was scrambling to find a way to make sure the two-game contract between the schools didn’t have its second act at the Vols’ home field.
He proposed a neutral site game in Memphis, but Paterno was aware that Memphis State had a scheduling conflict when he agreed to play there and because of the early September heat, lobbied for a night game, going as far as consulting with a meteorologist months in advance about the projected sweltering temperatures that day. The other options were to move the game to one of the team’s respective campuses, but Neyland Stadium didn’t have lights and Paterno knew it. Paterno said, ‘We’ll play you at night in Knoxville or we’ll play you anytime you want in State College (Pennsylvania).’”
$3,000 later, Neyland had lights, and Penn St was going to be the first team to play under the lights in Neyland Stadium.
“The diminutive Holloway (he looks closer to 5'9", 160 than the 5'11", 175 he is purported to be) fluttered in and out of rushers' grasps like a butterfly, completed key passes and kept a complicated, shifting, all-kinds-of-people-in-motion offense flowing up and down the field. The lean 200-pound Stanback scored on runs of 41 and two yards. An ordinarily less spectacular Vol, Fullback Steve Chancey, not only threw the big block on Stanback's 41-yarder but also went 22 yards through a jungle of shoulders and arms for a touchdown of his own. The result was a halftime score of 21-0.”
The second half was completely different. Penn St’s QB John Hufnagel had looked shaky in the first half while passing for 21 yards. But in the second he threw for 171 yards and two touchdowns, and he handed off for a third.
With the PSU defense holding UT scoreless in the third period, UT took over at their own 20 with a slim 21-14 lead. Six minutes and 13 plays later Haskell Stanback went over from the two for his third touchdown. Even though Hufnagel brought the Lions right back to make it 28-21, time ran out on them before they could score again.
Stanback would rush for 101 yards and three touchdowns, helping make the first night game in Neyland a sweet one.
#35 - 28-21 vs #6 Penn State (1972)
I already documented the 1971 Penn State victory, but the 1972 victory over the Nittany Lions was twice as sweet for a variety of reasons.
JoPa had whined extensively about playing a day game in the south due to the heat. Just months after Tennessee spoiled Penn State’s perfect season in emphatic fashion at Neyland Stadium in 1971, the Nittany Lions’ head coach was scrambling to find a way to make sure the two-game contract between the schools didn’t have its second act at the Vols’ home field.
He proposed a neutral site game in Memphis, but Paterno was aware that Memphis State had a scheduling conflict when he agreed to play there and because of the early September heat, lobbied for a night game, going as far as consulting with a meteorologist months in advance about the projected sweltering temperatures that day. The other options were to move the game to one of the team’s respective campuses, but Neyland Stadium didn’t have lights and Paterno knew it. Paterno said, ‘We’ll play you at night in Knoxville or we’ll play you anytime you want in State College (Pennsylvania).’”
$3,000 later, Neyland had lights, and Penn St was going to be the first team to play under the lights in Neyland Stadium.
“The diminutive Holloway (he looks closer to 5'9", 160 than the 5'11", 175 he is purported to be) fluttered in and out of rushers' grasps like a butterfly, completed key passes and kept a complicated, shifting, all-kinds-of-people-in-motion offense flowing up and down the field. The lean 200-pound Stanback scored on runs of 41 and two yards. An ordinarily less spectacular Vol, Fullback Steve Chancey, not only threw the big block on Stanback's 41-yarder but also went 22 yards through a jungle of shoulders and arms for a touchdown of his own. The result was a halftime score of 21-0.”
The second half was completely different. Penn St’s QB John Hufnagel had looked shaky in the first half while passing for 21 yards. But in the second he threw for 171 yards and two touchdowns, and he handed off for a third.
With the PSU defense holding UT scoreless in the third period, UT took over at their own 20 with a slim 21-14 lead. Six minutes and 13 plays later Haskell Stanback went over from the two for his third touchdown. Even though Hufnagel brought the Lions right back to make it 28-21, time ran out on them before they could score again.
Stanback would rush for 101 yards and three touchdowns, helping make the first night game in Neyland a sweet one.
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34 days…..
#34 - 41-34 vs #11 Alabama (1983)
A year after ending an 11 game losing streak vs Bama, the 3-2 Vols traveled to Birmingham to face #11 Alabama.
