Your Favorite Non-Championship Moment

#51
#51
I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned the Chuck Webb Cotton Bowl and the victory over Ohio State.

In truth, the Tennessee / tOSU game was the best bowl game that year, and easily could have been the National Championship game.
 
#52
#52
sickemsmokey10 said:
2003 vs Alabama. 4th and 19
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That was a great one but there were probably 15 plays that were "this is the game" plays that day. I remember telling my buddy, we were there, that if he said "this is it" one more time I'm gonna kick his azz.

Wasn't that in the 2nd OT?
 
#53
#53
Since you said not from SEC or national championship I'd have to say beating Alabama in 82 to break an 11 game losing streak is mine.
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#54
#54
Not my favorite, but the announcement of Derek Dooley not returning as head coach/announcement of Butch Jones.

Just a more recent memory.
 
#60
#60
Being in the center of the UT section (Northeast Corner) at the Notre Dame game. WIDE RIGHT - as Touchdown Jesus can't save the Irish!
 
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#61
FullButchVol said:
This.

Stephens carrying the team. The game being moved to the end of the year due to 9/11. This game just had a different feeling than the other UT/Florida games.
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i really wish we would switch that game with a november game
 
#63
#63
Over the years I have had the pleasure to see in person all but the Georgia game. All of these games rank very high for me:

1. 1986 Sugar Bowl crushing Miami: media for weeks talked of Miami being a split NC and the game had'nt been played yet. Miami with Testeverde and Michael Irvin and little ole UT with Dale Jones (one of my all time faves) Kelly Ziegler, Charles Davis, and the rest of that awesome defense refused to quit and willed victories for years.

2. 1992 Florida at UT, AKA the Hurricane Andrew Bowl. Florida had Shane Mathews as the nations Heisman candidate, Eric Rhett. UT's Mr. Todd Kelley SR showed Mathews who his daddy was that game and you never heard from Mathews again. 2nd half Hurricane Andrew floods Neyland and a young Heath Shuler and William Howard dominate on the ground to a 31-14 win.

3. 1998 Florida at UT, AL FREAKIN WILSON, enough said. 23-20.

4. 2004 Florida at UT, James Wilhoit grows up and makes the kick of his life. (another all time fave player).

5. 2006 UT at Georgia, Georgia nationally ranked in the top 10 and was dominating us in the first half. Second half Eric Ainge, Brett Smith, Robert Meacham, jason Swain, and Aerian Foster take over and makes one of the greatest 2nd half comebacks that you will ever see in football. Oh and some Georgia defensive end that could'nt sack Ainge. 51-33

These are among my best ever non championship memories.
 
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#64
#64
Moments by themselves, not games:

1.) 2001 Vandy game: first game with my Dad, sat in section Z, so the T opened right in front of me. Decided then and there I would either run through it or open the T.

2.) 2006 Cal game: first time marching pregame and in turn opening the T. Greatest thrill of my life to date. Never will forget that day.

3.) 2008 Kentucky game when Fulmer was carried off. One of the saddest, but heartfelt moments I've seen in sports.
 
#65
#65
2001 UT vs FL in the Swamp. TN 34 FL 32, effectively ended Spurriers career at FL!
Was at that game with my dad and my two brothers, what a GAME!!
 
#66
#66
mad4vols said:
Clemson 1974
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Thanks for reminding me of that one. The winning 2-pt.conversion pass from Condredge Holloway to Larry Sievers was one of the most extraordinarily athletic plays I ever saw. Condredge retreated and reversed field back to roughly the 19-yard line, where he heaved the ball just as he was going down. Sievers made a great leaping catch just inside the end line for the score.
 
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#68
#68
Being at the 2004 Florida game has to be my favorite because this was my first game I ever attended. Talking about the ultimate of lows and highs, this one has to rank right up there. Not to mention that it was also the all time attendance record for Neyland. It's special to me just knowing I was a small part of helping to set that record by just showing my love of the Big Orange.

GO VOLS
 
#70
#70
For me when UT beat Ohio State when they had Eddy George and were suppose to win the national title. Just so I could rub it in all these idiots I live around faces and proudly say no matter how bad we suck in a giving year "OSU has never beat Tenn"
 
#71
#71
83 Bama game. Lots of points and John Ward saying Johnny Jones from Munford Tennessee goes all the way!
 
#72
#72
86 sugar bowl

and in that game when we sacked vinny and our guy gets up and points at the end zone. I was having a party to watch the game and my house exploded.
 
#73
#73
Super recent example, but Jalen Hurd's commitment in March assured me that we had found our guy.
 
#74
#74
I have no idea why these two over everything else I have seen in 40+ years of watching the Vols, but for some reason these two plays made me jump out of my seat like none other and run all up and down my living room while I watched them, as if I was trying to escort them into the endzone:

Jeff Powell 60 yard TD run in the '85 season Sugar Bowl
Reggie Cobb 79 yard TD run in the '89 Auburn game
 
#75
#75
Beating Miami in the Sugar Bowl. It's my favorite Vol moment of all, including the 1998 championship game.
 
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