What was our best game this year?

#51
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I responded w/ LSU as well. However, we all know we would’ve lost if the game had been at night.
In all seriousness, I’ve never seen a fan base have so much entitlement about the time of a kickoff than LSU did the week leading up to the game.
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Those fans filing out in the 3rd Q disgusted me. Pathetic and entitled.
 
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EconVol92 said:
I really don’t think we played well in 4 games. Pittsburgh, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

The difference was that neither Pittsburgh nor Florida were good enough to take advantage.

I think that the Georgia game it was both the noise and us not being able to adjust to the defense they ran, and finally South Carolina we were just discombobulated due to the locker room issues and we were just flat.
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Good points all.
 
#55
#55
In my opinion it wasn’t even close. I think we played our most complete game against Kentucky. Very good year except for 1 game but we over achieved. I’ll take it.
 
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There are so many ways to answer this question, depending on one's definition of "best" or the criteria one chooses to employ. For more than five decades, I regarded the 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma game as the "best," i.e., most entertaining game I personally watched, especially since it was a matchup between the numbers one- and two-ranked teams in the country. That position, however, has now been usurped by the 2022 Tennessee-Alabama game.

However, if one defines "best," in this context as most dominating performance, yes, excellent arguments can be made for victories over LSU, Kentucky and, despite our historical contempt for them as an opponent, Vanderbilt. We slaughtered the Commode flushers 56-0 on their home field when they were playing for a bowl bid. It is difficult to shut anybody out these days and, arguably, the only victory over Vandy that was more rewarding was the thermonuclear devastation that we unleashed upon them in 1994, when the final score was 65-0. Coach Cafego would have been very proud of our lads on that day.
 
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LSU.......Vols beat a tough team on the road.
KY........Absolute domination from start to finish
Bama....even though was a fluke win I loved it. (the shot duck flying sideways betwixt the goal posts was the fluke).
 
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Volfan1000 said:
Best game was beating Alabama with Florida a close second and Louisiana State University third.

I was watching the second installment Of SEC Football On Saturdays and I never knew that Paul Bryant was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt.

He was almost the head coach at Arkansas.

Bryant left a huge foot print in the SEC overall.
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And, although he never defeated a Neyland-coached Tennessee team, Bryant presided over the golden age of blue-belly football.
 
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N.ohio vol said:
One of my favorite games this year. Halloween night we looked very fast aggressive, solid, The defense made their q.b look less than average.
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Levis is less than average imo. Some NFL scouts love his measurables no doubt, but to date he is pretty lowsy at the actual playing of the position.
 
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utvolpj said:
These are horrible takes. Must have been a fun season for you to watch
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Wow, you are really making assumptions and/or misreading my post.

Yes it was a very ”fun season for me to watch”. The Bama game was as exciting a game as I ever saw. Right after the game, I called my son-in-law who was in Italy at the time and he is a big LSU fan. And since the team beat LSU, it is very enjoyable to remind him of that game.

The question was about best game and I assumed that meant the team’s best performance, not the most exciting game or most important game. When I think about the team’s performance, I include the defense as part of the team. I really don’t think the defense played that well this year which is why I wouldn’t be surprised or disappointed if there were a couple personnel changes on that side of the ball. Just because I don’t think our defense was very good doesn’t mean the season wasn’t exciting or a very good season.
I still think the team’s (definitely not the most exciting or “fun” game to watch) best game considering the offensive/defensive/special teams performance against a decent opponent) was against Kentucky. If I just consider the offense, my answer would be different.
 
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EconVol92 said:
I really don’t think we played well in 4 games. Pittsburgh, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

The difference was that neither Pittsburgh nor Florida were good enough to take advantage.

I think that the Georgia game it was both the noise and us not being able to adjust to the defense they ran, and finally South Carolina we were just discombobulated due to the locker room issues and we were just flat.
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Was the question about our Worse games?
 
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Raebo said:
LSU played a poor game against us. They improved as the season went on.

Bama, thanks to the crowd causing Bama to false start several times allowed us to get a 28-10 lead mid 2nd quarter but then Bama adjusted and dominated the rest of the game. To be honest we got very lucky the last 30 seconds of the game.

Kentucky overall was our team’s best game IMO.
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Did you buy anyone a Christmas gift?
 
#66
#66
In lieu of winning the East and actually playing for the SEC title, the best win was breathing life into the dormant Tennessee Football program. Provides hope for the future.
 
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EconVol92 said:
I really don’t think we played well in 4 games. Pittsburgh, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

The difference was that neither Pittsburgh nor Florida were good enough to take advantage.

I think that the Georgia game it was both the noise and us not being able to adjust to the defense they ran, and finally South Carolina we were just discombobulated due to the locker room issues and we were just flat.
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uga was just better that is why there was no adjustment. You have to remember how much they dominated the game, there were cheers because the vols scored a garbage time td. blame it on the noise but they were the only team that said” beat us one on one “and they made hendon move from his spot.

Bama win is an all timer considering 15 years of futility.

KY was total domination.
 
#70
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Alabama as far as the second best team we faced all year LSU as far as total domination and there field.
 
#75
#75
Depends on the definition of best. Best team game where we played good in all phases from start to finish would be LSU, Kentucky. Best game of the year as a fan, Alabama.
 
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