Despite an 80 TD pass to Lenny Taylor, UT found itself behind 24-14 at halftime. Then, the real fireworks started.
Alabama took a 27-17 lead early in the third quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Van Tiffin.
But on the next series, Cockrell faked a pitch and threw a screen pass to Clyde Duncan, who went 80 yards for a touchdown.
Linnie Patrick returned the kickoff 46 yards for Alabama, and eight plays later Ricky Moore scored from six yards out for a 34-24 lead.
Tennessee again wasted no time scoring. Cockrell and Duncan teamed on a 57-yard scoring play with 5:09 left in the third quarter.
The Volunteers tied the game, 34-34, on Fuad Reveiz's 37-yard field goal with 8:45 left.
The Vols got the ball back, and the rest is history……”Just a few weeks after nearly quitting football because of his frustrations over injuries and lack of playing time, Johnnie Jones made himself a Tennessee legend. With the Vols and Tide tied at 34-all with 3:11 left, Jones took the ball on a quick option pitch on third-and-short from his own 34-yard line. No one touched him. Alabama's defense didn't seem ready for that play call, and Jones took advantage of a well-blocked play to burst near midfield before pulling off a beautifully vicious, stop-and-start cut near midfield and racing away from the Tide secondary.
Vols win it 41-34. Johnnie Jones became a legend.
#34 - 41-34 vs #11 Alabama (1983)
A year after ending an 11 game losing streak vs Bama, the 3-2 Vols traveled to Birmingham to face #11 Alabama.
Despite an 80 TD pass to Lenny Taylor, UT found itself behind 24-14 at halftime. Then, the real fireworks started.
Alabama took a 27-17 lead early in the third quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Van Tiffin.
But on the next series, Cockrell faked a pitch and threw a screen pass to Clyde Duncan, who went 80 yards for a touchdown.
Linnie Patrick returned the kickoff 46 yards for Alabama, and eight plays later Ricky Moore scored from six yards out for a 34-24 lead.
Tennessee again wasted no time scoring. Cockrell and Duncan teamed on a 57-yard scoring play with 5:09 left in the third quarter.
The Volunteers tied the game, 34-34, on Fuad Reveiz's 37-yard field goal with 8:45 left.
The Vols got the ball back, and the rest is history……”Just a few weeks after nearly quitting football because of his frustrations over injuries and lack of playing time, Johnnie Jones made himself a Tennessee legend. With the Vols and Tide tied at 34-all with 3:11 left, Jones took the ball on a quick option pitch on third-and-short from his own 34-yard line. No one touched him. Alabama's defense didn't seem ready for that play call, and Jones took advantage of a well-blocked play to burst near midfield before pulling off a beautifully vicious, stop-and-start cut near midfield and racing away from the Tide secondary.
Vols win it 41-34. Johnnie Jones became a legend.
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You know that article on the game that was in Sports Illustrated? There's an option somewhere on the page to go to the original layout. It was on one of the two pages that comprised the original article. So Holloway made SI in type and with a pic his second game as a Vol! I loved Haskel Stanback, so I was glad to see the photo you picked! I had never seen that one.
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Love this game! Great write-up. John Ward is the master. He always added "from Mumford, Tennessee" when Jones was involved!
It was such a thing that my brothers and I sometimes used to say simply "From Mumford, Tennesee!" in John Ward's cadence the way people say "Go Vols!" before the game.
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There is a video of that J Jones touchdown run, but it's not playing. And I watched it within the last three months. It seems like that happens too often with our stuff. Makes me wonder. Although I don't really look at anyone else's highlights to compare.
But I do notice too that a lot of our embedded photos in tweets in recruiting have been reported as sensitive enough times to lead Twitter's bot to censor the images. I really do like hearing Ward's call, though!
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37 days…..
#37 - 10-6 vs #6 Miami (2003)
2 touchdown underdogs. A 26 game home winning streak. The aurora of the Orange Bowl. The U. UT didn’t have a chance vs the vaunted Hurricanes.
Brick Berlin threw two interceptions and fumbled once as No. 18 Tennessee stunned sixth-ranked Miami 10-6, knocking the Hurricanes out of the national championship picture for the first time in four years and ending the nation's longest home-winning streak at 26 games.
