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I was in Lexington for the 2007 game... crazy game. Dan Williams blocked Kentucky's game-winning field goal attempt.
-Rucker2007 IN LEXINGTON
VOLS 52, CATS 50, 4 OT
Tennessee blew a 17-point lead to Kentucky, and that led to arguably the wildest game in the history of the Vols-Cats rivalry. The teams traded touchdowns in the first overtime, and Kentucky seemed on the verge of victory when Sam Maxwell intercepted Vols quarterback Erik Ainge at the goal-line on the first possession of the second overtime. The Cats couldn’t close it out, though, as Vols defensive tackle Dan Williams — a future first-round draft pick — blocked a 35-yard, would-be-game-winning field goal attempt from Kentucky’s Lones Seiber, a former star at Knoxville Central High School. Both teams scored touchdowns in the third overtime, but both fell short on their two-point conversion tries, with Kentucky keeping Vols tailback star Arian Foster out of the end zone on a would-be, game-winning conversion. Tennessee also got a personal foul penalty on that play, meaning it had to take the ball at the 40-yard line to start the fourth overtime. Ainge connected with wide receiver Quintin Hancock for the quarterback’s school-record seventh touchdown of the game on the first play, anyway, and then he connected with wide receiver Austin Rodgers for the two-point conversion. Kentucky’s Derrick Locke scored a touchdown moments later, but Vols senior defensive end Antonio Reynolds stuffed Kentucky quarterback Andre Woodson’s on the two-point conversion to end the marathon evening and clinch another SEC Eastern Division title for Tennessee under Coach Phillip Fulmer — who would be fired before the very next season ended.