Best single quarter by a Tennessee football team? My nominee: the 1990 Florida game

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2001 2nd half against Florida. At the Swamp on top of that. I tell you, it was so damn sweet shutting up the Gators that year. Remember, that was a rescheduled game that had been moved from it's original date of mid-September to early December. All games had been postponed due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks that had happened just a few days beforehand. Anyway, a bunch of Gators were running their mouths spouting crap like "ah, ya'll are really gonna get a beat down now." "You ain't getting us so early in the season this year." "Ya'll are getting us in December of all times!" Well, not only did we win, we did it in dramatic fashion, AT THEIR PLACE. And to make it even better, it was Spurrier's final home game as florida head coach! They honestly thought that there was no in hell they would lose to us at home in a game that had been moved back nearly three months from it's original date. I re-watched that whole game just recently. The final was 34-32, but we really owned their ass that day.
 
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#52
That Florida was by far my favorite game! First game I ever attended. When he took that kickoff and crossed the 50 it sounded like a jet airplane. Had never seen anything like it!
 
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I would have to go with the 95 Bama game. 21-0! Years of watching Bama win games in the stupidest ways. I was telling my dad when Manning hit that 80 yarder to Kent that Tennessee wasn't losing tonight. When Peyton walked in on a naked bootleg he was like I think they might win tonight son
 
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Going to say when Tennessee beats Miami..Bernie gets picked off and Tennessee rolls the canes over...Everyone said Tennessee was going to get beat..lol
 
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Since some of you have seen fit to resurrect this thread, how many of you remember the 1971 Sugar Bowl win against then-11th ranked Air Force? Tennessee reeled off 24 unanswered points in the first twelve minutes of the game before a dog got loose on the field. More than ten minutes elapsed before the dog was captured and, by that time, our zone-like perfection had disappeared.

Here is a recap of how we unleashed this scoring onslaught:

"Making the shortest work of any Sugar Bowl foe, Tennessee virtually put an end to Air Force's hopes nine minutes after kickoff. The Falcons threw up an eight-man line, in an attempt to slow down the Vols' potent running game. Quarterback Bobby Scott neutralized that strategy and outguessed the blitz threat as the Vols steamed 59 yards on Tennessee's first possession for a touchdown. Two minutes and 45 seconds were gone in the first period when Don McLeary took a pitchout cut behind a block by Curt Watson, and scored from the 5.

"We had the momentum going," said Scott. They sure did.

After recovering an Air Force fumble, George Hunt kicked a 30-yard field goal for Tennessee. Then the Vols applied the coup de grace to the flyboys. After Air Force punted to the Tennessee 42, Scott, rolling right, zipped a pass to Lester McLain at the 20. McLeary took a handoff, found a hole on the left side, broke a tackle and cut to his left. Another defender slipped off, and McLeary scored his second TD of the afternoon.

Yet another Air Force fumble gave the Vols possession at the Falcon 24. Four plays later, Scott passed to Gary Theiler at the 5 and he stepped the rest of the way into the end zone.

In four possessions, Tennessee scored four times and led 24-0 with 3:12 to go in the first quarter" (see 1971 Game Recap / Allstate Sugar Bowl).
 
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