The Volunteers (7-2) became the first visiting team to celebrate a victory at the Orange Bowl since Penn State did it Sept. 18, 1999. Tennessee won with just 170 yards of offense, 81 passing and 89 rushing.
The biggest play came when Fulmer gambled on fourth-and-goal from the 2 in the second quarter. Derrick Tinsley scored on an end around to give Tennessee a 10-3 lead.
The Hurricanes (7-2) failed to score a touchdown at home for the first time since 1984. It also was the first time since a 47-0 drubbing at Florida State in 1997 that Miami failed to scored a touchdown in any game.
Casey Clausen, who was 11-of-18 passing for 81 yards and improved to 13-1 as a starter on the road.
We also found out that Kellen Winslow was a “soldier.”
The victory helped Tennessee's chances of getting a berth in the Bowl Championship Series. Things didn’t work out, and the Vols settled for a Peach Bowl berth and would finish the season 10-3, ranked #16.
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And what an aurora it was.
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There is a video of that J Jones touchdown run, but it's not playing. And I watched it within the last three months. It seems like that happens too often with our stuff. Makes me wonder. Although I don't really look at anyone else's highlights to compare.
Edit: It's playing now!
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33 days……
#33 - 31-14 vs #4 Florida (1992)
By Brian Rice
UTSports.com
“A week earlier, virtually no one gave Tennessee a chance at Georgia. The Volunteers responded with a late-game comeback to earn UT's first win between the hedges since 1972.
Yet, when the No. 4 Florida Gators rolled into Knoxville, it was the same story. No shot that the 14th-ranked Volunteers could even give UF a game. In reality, it was the other way around.
The rivalry was still relatively new then, with only 21 previous meetings. But, like the Georgia series, 1992 marked the beginning of an annual date with Florida thanks to the Southeastern Conference's expansion to 12 teams and creation of two six-team divisions. But unlike the Georgia series, the old SEC schedule rotation had brought games between the teams in the two seasons prior. And plenty of bad blood had been fostered in and surrounding those games.
The 1990 game was a 45-3 blowout that welcomed first-year Gator coach Steve Spurrier to the series. A year later, a game played under the shadow of "Fax gate," involving a former UT assistant, a fax machine and a couple of playbooks, went UF's way, 35-18, in Gainesville.
With Phil Fulmer still on the sideline in place of head coach Johnny Majors as he recovered from heart surgery, the Vols and Gators were greeted by sunny skies at Neyland Stadium. That was a temporary condition.
Florida drove the length of the field early, but a missed field goal kept the game scoreless. The Volunteers continued the defensive theme with a blocked punt by Tracy Smith to set up the UT offense inside the Florida 15. A pair of Heath Shuler runs later, Tennessee had a 7-0 lead.
The Vols kept the ground game going as the first half wore on with Shuler, Charlie Garner, Aaron Hayden, Mose Phillips and James Stewart pounding away at the Florida defense. Stewart extended the UT lead to 14-0 with a 15-yard score in the second quarter. After a Florida TD, UT drove the field and milked the clock down to allow John Becksvoort to hit a 35-yard field goal with only seconds left in the half for a 17-7 halftime edge.
As the third quarter moved on, storm clouds formed over the field while Todd Kelly and the Tennessee defensive line dominated on it. The Florida offensive line had no answer for the pressure of Kelly, who had one of three UT sacks on the afternoon, with his pressure helping on eight negative-yard tackles by the Vol defense.
The rain started falling lightly at the midway point of the third quarter, just as UT took possession at midfield. It was not light for long. A downpour consumed Neyland Stadium and would not let up for most of the rest of the game. The rain caused puddles all over the artificial surface, none deeper than on the Florida sideline, where the Gators were literally standing in a swamp. The defense swamped the Gator offense as well, with a J.J. Surlas stop of Eric Rhett forcing a punt to UT.
As Tennessee began to drive down the field, the rain poured down even heavier, affecting the ABC satellite signal, but not the Volunteer offense. A steady diet of Garner gave UT a first down at the Vol 34.
Florida sold out on a perfectly executed play action to the near side, leaving Phillips open on a screen pass to the far side. Shuler put it right in his hands and Phillips did the rest on one of the most iconic plays in Tennessee history. Phillips took off up the sideline for a 66-yard touchdown in the downpour. His celebration was simple, a look at his wrist as if he were checking the time on his wristwatch, to say "It's about time."
