1998 season

#26
#26
2015 vs 1998

Dobbs would slice that defense up. 1998 couldn't handle this weird new style called "up tempo" offense.

On defense Sutton would lock down Price!

28-27.... 2015 the winners.

No joke.

Football and the athletes that play get better every decade.

Don't believe me... look at the size of lineman just 20 years ago compared to now.
 
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Roustabout said:
Pretty sure UT needed Kansas State and UCLA to lose, which they did.
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No, sir! Tennessee was ranked #1 in the country on the last Saturday when UCLA lost to Miami and Kansas St lost in the Big 12 title game to Texas A&M and Tennessee beat Mississippi St in the SEC championship game. Tennessee was in control of their own destiny.

As a matter of fact, Tennessee had been #1 in the BCS standings since the Arkansas game 3 weeks earlier.
 
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LittleVol said:
2015 vs 1998

Dobbs would slice that defense up. 1998 couldn't handle this weird new style called "up tempo" offense.

On defense Sutton would lock down Price!

28-27.... 2015 the winners.

No joke.

Football and the athletes that play get better every decade.

Don't believe me... look at the size of lineman just 20 years ago compared to now.
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This is a ridiculous post. That 98 defense was one of the best in UT history and the 2015 O has not even hit the field. They were still a modern era team that was very fast, skilled, and deep. Athletes are taking advantage of newer methods for performance but you buy into the business and hype to much. Don't believe much you say.
 
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Roustabout said:
Pretty sure UT needed Kansas State and UCLA to lose, which they did.
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No, they didn't. Tennessee was #1 in the BCS before UCLA and KSU lost. In my opinion, both of those teams were not as good as FSU. Tennessee actually had to play a better team than UCLA and KSU, who both lost their bowl games, remember. Both KSU's and FSU' defenses were terrible that year, and neither team played anyone closely to the caliber of a UT team, while UT played at Syracuse, along with Florida, and Arkansas.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
BS. Arkansas fumble. Florida fumble at the goal line. The Florida missed FG IN OT. The Tennessee Martin to Price TD pass. Luck had a hell of a lot to do with it.
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The Martin to Price TD was luck?

:crazy:

Was it not bad luck that Tennessee lost Jamal Lewis, Al Wilson was playing injured all year and missed a handful of games, Dwayne Goodrich getting injured against FSU, and Raynoch Thompson and Travis Henry playing injured against FSU?
 
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LittleVol said:
2015 vs 1998

Dobbs would slice that defense up. 1998 couldn't handle this weird new style called "up tempo" offense.

On defense Sutton would lock down Price!

28-27.... 2015 the winners.

No joke.

Football and the athletes that play get better every decade.

Don't believe me... look at the size of lineman just 20 years ago compared to now.
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:crazy:
 
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Fumbles are not just luck, many are made by great hits, or the D-line pushing the O-line back into the QB and him laying it on the ground. When you get a break.... Score.... TN took over #1 after the UAB win, then about lost it to AR. ucla and ks losing just made who we played a premiere team, by beating FSU(even with 3rd string QB) it made the whole thing legit. GO VOLS! WIN em ALL!
 
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Iam4utalways said:
Fumbles are not just luck, many are made by great hits, or the D-line pushing the O-line back into the QB and him laying it on the ground. When you get a break.... Score.... TN took over #1 after the UAB win, then about lost it to AR. ucla and ks losing just made who we played a premiere team, by beating FSU(even with 3rd string QB) it made the whole thing legit. GO VOLS! WIN em ALL!
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That 3rd string QB beat Florida in their previous game...
 
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Roustabout said:
Pretty sure UT needed Kansas State and UCLA to lose, which they did.
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No they didn't. We were ahead of both, with everyone having 1 more game today (UT against a ranked team, UCLA against an unranked team, and KSU against a higher ranked team but also having a fairly large gap to make up and a terribly bad strength of schedule holding them down).

