Vols biggest upset in program history?

[BeecherVol]

Ga St?

 

[BeecherVol]

Oops.

Wrong threads.

 

[ALLVOL 4LIFE]

Gino Torretta winning over Marshall Faulk is much, much worse.

Good call, but neither of them was a Vol, so that didn’t bother me as much. Lol

 

[TrentVol]

I already posted but beating Miami in that Sugar Biel has to be the winner.

It wasn’t even mentioned in the 30 for 30 “ The U”!

Which irritated me since all other Miami losses were discussed.

Beating Miami in 2003 was awesome. Snapped their 28 home game winning streak

 

[Special Ed]

In 1925, Tennessee hired a young captain from West Point, Robert R. Neyland, and entrusted him with the task of defeating the South's most dominant program of the era, Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt squad. The two coaches faced each other for the first time in Nov. 1926. Neyland chose to pursue a career in football and in 1925 was appointed a Professor of Military Science at the University of Tennessee. For an additional $700 he also became an ends coach on the staff of M.B. Banks, who was on the final year of his contract. Taking over the head coaching duties for a game against Georgia when Banks was ill, Neyland lead the Volunteers to a 12-7 upset victory. The next year, he was named the head coach and athletic director by Tennessee. The breakthrough came in 1928 as Neyland's Volunteers blanked the Commodores 6-0. With that victory the balance of power shifted for good. Tennessee would not lose to Vanderbilt again until 1935. The rest, as they say, is history...

 

[VolRoger]

Oops.

Wrong threads.

Dang it!!! Now I and miriads of other Volnation posters have to put you on ignore for bringing up ... uh, you know...that team. And I really liked your posts. (Just kidding)

 

[PG1]

Vandy this year if we can pull it off

 

[wmcovol]

1959 vs LSU
1967 vs Alabama
1979 vs Auburn
1980 vs Auburn
1983 vs Alabama
1985 vs Auburn
1985 vs Miami
1989 vs UCLA
2001 vs Florida
2006 vs Cal
2018 vs Auburn

 

[VOLINVONORE]

In 1959 when Tennessee beat # 1 ranked LSU in Knoxville. Billy. Canon was stopped on a 2 point conversion try to give the VOLs a 14 to 13 win.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

The real question is, how did they pull that upset? Coaching? Lucky breaks? Defense? Qb playing better than expected? We got anything similar this year?

 

[NEVolFan]

2019 UGA

2019 Bamma... either or would do it.

 

[DownTheField]

Lyle Jones was the biggest upset.

 

[LargeOrange1]

UGA 2019

 

[cncchris33]

2001 vs. Florida

85 Sugar Bowl

2003 vs. Miami
91 vs. Notre Dame

Quite funny. These were the first four games that immediately came to my mind in about 10 seconds just reading the OP.

 

[WiseOlVol]

As I watched a few games today hoping for upsets it got me wondering about Vol history concerning upsets. What is the biggest upset that UT has ever pulled off in the history of the program?

SugarVols v Miami 1985.

 

[Kngsport VFL]

As I watched a few games today hoping for upsets it got me wondering about Vol history concerning upsets. What is the biggest upset that UT has ever pulled off in the history of the program?

UCLA in 80s, Notre Dame in the 90s

 

[XknoxvolsX]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the 1948 upset of Ga Tech. We were 3-2-1 going into that game and they were ranked number six. We whipped em' and the score was closer than the game.

 

[NorCalVol67]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the 194 upset of Ga Tech. We were 3-2-1 going into that game and they were ranked number six. We whipped em' and the score was closer than the game.

I thought we started playing football in the 19th century, didn’t realize it was the 2nd century.

 

[XknoxvolsX]

I thought we started playing football in the 19th century, didn’t realize it was the 2nd century.

Welp, I guess that will teach you to think, huh?

 

[onevol74]

I agree with most suggested. But think the 1971 Penn State game in Neyland with Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris needs to be on the list. Another game may have been the 1970 game against Florida with John Reeves and Carlos Alvarez.

But the 1982 Bama game was beyond special. Still think it to be the loudest game in Neyland of all time.

 

[10ahSee63]

Winner

This one was great! I went to that game and will never forget how the Miami fans were so arrogant to all of us vols. I bought a button before the game that said Vinny Who? , and caught a lot of loud mouthed comments, but after that beat down, the same Miami fans in the hotel doing the talking literally avoided me. It was Great!!!

 

[VOLinPD]

Hard to call it an upset when we were top 10. That was a case of a betting line that went nuts.

Easiest money I've ever made.

 

[volfan2024]

October 16 No. 2 Alabama
Neyland Stadium ·
Knoxville, Tennessee (Third Saturday in October)
W 35–28 95,342 Led by Majors. I was there.

 

[VolRoger]

October 16 No. 2 Alabama
Neyland Stadium ·
Knoxville, Tennessee (Third Saturday in October)
W 35–28 95,342 Led by Majors. I was there.

So was I. A game I’ll never forget … before, during and after. And to think I almost didn’t go. My friend had an extra student ticket but had to beg ne to go. We had lost 11 straight to the Tide and I had attended the 1980 thrashing by Bama in a rainstorm. So glad he convinced me to go. The whole day was surreal and a little bazaar to be honest. I sat next to a UT student smoking a joint who was openly cheering for Bama. We were in the lower south end zone section, the area where the fans…mostly students climbed over the fence and rushed the field despite scores of police trying to keep it from happening. After the game the goal post was carried down the strip. We went to a pizza joint on the strip that probably had 3 times the amount of people the place was set up to hold. We took our food back up to the area where Hess Hall and what years ago was some sort of fraternity house back in the day was located. The place was a wee bit bonkers.

 

[robby487]

Miami 85, because the Vols won and I had a friend Jeff Feagles that punted for Miami.