Shuler added his second rushing touchdown on the third play of the fourth quarter for the Vols' final score. Florida added a late TD pass for the final 31-14 margin.
Tennessee managed just 94 passing yards in the deluge, but that did not matter to the fans in the stands. The Volunteers were 3-0, 2-0 in the SEC, and Fulmer's stock as a future coach somewhere was way up as Majors returned a week later against Cincinnati. At the end of the season, the dream for the man from Winchester, Tenn. would come true as he was named head coach prior to UT's trip to the Hall of Fame Bowl.”
#33 - 31-14 vs #4 Florida (1992)
By Brian Rice
UTSports.com
“A week earlier, virtually no one gave Tennessee a chance at Georgia. The Volunteers responded with a late-game comeback to earn UT's first win between the hedges since 1972.
Yet, when the No. 4 Florida Gators rolled into Knoxville, it was the same story. No shot that the 14th-ranked Volunteers could even give UF a game. In reality, it was the other way around.
The rivalry was still relatively new then, with only 21 previous meetings. But, like the Georgia series, 1992 marked the beginning of an annual date with Florida thanks to the Southeastern Conference's expansion to 12 teams and creation of two six-team divisions. But unlike the Georgia series, the old SEC schedule rotation had brought games between the teams in the two seasons prior. And plenty of bad blood had been fostered in and surrounding those games.
The 1990 game was a 45-3 blowout that welcomed first-year Gator coach Steve Spurrier to the series. A year later, a game played under the shadow of "Fax gate," involving a former UT assistant, a fax machine and a couple of playbooks, went UF's way, 35-18, in Gainesville.
With Phil Fulmer still on the sideline in place of head coach Johnny Majors as he recovered from heart surgery, the Vols and Gators were greeted by sunny skies at Neyland Stadium. That was a temporary condition.
Florida drove the length of the field early, but a missed field goal kept the game scoreless. The Volunteers continued the defensive theme with a blocked punt by Tracy Smith to set up the UT offense inside the Florida 15. A pair of Heath Shuler runs later, Tennessee had a 7-0 lead.
The Vols kept the ground game going as the first half wore on with Shuler, Charlie Garner, Aaron Hayden, Mose Phillips and James Stewart pounding away at the Florida defense. Stewart extended the UT lead to 14-0 with a 15-yard score in the second quarter. After a Florida TD, UT drove the field and milked the clock down to allow John Becksvoort to hit a 35-yard field goal with only seconds left in the half for a 17-7 halftime edge.
As the third quarter moved on, storm clouds formed over the field while Todd Kelly and the Tennessee defensive line dominated on it. The Florida offensive line had no answer for the pressure of Kelly, who had one of three UT sacks on the afternoon, with his pressure helping on eight negative-yard tackles by the Vol defense.
The rain started falling lightly at the midway point of the third quarter, just as UT took possession at midfield. It was not light for long. A downpour consumed Neyland Stadium and would not let up for most of the rest of the game. The rain caused puddles all over the artificial surface, none deeper than on the Florida sideline, where the Gators were literally standing in a swamp. The defense swamped the Gator offense as well, with a J.J. Surlas stop of Eric Rhett forcing a punt to UT.
As Tennessee began to drive down the field, the rain poured down even heavier, affecting the ABC satellite signal, but not the Volunteer offense. A steady diet of Garner gave UT a first down at the Vol 34.
Florida sold out on a perfectly executed play action to the near side, leaving Phillips open on a screen pass to the far side. Shuler put it right in his hands and Phillips did the rest on one of the most iconic plays in Tennessee history. Phillips took off up the sideline for a 66-yard touchdown in the downpour. His celebration was simple, a look at his wrist as if he were checking the time on his wristwatch, to say "It's about time."
Shuler added his second rushing touchdown on the third play of the fourth quarter for the Vols' final score. Florida added a late TD pass for the final 31-14 margin.
Tennessee managed just 94 passing yards in the deluge, but that did not matter to the fans in the stands. The Volunteers were 3-0, 2-0 in the SEC, and Fulmer's stock as a future coach somewhere was way up as Majors returned a week later against Cincinnati. At the end of the season, the dream for the man from Winchester, Tenn. would come true as he was named head coach prior to UT's trip to the Hall of Fame Bowl.”
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