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A list of some of the best games from some of the best Vols teams over the past 30 years.

If the season doesn't happen, I'll be watching one of these per week, until we're 15-0!

Would you replace any of these games with any of your favorite games not listed?

'81 Wisconsin
'82 Alabama* (changed from '83, my mistake)
'85 Miami
'87 Auburn
'89 UCLA
'91 Notre dame
'95 Ohio State
'96 Alabama
'97 Auburn
'98 Florida
'01 Florida
'03 Miami
'04 Georgia
'06 California
'16 Florida

Bonus game:
'99 Florida State
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
A list of some of the best games from some of the best Vols teams over the past 30 years.

If the season doesn't happen, I'll be watching one of these per week, until we're 15-0!

Would you replace any of these games with any of your favorite games not listed?

'81 Wisconsin
'83 Alabama
'85 Miami
'87 Auburn
'89 UCLA
'91 Notre dame
'95 Ohio State
'96 Alabama
'97 Auburn
'98 Florida
'01 Florida
'03 Miami
'04 Georgia
'06 California
'16 Florida

Bonus game:
'99 Florida State
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87 Auburn (a tie) over 85 Auburn is an odd choice. So is 83 Bama over 82 Bama.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
A list of some of the best games from some of the best Vols teams over the past 30 years.

If the season doesn't happen, I'll be watching one of these per week, until we're 15-0!

Would you replace any of these games with any of your favorite games not listed?

'81 Wisconsin
'82 Alabama* (changed from '83, my mistake)
'85 Miami
'87 Auburn
'89 UCLA
'91 Notre dame
'95 Ohio State
'96 Alabama
'97 Auburn
'98 Florida
'01 Florida
'03 Miami
'04 Georgia
'06 California
'16 Florida

Bonus game:
'99 Florida State
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How could you miss 98 Arkansas game with Knoxville hero Clint Stoerner and 98 Syracuse in carrier dome oven vs Donovan McNabb to open season. Ok anything from 98 season, including Auburn with Lewis going down, MissSt in SECCG, etc.

Also the multiple OT games with bama (4?) and Ark (7) and the comeback game at LSU around 02. Maybe that shootout with Kentucky against Couch.

And don't forget to watch butch on his knees after winning in Georgia. You only need to see the last five minutes of that game.
 
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HuntlandVolinColo said:
How could you miss 98 Arkansas game with Knoxville hero Clint Stoerner and 98 Syracuse in carrier dome oven vs Donovan McNabb to open season. Ok anything from 98 season, including Auburn with Lewis going down, MissSt in SECCG, etc.

Also the multiple OT games with bama (4?) and Ark (7) and the comeback game at LSU around 02. Maybe that shootout with Kentucky against Couch.

And don't forget to watch butch on his knees after winning in Georgia. You only need to see the last five minutes of that game.
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Man, I picked 1 per year. In hindsight, maybe Arkansas would be a better choice for '98.

Those other 2 are great as well.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Man, I picked 1 per year. In hindsight, maybe Arkansas would be a better choice for '98.

Those other 2 are great as well.
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1998: Florida, Auburn, Syracuse, Arkansas, MissSt, FSU, even the beat down at Athens that was supposed to be a loss were all great candidates of an outstanding season.
 
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My all time favorite game is the 85 Auburn game; I was at the perfect age, and it was the perfect storm..........Auburn ranked no. 1; (we were not really rated that highly) and had the eventual Heisman winner on their team. That one was sweet.
 
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GregAmsler said:
I actually really loved that 87 team. They didn’t win anything, but it is an overlooked 10-win team in Vol history.
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I did too. Reggie Cobb burst on the scene in his first game against IOWA in the old kickoff classic . Jeff Francis had a really nice season took. Was also the first season that I truly remember knowing all the players , stats , etc... (I was 9). Back then I didn’t get to go to every game with my grandparents but the ‘87 Cal, Louisville & Vandy games stand out in my memory. None of those classics but priceless memories of time well spent with family . That was the infamous Vandy game where it looked like in the first half that a one win team was going to boat race an 8 win Vols team. Vols came back from down around 4 TD’s IIRC for the win . Went to eat at The Regas afterwards !
 
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Jravol78 said:
I did too. Reggie Cobb burst on the scene in his first game against IOWA in the old kickoff classic . Jeff Francis had a really nice season took. Was also the first season that I truly remember knowing all the players , stats , etc... (I was 9). Back then I didn’t get to go to every game with my grandparents but the ‘87 Cal, Louisville & Vandy games stand out in my memory. None of those classics but priceless memories of time well spent with family . That was the infamous Vandy game where it looked like in the first half that a one win team was going to boat race an 8 win Vols team. Vols came back from down around 4 TD’s IIRC for the win . Went to eat at The Regas afterwards !
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Yep. I remember that my parents went to the Kickoff Classic and my aunt and uncle and cousins stayed at our house while they were gone. They also went down to Birmingham for the Bama game and we stayed with my grandparents. The game wasn't on TV down in Shelbyville and I had to wait til they picked us up to find out the result. One of many in those years in which an inferior Bama team (7-5 that season) defeated a better Tennessee team. I remember the tie against Auburn and watching it on TV. It was a sunny day. Cobb was really good. And I remember that we were at the Nashville Flea Market during that Vandy game. Every booth we went to, it seemed, had the game on the radio. Tennessee was losing badly and as the Vols came back, patrons stopped moving around and listened intently to the comeback.
 
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GregAmsler said:
Yep. I remember that my parents went to the Kickoff Classic and my aunt and uncle and cousins stayed at our house while they were gone. They also went down to Birmingham for the Bama game and we stayed with my grandparents. The game wasn't on TV down in Shelbyville and I had to wait til they picked us up to find out the result. One of many in those years in which an inferior Bama team (7-5 that season) defeated a better Tennessee team. I remember the tie against Auburn and watching it on TV. It was a sunny day. Cobb was really good. And I remember that we were at the Nashville Flea Market during that Vandy game. Every booth we went to, it seemed, had the game on the radio. Tennessee was losing badly and as the Vols came back, patrons stopped moving around and listened intently to the comeback.
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Haha ... good stuff & different times . My grandparents went to the ‘87 kick off classic too . In fact they went to every game home , away, bowl & even that trip to Hawaii in ‘75 I believe it was up until the ‘89 UCLA game that they finally missed a game (more on that in a second ). I still remember watching Darren Miller run back that fumble the length of the field and where I was even standing in my parents living room as it happened. Even funnier was that coincidentally they ended up being seated next to Darren Miller’s parents in NJ that day . If memory serves I believe that DM was from NJ. Growing up in the metropolis of Arrington we did not have cable back then so we went to my other grandparents in Smithville to watch that ‘87 Bama game . In 1989 my Arrington grandparents bought one of those satellite dishes that would pick up NORAD transmissions if you knew how to operate the remote controller .... hell it took a degree from MIT to pickup Bill Hall doing the weather. For that ‘89 UCLA game they stayed home and had half of Williamson County over to watch the “Cobb -Webb“ coming out party on PPV. Not to dox us “Greg” but I remember that Mr& Mrs . Huff of Brentwood’s Huffs grocery fame and our pharmacist , father of “MM” - QB of our High Schools state runner up football team our freshman year 😂.
 
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