NCAA Football Bowl Rankings: November 30, 1998

Or are you saying "needed them to lose" as in UT wouldn't have beaten either team?
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
No, they didn't. Tennessee was #1 in the BCS before UCLA and KSU lost. In my opinion, both of those teams were not as good as FSU. Tennessee actually had to play a better team than UCLA and KSU, who both lost their bowl games, remember. Both KSU's and FSU' defenses were terrible that year, and neither team played anyone closely to the caliber of a UT team, while UT played at Syracuse, along with Florida, and Arkansas.
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Well, KSU played a higher ranked team like a top 8 A&M), but since strength of schedule still factored so much into the BCS rankings in the first few years - and theirs was like 72nd - there was no way they were going to be able to make up the gap / needed one of the teams ahead of them to lose.

NCAA Football Bowl Rankings: November 30, 1998

(They had really needed A&M to have not lost to Texas the week beforehand to have even had a chance of jumping up a space...and A&M falling out of the top 5 like that really hurt any chance they had.)
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
The Martin to Price TD was luck?

:crazy:

Was it not bad luck that Tennessee lost Jamal Lewis, Al Wilson was playing injured all year and missed a handful of games, Dwayne Goodrich getting injured against FSU, and Raynoch Thompson and Travis Henry playing injured against FSU?
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yes it was luck. Martin was hit while passing and threw up a lame duck. If Price hadn't saw it was under thrown it could have been picked off. He was double teamed.
 
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#41
Some of these people think because they have no life. They comment on every thread. That their opinion is gospel. No wonder every team in the SEC finds our fan base to be a joke. Now I know why I don't comment on here to often. Several of the guys on here are just jerks. Good luck Vols in 2015. I'm done with this site for now.
 
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#42
Luck... No luck... Yeah, we needed luck that year! If we didn't we would have blown everybody out by "fitty" beginning with Syracuse in the dome so OP is right! Everbody cracking is post sre idiots! ;-)
 
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it was going to be dead tight between ut kst and ucla had all 3 won, and especially so had kst won impressively...by no means was ut's place in tempe assured with a win heading into that last saturday
 
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PowerSweep said:
it was going to be dead tight between ut kst and ucla had all 3 won, and especially so had kst won impressively...by no means was ut's place in tempe assured with a win heading into that last saturday
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BCS Standings (as of 12/5/98)
total points
1) Tennessee 4.95
2) UCLA 5.03
3) Kansas St 6.43
4) Florida St 8.20
5) Ohio St 12.29

It would have been close between UCLA and Tennessee (although Miami was unranked and had lost the week before to Syracuse 66-13) but there is no way Tennessee would have fallen below Kansas St to 3rd. Kansas State's strength of schedule was too weak and the difference between Miss St and Texas A&M wasn't enough to close the gap.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
Your an idiot if you think that Arkansas fumble wasnt luck. No one touched him. He just dropped the ball. 99% of the time that doesn't happen.
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Burlsworth stepped on Stoerner's foot which made him trip. Billy Ratliff had blown up Burlsworth causing him to step back and onto Stoerner's foot. There was some luck that Stoerner didn't just fall, but Arkansas was lucky that TN didn't convert on 4th down two plays earlier or fumble on the tackle for the loss one play before. Games decided by one score are full of plays that could have reversed the outcome if they'd played out differently.
 
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it sure was going to be VERY tight with kansas state...they were going to gain sos vs #8 tx am, and who knows what an impressive win would have done with the computers...not that it really matters now but it is definitely an aspect that people forget...that ut was not in a "win in you're in" position with secc game.
 
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Am I remembering incorrectly or did ut not have some bad luck in the ruling on that poor punt snap that was kicked out of the end zone? Should ut not have had that ball at 5 or 10? I could be wrong...
 
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cwbytruckers said:
Your an idiot if you think that Arkansas fumble wasnt luck. No one touched him. He just dropped the ball. 99% of the time that doesn't happen.
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A supreme effort can cause the football gods to smile upon you. Billy Ratliff exploded off of the line of scrimmage and "pushed all-SEC offensive guard Brandon Burlsworth backwards into his quarterback. Burlsworth stepped on Stoerner's foot, and Stoerner reached out to brace himself--and lost the football. You know the rest" (100 Days of Vols #18 - Stumble and Fumble - Rocky Top Talk). Neyland had predicted this outcome in nonspecific terms many decades before: "Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way - SCORE. If at first the game - or the breaks - go against you, don't let up... put on more steam."
 
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