Vols rank in 100 greatest finishes

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The Arkansas game is pretty indisputable. The Syracuse game was a great finish, but nothing you don't see several times a year. In recent years, I think I'd put the 2004 Florida win and the 2001 Georgia loss above that one.
 
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The basic criteria:
1) These are the greatest finishes, not the greatest games. With few exceptions, the finish means the final play, final drive, or some other wild series of events to end a game. A good fourth quarter of a classic game doesn't necessarily count as a great finish. 2) The better, bigger and more significant the game, the more important the finish. 3) How memorable was it? It might not have been meaningful to determining a national champion, but it might have been one of the signature moments in college football history.
 
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(brg72 @ Mar 31 said:
The basic criteria:
1) These are the greatest finishes, not the greatest games. With few exceptions, the finish means the final play, final drive, or some other wild series of events to end a game. A good fourth quarter of a classic game doesn't necessarily count as a great finish. 2) The better, bigger and more significant the game, the more important the finish. 3) How memorable was it? It might not have been meaningful to determining a national champion, but it might have been one of the signature moments in college football history.
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After all those criteria, they've got a Marshall vs. East Carolina GMAC Bowl at #24. :wacko:
 
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(Jasongivm6 @ Mar 31 said:
What happened to the Miracle at South Bend? :dunno:
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I don't know that I would categorize that as a great FINISH. The game ended with a botched 21 yard FG.
 
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(GAVol @ Mar 31 said:
I don't know that I would categorize that as a great FINISH. The game ended with a botched 21 yard FG.
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SO?? I bet all those lame florida state vs. miami games are on there.....
 
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I just had to add insult to injury on this one to the Gamecock fans. I never heard of this game but this is classic.

No. 77 NC State 23 ... South Carolina 22, November 1, 1986

The setup: NC State was up 17-3 going into halftime but lost starting QB Erik Kramer early in the second half to a leg injury. USC's Todd Ellis hooked up with Sterling Sharpe for a touchdown and it became a ballgame again at 17-13. Kramer came back in the game, but he fired two interceptions in the fourth quarter leading to Gamecock points. Ellis ran for a one-yard score, and USC was up 22-17 late with the ball with 2:13 to play and with NC State out of timeouts. It should've been over. A handoff followed by two kneel-downs made it fourth down for USC on its own 24 with :30 to play (thanks to a controversial clock stoppage after first down). NC State got the ball back on the USC 39 with :24 to play after a 15-yard punt, but couldn't do anything as Kramer was sacked on third down and the clock ran out. However ...
The ending: ... there was a flag on the field. USC LB Kenneth Robinson was nailed with an offsides call. Many Gamecock fans had already stormed field, along with the players, but they had to be cleared for one final play. Kramer threw up a last-gasp pass into the end zone (as he aggravated his ankle injury) where Danny Peebles pushed off, leapt up and made the catch as USC safety Chris Major delivered a major shot. NC State won 23-22.
 
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(GAVol @ Mar 31 said:
I think I'd put the 2004 Florida win ... above that one.
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Wrong category. You were looking for the "Top 100 Botched Officiating Give a Gift to a Team About to Lose" list. The 2004 UT-Florida game goes in the Top 5 on that list.

 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 1 said:
Wrong category. You were looking for the "Top 100 Botched Officiating Give a Gift to a Team About to Lose" list. The 2004 UT-Florida game goes in the Top 5 on that list.
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Right next to Gaffney's "catch" in 2000.
 
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name='lawgator1' date='Apr 1, 2006 1:38 AM' post='281833']
Wrong category. You were looking for the "Top 100 Botched Officiating Give a Gift to a Team About to Lose" list. The 2004 UT-Florida game goes in the Top 5 on that list.
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Just like the gift no-catch catch the Gators were given in Knoxville a few years back.Remember, the ref that made the call played at Vanderbilt previously (Mathews).
 
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I guess the LSU game from this year doesn't make the list because... ??? It went to OT? Then again, it was the entire second half that was amazing, and like you said that doesn't necessarily fit the criteria for a great finish...
 
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(hatvol96 @ Apr 1 said:
Right next to Gaffney's "catch" in 2000.
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Of my 1,000 plus posts here, at least 200 have been about this issue. The SEC has publicly admitted that the clock was mismanaged by the SEC crew in 2004. There is no debate, no question, no argument, no issue. They blew it. Pure and simple.

2000 catch? I don't know. 2004 personal foul on one side? I don't know.

But no question that the 2000 clock was screwed up. And no question but that it changed the outcome of the game.

 
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1998 Florida-UT OT

NO SIR REE!!!!!!! VOLS WIN!!!

Best finish i ever heard by John Ward.
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 1 said:
Of my 1,000 plus posts here, at least 200 have been about this issue. The SEC has publicly admitted that the clock was mismanaged by the SEC crew in 2004. There is no debate, no question, no argument, no issue. They blew it. Pure and simple.

2000 catch? I don't know. 2004 personal foul on one side? I don't know.

But no question that the 2000 clock was screwed up. And no question but that it changed the outcome of the game.
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:rock: Go Clock
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 1 said:
Of my 1,000 plus posts here, at least 200 have been about this issue. The SEC has publicly admitted that the clock was mismanaged by the SEC crew in 2004. There is no debate, no question, no argument, no issue. They blew it. Pure and simple.

2000 catch? I don't know. 2004 personal foul on one side? I don't know.

But no question that the 2000 clock was screwed up. And no question but that it changed the outcome of the game.
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Little cheese with the whine there gator? Clock screwup?...yes But Fl's defense had the opportunity to stop that last drive and they didn't, they had the opportunity to score enough points that the last drive would have had to be a TD to win but they didn't (and before you say it we had the same opportunities in 2000 and we didn't get it done) so BOO HOO build a bridge and get over it.
 
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I know it was a bad day for us Vols, but how is the 2001 loss to UGA not on that list?
 
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(Taylor Moran @ Apr 3 said:
is the LSU/Tennessee game from 05' on there?
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well...that could be and probably should BUT THE ONY THING we remember is the terrible season that we had and not the great comeback...but all the underachieving
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 1 said:
Wrong category. You were looking for the "Top 100 Botched Officiating Give a Gift to a Team About to Lose" list. The 2004 UT-Florida game goes in the Top 5 on that list.
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Yea thats bull crap, you are just jealous that we swept you twice. :post-20645-1119625378:
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 1 said:
Wrong category. You were looking for the "Top 100 Botched Officiating Give a Gift to a Team About to Lose" list. The 2004 UT-Florida game goes in the Top 5 on that list.
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LG, all I can say is what comes around goes around. I seem to recall a pass that was broken up in the checkerboard endzone at the end of regulation, yet the officiating crew gave UF the touchdown and the win. Bad officiating happens, the best teams overcome it.
 
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